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Intel's 800-series platform for Arrow Lake-S LGA-1851 CPUs revealed
Published in PC Hardware


Shown to partners

Intel is organising a series of events for distributors and board partners to present and discuss its forthcoming LGA-1851 platform. It has revealed a few things it is not telling the great unwashed yet.

Noctua shows upcoming CPU coolers and thermosiphon CPU cooler prototype
Published in PC Hardware


Computex 2024: Upgraded version of the NH-D15, new NF-A14x25 fans

Noctua came in force to the Computex 2024 show, unveiling a couple of CPU prototypes as well as the upcoming new version of the NH-D15 CPU cooler and new NF-A14x25 fan.

Arm releases latest CPU and GPU designs
Published in Mobiles
Thursday, 30 May 2024 10:33

Arm releases latest CPU and GPU designs


Including the "most performant and efficient GPU" to date

Arm has unveiled its latest CPU and GPU designs for top-tier smartphones: the Cortex-X925 CPU and Immortalis G925 GPU.

Intel launches more 14th gen Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs
Published in PC Hardware


A total of eighteen 65W and 35W SKUs

Intel has announced a total of 18 new Raptor Lake Refresh desktop CPUs, or as Intel likes to call them, 14th Gen Mainstream Desktop Processors. Intel is promising up to 37 percent higher multi-threaded performance compared to the previous generation.

AMD refreshes socket AM4 desktop CPU lineup with Ryzen 5700X3D, 5700 and 5000GT APUs
Published in PC Hardware


Might be quite popular on the market

In addition to the new Ryzen 8000G series lineup and the Radeon RX 7600 XT 16GB graphics card, AMD has unveiled a couple of new AM4 desktop processors, including the Ryzen 7 5700X3D, Ryzen 7 5700, and a couple of Ryzen 5000GT series APUs.

Chipzilla pushes urgent microcode updates
Published in News
Wednesday, 15 November 2023 11:23

Chipzilla pushes urgent microcode updates


Reptar is a high-severity CPU bug

Intel has pushed some microcode updates to fix a high-severity CPU bug that has the potential to be maliciously exploited against cloud-based hosts.

Intel confirms Meteor Lake desktop CPUs for next year
Published in PC Hardware


Kills those Meteor Lake-S cancellation rumors

While earlier rumors suggested that Intel might have canceled its Meteor Lake-S, it appears these CPUs will indeed launch, but sometime next year.

Chinese boffins create RISC-V CPU in five hours
Published in News


AI is risky business

A group of Chinese scientists has published (PDF) a paper titled Pushing the Limits of Machine Design: Automated CPU Design with AI in which they tell the epic adventure of how they created  a new industrial-scale RISC-V CPU in under five hours.

Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchips enter full production
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The DGX GH200 AI Supercomputer makes an appearance

Nvidia kicked off its Computex 2023 presence with a keynote led by its founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, and a bunch of big announcements, starting with the full production of its Nvidia GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, which will power systems from its various partners as it becomes available later this year. Nvidia also unveiled the massive 1-Exaflop DGX GH200 AI Supercomputer.

Brits gearing up to turn ReRAM in reality
Published in News
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 10:54

Brits gearing up to turn ReRAM in reality


This is what a tomato free diet does for you 

A half-starved British company has turned their post-Brexit turnip diet into something useful by coming up with a viable version of ReRAM.