CPU

Arm pulls the sheets off its latest Armv9 architecture with added AI support, Realms software isolation

CEO reckons this tech will be used in 300 billion chips

AI + ML30 Mar 2021 | 8

Linux developers get ready to wield the secateurs against elderly microprocessors

Use it or lose it

OSes11 Jan 2021 | 79

Who among you can resist an eight-core, 2.9GHz mini-PC or thin client that drives four displays?

AMD’s Ryzen to the challenge with new embedded CPUs

On-Prem12 Nov 2020 | 38

India shows off new home-grown CPU – but at 100MHz, 32-bit and 180nm, it’s a bit of a clunker

RISC-V design can play nice with Arduino and was totally home-spun so that’s something

On-Prem24 Sep 2020 | 54

By the beard of Zeus! Arm takes another tilt at serious servers with SVE-capable 96-core Neoverse V1

Also makes itself denser, in a good way, with 128-core N2 upgrade

Systems22 Sep 2020 | 2

Nvidia may be mulling lopping Arm off Softbank: GPU goliath said to have shown interest in acquiring CPU design house

Well, when the chips are down...

Science22 Jul 2020 | 59

Arm hopes AWS, FOSS, cloud-native combo will wrestle you onto its architecture

Interview Still cheap to run. Now also running the code you prefer, wherever you need it, and with cloudy sandboxes for tests

On-Prem22 Jul 2020 | 1

A match made in SEV-en: Google touts Confidential VMs using AMD's Epyc on-the-fly memory encryption

Updated A little something to keep determined snoopers out, in theory

SaaS14 Jul 2020 | 5

Arm goes off road... map: 5nm Cortex-X1 touted for phone, tablet, laptop processors needing Apple-level oomph

Meanwhile, A78, Mali-G78 and Ethos-N78 announced, too

Science26 May 2020 | 3

Mystery cloud added 10,000 new AMD Epyc servers in under ten days to handle demand for you know what

Chip challenger announces 40 percent Q1 growth, lowers guidance

SaaS29 Apr 2020 | 12

Intel's 10th-gen Core family cracks 5GHz barrier with H-series laptop processors

New line-up includes first i9 part in this latest generation

Personal Tech03 Apr 2020 | 24

Google reveals the wheels almost literally fell off one of its cloudy server racks

Crushed rollers sent rack into the red until techies solved wheely obscure problem

SaaS16 Mar 2020 | 102

Chipzilla or Chipzooky? If Intel's server CPU sales keep on shrinking, El Reg will have to update the branding

Still a monopoly in Western Euro channel, but it's smaller: shortages and AMD ROME burning Intel market share

Systems02 Mar 2020 | 13

Yay, Intel chip shortages should be over soon! Nope. Strap in, at least another quarter or two to go, say PC execs

Canalys Channels Forum Chipzilla's keeping mum ...

Channel18 Oct 2019 | 19

Cortana makes your PC's heart beat faster: Windows 10 update leaves some processors hot under the cooler

Updated 1903 patch turns Redmond's virtual assistant into a very power hungry bot

Software03 Sep 2019 | 36

Huawei is planning to inject $436m into Arm-based server silicon

With its eye mostly on the domestic market

Systems25 Jul 2019 | 25

Who's been copying AMD's homework? Intel lifts the lid on its hip chip packaging to break up chips into chiplets

Interconnects, never sexy but very useful for Chipzilla's plans

On-Prem10 Jul 2019 | 51

Time to Ryzen shine, Intel: AMD has started shipping 7nm desktop CPUs like it's no big deal

Alongside Navi GPUs, and a Ryzen 3 APU priced at just $99

Personal Tech08 Jul 2019 | 97

Bring it on, Chipzilla! Nvidia swipes back at Intel in CPU-GPU AI performance brouhaha

Dodgy numbers, new kit versus old... neither side comes out well

On-Prem22 May 2019 | 13

All nodes lead to Rome: Epyc leak spills deets on second-gen Zen 32-core AMD server chippery

But what is the significance of lower clock speeds?

Systems20 May 2019 | 11

Intel shortages, weak-ass consumer spending, 'peak' Win10 refresh. No, global PC market didn't grow in Q1

Down in EMEA, US, Latin America, APAC. Aw bless... Top 3 vendors profited from small fry's pain, though

Personal Tech11 Apr 2019 | 21

♫ The Core i9 clock cycles go up. Who cares where they come down?

That's not my department say, er... Intel, Apple and Dell ♫

Personal Tech20 Jul 2018 | 73

Intel’s first 10nm CPU is a twin-core i3 destined for a mid-range Lenovo

Wake us up when things get more interesting than a 2.2GHz 4MB cache laptop chip, please

Personal Tech18 May 2018 | 36

Industry whispers: Qualcomm mulls Arm server processor exit

Analysis Arm-for-web-boxes is a good idea that keeps going nowhere

Systems08 May 2018 | 44

How are the shares, Bry? Intel chief cops to CPU fix slowdowns

Don't worry, Chipzilla is 'working tirelessly' to resolve the issue

Security09 Jan 2018 | 42

Here come the lawyers! Intel slapped with three Meltdown bug lawsuits

Class-actions start piling up after El Reg blows lid on CPU security cockup

Systems05 Jan 2018 | 128

Arm Inside: Is Apple ready for the next big switch?

The hybrid Arm-Intel Mac draws near

Personal Tech21 Nov 2017 | 74

Fresh chips from Intel (yay?) at 14nm (awww)

But don't fret, 10nm Cannonlake's still on track for late-2017 arrival, allegedly

Personal Tech25 Sep 2017 | 24

U wot M8? Oracle chip designers quietly work on new SPARC CPU

Would be the first M-line server processor since 2015's M7

Systems05 Jul 2017 | 21

Qualcomm's server silicon has a cloud customer: Packet

Rival ARM-wrestling cloud Scaleway has added 64-core Caviums

On-Prem23 Jun 2017 | 1

ARM talks up fresh CPUs and a GPU, all tuned for AI

Cortex-A75, A55, and Mali-G72 coming next year

Systems29 May 2017 | 9

Industrial Light & Magic: 40 years of Lucas's pioneering FX-wing

Star Wars New Hope @ 40 The roots of multithreaded rendering software

Bootnotes25 May 2017 | 46

Half-ton handbuilt CPU heads to Centre for Computing History

1,000,000 hand-soldered joints, £40k spent, just about fits in one lorry

Personal Tech28 Nov 2016 | 47

AMD will sell server CPUs at Happy Meal prices so you can supersize servers

ARM vs. x86 can wait as first decent Xeon alternatives in ages pressure Chipzilla

Channel27 Oct 2016 | 26

Zombie Moore's Law shows hardware is eating software

Customised CPUs are doing things software just can't do on commodity kit

AI + ML22 Sep 2016 | 77

You don't need no STEEENKING GPU, says Intel

Xeon E3-1500 v5 plans to 4k-up video and VDI, even more so with 3D Xpoint

Personal Tech01 Jun 2016 | 18

Building a fanless PC is now realistic. But it still ain't cheap

Here's a few pointers if you wanted to get cracking

Personal Tech26 Feb 2016 | 103

Intel's tablet CPU share to DROP: analyst

Chipzilla will struggle to sell 50 million CPUs into mobile devices says Digitimes

Channel09 Jul 2015 | 8

This whopping 16-bit computer processor is being built by hand, transistor by transistor

Pics Cambridge Brit to wire up 14,000 gates, 3,500 LEDs

Personal Tech23 Jun 2015 | 178

AMD promises 100 gigabyte/second memory

Open HBM architecture detailed, first devices due in June

Personal Tech20 May 2015 | 10

Struggling Nvidia says it may pay up to $125m to shutter Icera modem biz

Those car, cloud, and gaming bets better pay off

HPC07 May 2015 | 4

Rip up your AMD obits: Gaming, VR, embedded chips to lift biz out of the red by 2016, allegedly

Make money. Permission denied. Su do make money. OK

Systems06 May 2015 | 18

Intel raises memory deflector shields in Xeon E7 processor refresh

Silicon will lock off shared RAM so you don't have to do it in code

Systems05 May 2015 | 10

MIPS quietly bares its processor architecture to universities

Company hopes to use smart young brains to beat off ARM

Networks27 Apr 2015 | 19

Atmel stoops to an 'all-time low' in Internet of Things battle

Claims new microcontroller family is Cortex-M world's least power greedy silicon

Networks31 Mar 2015 | 14

AMD, ARM, Imagination, Samsung alliance publish official shared GPU-CPU blueprints

HSA Foundation rolls out 1.0 spec to grab devs' attention

Software16 Mar 2015 | 11

Ailing AMD battered by goodwill, inventory charges

Unsold PC product weighs down chipmaker in rocky Q4

Channel21 Jan 2015 | 7

Intel touts tardy Broadwell Core CPUs for laptops, PCs

CES 2015 Expect first devices on store shelves this month

Personal Tech05 Jan 2015 | 13

Ellison: Sparc M7 is Oracle's most important silicon EVER

OpenWorld 'Acceleration engines' key to performance, security, Larry says

HPC29 Sep 2014 | 55

Intel's DDR4-friendly Xeon workhorses bolt for workstations, servers

New E5 v3 chips available in 32 different flavors for Dell, IBM, Cray et al

Channel08 Sep 2014 | 5

Oracle reveals 32-core, 10 BEEELLION-transistor SPARC M7

New chip scales to 1024 cores, 8192 threads 64 TB RAM, at speeds over 3.6GHz

Systems18 Aug 2014 | 76

NVIDIA claims first 64-bit ARMv8 SoC for Androids

Mile-High 'Denver' Tegra K1 successor said to rival PC performance

Personal Tech12 Aug 2014 | 19

Overclocking to 5GHz? We put Intel Devil’s Canyon CPU to the test

Review Haswell refresh that's hot to trot

Personal Tech30 Jun 2014 | 41

AMD details aggressive power-efficiency goal: 25X boost by 2020

Deep Tech 10X lift in past six years, 25X in next six thanks to real-time tuning, sleepy video

Personal Tech20 Jun 2014 | 32

ARM to open CPU design centre in Taiwan

Computex Greater China scores lab for next-generation M-series kit for wearables and IoT

On-Prem02 Jun 2014 | 4

Qualcomm uncloaks new chips for 'ultimate connected mobile computing experiences'

Snapdragon 808 and 810 to deliver 'up to 300 Mbps' LTE

Personal Tech07 Apr 2014 | 5