CPU

Apple gives up legal war on iPhone CPU wizard who co-founded Nuvia

Qualcomm acquisition dodges one bullet, Arm still coming for blood

Systems01 May 2023 | 16

Google adds account sync for Authenticator, without E2EE

in brief Also: Your Salesforce Community site might be leaking; a new CPU side-channel; and this week's critical vunls

Security01 May 2023 | 7

Intel to rebrand client chips once Meteor Lake splashes down

Poll Game benchmark suggests 'Ultra 5' could replace names like 'Core i5'

On-Prem01 May 2023 | 63

Intel's $2.8B Q1 loss and 36 percent revenue slide were slightly less horrible than expected

Updated CEO Gelsinger insists plan to grow a whopping foundry business will pay off

On-Prem28 Apr 2023 | 5

AMD probes reports of deep fried Ryzen 7000 chips

Updated Botched BIOS firmware, EXPO memory profiles possible culprit

Personal Tech25 Apr 2023 | 9

It's time to stop fearing CPU power management

Feature It's (probably) not going to kill your latency and it could save you a buck

Energy Efficient Datacenters12 Apr 2023 | 11

Microsoft deigns to fix five-year-old Defender bug that slowed Firefox

Windows giant would never try to get an unfair Edge over rival, surely

Applications11 Apr 2023 | 21

Smugglers busted sneaking tech into China

'Intel inside' a suspiciously baggy t-shirt gave the game away – as did a truckload of parts

Security30 Mar 2023 | 27

AMD flips the bird at Intel as it glides past in CPU-GPU stakes

CTO warns chips and process technology must be designed together more closely thanks to Moore's Law

Systems09 Mar 2023 | 4

Debian dev to the rescue after proposal to remove Itanium from Linux kernel

Nobody uses it, Linus Torvalds was happy to lose it, but it looks like sticking around

Systems16 Feb 2023 | 25

5% of the cloud now runs on Arm as chip designer plans 2023 IPO

Growing indication power-sipping CPUs are catching on in crowded datacenters

Systems08 Feb 2023 | 9

AMD's pricy cache-packed Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs ship this month

Who needs 6GHz when you can have 128MB of L3

Systems02 Feb 2023 | 6

Intel inside a world of pain as revenue plunges by a third

U OK Pat? Asking cos client sales are down, server sales are down, and your forecasts are grim

Systems27 Jan 2023 | 47

Intel offers desktop chip that can hit 6GHz if everything goes right, you can keep it cool, stars align, pigs fly

It'll do 8GHz when overclocked, if Chipzilla is to be believed

Systems13 Jan 2023 | 33

After long delays, Sapphire Rapids arrives, full of accelerators and superlatives

Look at our big claims, but don’t think about how AMD beat us in the DDR5, PCIe 5 race

Systems10 Jan 2023 | 26

As Arm plays chicken with Qualcomm, both have a lot to lose

Analysis High risk means high reward ... well, usually

Systems04 Jan 2023 | 22

China may have to reassess chip strategy in face of US sanctions

Beijing's dreams of producing advanced semiconductors could take much longer than hoped

Systems04 Jan 2023 | 19

Intel: Please buy these new 13th-Gen CPUs, now with 24 cores

CES Look folks, we need the business - there's a recession on

Systems03 Jan 2023 | 39

Intel may delay construction of German mega-fab to cut costs

No longer 'a definitive date' for facility scheduled to be built from next year

Systems19 Dec 2022 | 10

Qualcomm talks up RISC-V, roasts 'legacy architecture' amid war with Arm

Comment Sees opportunity on one side, dictatorial control on the other

Systems15 Dec 2022 | 31

Intel reminds everyone it's still cooking away on more PC processors

Better late than never to catch up with AMD's Ryzen star

Systems08 Dec 2022 | 9

Not all vendors' Arm-powered kit is created equally, benchmark fan finds

Shiny silicon plus Rusty drivers will eventually equal openly saucy happiness

Personal Tech06 Dec 2022 | 15

Woman fakes pregnancy to smuggle hundreds of CPUs, iPhones into China

Now that's what we call Intel Inside

Personal Tech06 Dec 2022 | 41

AWS follows AMD and Intel down the specialized chips path

Analysis CPU roadmaps are fragmenting to serve a variety of needs. Time to do some homework

HPC30 Nov 2022 |

AWS opens up preview access to instances run on Intel's Sapphire Rapids processors

Want to kick the tires early? You'll have to ask for an invitiation

PaaS + IaaS29 Nov 2022 |

Intel reveals pay-to-play Xeon features with software-defined silicon

Updated Pay for features like SGX through OEMs

Systems22 Nov 2022 | 50

AMD grows Epyc datacenter share, loses to Intel generally

Both firms have been hit with plunges in PC chip sales, and there's no Ryzen shine

Systems10 Nov 2022 | 5

Intel takes on AMD and Nvidia with mad 'Max' chips for HPC

x86 giant goes all-in with high-bandwidth memory

Systems09 Nov 2022 | 13

AMD says it's looking into gaming performance issues on Ryzen 7000

They better hop to it – Team Red's PC chip business nosedived in the third quarter

Systems02 Nov 2022 | 10

After spate of delays, Intel promises Sapphire Rapids Xeons for early 2023

x86 giant offers January launch, AMD eating its chips

Systems01 Nov 2022 | 4

Intel Alder Lake BIOS code leak may contain vital secrets

Gurus say source includes secret hardware info, private signing key for Boot Guard protection

Security10 Oct 2022 | 13

Intel accidentally leaked its 34-core Raptor Lake chip. What do the dies tell us?

Analysis Where we're going, we don't need efficiency cores. But we may need 1.21 jiggawatts

Systems29 Sep 2022 | 10

Intel's 13th-gen CPUs are hot, hungry, loaded with cores

X86 giant's 24-core i9 doubles as a space heater

Systems27 Sep 2022 | 47

Warning: That new AMD Ryzen 7000 laptop may not be as fresh as you think

The House of Zen is back to its tricks: Chips with three-year-old cores

Personal Tech20 Sep 2022 | 14

Arm sues Qualcomm over custom Nuvia CPU cores, wants designs destroyed

Updated British chip designer unhappy key customer is using lucrative blueprints

Systems31 Aug 2022 | 67

AMD refreshes desktop CPUs with 5nm Ryzen 7000s that can reach 5.7GHz with 16 cores

Prices start at $300, you'll also need a new motherboard, RAM, etc

Personal Tech30 Aug 2022 | 45

Intel shows how chiplets will form Meteor Lake CPUs

Hot Chips Different core counts, different cache sizes, and various cores possible in mix and match design, it says

Systems24 Aug 2022 | 10

AMD has a lot riding on its 5nm Ryzen 7000 CPUs. And so here begins the hype

You'll need a new motherboard, RAM, beefier PSU. But hey, at least GPUs are cheap again

Personal Tech16 Aug 2022 | 16

Too little, too late: Intel's legacy is eroding

Comment Can Pat stop the rot – or is the chip giant facing a Kodak moment?

Systems05 Aug 2022 | 90

Specs leak of 5.7GHz AMD Ryzen 7000 chips with double the L2 cache

These might be the 5nm Zen 4 desktop processors due to land this quarter

Personal Tech04 Aug 2022 | 16

Canonical adds instance tweaking to Multipass, Confidential VMs to Azure

The days of destroying and rebuilding to add another CPU core are numbered

Virtualization01 Aug 2022 |

Intel, other chipmakers boost lobbying spend to get CHIPS Act passed

How much did Intel fork out last quarter? Records were broken

Systems21 Jul 2022 | 4

Boffins release tool to decrypt Intel microcode. Have at it, x86 giant says

Peek behind the curtain to see SGX implemented, Spectre mitigated, and more

Research20 Jul 2022 | 18

You can liquid cool this Linux laptop to let the GPU soar

Or to make the fans shut up. Either way, you won’t be moving much with this setup

Personal Tech18 Jul 2022 | 36

Intel plans chip price hikes due to 'inflationary pressures'

Customers to start paying more for CPUs, chipsets and other products from October

Systems14 Jul 2022 | 12

Arm in the cloud definitely a trend now with Google Cloud’s embrace

Comment Six of the world’s largest cloud service providers head on out with Arm arch

PaaS + IaaS14 Jul 2022 |

The return of GPUs on sale may be tech world's monkey's paw of 2022

Comment Improved supply is welcome – too bad it may be the harbinger of a cooling economy

Personal Tech07 Jul 2022 | 14

One of the first RISC-V laptops may ship in September, has an NFT hook

A notebook with an RV SoC is cool enough. Did we really need the Web3 jargon?

Personal Tech01 Jul 2022 | 25

Arm says its Cortex-X3 CPU smokes this Intel laptop silicon

Chip design house reveals brains of what might be your next ultralight notebook

Personal Tech28 Jun 2022 | 18

AMD to end Threadripper Pro 5000 drought for non-Lenovo PCs

As the House of Zen kills off consumer-friendly non-Pro TR chips

Personal Tech20 Jun 2022 | 18

Nvidia wants to lure you to the Arm side with fresh server bait

Interview GPU giant promises big advancements with Arm-based Grace CPU, says the software is ready

Systems17 Jun 2022 | 10

AMD’s AI strategy comes into view with Xilinx, GPU, software plans

Analysis Chip designer hopes to have broad inference and training coverage from the edge to the cloud

Systems13 Jun 2022 | 2

Intel details advances to make upcoming chips faster, less costly

X86 giant says it’s on track to regaining manufacturing leadership after years of missteps

Systems13 Jun 2022 | 31

Apple’s M2 chip isn’t a slam dunk, but it does point to the future

Analysis The chip’s GPU and neural engine could overshadow Apple’s concession on CPU performance

Systems10 Jun 2022 | 49

AMD touts big datacenter, AI ambitions in CPU-GPU roadmap

Epyc future ahead, along with Instinct, Ryzen, Radeon and custom chip push

On-Prem10 Jun 2022 | 2

Intel says Sapphire Rapids CPU delay will help AMD catch up

Our window to have leading server chips again is narrowing, exec admits

Systems08 Jun 2022 | 6