CPU

AMD on the edge: Stripped down Siena Epycs teased

Hot Chips Hopes cool-running Zen cores can socket to Intel's Xeon-D – maybe with a smaller socket

Networks29 Aug 2023 | 4

Need a datacenter processor? Try our take-and-bake Neoverse N2 cores, says Arm

Hot Chips Just bring your own accelerator

Systems29 Aug 2023 | 6

Intel promises next year's Xeons will challenge AMD on memory, IO channels

Hot Chips Plus more insights on x86 titan's all E-core datacenter chips

Systems28 Aug 2023 | 17

AMD adds 4th-gen Epycs to AWS in HPC and normie workload flavors

Silicon joins Amazon's homegrown Gravitons, Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeons

Cloud Infrastructure Month21 Aug 2023 |

AVX10: The benefits of AVX-512 without all the baggage

Turns out bigger isn't always better

Systems15 Aug 2023 | 15

Amazon's rumored investment in Arm's IPO might be good insurance

Analysis What benefits the chip designer will trickle down to AWS's Graviton team

Systems11 Aug 2023 | 5

Nearly every AMD CPU since 2017 vulnerable to Inception data-leak attacks

It's like a nesting doll of security flaws

Patches09 Aug 2023 | 32

Say hello to Downfall, another data-leaking security hole in several years of Intel chips

Black Hat It is with a heavy heart that we must announce that the boffins are at it again

Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 10

Nvidia gives Grace Hopper superchip an HBM3e upgrade – sometime next year

641GB of total memory ought to be enough for anybody (and their LLM)

AI + ML09 Aug 2023 | 4

China's great CPU hope – Loongson – may be only four years behind Intel

Mission not accomplished

Systems08 Aug 2023 | 45

Qualcomm's great vanishing act: $2.48B of Q3 profit disappears

Smartphone CPU king talks of 'additional cost actions' as market recovery still out of reach

Systems03 Aug 2023 | 1

AWS is running a 96-core, 192-thread, custom Xeon server

Updated Amid all the Graviton chat, cloud colossus still has a soft spot for Chipzilla

PaaS + IaaS03 Aug 2023 | 15

Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG

Some Ryzen Linux machines still stumble along despite efforts to fix it all

OSes31 Jul 2023 | 72

Intel patches buggy Sapphire Rapids Xeons, resumes shipments

Relax, says chip giant, it's an easy fix

Systems10 Jul 2023 | 3

Mystery Intel bug halts shipments of some Sapphire Rapids Xeons

Chipzilla's not saying much other than 'commercial software' not affected

Systems30 Jun 2023 | 16

Microsoft investigating bug in Windows 11 File Explorer that makes the CPU hangry

On the other hand, some old settings are set for a comeback

OSes23 Jun 2023 | 47

AMD's 128-core Epycs could spell trouble for Ampere Computing

Analysis We still have more cores, exec sniffs

Systems21 Jun 2023 | 15

Amazon isn’t sold on AMD’s tiny Zen 4c cores in manycore Bergamo processors

Or Ampere's Arm cores for that matter

PaaS + IaaS15 Jun 2023 | 1

AMD's latest Epycs are bristling with cores, stacked to the gills with cache

Zen giant's Instinct MI300 APUs, GPUs not quite ready for limelight

Systems13 Jun 2023 |

Chinese chipmaker insists it has Intel on-side, not inside

Home-grown CPU looks suspiciously like a Core i3, but local firm insists it's a collab not a copy

Personal Tech09 Jun 2023 | 16

What to expect from AMD's June datacenter, AI shindig

Comment Could it be a cloudy Epyc, or a datacenter APU, maybe another cache-stacked X-chip?

Systems01 Jun 2023 |

Intel says AI is overwhelming CPUs, GPUs, even clouds – so all Meteor Lakes get a VPU

Computex Movidius tech already sprinkled on some 13th-gen Core silicon goes mainstream in next generation

Personal Tech29 May 2023 | 8

AMD scours parts bin for old CPUs, GPUs to put in Chromebooks

Do you really need the latest and greatest cores to doomscroll the web?

Personal Tech23 May 2023 | 7

Intel abandons XPU plan to cram CPU, GPU, memory into one package

ISC AMD now has clear runway to conquer datacenter APU market

Systems22 May 2023 | 7

Ampere heads off Intel, AMD's cloud-optimized CPUs with a 192-core Arm chip

Just don't look too closely at the benchmarks

Systems18 May 2023 | 19

Intel says Friday's mystery 'security update' microcode isn't really a security update

We're all for encouraging people to squash bugs but this is an odd way to do it

Patches15 May 2023 | 7

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