Tag: chip

February 21, 2024

AMD’s next-gen “Medusa” processor is shaping up to be a mighty big chip if recent rumors are to be believed, though it’ll still be a very long time before we even get close to seeing it. The forthcoming processor architecture, […]

November 13, 2023

Nvidia is introducing a new top-of-the-line chip for AI work, the HGX H200. The new GPU upgrades the wildly in demand H100 with 1.4x more memory bandwidth and 1.8x more memory capacity, improving its ability to handle intensive generative AI […]

October 26, 2023

The ARMs race has begun! With Apple’s third-generation ARM-based Apple M3 silicon just around the corner, Qualcomm announced its competing solution, Snapdragon X Elite for Windows laptops. The SoC promises excellent performance, extreme efficiency and will arrive in the PC […]

May 26, 2023

Current computer systems are very good at performing exact calculations. But as we are using more and more AI-based applications, we also need more efficient systems that are able to process data in real time with the same precision. TU/e […]

May 22, 2023

According to China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC), a network security review of Micron’s products showed they have relatively serious potential network security issues that pose major security risks to China’s critical infrastructure supply chain, which includes state-owned banks, transportation, and telecoms. […]

May 15, 2023

Back in March, we learned that Apple was working on new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air models as well as a new entry-level MacBook Pro. These would come equipped with a new M3 chipset built on TSMC’s 3nm process technology […]

May 1, 2023

Intel’s Meteor Lake processors are seemingly on track to launch sometime in the second half of 2023, so it is not surprising to see benchmark results leak one way or another. However, more surprising than the benchmarks, the company has […]

December 16, 2022

Nearly all processors rely on some form of SRAM caching. Caches act as a high speed storage solution with very fast access times due to their strategic placement right next to the processing cores. Having fast and accessible storage can […]

November 8, 2022

While in general Chinese chipmakers struggle to successfully rival established players, there are a few exceptions. YMTC (Yangtze Memory Technology Co.) is perhaps the most widely known one, a 3D NAND memory manufacturer that successfully competes against offerings from well-known […]

June 9, 2022

Qualcomm took the wraps off its latest mid-cycle refresh, the high-end Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 just last month, and rumors have already started about its successor, which we presume will be known as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Most […]

May 18, 2022

Laptops powered by AMD Ryzen chips could soon get a serious Wi-Fi speed boost thanks to a new partnership with Qualcomm. The chip giant has announced it is bringing its Qualcomm FastConnect to PCs with AMD Ryzen processors, meaning Wi-Fi […]

April 6, 2022

Although Samsung has been trying to bring its in-house Exynos chip up to the same level as competing offerings from Apple and Qualcomm, the efforts have failed so far. Two years back, the company abandoned its Mongoose cores in favor […]

February 28, 2022

In the wake of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, a wide range of industries around the globe are bracing for big problems. After already breaking supply chains and halting car production, the crisis in Ukraine also has the potential to worsen the […]

February 17, 2022

Intel has teased new Xeon chips that will collect CPU and GPU hardware into one socket to maximize performance across high performance computing (HPC) use cases. Codenamed Falcon Shores, the new line of processors will combine x86 CPU cores with […]

February 4, 2022

Intel has stated that its CPUs faced 16 reported vulnerabilities in 2021, meaning it has fewer newly-discovered flaws than AMD’s processors, which faced 31 flaws. However, Intel admittedly led in the number of flaws on graphics, and the total number […]

February 3, 2022

AMD has revealed its fourth-generation EPYC server CPUs are on track to launch later this year as planned, despite supply chain disruptions. Speaking on an earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su said the company feels “very good” about its position […]

January 6, 2022

At CES 2022, Intel has confirmed that it’s going to spring a supercharged version of the Alder Lake flagship desktop CPU on the world, and it’ll ship by the end of Q1 2022. Previously, a leak had pointed to the […]

December 16, 2021

Apple is reportedly working to design more chip components in-house, with the company said to be establishing a new office with the aim of replacing components that Apple currently sources from Broadcom and Skyworks, according to Bloomberg. The new office […]

November 30, 2021

Qualcomm has a new flagship smartphone processor: the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, announced at the company’s annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, giving an early preview at the brains behind the most powerful smartphones of 2022. The successor to last year’s Snapdragon […]

November 15, 2021

The IBM Quantum Summit 2021 livestream is scheduled for tomorrow, but the quantum computing giant is already giving us an early look at what will be showcased during the event. Named Eagle, IBM’s new 127-qubit quantum processor is supposedly the […]