End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell
It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I’ve ever needed to write here at AnandTech. After over 27 years of covering the...
482 by on 8/30/2024Qualcomm Adds Snapdragon 7s Gen 3: Mid-Tier Snapdragon Gets Cortex-A720 Treatment
Qualcomm this morning is taking the wraps off of a new smartphone SoC for the mid-range market, the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3. The second of Qualcomm’s down-market ‘S’ tier...
6 by on 8/20/2024Intel Publishes First Microcode Update for Raptor Lake Stability Issue, BIOSes Going Out Now
Following Intel’s run of financial woes and Raptor Lake chip stability issues, the company could use some good news on a Friday. And this week they’re delivering just that...
30 by on 8/9/2024Intel Postpones Innovation 2024 Event, Cites Poor Finances
As Intel looks to streamline its business operations and get back to profitability in the face of weak revenues and other business struggles, nothing is off the table as...
15 by on 8/8/2024Intel 18A Status Update: First Chips Booting, First External Customer Tape-Out in H1’25
Following Intel’s painful Q2 earnings call and the announcement of their 2025 cost reduction plan last week, it has become increasingly evident that Intel’s future is in the hands...
14 by on 8/6/2024Update: Intel Extends 13th & 14th Gen Core Retail CPU Warranties By 2 Years In Response to Chip Instability Issues
Update 08/06: Intel published an additional note on Monday, confirming which SKUs are covered by the program. The full list of SKUs has been added to the article below...
19 by on 8/6/2024Update: Intel Accelerated Ireland EUV Fab Ramp-Up as Meteor Lake Chips Were In Short Supply
Update 08/02: Patrick Moorhead has published a further tweet, clarifying that "Pat [Gelsinger] didn’t tell me l that there were yield issues. This was *my* interpretation." The text of...
28 by on 8/1/2024Intel Bleeds Red, Plans 15% Workforce Layoff and $10B Cuts For 2025
Amidst the backdrop of a weak quarterly earnings report that saw Intel lose money for the second quarter in a row, Intel today has announced that the company will...
68 by on 8/1/2024Intel to Launch "Lunar Lake" Core Ultra Chips on September 3rd
Intel’s next-generation Core Ultra laptop chips finally have a launch date: September 3rd. Codenamed Lunar Lake, Intel has been touting the chips for nearly a year now. Most recently, Intel...
17 by on 7/31/2024AMD Delays Ryzen 9000 Launch 1 to 2 Weeks Due to Chip Quality Issues
AMD sends word this afternoon that the company is delaying the launch of their Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors. The first Zen 5 architecture-based desktop chips were slated to...
36 by on 7/24/2024Intel Addresses Desktop Raptor Lake Instability Issues: Faults Excessive Voltage from Microcode, Fix Coming in August
In what started last year as a handful of reports about instability with Intel's Raptor Lake desktop chips has, over the last several months, grown into a much larger...
49 by on 7/22/2024CUDIMM Standard Set to Make Desktop Memory a Bit Smarter and a Lot More Robust
While the new CAMM and LPCAMM memory modules for laptops have garnered a great deal of attention in recent months, it's not just the mobile side of the PC...
26 by on 6/21/2024NVIDIA Closes Above $135, Becomes World’s Most Valuable Company
Thanks to the success of the burgeoning market for AI accelerators, NVIDIA has been on a tear this year. And the only place that’s even more apparent than the...
17 by on 6/18/2024The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Architecture Deep Dive: Getting To Know Oryon and Adreno X1
The curtains are drawn and it’s almost showtime for Qualcomm and its Snapdragon X SoC team. After first detailing the SoC nearly 8 months ago at the company’s most...
52 by on 6/13/2024The Intel Computex 2024 Keynote Live Blog (8:00pm PT/03:00 UTC)
Closing out the last of the major PC-focused keynotes at Computex 2024 this evening, we have Intel. The long-reigning leader of the PC CPU market, Intel is in the...
1 by on 6/3/2024AMD Announces Zen 5-based EPYC “Turin” Processors: Up to 192 Cores, Coming in H2’2024
With AMD’s Zen 5 CPU architecture only a month away from its first product releases, the new CPU architecture was placed front and center for AMD’s prime Computex 2024...
29 by on 6/3/2024The Qualcomm Computex 2024 Keynote Live Blog (10:30pm PT/05:30 UTC)
For our second keynote of the day for Computex, we have the 4th Musketeer of the great PC powers, Qualcomm. Slated to be the most PC-focused of the four...
13 by on 6/3/2024AMD Slims Down Compute With Radeon Pro W7900 Dual Slot For AI Inference
While the bulk of AMD’s Computex presentation was on CPUs and their Instinct lineup of dedicated AI accelerators, the company also has a small product refresh for the professional...
2 by on 6/2/2024AMD Plans Massive Memory Instinct MI325X for Q4'24, Lays Out Accelerator Roadmap to 2026
In a packed presentation kicking off this year’s Computex trade show, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su spent plenty of time focusing on the subject of AI. And while the...
3 by on 6/2/2024The AMD Computex 2024 Keynote Live Blog (6:30pm PT/01:30 UTC)
Computex keynote season is kicking into high gear this morning with the show's leading keynote, which is being delivered by AMD. Company CEO Dr. Lisa Su will be presenting...
15 by on 6/2/2024