Processors

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 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

Ventana targets hyperscalers with customizable RISC-V server chip

RISC-V Summit Aims to take away the pain of designing an SoC in-house

Systems12 Dec 2022 | 5

As semiconductor VC funding dips, startups trip, crash, build for the next boom

In a weaker economy, investor scrutiny is increasing for these capital-intensive upstarts

Systems10 Dec 2022 | 5

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

US chip group: $52b is not enough, we need an extra $30b in federal funding

We need more free money from the government say silicon salesfolks

Systems02 Dec 2022 | 38

Graphcore makes China push with Mk2 AI chip amid financial woes

It's not clear whether the upstart had to abide by new US chip restrictions

Systems30 Nov 2022 | 2

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 |

Chinese Loongson chips coming in 2023, on par with 2020 x86 kit

Homegrown chips remain behind for now, but for how much longer?

Systems21 Nov 2022 | 17

Cerebras's supercomputer has more cores than world's fastest iron – with a big catch

Better for AI, but Frontier's still top of the heap

HPC15 Nov 2022 | 6

Arm reports record royalties but total revenues slide

Licensing down 53% due to major one-off deals signed a year ago

Systems11 Nov 2022 | 3

Mythic bet big on analog AI but has run out of cash

Veep still says 'technology will eventually be very successful'

AI + ML09 Nov 2022 | 10

Intel plans to cut products — we guess where they’ll happen

Analysis To help save x86 titan some cash, we look at the components Intel may want to lose

Systems05 Nov 2022 | 30

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

Thanks to 'resilient' American cloud plus games consoles, AMD squeezes into winter

PC chip slump forces break-even non-profit impression for a few months

On-Prem02 Nov 2022 |

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'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

Removing an obsolete AMD fix makes Linux kernel 6 quicker

Performance-killing workaround rediscovered after 20 years

OSes27 Sep 2022 | 80

NASA wants a hundredfold upgrade for space computers

Does it hope to run Doom on the Moon or something?

Science17 Aug 2022 | 37

CHERI-based computer runs KDE for the first time

Digital security via processor design, hardware-enforced protection … and a friendly desktop

OSes26 Jul 2022 | 17

Here's one way past Moore's law: Chips that mix photonics and electronics

Boffins see promise in optoelectronic accelerators running faster with less energy than traditional components

Systems13 Jul 2022 | 14

Samsung invests in ML chip startup NeuReality

Coining the term hardware-based 'AI hypervisor' has to be worth several million, dontcha think?

AI + ML21 Jun 2022 | 1

Intel shareholders revolt against Pat Gelsinger's pay package

Investors want compensation-performance link, but manufacturing plan will dent bottom line

Systems17 May 2022 | 17

MIPS discloses first RISC-V chips coming in Q4 2022

eVocore processor line aimed at high-performance, real-time compute applications

Systems11 May 2022 | 17

Cerebras' wafer-size AI chips play nice with PyTorch, TensorFlow

Better support for top ML frameworks means stronger chip competition

AI + ML13 Apr 2022 | 7

Chip supply relief coming in 2024 when wafer plants open

Another reason why this year and next will suck

Personal Tech12 Apr 2022 | 6

Nvidia reveals specs of latest GPU: The Hopper-based H100

GTC Performance boost promised, power stakes raised by 300 Watts

Systems22 Mar 2022 | 9

Cerebras brings wafer-size AI chips to medical data analysis

CEO tells El Reg why biomedical firms dig big dies

AI + ML14 Mar 2022 | 1

Photonics startup Luminous Computing bags $105m

Bill Gates among those plowing funds into AI supercomputing tech

HPC05 Mar 2022 | 7

Intel brings Evo thin, light laptop spec to vPro systems

Launches Alder Lake P, U-series processors – with muted claims about battery life

Personal Tech24 Feb 2022 | 2

Intel CEO Gelsinger spells out five-year renewal plan inspired by iconic leaders

By bringing back the optimism of Gordon Moore, and the paranoia of Andy Grove, is chip giant's mojo back?

On-Prem18 Feb 2022 | 7

AMD agrees to cough up $35-a-chip payout over eight-core Bulldozer advertising fiasco

A great deal or were consumers Bulldozed by the chip giant?

On-Prem27 Aug 2019 | 65

AMD's shares get in a plane, take off and soar to 12,000 ft – then throw open the door, and fall into the cool rushing air

Disinterest in GPU gear spurs selloff, but x86 biz insists all's well, nothing to see here

On-Prem25 Oct 2018 | 23

Arm debuts CPU roadmap for the first time, sort of

Move reflects desire to develop in the open, says company not developing in the open

Personal Tech16 Aug 2018 | 14

Intel gives the world a Core i9 desktop CPU to play with

Chipzilla's Compute Card also comes into focus in four models

Personal Tech31 May 2017 | 49

Gamers red hot with fury over Intel Core i7-7700 temperature spikes

High-end CPUs prone to randomly running near thermal limit

Personal Tech04 May 2017 | 67

IBM: Why our Power9 CPU is going to make data centers great again

HPC blog Big Blue starts making performance promises

On-Prem10 Nov 2016 | 12

Handy results put ARM on track for a muscular year

More fingers being placed in various technology pies

Channel21 Oct 2015 | 5

Imagination touts cheap Firefox OS MIPS slab to Chinese kitmakers

'Hey! Over here! No, not that one, that's ARM...'

Personal Tech24 Mar 2015 | 11

Pathetic PC sales just cost us a BILLION dollars, cries Intel

No wonder Chipzilla is chasing internet-of-things, mobile chips

On-Prem12 Mar 2015 | 28

Medic! Intel can't stanch bleeding from mobile chip biz

Desktops and laptops to the rescue as server biz rebounds

Channel15 Jan 2015 | 8

Intel touts tardy Broadwell Core CPUs for laptops, PCs

CES 2015 Expect first devices on store shelves this month

Personal Tech05 Jan 2015 | 13

Smartphone chip champ Qualcomm says it's ARMed for server wars

Will take on Intel, ARM rivals for the data center

Systems19 Nov 2014 | 5

Samsung, Apple soap opera drama: Korean giant WILL churn out chips for iPhones, iPads

Report suggests TSMC just can't satisfy Cook & Co.

Personal Tech18 Nov 2014 | 14

How STEVE JOBS saved Apple's bacon with an outstretched ARM

Feature And how a 'surprisingly small' UK company conquered the world

Personal Tech27 Nov 2013 | 88

Silicon daddy: Moore's Law about to be repealed, but don't blame physics

Hot Chips Insider channels Deep Throat from All the President's Men

Personal Tech27 Aug 2013 | 94

Intel to put pedal to metal in 14nm Atom upgrade

No more leisurely transitions from Core to Atom, says report – the market won't wait

Personal Tech19 Aug 2013 | 18

AMD is 'transforming', will be profitable this quarter, says CEO Read

PC market stagnant, so expansion into 'high-growth markets' will save the day

On-Prem19 Jul 2013 | 3

AMD announces 'world's first commercially available 5GHz CPU'

Updated When is 5GHz not quite 5GHz?

Personal Tech11 Jun 2013 | 65

AMD releases new 'Elite' laptop chips

'Richland' APUs a step above last year's 'Trinity' – but not a giant step

Personal Tech12 Mar 2013 | 3

New Apple TV may hint at Apple-Samsung divorce

One shrinking chip may have growing implications

Personal Tech11 Mar 2013 | 30

Intel, Apple forging chip-baking deal?

Analysis Will Intel eat ARM crow? Will Apple wound Samsung? Stay tuned...

Personal Tech07 Mar 2013 | 26

Remember that Xeon E7-Itanium convergence? FUHGEDDABOUDIT

Intel backtracks on 'Kittson' Itanium plans, including shift to 22 nanometers

Systems08 Feb 2013 | 80

AMD's chip-supply reassessment leads to big quarterly losses

'But if you ignore that charge, we're doing okay'

Channel22 Jan 2013 | 5