CPU

GCC 15 to keep Itanium support for now, after all

Now, can someone come up with an emulator for the things, please?

Software01 Nov 2024 | 37

Apple throws shade on pokey AI PCs, claims its maxed out M4 chips are 4x faster

Busy week for Cupertino sees shrunken Mac minis, updated lappies, and new SoCs

Personal Tech31 Oct 2024 | 54

The troublesome economics of CPU-only AI

Analysis At the end of the day, it all boils down to tokens per dollar

Systems29 Oct 2024 | 4

A closer look at Intel and AMD's different approaches to gluing together CPUs

Analysis Epycs or Xeons, more cores = more silicon, and it only gets more complex from here

Systems24 Oct 2024 | 25

It's about time Intel, AMD dropped x86 games and turned to the real threat

Opinion Have recent troubles finally humbled Chipzilla?

Systems22 Oct 2024 | 92

Intel, AMD team with tech titans for x86 ISA overhaul

Linus Torvalds, Broadcom, Dell, HPE, and Lenovo on the list

Systems15 Oct 2024 | 23

AMD pumps Epyc core count to 192, clocks up to 5 GHz with Turin debut

Just not on the same chip, of course

Systems10 Oct 2024 | 18

A working Turing Machine hits Lego Ideas

It now seeks 10K supporters for Expert Review

Offbeat05 Oct 2024 | 43

Bending the rules with flexible non-silicon 32-bit RISC-V chip

It won't smash any benchmarks, but it will go where most others can't

Systems29 Sep 2024 | 27

Oracle owns nearly a third of Arm chip house Ampere, could take control in 2027

Appears to be prioritizing GPUs, not manycore CPUs

Systems26 Sep 2024 | 5

Intel thinks it's got a final microcode fix for recalcitrant Raptor Lake processors

Root cause identified, but it's taken the better part of a year

Systems26 Sep 2024 | 25

With Granite Rapids, Intel is back to trading blows with AMD

And they didn't even need a bunch of skimpy E-cores to do it

Systems24 Sep 2024 | 21

Datacenters bleed watts and cash – all because they're afraid to flip a switch

Activate OS-level governors and power profiles, cut energy use by '25 – 50 percent'

On-Prem20 Sep 2024 | 20

Intel's 120 TOPS Lunar Lake AI PC chips have landed

And all it took was some good old fashioned outsourcing to TSMC

AI + ML03 Sep 2024 | 11

AMD reverses course: Ryzen 3000 CPUs will get SinkClose patch after all

Still no love for 1000- or 2000-series

Systems20 Aug 2024 | 21

SiFive offers potential Neoverse N2 rival – the P870-D RISC-V core for datacenters

Chip upstart takes aim at Arm with design that can scale up to 256 cores

Systems14 Aug 2024 | 3

Akeana debuts RISC-V CPU designs on $100M budget, longs for an Arm wrestle

Whatever happened to the team behind Marvell’s ThunderX2 chips? Oh, hello

Systems13 Aug 2024 | 2

AMD won’t patch Sinkclose security bug on older Zen CPUs

Updated Kernel mode not good enough for you? Maybe you'll like SMM of this

Patches13 Aug 2024 | 14

Intel's microcode fix to save Raptor Lake chips may only work with default power settings

All those BIOS options that promise better performance? Enabling them might kill your processor

Systems12 Aug 2024 | 27

Raptor Lake microcode limits Intel chips to a mere 1.55 volts to prevent CPU destruction

Is that a lot? Depends on the context. GHz, no. Voltage, yes

Personal Tech09 Aug 2024 | 28

Raptor Lake microcode patch arrives for Intel motherboards this month, ASUS and MSI say

Updated MSI even claims all of its LGA 1700 motherboards will get updated before month end

Systems08 Aug 2024 | 2

Rickety Raptor Lake CPUs won't lose Turbo-boosted speeds after microcode medicine, Intel claims

Chipzilla still has ways to stop these processors cooking in their own juices

On-Prem08 Aug 2024 | 8

AMD’s latest desktop CPUs feature lower prices yet again as Intel readies a fightback

Brand-new Ryzen 9000 processors are about 10% cheaper than their Ryzen 7000 counterparts

Personal Tech07 Aug 2024 | 5

Another law firm piles on Intel for Raptor Lake CPU failures as complaints grow louder

Meanwhile, a boutique PC builder says Intel didn’t even need to chase high clock speeds

Systems05 Aug 2024 | 12

Intel tacks two years onto Raptor Lake CPU warranty after voltage crash fiasco

It’s starting to sink in for Chipzilla that it’s losing some credibility

Personal Tech02 Aug 2024 | 8

Intel to shed at least 15% of staff, will outsource more to TSMC, slash $10B in costs

Analysis Share price in meltdown as Pat hopes buyers, investors, board can wait for 2026 turnaround

Systems01 Aug 2024 | 44

Legal eagles target Intel for class action over cooked Raptor Lake CPUs

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with elevated voltage, you may be entitled to compensation

Systems01 Aug 2024 | 10

UK court rules in Intel's favor in R2 Semi power patent case

Legal woes are still ongoing in Italy, France, and Germany

Systems01 Aug 2024 | 11

Arm's lackluster Q2 outlook overshadows strong Q1 revenue growth

Execs blame gap in licensing revenues for lost momentum, while hawking AI

Systems01 Aug 2024 |

AMD stalls Ryzen 9000 launch over poor chip quality

Oh, actual QA? In 2024? In this economy?

Personal Tech24 Jul 2024 | 19

AMD claims Nvidia's Grace CPU Superchip, Arm are no match for its Epyc Zen 4 cores

Comment But does it matter when all Grace needs to is to babysit GPUs?

Systems23 Jul 2024 | 2

AMD spills the beans on Zen 5's 16% IPC gains

Fatter front end and execution engine meets a higher bandwidth backend and a true AVX-512 implementation

Systems15 Jul 2024 | 13

Game dev accuses Intel of selling ‘defective’ Raptor Lake CPUs

High-end processor instability headaches, failures pushed one studio to switch to AMD

Systems13 Jul 2024 | 56

Intel flashes 4 Tbps optical chiplet to supercharge datacenters

Likens tech to going from horse-drawn carriages to trucks

Systems27 Jun 2024 | 4

Lenovo brings virtualization, cloud stack to Chinese chip designer Loongson's CPU arch

NAS slingers, healthcare software makers, government buyers join the march to silicon sovereignty

Virtualization27 Jun 2024 | 4

Hong Kong authorities halt alleged smuggler shifting 596 'high-end' CPUs to China

Images suggest they could be recent Intel Xeons – perhaps even the sort of kit subject to sanctions

Systems19 Jun 2024 | 15

AMD says datacenter still king for profit margins amid AI buzz

CFO talks GPU development, strategy and market dynamics at Nasdaq Investor Conference

Systems17 Jun 2024 |

Arm chief exec scored $70M in New York IPO bonanza

Brit chip design outfit sets sights on dominating AI market

Systems03 Jun 2024 | 9

Arm is so, so over this AI accelerator unit craze

Analysis As it offers 3nm shake-and-bake Cortex-X925, A725 processor designs for phones, PCs

AI + ML30 May 2024 | 6

AMD's CFO Jean Hu talks CPUs, GPUs and the road ahead

Surging demand, the AI plan, and spinning FPGAs into gold

Systems24 May 2024 | 1

Microsoft invites punters to test drive custom Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU VMs in Azure

Build Subscribers in US, Europe, SEA can take silicon out for a spin for free

PaaS + IaaS22 May 2024 | 2

Intel reportedly seeking $11B to finance facility in Ireland

Another huge investment for chip giant despite losses

Systems13 May 2024 | 10

You OK, Apple? Seriously, your silicon lineup is … a mess

Comment M4? The M3 is barely six months old, and what about all those Macs still stuck on the M2? When will they get some love?

Systems13 May 2024 | 63

Latest figures show AMD chipping away at Intel's CPU dominance

That other processor company is gaining ground, says Mercury Research

Systems10 May 2024 | 15

Flexing financial muscles, Arm aims to elbow into Windows PC market

Despite record revenues, Wall Street doesn't expect growth to last

Systems09 May 2024 | 42

AMD datacenter sales surge 80% in Q1 despite market's lukewarm reception

Chip giant forecasts strong GPU growth amid mixed financial results

Systems01 May 2024 |

Intel, Ampere show running LLMs on CPUs isn't as crazy as it sounds

If you lower you expectations, of course. Think more Llama2-7B, less GPT-4

AI + ML01 May 2024 | 10

Intel tells mobo makers to go easy on the BIOS settings amid CPU instability reports

Do not disable safeguards by default, says chipmaker

Systems29 Apr 2024 | 10

Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs

Even tighter requirements, so it's time to put old hardware out to pasture... or find an alternative OS

OSes23 Apr 2024 | 255

Latest AMD Ryzen Pro chips are similar silicon, more smarts

That other processor company really wants you to use AI at work

Systems16 Apr 2024 | 3

Loongson CPU that performs like 2020 Core i3 makes its way to Chinese mini PCs

Slow but bona fide made in China

Personal Tech13 Apr 2024 | 71

Intel over the Moon as Lunar Lake’s NPU performance TOPS Meteor Lake

Intel Vision Pat Gelsinger claims 3x performance in next-gen silicon for AI PCs

Systems10 Apr 2024 | 3

Google joins the custom server CPU crowd with Arm-based Axion chips

Cloud Next Neoverse V2 cores available in GCP later this year

Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1

SiFive is back with another 64-bit RISC-V dev board – hopefully

Ditching Intel for a system-on-chip out of Beijing

On-Prem09 Apr 2024 | 7

Meteor Lake CPUs splash down in socketed motherboards for edge and embedded workloads

Intel reckons the NPUs that power the 'AI PC' are needed on your lap, on the edge, but not on the desktop

On-Prem08 Apr 2024 |

Imagination licenses RISC-V CPU cores for smart TVs, IoT, embedded stuff

Chip designer legging it after Arm

Edge + IoT08 Apr 2024 | 14