Micron's new ultra-fast memory to power Nvidia's next-gen AI GPUs — 24GB HBM3E chips put into production for H200 AI GPU By Matthew Connatser published 26 February 24 Micron's HBM3E is coming into volume production, bringing the stackable 24GB chips capable of 1.2TB/s to the world.
Huawei's new CPU matches Zen 3 in single-core performance - HiSilicon Taishan V120 server CPU benchmark By Matthew Connatser published 25 February 24 A leaked Geekbench 6 result for one of Huawei's HiSilicon Taishan V120-powered server CPUs shows Zen 3-level performance.
Early Snapdragon X Elite benchmark shows Arm CPU is faster than AMD's top-end mobile APU By Matthew Connatser published 25 February 24 A purported pre-launch Geekbench 6 test of the Snapdragon X Elite indicates the chip is faster than AMD's current-gen Ryzen 9 7940HS.
Multi-threaded computing across multiple processors demoed — promises big gains in AI performance and efficiency By Matthew Connatser published 24 February 24 Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have published a paper that sees SHMT quadruple efficiency.
Nvidia is testing the waters with two new AI GPUs for China — CEO says customers are sampling them now By Matthew Connatser published 24 February 24 Nvidia will add two more AI GPUs to its lineup of cards that comply with U.S. sanctions on China.
Nvidia Grace falls short of Threadripper 7000 in head-to-head Linux benchmarks By Matthew Connatser published 23 February 24 A 39-test comparison of Nvidia's 72-core Grace CPU to AMD's Threadripper 7980X and 7995WX shows Grace on the heels of Threadripper 7000.
Nvidia crosses $2 trillion market cap as AI demand and stock price soar -- becomes only fifth company to reach that benchmark By Matthew Connatser published 23 February 24 As Nvidia's stock price breaks out above $800, its market capitalization has finally hit $2 trillion.
US won't restrict exports of 'mature chips' to China — processors using 28nm or older tech will be free from sanctions By Matthew Connatser published 23 February 24 A Department of Commerce official stated that sanctions on China wouldn't extend to "mature chips or legacy chips."
Is your Intel Core i9-13900K crashing in games? Your motherboard BIOS settings may be to blame — other high-end Intel CPUs also affected (Updated) By Matthew Connatser published 23 February 24 Apparently a 4096W power limit might be a bad idea.
Brazilian modders double Nvidia RTX 2080 memory but only see a 10% performance boost By Matthew Connatser published 22 February 24 A group of modders have demonstrated it's very possible to upgrade the 2080's VRAM capacity, though it might not be worth it.
Meteor Lake gets performance and efficiency tweaks via new Linux patch By Matthew Connatser published 20 February 24 A Linux patch is revising Meteor Lake's performance and power characteristics to get better efficiency across the board.
The five best AMD CPUs of all time: From old-school Athlon to brand-new Ryzen By Matthew Connatser published 19 February 24 Although AMD offers many products, at its core it's a CPU designer, and these are some of the best the company has ever made.
Intel's new fastest gaming CPU spotted at multiple European retailers — Core i9-14900KS costs $100 more for this binned CPU By Matthew Connatser published 18 February 24 Some retailers have prematurely put up the Core i9-14900KS, and it is clear the upcoming CPU will command a premium price.
Controversial benchmarking website goes behind partial paywall — Userbenchmark now requires a $10 monthly subscription [Update] By Matthew Connatser published 17 February 24 Infamous for its rants about AMD and leaking early hardware samples, Userbenchmark will now be charging users to run its benchmark tool.
Intel's next-gen CPU boosts to 2.8 GHz without Hyper-Threading — Lunar Lake chip with eight cores, eight threads has a bigger L2 cache than the L3 cache By Matthew Connatser published 17 February 24 A leaked screenshot from a PC running an 8-core Lunar Lake CPU shows some interesting specifications.
U.S. chip fab construction is among the slowest in the world — a complex web of regulations is to blame according to study By Matthew Connatser published 16 February 24 A research paper has concluded that the slow pace of fab construction in the U.S. is largely down to suboptimal regulation.
Meteor Lake seemingly struggles against AMD's Phoenix APU in early MSI Claw review By Matthew Connatser published 16 February 24 The Meteor Lake-equipped MSI Claw was trounced by the Phoenix-powered ROG Ally in an early review, especially at low TDPs.
Industry group invalidates 2,600 official Intel CPU benchmarks — SPEC says the company's compiler used unfair optimizations to boost performance By Matthew Connatser published 16 February 24 Over 2,600 benchmark runs in SPEC CPU 2017 on Intel CPUs have been invalidated because of a very specific compiler optimization.
'Craigslist for GPUs' launches amid crushing Nvidia AI GPU shortages — gpulist.ai allows you to rent AI GPU clusters by the hour By Matthew Connatser published 15 February 24 gpulist.ai is perhaps the first and only website GPU clusters can be put up to rent.
MSI Afterburner finally drops Windows XP support — latest update adds Nvidia Reflex latency monitoring By Matthew Connatser published 15 February 24 The latest update to MSI Afterburner trades Windows XP support for latency monitoring and PresentMon integration, with some apparently significant changes to the underlying code base.
Intel discloses 34 security holes in firmware and software — Thunderbolt, XTU, chipset drivers, and more By Matthew Connatser published 14 February 24 Intel has disclosed 34 new security issues, which largely impact software like XTU and chipset drivers, but also firmware for Thunderbolt.
AMD discloses slew of high severity security vulnerabilities that attacks BIOS chips on Zen systems — updates aren't available for all chips, finally a fix Zenbleed By Matthew Connatser published 14 February 24 Zen-based CPUs are vulnerable to four newly disclosed bugs, according to AMD, and you'll need to update your BIOS to become secure.
Intel Lunar Lake Xe2 integrated graphics patches introduce adaptive sharpening and higher visual quality for gaming and images By Matthew Connatser published 14 February 24 A Linux patch details Lunar Lake's adaptive sharpening feature, which aims to make upscaled content look even better.
You can run LUnix on an NES — demo shows a Unix-like OS running completely on the NES By Matthew Connatser published 13 February 24 A tech enthusiast was able to run a Unix-like operating system on the NES using completely original hardware.
Software allows CUDA code to run on AMD and Intel GPUs without changes — ZLUDA is back but both companies ditched it, nixing future updates By Matthew Connatser published 12 February 24 Although ZLUDA has returned, it now supports AMD GPUs instead of Intel, and future updates seem very unlikely.
