Interview with Intel VP Rebecca Weekly, the new chairperson and president of the board of the Open Compute Project, which now has around 250 corporate members Techmeme · 1 month ago
Intel Executive Posts Thunderbolt 5 Photo Then Deletes It: 80 Gbps and Pam-3 Hacker News · 2 months ago
GlobalFoundries says it will spend ~$1B on expanding its largest chip fab, which is in Malta, NY, and create a new fab in Malta via a private-public partnership Techmeme · 2 months ago
Intel licenses SiFive's IP for Intel Foundry Services' 7nm offerings and says it will create its own RISC-V development platform called Horse Creek Techmeme · 3 months ago
Interview with Jim Keller, a chip expert lauded for his work at AMD and Apple, on ARM vs x86 vs RISC-V, managing 1,000 people at Intel, and plans at Tenstorrent Techmeme · 3 months ago
AMD unveils Radeon RX 6000M series of graphics adapters for gaming laptops, which are based on the RDNA2 architecture that underpins AMD's desktop RX 6000 parts Techmeme · 4 months ago
Intel unveils a refresh of its 11th-Gen Tiger Lake-U chips aimed at laptops and debuts a 5G modem developed with MediaTek that supports 5G on slower, sub-6 GHz Techmeme · 4 months ago
Ampere announces their next CPU will use custom microarchitecture instead of ARM Hacker News · 4 months ago
TSMC says its 4nm chip process is on track for risk production at end of 2021 and mass production in 2022, 3nm is expected in H2 2022, and 2nm is in development Techmeme · 5 months ago
Interview with Intel's VP of Xeon, Lisa Spelman, on the new features in its 10nm Ice Lake Xeon Scalable chips, its data center processor roadmap, and more Techmeme · 5 months ago
Chip fab equipment sales hit $71.19B in 2020, up 19% YoY, with Chinese firms spending $18.72B, up 39% YoY, according to semiconductor industry association SEMI Techmeme · 5 months ago
Nvidia Unveils Grace: A High-Performance Arm CPU for Use in Big AI Systems Hacker News · 5 months ago
Review of Intel's Ice Lake Xeon Scalable CPUs, its first server chip design using a 10nm process, which sees large increases in performance for many workloads Techmeme · 6 months ago
CEO Pat Gelsinger says Intel will spend $20B on two new fabs in Ocotillo, Arizona and will reconfigure its external Foundry Services to serve new chip customers Techmeme · 6 months ago
OnePlus debuts 6.55" OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9R and 6.7" OnePlus 9 Pro, all with 120Hz displays, Android 11, on-screen fingerprint sensors, and 128GB base storage Techmeme · 6 months ago
Micron says it is ceasing all R&D on its 3D XPoint memory, which it developed with Intel, and has listed its fab in Lehi, Utah for sale Techmeme · 6 months ago
Review of the 3rd-gen EPYC Milan chips shows AMD continues to strengthen and maintain a very stark one-sided performance advantage against its main rival, Intel Techmeme · 6 months ago
Intel, Microsoft, DARPA announce the DPRIVE program, which aims to make fully homomorphic encryption fast enough for practical use, via custom silicon on Azure Techmeme · 7 months ago
Interview with the head of Intel Labs, Dr. Richard Uhlig, on Intel's moonshot ideas involving integrated photonics, neuromorphic and quantum computing, and more Techmeme · 7 months ago
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 · 8 months 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 · 8 months 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 · 8 months 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 · 8 months 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 · 8 months 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 · 9 months 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 · 9 months ago
“Microsoft Pluton Hardware Security Coming to Our CPUs”: AMD, Intel, Qualcomm Hacker News · 10 months ago
MediaTek subsidiary Richtek agrees to acquire Intel's power management and controller product line Enpirion for $85M Techmeme · 10 months ago