
Tag : 14nm
Samsung Developing Low-Cost 14nm and High-Performance 10nm Processes
Samsung has revealed its foundry’s roadmap for the next few years, which includes the development of a low-cost 14nm FinFET process (14LPC), with hopes that it can pass on those savings to its customers, and a…
AMD Graphics Roadmap Reveals Fiji Replacement
One of the biggest concerns about Polaris 10 has been whether or not it will be a true replacement for Fury X. With the latest leaks out, most of the information points to about 100W TDP…
AMD Scores Apple Mac Design Wins with Polaris
After many fruitful years of partnerships with Apple, AMD is reportedly continuing the relationship with their latest Polaris based GPUs. Apple has alternated MacBook Pro suppliers between Nvidia and AMD in the past but tended towards…
Nintendo NX May Feature 14nm Polaris GPU
Battered on both the CPU and GPU fronts, consoles have been one of the few areas AMD has managed to outplay the competition. With competitive CPU and GPU architectures in one platform, AMD was able to…
AMD May Launch Polaris R9 470 and R9 480 at Computex
Polaris 10 and 11 have long been tagged as releasing at Computex later this year. As we know from AMD directly, Polaris 10 will be the flagship chip while Polaris 11 will fill in the gap…
Sony ‘PlayStation 4K’ Probably Won’t Game at 4K
Right now, it has more or less been confirmed that Sony is working on an update to the PlayStation 4. Referred to as the PlayStation 4K by multiple sources, the console won’t be running any games…
Intel Ditches ‘Tick-Tock’ for ‘Process-Architecture-Optimization’
Adopted in the troubled days of 2006 and Netburst, ‘Tick-Tock’ has served Intel well, pushing the processor firm ever forwards. Though it has served Intel well in the past, recent years have shown that the strategy has…
AMD Open to Making Mobile GPUs
Looking back, AMD missed a big opportunity to get into the mobile phone and tablet market. According to Raja Koduri, SVP for RTG, AMD may be contemplating getting back into the mobile graphics market, provided the circumstances…
AMD Polaris Project F GPU Revealed
With Polaris only months away, more details about what Polaris 10 and 11 will look like are coming out. According to an ex-AMD employee profile on LinkedIn, a dGPU codenamed Project F is set to be built…

Intel Admits End to Scaling and Moore’s Law
Even though everyone has pretty much already seen the writing on the wall by now, Intel has remained staunch publicly. At long last, the chip giant is admitting that scaling will have to rely on improvements…
Expensive $1600 AMD Polaris GPU Spotted Shipping
Remember the $600 and $700 Polaris GPUs we spotted last month in a shipping manifest? It turns out that those chips may not be the top end Polaris chip launching this year. According to the shipping…
AMD Radeon Polaris GPUs Spotted in HWiNFO Changelog
More and more information is pointing to the state of readiness for AMD’s upcoming Polaris GPUs. According to information spotted in AIDA64 and HWiNFO Changelog, support for 3 new GPUs, Ellesmere, Baffin and Greenland has appeared. As…
Samsung Ramps Up 14nm LPP Production
With their 14nm LPE (Low Power Early) process behind them, Samsung has moved on and started mass production for their new 14nm LPP (Low Power Performance) process. This is very important for the PC market as…
AMD Polaris Will use HBM2 and GDDR5
Ever since HBM1 was revealed and launched with Fury X, many have been looking forwards to what HBM2 would bring along in 2016. While HBM1 brought large power savings and a major boost in memory bandwidth,…
AMD Polaris GPUs Spotted Shipping
When AMD unveiled their new Polaris architecture last week, details about the timeline were a bit scarce. Other than previous confirms about a mid -2016 launch for one of the Polaris cards, AMD had been mum about…
AMD Polaris GPU Architecture Offically Unveiled
First leaked yesterday, we’re now able to bring you the full AMD presentation on their upcoming Polaris GPU architecture. Set to ship mid-2016, Polaris will be using a 14/16nm FinFET process and bring massive power consumption…
AMD to Launch Next-Gen Greenland on 14nm in Summer 2016
AMD has largely been building off of GCN since its initial debut in 2011, with incremental improvements made via GCn 1.1 and 1.2. Combined with the limitations of having to use the 28nm process, the GPU…
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,…

Intel Cannonlake Delayed Till Mid 2017 Could Help AMD in a Big Way
Despite all the bad news from AMD thus far, it looks like they’ll be getting a break for next year. According to a rumour, Intel is delaying their Cannonlake CPUs from late 2017/early 2017 to at least the…
AMD Zen to use TSMC 16nm as GF 14nm Falters
TSMC has just scored a major CPU customer as AMD is allegedly moving their Zen CPUs over to the fab. Originally meant for GlobalFoundries 14nm process, delays at the once AMD owned fab have led to…
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs 810 Compared in Leaked Benchmark
The Snapdragon 810 is Qualcomm’s flagship mobile chip and used in a variety of high-end handsets including the LG Flex 2, One Plus 2 and Sony Xperia Z5 Premium. However, many of these devices suffer from…
Nvidia Will Use TSMC 16nm for Pascal
While there had been some rumours that Nvidia would turn to Samsung’s 14nm process for GPUs, it appears those were wrong. For the longest time, Nvidia has relied on TSMC to manufacture their chips and it…
AMD to Release Zen in Q4 2016 Suggests Report
Ever since AMD launched the much maligned Bulldozer CPUs, fans have been waiting for chips that would be competitive performance wise with Intel. Next year, however, that is set to change with the launch of the…
Snapdragon 820 Promises Astounding 50% Performance Increase
Qualcomm has unveiled the Snapdragon 820 CPU which supposedly offers up to twice the battery life and performance compared to the widely used, Snapdragon 810. The Snapdragon 810 is a modified version of the ARM Cortex A7…
AMD Prepping Post-GCN Greenland, Baffin and Ellesmere GPUs
According to multiple sources, AMD is working on 3 new GPUs as part of their 2016 lineup. Likely part of the Arctic Islands release, the 3 chips all fit the theme being called Greenland, Baffin and Ellesmere.…
Samsung Enters SOC Market by Opening Up Exynos to Third Parties
Folks at Qualcomm, MediaTek and other SoC producers may soon be having sleepless nights. According to a report, Samsung is set on releasing their in-house Exynos SoC including the latest 7420 to third parties, the first being Meizu.…
ASUS Z170-A (LGA 1151) Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging Mark today in the Intel history calendar, if you are keeping one, because Skylake, Z170 and mainstream DDR4 are here. We’ve been keeping tight-lipped about this for a few weeks and we can finally show…