Intel unwraps Lunar Lake architecture: Up to 68% IPC gain for E-cores, 14% IPC gain for P-Cores By Paul Alcorn published 4 June 24 Rearchitecting for power and performance.
Qualcomm CEO says Arm taking 50% of the Windows PC market in five years is realistic — some OEMs expect Snapdragon chips to be 60% of their sales within three years By Paul Alcorn published 4 June 24 Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon expects Arm to take over 50% of the Windows PC market in the next five years.
Qualcomm: Snapdragon coming to "all PC form factors," including desktops. By Les Pounder published 3 June 24 Qualcomm CEO Christiano Amon took to the stage to talk about the company's AI advances and how Snapdragon chips will soon be on all PC form factors
AMD announces 3nm EPYC Turin with 192 cores and 384 threads — 5.4X faster than Intel Xeon in AI work, launches second half of 2024 By Paul Alcorn published 3 June 24 AMD CEO Lisa Su announced at Computex 2024 that the company's next-gen EPYC Turin chips for the data center will launch in the second half of 2024.
AMD unwraps Ryzen AI 300 series ‘Strix Point’ processors — 50 TOPS of AI performance, Zen 5c density cores come to Ryzen 9 for the first time By Paul Alcorn published 3 June 24 AI hits overdrive
AMD announces Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 processors launch in July — 16% IPC improvement for four new Ryzen 9, 7, and 5 'Granite Ridge' processors By Paul Alcorn published 3 June 24 AMD preps its competitor for Intel’s Arrow Lake
Nvidia Rubin revealed as Blackwell successor, powerful Vera CPU coming too By Mark Tyson published 2 June 24 Rubin to support 8- and 12-Hi HBM4 stacks for ultimate bandwidth.
ASML sets new EUV chipmaking density record, proposes Hyper-NA tools and radical EUV speed boosts By Paul Alcorn published 28 May 24 Smaller, faster transistors at unprecedented speed.
Lisa Su says AMD is on track to a 100x power efficiency improvement by 2027 — CEO outlines AMD’s advances during keynote at imec’s ITF World 2024 By Paul Alcorn published 23 May 24 AMD CEO Lisa Su took to the stage after winning the imec Innovation Award to explain how the company is on the path to a more than 100x power efficiency improvement by 2027.
Intel next-generation Lunar Lake CPUs launching in Q3, Arrow Lake in Q4 — mobile chips claimed to be 1.4x faster than Qualcomm's X Elite processors By Paul Alcorn published 20 May 24 AI marketing reaches a fever pitch.
Intel-powered Aurora supercomputer fails to dethrone AMD-powered Frontier on Top500 list, again — claims spot as fastest AI supercomputer with HPL-MxP benchmark instead By Paul Alcorn published 13 May 24 Intel announced that the Aurora supercomputer is now the fastest AI supercomputer in the world, but it has still fallen short of taking the lead of the fastest system on the Top500 list.
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D Review: A Value Gaming Masterpiece By Paul Alcorn published 6 May 24 Editor's Choice We put AMD's Ryzen 7 5700X3D through a battery of gaming and productivity benchmarks to see how it fares against competing Intel processors.
3DTested Innovation Awards 2024: A Step Forward By Avram Piltch published 2 May 24 Here are the 15 most innovative products we have reviewed and covered in the last year.
Intel completes assembly of first commercial High-NA EUV chipmaking tool — addresses cost concerns, preps for 14A process development in 2025 By Paul Alcorn published 18 April 24 Intel Foundry announced it had completed the assembly of the industry's first commercial High Numerical Aperture (High-NA) Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) machine in its D1X fab in Oregon.
AMD unveils Ryzen Pro 8000-series processors — Zen 4 and AI engines come to the commercial market By Paul Alcorn published 16 April 24 AMD is the first with a Pro desktop PC chip with an NPU for AI workloads.
Intel says Lunar Lake will have 100+ TOPS of AI performance — 45 TOPS from the NPU alone meets requirement for next-gen AI PCs By Paul Alcorn published 9 April 24 At Vision 2024, Intel announced that its Lunar Lake processor, the company's next-gen laptop chip, provides 100+ TOPS of performance in AI workloads, with 45 of those TOPS coming from the NPU alone.
Intel unveils new Xeon 6 branding for Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest processors — efficiency core models launch this quarter; performance-core models come soon after By Paul Alcorn published 9 April 24 Intel announced new Xeon 6 branding during Vision 2024 event for its Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids data center processors.
Intel details Gaudi 3 at Vision 2024 — new AI accelerator sampling to partners now, volume production in Q3 By Paul Alcorn published 9 April 24 GPUs fall by the wayside as Intel goes all-in on Gaudi for AI.
Intel confirms Microsoft's Copilot AI will soon run locally on PCs, next-gen AI PCs require 40 TOPS of NPU performance By Paul Alcorn published 27 March 24 Intel executives confirmed today that Microsoft's Copilot AI service will soon run locally on PCs and have a requirement for a minimum of 40 TOPS of NPU performance.
Intel shares Microsoft's new AI PC definition, launches AI PC Acceleration Programs and Core Ultra Meteor Lake NUC developer kits at AI conference By Paul Alcorn published 26 March 24 Intel announced it is launching new Meteor Lake developer kits and expanding its AI PC Acceleration Program with new options for ISVs and IHVs.
Phison's new software uses SSDs and DRAM to boost effective memory for AI training — demos a single workstation running a massive 70 billion parameter model at GTC 2024 By Paul Alcorn published 26 March 24 Phison claims this is the world's first workstation that can run a 70B Llama 2 model.
Working PCIe 6.0 connectivity demoed at GTC — Astera Labs' Aries retimers currently power Nvidia's HGX systems with eight H100 GPUs, likely future Blackwell systems, too By Paul Alcorn published 26 March 24 Astera Labs demoed working PCIe 6.0 connectivity using its Aries retimers that power Nvidia GPU platforms, among others.
Micron shows massive 256GB DDR5-8800 memory sticks — High-capacity double-height 20-watt MCRDIMM modules come in different flavors By Anton Shilov published 22 March 24 Micron demonstrates 256 GB DDR5-8800 MCRDIMM modules for Intel's Granite Rapids processors.
Samsung details petabyte SSD subscription service, uses custom-built servers By Anton Shilov published 22 March 24 Samsung's PBSSD as a Service will use custom-built servers and will be available to service providers.
Intel awarded $8.5 billion in funding for building chipmaking fabs - CHIPS Act funding to boost US semiconductor manufacturing By Paul Alcorn, Andrew E. Freedman published 20 March 24 Intel also gets a 25% tax credit for up to $100 billion.
