CPUs
Qualcomm this morning is taking the wraps off of a new smartphone SoC for the mid-range market, the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3. The second of Qualcomm’s down-market ‘S’ tier Snapdragon 7 parts, the 7s series is functionally the entry-level tier for the Snapdragon 7 family – and really, most Qualcomm-powered handsets in North America. With three tiers of Snapdragon 7 chips, the 7s can easily be lost in the noise that comes with more powerful chips. But the latest iteration of the 7s is a bit more interesting than usual, as rather than reusing an existing die, Qualcomm has seemingly minted a whole new die for this part. As a result, the company has upgraded the 7s family to use Arm’s current Armv9 CPU cores...
Intel Launches Cascade Lake-X Processors: 18-core Review Later Today
Earlier in October, Intel announced that it would be launching its next generation high-end desktop processors in November. That day has come, and Intel expects its hardware to be...
41 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/25/2019
Intel Announces Q3 FY 2019 Earnings: Record Results
Today Intel announced their earnings for the third quarter of the 2019 fiscal year, which ended September 29, and the company has set a record for revenue thanks to...
39 by Brett Howse on 10/24/2019
Intel's new Atom Microarchitecture: The Tremont Core in Lakefield
While Intel has been discussing a lot about its mainstream Core microarchitecture, it can become easy to forget that its lower power Atom designs are still prevalent in many...
101 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/24/2019
Intel Files Antitrust Suit Against SoftBank-Controlled Firm Over Patent Aggregation
Intel this week filed an lawsuit against Fortress Investment Group, a patent assertion entity controlled by SoftBank. Responding to a series of patent infringement lawsuits that Fortress has brought...
21 by Anton Shilov on 10/23/2019
AMD May Be Prepping More 280 W EPYC Enterprise CPUs
Back in September, AMD announced its 64-core EPYC 7H12 processor - a 280 W TDP behemoth with an increased base frequency designed specifically for the high-performance computing market. Based...
22 by Anton Shilov on 10/21/2019
AMD Ryzen 7 3750X with 105 W TDP: Spotted at AMD
AMD has accidentally published its Product Master list - a list with all of its consumer, enterprise, and OEM parts listed. In the latest publication, it reveals multiple CPUs...
34 by Anton Shilov on 10/21/2019
Details About 3rd Generation Ryzen Threadripper Appear: 24 and 32 Cores, Up to 280 W
AMD has already officially confirmed plans to launch its 3rd Generation Ryzen Threadripper processors this November, but naturally kept all the details to itself. At the time, it stated...
19 by Anton Shilov on 10/21/2019
LGA4677 Socket Spotted: Future Server Socket with PCIe 5.0 Support
TE Connectivity, a maker of various connectivity solutions in general and CPU sockets in particular, has revealed its roadmap describing future sockets for what looks like a range of...
17 by Anton Shilov on 10/16/2019
PCIe 6.0 Dev Reaches v0.3; On-Track for a Full Specification In 2021
Having wrapped up their work on the PCI-Express 5.0 specification earlier this year, the PCI-SIG wasted no time in getting to work on the next version of the specification...
45 by Ryan Smith on 10/15/2019
Intel to Discontinue Nearly All Desktop Kaby Lake CPUs
Intel has announced End-of-Life plan for most of its desktop Kaby Lake and remaining Skylake processors. The boxed and tray versions of the chips will be available for interested...
55 by Anton Shilov on 10/10/2019
Diving into Intel’s Regional Focus: How is the UK different to the US? What about Brexit?
In this industry, it’s very easy to fall into a lull that the North American market is blueprint from which every other commercial market is drawn up. In reality...
34 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/10/2019
Intel Releases Advisory: Update X299 for Cascade-X, and Lose Kaby-X Support
Motherboard firmware is a fickle thing: in order to support as many CPUs as possible, especially in the multi-core and turbo era, each processor has to have its own...
23 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/10/2019
AMD Brings Ryzen 9 3900 and Ryzen 5 3500X To Life
Seemingly always with AMD’s product portfolio, there is a persistent drip of new products being inserted into the product stack throughout the lifetime of a given generation of hardware...
39 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/8/2019
Arm TechCon 2019 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/17:00 UTC)
Kicking off today is Arm's annual technical conference, Arm TechCon. Now in its 15th year, the company is looking to continue their long, successful run in the IP market...
15 by Ryan Smith on 10/8/2019
Intel Starts End-of-Life Plan for Kaby Lake-G
Intel this week initiated its product discontinuance plan for its Kaby Lake-G processors with on-package Radeon RX Vega graphics. The products will be available to order for about the...
14 by Anton Shilov on 10/8/2019
The Modular PC: Intel’s new Element brings Project Christine to Life
Way back at CES 2014, Razer’s CEO introduced a revolutionary concept design for a PC that had one main backplane and users could insert a CPU, GPU, power supply...
87 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/7/2019
Intel Xeon W-2200 Family: Cascade Lake-X with ECC and 1TB Support
We recently saw the launch of the consumer Cascade Lake high-end desktop processors last week, featuring up to 18 cores at a low launch price. This week Intel is...
30 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/7/2019
Intel Announces Price Cut for 9th Generation F and KF Processors
One of the interesting developments of Intel’s 9th Generation Core processors for desktops, known as the S-series, was that the company decided to release versions of the hardware with...
48 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/7/2019
Already Working on 2nd Gen: AMD’s Ryzen Microsoft Surface Edition and what Semi-Custom Means
One of the key takeaways from Microsoft’s launch this week was that the company was spreading its wings with devices made by all three major SoC vendors: Intel, AMD...
73 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/4/2019
Intel's Cascade Lake-X CPU for High-End Desktops: 18 cores for Under $1000
With someone in the press having broken their embargo earlier today, Intel is lifting the lid earlier than planned on their upcoming Cascade Lake-X family of processors for the...
162 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/1/2019
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