Tag : processor
Knights Landing Supercomputing Chipset Featured in Ninja Desktops
Whenever new hardware is released, they always come with cool names and Intel’s latest Xeon Phi chip’s don’t disappoint with the name Knights Landing (any Game of Thrones fan spot the possible reference?). While not designed…
Intel’s New Broadwell Xeon Chips Will have 22 Cores
In a growing trend for Intel’s server targeted chips, this Thursday they released the newest Xeon E5-2600 processors, which contain as many as 22 cores. The move to developing chips with an ever-increasing number of cores allows them…
Microsoft Will Now Support Windows 7 and 8.1 For New Processors
Technology changes, that is an inevitable fact. As we produce more and more powerful designs and techniques we create new pieces of hardware and sometimes this causes trouble for those who aren’t quite ready to move…
Philips V800 Flip Phone Is in the Pipeline
Remember when the flip mobile phone design was all the rage? For some of you, this may seem an impossibility owing to the now ubiquitous smartphone look. Well, it looks as if Dutch Electronics Company Philips…
Overclockers Crank World-Record Speeds out of Skylake Core i7-6700K
Two renowned overclockers have pushed Intel’s Core i7-6700K CPU to its absolute limit, breaking the world record in the process. The German pair, Der8auer and Dancop, overclocked the retail Skylake processor to hit 7007.85MHz, using an…
Bug Causes Intel Skylake PCs to Freeze During Hyperthreading
Intel has confirmed that its Skylake processors can freeze during complex workloads. The bug, that “can freeze any system that has a Skylake processor,” was discovered by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), which uses…
Amazon Enters the Semiconductor Market With its First ARM Chip
Amazon’s Annapurna Labs has announced that it is entering the semiconductor market, selling its first ARM-based processors, a “foundation for next-generation digital services for the connected home,” according to a press release. Annapurna Labs, established in…
A Look At The Steam Survey Results For November 2015
I will only pick out the most noteworthy Steam Survey Hardware and Software results for November 2015; otherwise, I might be here until New Years day 2017. So, what do we have? Below are the Steam…
Intel Buys Altera for $16.7 Billion
Altera, the US-based manufacturer of programmable logic devices, has been purchased by Intel in an all-cash deal worth $16.7 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal (paywalled, via Engadget). “Altera is now part of Intel, and…
Judge Rules NVIDIA Violated Three Samsung Patents – Sales Ban Threatened
NVIDIA must be regretting filing the lawsuit accusing of Samsung of building GPUs without permission – surreptitiously claiming that NVIDIA invented the GPU – that it subsequently lost back in October. Samsung filed a countersuit against…
US Researchers Develop Light-Based CPU
A group of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Massachusetts Institute of technology have created a CPU that eschews electricity to transfer data in favour of light, which…
AMD’s New AM4 Chips Could be Set for Spring 2016 Launch
AMD’s new line of CPUs and APUs are hotly awaited amongst hardware enthusiasts and long-time fans of the company. These new chips, set to make use of AMD’s upcoming AM4 socket have been the subject of…
AMD Begins Transition to Socket AM4 Zen Architecture
Documents have surfaced, via Benchlife.info, that suggest AMD is starting its transition from Excavator architecture to Zen architecture, with the company’s new Socket AM4 arriving on new motherboards by March 2016. AMD has been using its…
Intel’s Broadwell-E i7-6950X Rumoured to Have 10 Cores and 20 Threads with 25MB Cache
Intel’s new Broadwell-E processors are due for launch during the first quarter of 2016, and a potential leak has revealed that its top-end model, the i7-6950X, will feature 10 cores, up to 20 threads, and a…
Intel Unveils Three Free Game Promotion on Select Core i7 CPUs
Intel’s flagship mainstream and enthusiast processors incur a hefty price increase compared to their i5 counterparts. Despite this, the lack of competition in the elite CPU tier, means Intel can charge extremely high prices and still manage…
Qualcomm Officially Unveils the Snapdragon 820 Processor
Qualcomm has officially unveiled its new Snapdragon 820 Processor at an event in New York City. A number of leaks have already revealed the Snapdragon 820’s benchmark, as well as rumours that the chip is prone…
AMD Investing Heavily to “Win the Graphics Battle”
AMD has been having a rough time as of late, reporting a net loss of $197 million during the third-quarter of 2015, forcing the company into initiating a restructure that will cut 5% of its workforce…
GlobalFoundaries Builds First AMD Chips on 14nm FinFET process
GlobalFoundaries has proudly revealed that it has built its first AMD chips on its advanced 14nm FinFET process, involving LPP silicon, with AMD planning to integrate the results into its products, including CPUs, GPUs, and APUs,…
Class Action Lawsuit Launched Against AMD Over Bulldozer Core Count
AMD is set to face legal action over claims that it falsely advertised one of its previous generation CPU architectures. The Bulldozer CPU had a mixed response when released, due in part to its unique design…
AMD Zen Rumoured to Have Passed Testing With Flying Colours
AMD’s next-gen x86 CPU core architecture, codenamed Zen, has, according to rumour, been fully tested and has “met all expectation [sic]” with no “significant bottlenecks”. A source told WCCFTech that AMD and its partners are “very…
Google Could be Building Its Own Processors
Reports suggest that Google will soon start building its own processors. While the Cupertino company has long relied on other vendors for its chips, with the new Google Pixel C tablet, set for release later this…
Leak Reveals Intel’s 14nm Xeon-D and Pentium-D Line-up
Intel first unveiled its Xeon-D processors, built on the 14nm Broadwell architecture and high-powered SoCs, way back in September 2014, but now, thanks to CPU World, we now have an updated line-up for both the Xeon-D…
Upcoming AMD 8-Core CPU Performance Leaked
Benchmarks of AMD’s upcoming “Heirofalcon” SOC have been leaked which indicate the chip’s capabilities and astonishing power to performance ratio. The SOC features 8 ARM 64-bit A57 cores operating at a frequency of 2.0GHz while only…
DARPA Developing On-Chip Liquid Cooling
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is helping to develop on-chip liquid cooling for field-programmable gate array (FPGA) systems that could easily be adapted for use with CPUs and GPUs. On-chip cooling of this manner…
Reports of iPhone 6S & Plus Randomly Powering Down
Smartphones have moved on leaps and bounds over the last decade, the processing power which is confined within a portable device is quite mind-blowing. But, these devices do have their problems which include generally poor battery…
AMD Introduces PRO A-Series Processors
AMD introduced its most powerful line of AMD PRO A-Series mobile and desktop processors to date, formerly codenamed Carrizo PRO and Godavari PRO. Along with the new APUs, AMD also introduced the AMD PRO Control Center that…
Microsoft’s AMD Buyout Unlikely as Stock Drops 7%
Shares in chip maker AMD have dropped by 15 cents (7%) to $1.86, marking a huge decline following its 9% gain in the wake of rumours of a buyout by Microsoft. The sudden fall in stock…
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