An interview with AMD's SVP Sam Naffziger on challenges facing the company, its coming RDNA 3 chiplet design, GPU performance and power efficiency, and more Techmeme · 1 week ago
Cerebras says its "wafer-scale" chip sets a record for the largest AI model trained on a single device with up to 20B parameters Techmeme · 1 week ago
Intel claims its Intel 4 node, its first to use EUV lithography, offers 21.5% higher frequencies or 40% power reduction vs Intel 7, up to 2x transistor density Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Top500: the US' AMD-powered Frontier is now the world's fastest supercomputer, topping 1,102 petaflops/second, overtaking Japan's Fugaku at 442 petaflops/second Techmeme · 1 month ago
Intel unveils Alder Lake HX laptops chips coming this year, with up to 16 cores, peak clock rates of 5.0 GHz, and a 55W base power draw that can stretch to 157W Techmeme · 2 months ago
AMD confirms a bug in its GPU driver is auto-overclocking Ryzen CPUs without the user's knowledge by changing settings in the BIOS Techmeme · 3 months ago
Intel, AMD, Arm, TSMC, Samsung, and others introduce the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express consortium, seeking to standardize die-to-die designs Techmeme · 4 months ago
Intel forms a Custom Compute Group to build blockchain hardware and plans to ship cryptocurrency mining chips in 2022; Block, Argo, and Griid are customers Techmeme · 5 months ago
Mercury Research: AMD hit 25.6% of the x86 market in Q4 2021, beating its 25.3% market share record set in 2006, in part due to gaming console shipments growth Techmeme · 5 months ago
Intel closes the first phase of the sale of its SSD and NAND businesses to SK hynix and says SK hynix's Solidigm subsidiary will operate the Dalian fab in China Techmeme · 6 months ago
Report: Raspberry Pi Trading hired investment banks Stifel and Liberum to advise on a London IPO planned for this spring that would value it at ~$500M Techmeme · 7 months ago
Valve delays Steam Deck from December 2021 to February 2022, citing supply chain issues Techmeme · 8 months ago
AMD says chips with new 3D-stacked L3 cache tech, allowing up to 768MB of L3 cache per chip, will arrive in Q1 2022 and are in preview now on Azure Techmeme · 8 months ago
AMD unveils Zen 4 CPU roadmap, including a 96-core Genoa chip in 2022 and a 128-core chip in 2023, both using a 5nm TSMC process that doubles power efficiency Techmeme · 8 months ago
Intel to acquire part of Taiwan-based VIA Technologies' Centaur x86 CPU subsidiary for $125M, including some engineers from VIA's Austin, Texas campus Techmeme · 8 months ago
Interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and CTO Greg Lavender on the IBM partnership, how new transistor architectures could help outpace Moore's Law, and more Techmeme · 8 months ago
Windows 11 update fixes AMD CPU latency issues that reduced performance 3-5% for some apps and 10-15% for esports games Techmeme · 8 months ago
AMD warns that its CPUs running Windows 11 may suffer 3%-5% reduced performance for some apps, 10%-15% for esports games; AMD and Microsoft are working on a fix Techmeme · 9 months ago
AMD Patent Proposes Teleportation to Make Quantum Computing More Efficient Hacker News · 10 months ago
Intel brings back Shlomit Weiss, one of its famed chip architects, to lead all of its consumer chip development and design; Weiss returns to Intel from Nvidia Techmeme · 12 months ago
Microsoft says Windows 11 requires a Trusted Platform Module chip, excluding a significant number of Windows 10 computers from upgrading to the new OS Techmeme · 1 year ago
Crucial Caves: Says Chia Cryptomining Voids SSD Warranty, Then Retracts Post Hacker News · 1 year ago
AMD's EPYC Milan Breaks Cinebench Record, Here's a 10nm Ice Lake Xeon Comparison Hacker News · 1 year ago
Report: in Q4 2020, Intel clawed back QoQ desktop PC and notebook CPU market share from AMD for the first time in 3 years amid AMD's ongoing supply chain issues Techmeme · 1 year ago
Radeon RX 6900 XT review: at $999, the GPU only provides a minor performance bump compared to the 6800 XT, but is competitive with Nvidia's pricier RTX 3090 Techmeme · 2 years ago
Report: in Q3, AMD reached its highest overall x86 CPU market share since 2007 at 22.4%, up 6.3% YoY, as it readies its Ryzen 5000 processors Techmeme · 2 years ago