Intel to lay off more than 15% of workforce — 15,000 or more employees — encountered Meteor Lake yield issues, suspends dividend By Paul Alcorn published 1 August 24 Intel announced plans to lay off more than 15% of its workforce amid troubling results.
Ampere unveils monstrous 512-core AmpereOne Aurora processor — custom AI engine, support for HBM memory By Paul Alcorn published 31 July 24 Ampere is adding a 512-core AmpereOne Aurora processor to its roadmap, and it also divulged pricing for its AmpereOne lineup.
AMD may have delayed Ryzen 9000 launch due to a typo — mislabeled Ryzen 7 chip emerges, Ryzen 5 9600X impacted, too [Updated] By Paul Alcorn published 28 July 24 An image of a Ryzen 9000 processor with incorrect product labeling has emerged, hinting at the reason for AMD's recent delay in its Zen 5 launch.
Intel's CPU instability and crashing issues also impact mainstream 65W and higher 'non-K' models — damage is irreversible, no planned recall By Jeff Butts published 28 July 24 While we thought the crashing bug plaguing Intel CPUs had been solved, the problem has been revealed to be more expansive than initially thought.
AMD delays its Ryzen 9000 launch due to unspecified quality issue — new launch in August; chipmaker pulls back all units shipped globally for quality checks [Updated] By Paul Alcorn published 24 July 24 AMD hits the brakes on its Zen 5-powered Ryzen 9000 processors.
AMD dishes out more Zen 5 details — compact core is 25% smaller than the normal core, new SoC and chip architecture with dual CCXs By Paul Alcorn published 24 July 24 Tying it all together.
Intel finally announces a solution for CPU crashing and instability problems — claims elevated voltages are the root cause; patch coming by mid-August [Updated] By Paul Alcorn published 22 July 24 Intel announced that elevated voltages are the culprit behind the crashing errors with its overclockable processors.
An interview with AMD's Mike Clark, the Father of Zen — 'Zen Daddy' says 3nm Zen 5 is coming fast; also talks compact cores for desktop chips By Paul Alcorn published 22 July 24 AMD expands on its Zen 5 architecture.
Ryzen 9 7900X3D drops to $328 for Prime Day — one of AMD's fastest gaming chips gets a big price cut By Paul Alcorn published 16 July 24 The Ryzen 9 7900X3D is now on sale for a mere $328 for Amazon Prime Day 2024, which is $53 less than its normal price.
AMD deep-dives Zen 5 architecture — Ryzen 9000 and AI 300 benchmarks, RDNA 3.5 GPU, XDNA 2, and more By Paul Alcorn published 15 July 24 AMD revealed the deep-dive details of its Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 ‘Granite Ridge’ and Ryzen AI 300 series ‘Strix Point’ chips at its Zen 5 Tech Day.
Intel denies reports that it identified a root cause for Core i9 crashing issues — investigation continues By Zhiye Liu, Paul Alcorn published 15 June 24 Contrary to media reports, Intel hasn't discovered the cause of the instability affecting 13th and 14th Generation Core i9 processors.
Intel fires back at AMD's AI benchmarks, shares results claiming current-gen Xeon chips are faster at AI than AMD's next-gen 128-core EPYC Turin By Paul Alcorn published 13 June 24 The AI flame war heats up.
Intel Core i5-14400 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Faceoff: AMD Delivers a Value Beatdown By Hassam Nasir published 13 June 24 We put Intel's Raptor Lake Refresh Core i5-14400 up against AMD's Ryzen 5 7600X in a six-round fight.
WD unveils world's highest-capacity flash memory chip — 2Tb 3D QLC flash chips open the door to bigger and cheaper SSDs By Anton Shilov, Paul Alcorn published 13 June 24 High-capacity SSDs might get cheaper as Western Digital and Kioxia are prepping BiCS8 2Tb 3D QLC NAND devices.
AMD's Ryzen 9000 won't beat the previous-gen X3D models in gaming, but they'll be close — improved 3D V-Cache coming, too By Paul Alcorn published 11 June 24 AMD says its new Ryzen 9000 chips won't be faster in gaming than the previous-gen X3D models but says big improvements are coming to its 3D V-Cache tech.
MSI's M.2 add-in card looks like a GPU, sports two hot-swap PCIe Gen 5 SSD slots By Aaron Klotz published 10 June 24 MSI unveiled a new PCIe-based M.2 expansion card at Computex this year, featuring two PCIe NVMe Gen 5 drive bays that are hot-swappable and cooled by a single large GPU cooler fan.
This PSU has enough juice to power four RTX 4090s — the HELA 2500R comes with four 12V-2x6 connectors and requires a special wall plug By Jowi Morales published 9 June 24 This 2,500-watt PSU can power four high-powered GPUs natively. SilverStone designed for it for professional applications like AI research, and you need a 240-volt outlet to power it.
This AIO cooler is designed to cool two CPUs at once — SilverStone’s new XE360-Dual By Jowi Morales published 9 June 24 SilverStone introduced the XE360-Dual, which has two water blocks connected in serial, to cool two AMD or Intel server processors using a single radiator.
Jensen signs PNY RTX 4070 Super blower card at Computex — proves Nvidia doesn't hate blower-style coolers By Aaron Klotz published 7 June 24 Blowers are okay as long as they carry a 300W TBP or lower.
Gigabyte shows off Aorus Xtreme and Xtreme Ice motherboards, GPUs at Computex By Christopher Harper published 7 June 24 Gigabyte had plenty of hardware on display at Computex 2024
Silicon Motion's PCIe 5.0 SSD controller is finally coming in Q4 — low-power SSDs will leverage SM2508 By Anton Shilov published 7 June 24 Silicon Motion's SM2508-based SSD can achieve a 14.9 GB/s speed at around 7W.
Adata shows off hybrid air/water cooling tower at Computex — new PSUs and PCIe 5.0 SSDs also on deck By Sunny Grimm published 6 June 24 Adata's display at Computex includes a pair of new styles of CPU cooler, a line of interlocking fans, a new SFX power supply, and an SSD with intense cooling.
ASRock Z890 Taichi Aqua comes with ten USB Type-C ports, two being Thunderbolt ports By Aaron Klotz published 6 June 24 ASRock's next generation Taichi Aqua flagship makes radical changes to the rear I/O, deleting all USB Type-A ports in favor of ten USB Type-C ports. Time to upgrade your keyboard and mouse.
Best of Computex 2024: Hardware Evolution Meets the AI Revolution By Avram Piltch, Matt Safford, Paul Alcorn published 6 June 24 From mini PCs with super-fast graphics to dual-screen monitors and super-powerful CPUs, these are the best products of Computex 2024.
Noctua NH-D15 G2 update has quieter fans, more heatpipes, new offset design By Mark Tyson published 6 June 24 Scheduled for release sometime this month.
