As Alexandra Alper from Reuters announced, Intel is once again allowed to sell chips to the Chinese company Huawei and thus a complaint by AMD to the American authority fails at the same time. But what happened? Intel had a license from the Trump administration at the time that allowed the company to sell chips to Huawei. The Chinese company has [...]
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Our colleagues at Tomshardware have reported on a new world record, the latest Core i9-14900KS from Intel, which has quickly become one of the most sought-after CPUs for enthusiasts. With an impressive boost clock speed of 6.2 GHz – the highest of any consumer processor – and an overclocking potential that is second to none, the chip [...]
The Clearwater Forest CPUs are expected to be launched on the market in mid-2024 as the successor to the Sierra Forest Xeon chips. Both chips have one thing in common: the use of E-cores instead of P-cores. The E-cores used in the Sierra Forest chips are codenamed Sierra Glen and are modified versions of the Crestmont core architecture. The [...]
The Zen 5 CPU architecture will be a big step for AMD in 2024 as it will include several lines of CPU families including Granite Ridge “Ryzen Desktop”, Strix Point “Ryzen Mobile” and Torino “EPYC Server”. All of these CPU families will play an important role and it looks like these chips will enter TSMC [...]
Recently, there have been reports that the Intel Core i9-14900KS processor is expected to be available in stores from March 2024. And yes, it looks like various retailers have already started preparing for the upcoming launch by listing and pricing the CPU in their official stores. One of the retail price lists for the Intel Core i9-14900KS CPU [...]
The popular Ryzen Master Tool from AMD, which is often used by overclockers, has received a new update to version 2.13.0.2908. This version brings support for the recently released “Hawk Point” Ryzen 8000G APUs. This enhancement is particularly noteworthy in that it shows that APUs are in no way inferior to Ryzen 7000(X) CPUs in terms [...]
Intel’s upcoming flagship processor, the Core i9-14900KS Limited Edition CPU, has leaked inside OCCT and impresses as a true beast in every way, including of course its drinking behavior. There are now quite a few reports about the Intel Core i9-14900KS CPU sighting, as the chip has already been listed online at various retailers and alleged [...]
Some things are accidental discoveries and are actually so trivial that nobody even bothers to question the current flows in the PC and, above all, to measure them. We only ever measure the 12-volt rails and are happy. But with connectors such as the 12VHPWR or 12V2x6 over 6+2 pin, the 8-pin EPS and the 24-pin mainboard connection, does exactly [...]
The NVIDIA Grace CPU is an alternative to conventional x86 CPUs in the server sector. It is based on the Arm architecture and has up to 144 Neoverse V2 cores. There are two variants of the Grace CPU: firstly, the Grace Hopper Superchip with the H200 GPU and a single Grace chip with 72 cores and HBM memory, and secondly, the Grace Superchip, which [...]
Intel’s Thread Director optimizes the performance of the company’s hybrid P-core and E-core processors by assigning workloads to the appropriate processor cores in a targeted and timely manner. This technology has been specially developed for use with Intel’s hybrid core architecture, which combines the powerful P-cores with the [...]
The rumor about an Intel Arrow Lake-S desktop CPU with 24 cores and 24 threads at 3 GHz allegedly comes from InstaLatX64. Although there is no official confirmation yet, it seems that the Arrow Lake-S CPUs from Intel will have up to 8 P-cores and 16 E-cores. The P-cores may not support Hyper-Threading, which could have both advantages and [...]
AMD’s Zen 5 architecture will serve as the foundation for the red team’s next generation of CPU families, ranging from client PCs to high-performance data centers. During AMD’s quarterly earnings call in Q4 2023, CEO Dr. Lisa Su confirmed that Zen 5 will launch in the second half of 2024, again representing a significant step [...]
According to DigiTimes, which cites information from supply chain sources, the Korean electronics giant could potentially achieve something “enormous” this year. Not only is this a significant development for Samsung, as the company could potentially make strides in the PC market, but the move to on-package memory is a feature that was [...]
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced during the Q4 2024 earnings call that the Core Ultra platform will be expanded later this year to include new families such as Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake. This will potentially increase AI performance by 3x. In 2025, the Core Ultra series will see a further 2x performance boost with the introduction of Panther [...]
Intel has been a major contributor to the Linux space, be it in relation to the company’s ‘Arc’ graphics range or their mainstream consumer CPUs. Although server processors initially lagged somewhat behind, Intel has caught up by announcing early support for their Clearwater Forest processors, which are expected to launch in 2025 [...]
Intel is working on its next major upgrade for laptops, which is aimed at energy-saving platforms and will be released in the form of Lunar Lake CPUs. The first models are expected to be available on the market by the end of 2024. In addition, Intel plans to launch its Arrow Lake product line, which will serve a variety of platforms, including [...]
YuuKi_AnS has released the latest internal documents on the upcoming Arrow Lake-S desktop CPU platform, resulting in a new platform leak. Although a lot of information about the Intel Arrow Lake CPUs is already known, we now get a more detailed insight into the upcoming features of the platform. The upcoming Intel Arrow Lake-S desktop CPUs will be [...]
AMD has unveiled the Ryzen 8000G “Hawk Point” AM5 desktop APUs at CES 2024, combining Zen 4 CPU and RDNA 3 GPU cores. These chips are equipped with the latest Ryzen AI “XDNA” NPUs (8700G & 8600G) and are aimed at a budget or mainstream audience who want to play casual or AAA games without having to upgrade a discrete [...]
AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series for the AM4 socket, including models such as Ryzen 7 5700 X3D, Ryzen 7 5700, Ryzen 5 5600GT and Ryzen 5 5500GT, represents a significant update to their CPU lineup. Here is an overview of these models based on AMD’s official slides and various performance predictions: Ryzen 7 5700X3D: This processor is a [...]
AMD’s Ryzen 8040 series, also known as “Hawk Point”, is based on the Zen 4 architecture and represents a major advance in AMD’s mobile processor offering. These processors, which are expected to launch on January 31, 2024, are designed as an update to the previous Phoenix 7040 series and do not represent a complete overhaul [...]
The AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT and 5500GT CPU specifications have been released by Gesci and Geizhals. The AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT is very similar to the already existing Ryzen 5 5500 CPU. Both chips are based on the Cezanne A1 die with 6 cores using a 7nm Zen 3 core architecture, 12 threads, 16 MB L3 cache and 3 MB L2 cache. The AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT has a base [...]
An alleged image of an Intel Core i9-14900KS CPU was discovered by HXL (@9550pro) on the QQ social media channel. The picture shows a CPU that reads “Intel Core i9-14900KS”. However, there are reports stating that it cannot be confirmed whether it is actually a real chip or a fake. Certain parts of the chip, such as the QR code and the [...]
Intel recently released its “Core Ultra” Meteor Lake processors and the first reviewers and customers have already gotten their hands on them. According to a review by UltrabookReview, Intel’s Meteor Lake laptops are equipped with a pre-release BIOS firmware that severely impacts performance, mainly because it causes [...]
Intel has taken a significant step in its development with the new “Meteor Lake” CPU platform, marketed as “Core Ultra”. These processors are the first from Intel to use the “Intel 4” process, which is based on EUV lithography, and the first Intel client CPUs where parts of the SoC are manufactured by TSMC [...]
Enthusiast Citizen previously leaked the benchmark results of Intel’s Core i5-14600 and has now revealed two more models, the Core i5-14400 and the Core i3-14100. The leaker also states that Intel will launch the chips on January 8 after the CES 2024 announcement. The chips will be available in retail stores from the same day, along with [...]