Tag: processors

February 8, 2023

On January 10, Intel launched its new 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors — which will soon be available on CoreWeave Cloud. Formerly codenamed Sapphire Rapids, the processors deliver greater system power efficiency and performance that can’t be achieved by […]

January 13, 2023

Intel’s Lunar Lake processors, which are still some way down the line, will be targeted at super-slim laptops, hopefully ensuring that these lean machines have some serious pep despite their svelte nature. This comes from Ian Cutress on Twitter (via […]

December 28, 2022

While last year was a relatively quiet one for AMD – well, as quiet as things get for a tech behemoth which is a huge presence in the CPU and GPU worlds – 2022 was very different in terms of […]

December 28, 2022

Intel is expected to unveil the mobile versions of its 13th Generation Core ‘Raptor Lake’ processors early in 2023, so it is not surprising that their preliminary benchmark results have started to leak. This time around results of Intel’s Core […]

October 27, 2022

AMD could have a couple of new Zen 4 processors incoming, one of which is in theory a Ryzen 7 7800X, and the other a Ryzen 3 7300X. These Zen 4 chips have been spotted on Geekbench by Benchleaks (as […]

August 25, 2022

Intel’s Raptor Lake processors have already been spotted online at a retailer over in Canada, and if the prices provided are anything to go by, we can expect a bit of a step up compared to current Alder Lake CPUs. […]

July 29, 2022

This week, Intel announced that active software support is now only for 11th generation CPUs and newer. It is moving its 6th through 10th generation CPUs to legacy software support. So, aside from critical fixes and security patches, older processors […]

June 15, 2022

Apple’s first MacBook Air and MacBook Pro systems based on the next-generation M2 processors aren’t due to be released until July, but the first benchmark results are already here. However, newly-posted Apple M2 benchmark results show that the new processor […]

April 25, 2022

AMD’s next-gen Zen 4 processors are expected later this year along with whole new motherboards, but the possible loss of DDR4 support might make the new upgrade a very expensive proposition for a lot of users hoping to upgrade to […]

March 14, 2022

Last year, we reported on a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to bypass the protections afforded by AMD’s secure encrypted virtualization (SEV) technology, found in its EPYC server processors. When the issue came to light, AMD dismissed the exploit […]

December 16, 2021

BenchLeaks, a Twitter account that shares test results from the publicly-available Geekbench 5 database, has posted new benchmark results relating to nine new mobile Alder Lake Core i5, i7, and i9 processors. The CPUs range from the Core i5-1240P with […]

December 1, 2021

Intel’s latest 12th Generation Alder Lake processors have cemented themselves as some of the best CPUs on the market. Chinese publication XFastest’s review of the unreleased Core i3-12100 shows that the quad-core Alder Lake chip also packs some serious firepower. […]

February 15, 2021

Recently, you may have noticed that it’s a bit difficult to buy one of the best graphics cards or processors. A combination of the re-emergence of cryptocurrency, a global semiconductor shortage and the fact that everyone is stuck at home […]

September 18, 2019

A fresh rumor on the chip production grapevine casts worrying doubts on future supply levels of AMD’s 7nm processors and graphics cards, with potential manufacturing delays on the horizon with TSMC. This one comes from DigiTimes, a tech publication which […]

August 14, 2019

AMD’s next-generation APUs, codenamed Renoir, will be 7nm chips featuring Zen 2 architecture, but there’s fresh speculation that the processors will run with Vega 10 graphics, as opposed to Navi (AMD’s latest graphics solution, which was previously rumored for Renoir). […]

June 19, 2019

Over the last couple years, AMD has been releasing some of the best processors (CPUs) on the market, and it doesn’t look like it plans to slow down any time soon. Back at CES 2019, AMD announced its Zen 2 […]

May 17, 2019

AMD Ryzen 3rd Generation processors and Navi graphics cards are still on the way in Q3 2019, according to AMD’s new roadmap at its annual shareholder meeting earlier this week. There have already been plenty of rumors that Ryzen 3rd […]

May 9, 2019

Intel has clarified that its long-delayed next-gen processors built on a 10nm process will start to ship in June, and indeed that the chip giant has learned from its mistakes, and will be able to push forward with greater speed […]

January 9, 2019

AMD has announced its first 7nm processors will be Ryzen 3rd Generation and they are a doozy. At its CES 2019 keynote, AMD debuted an unnamed octa-core, 16-thread part based on the company’s new 7nm Zen 2 architecture. The new […]

April 3, 2017

If you’re expecting to buy laptops with Intel’s next-generation Core chips code-named Cannonlake chips by the end of this year, you may be disappointed. There’s a chance that shipments of Cannonlake — Intel’s first on the 10-nanometer production process — […]