Interview with Dr. Lisa Su, AMD's CEO, on the new Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile lineup, Apple's M1 chip, supply shortages, AMD's acquisition of Xilinx, and more Techmeme · 7 days ago
AMD says it will now directly sell Threadripper Pro CPUs to consumers, which support up to 128 PCIe 4.0 lanes and eight-channel memory, starting in March Techmeme · 7 days ago
Samsung unveils the Exynos 2100 flagship SoC, produced on a 5nm process node, touting 19% better single core and 33% better multi-core performance than last gen Techmeme · 1 week ago
Intel previews 14nm Rocket Lake Core i9-11900K, its next consumer flagship processor, coming in Q1, promises up to 50% better integrated graphics performance Techmeme · 1 week ago
Roundtable interview with Intel CEO Bob Swan on ramping up 10nm production, possibly sub-licensing leading process node technology from other foundries, more Techmeme · 1 week ago
Jim Keller, a star chip designer at Apple, AMD, Tesla, Broadcom, and Intel, has joined Toronto-based Tenstorrent, a startup building AI chips Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Xiaomi announces Mi 11, its new flagship, with 6.81" 120Hz display, Snapdragon 888, Android 11, and up to 256GB storage, available in China for ~$611 on Jan. 1 Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
“Microsoft Pluton Hardware Security Coming to Our CPUs”: AMD, Intel, Qualcomm Hacker News · 2 months ago
MediaTek subsidiary Richtek agrees to acquire Intel's power management and controller product line Enpirion for $85M Techmeme · 2 months ago
Q&A with Lisa Pearce, VP of Intel's Architecture, Graphics and Software Group, on its oneAPI strategy, the new Iris Xe MAX discrete GPU, cloud gaming, more Techmeme · 2 months ago
Samsung unveils Exynos 1080, a 5nm SoC with a 5G modem capable of both sub-6GHz frequencies and mmWave Techmeme · 2 months ago
Analysis of Apple's A14 chip shows an increase in single-thread performance of nearly 3x in 5 years, suggesting M1 will be a formidable rival to x86 incumbents Techmeme · 2 months ago
Micron unveils their 5th-gen 3D NAND flash memory, now in mass production with 176 layers and speeds of 1600MT/s, up from last gen's 128 layers and 1200MT/s Techmeme · 2 months ago
Review of AMD's 5000 series lineup: AMD's Zen 3 chips demonstrate 19%+ IPC uplift from Zen 2 and best Intel across different workloads with new core design Techmeme · 2 months ago
AMD reports Q3 revenue of $2.8B, up 56% YoY, net income of $390M, up from $120M YoY; Computing and Graphics revenue was $1.67B, up 31% YoY on better Ryzen sales Techmeme · 3 months ago
Interview with AMD's CTO, Mark Papermaster, on the launch of Zen 3, its new core complex design and improved power efficiency, and pressure from Arm ecosystem Techmeme · 3 months ago
NVIDIA unveils new professional GPUs based on its Ampere architecture: the RTX A6000, coming in December, and A40, coming early 2021 Techmeme · 4 months ago
Oracle announces updates to its Cloud Compute instances, including support for Nvidia's A100 accelerator, Arm-powered processors, and updated pricing schemes Techmeme · 4 months ago
Review of Intel's 11th-gen Tiger Lake CPUs, aimed at laptops: better performance than Ice Lake across a range of different tasks with the same energy usage Techmeme · 4 months ago
Samsung Display reveals new generation of variable refresh rate mobile display panels, making its debut in the Note20 Ultra, helping lower device power usage Techmeme · 5 months ago
AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings: Notebook and Server Sales Drive a Record Quarter Hacker News · 6 months ago
Intel Reorganizes In Wake of 7nm Woes; Chief Engineering Officer Murthy Renduchintala To Depart Reddit · 6 months ago
AMD unveils its first line of workstation processors, Ryzen Threadripper Pro, with up to 64 cores, only available in OEM hardware; Lenovo is the launch partner Techmeme · 6 months ago
Western Digital's 16TB and 18TB drives: EAMR HDDs enter the retail channel Hacker News · 6 months ago
A look at AMD's 25×20 project, which it started in 2014 to improve overall "Performance Efficiency" 25x by 2020, and what its success means in the long run Techmeme · 7 months ago
Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming Hacker News · 7 months ago