CPUs
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 Snapdragon 7 parts, the 7s series is functionally the entry-level tier for the Snapdragon 7 family – and really, most Qualcomm-powered handsets in North America. With three tiers of Snapdragon 7 chips, the 7s can easily be lost in the noise that comes with more powerful chips. But the latest iteration of the 7s is a bit more interesting than usual, as rather than reusing an existing die, Qualcomm has seemingly minted a whole new die for this part. As a result, the company has upgraded the 7s family to use Arm’s current Armv9 CPU cores...
Intel Leaks Model Numbers of Entry Level Xeon E-2000 CPUs
Intel has published model numbers of its upcoming Xeon E processors based on the Coffee Lake-S core. The new chips will be used in entry-level servers and workstations and...
5 by Anton Shilov on 5/30/2018
Two New 35W Raven Ridge Parts: AMD Athlon 200GE and Athlon Pro 200GE
In this interesting world where processors are released but not formally announced, it means that when diving through the lists of supported CPUs on certain motherboards, we might find...
27 by Ian Cutress on 5/26/2018
Assessing Cavium's ThunderX2: The Arm Server Dream Realized At Last
A little less than 2 years ago, we investigated the first Arm server SoC that had a chance to compete with midrange Xeon E5s: the Cavium ThunderX. The SoC...
98 by Johan De Gelas on 5/23/2018
Intel Shows Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P with Integrated FPGA, Shipping to Vendors
Part of the story behind the Xeon Scalable platform, built upon server-level Skylake processing cores with AVX-512 and a new mesh topology, was that the CPU was designed to...
32 by Ian Cutress on 5/17/2018
AMD Launches Ryzen Pro with Vega: Mobile APUs and Desktop APUs
Both AMD and Intel have product lines catered to the commercial market: large scale business deployments that require stability and administration-at-a-distance across tens of thousands of units. Imagine a...
20 by Ian Cutress on 5/15/2018
Qualcomm’s Server Lead, Anand Chandrasekher, Leaves Company
Today Axios is reporting that Anand Chandrasekher, the leading executive in charge of Qualcomm’s server efforts, has left the company. Qualcomm has declined to comment on the departure at...
23 by Ian Cutress on 5/14/2018
First 10nm Cannon Lake Laptop Spotted Online: Lenovo Ideapad 330 for $449
In the fruitless efforts to get an answer from Intel as to exactly who is buying their first 10nm processors using the new Cannon Lake microarchitecture, we seem to...
84 by Ian Cutress on 5/13/2018
Delidding The AMD Ryzen 5 2400G APU: How To Guide and Results
Delidding is a process with the aim being to reduce CPU core temperatures on processors with a less-than-ideal thermal interface between the silicon and headspreader. The benefits of delidding...
73 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/10/2018
The AnandTech Podcast, Episode 46: More Choice on x86
The recent discussions at AnandTech have been about the latest updates in desktop computing. We recently went live with our Ryzen 2000-series review of all four processors, and our...
22 by Ian Cutress on 5/9/2018
Join Us Tomorrow for an AT Forums AMA with AMD's James Prior
On Wednesday, May 9th through Thursday, May 10th AnandTech's community team will be hosting an ask-me-anything session with James Prior, Senior Manager for AMD's Client Enthusiast Team, on the...
13 by Ryan Smith on 5/8/2018
Spectre Watch: More Spectre-class CPU Vulnerabilities to be Announced Soon?
This morning has seen an interesting turn of events in the world of processor security. c't magazine has published an exclusive report stating that they got wind of a...
78 by Ryan Smith on 5/3/2018
German IT Distributor Publishes AMD+Intel Roadmaps: Z490, Z390, 8-Core CFL in Q4
With Computex just around the corner, a lot of thought is being put to exactly what are we expecting to see at the show. There are questions about AMD’s...
30 by Ian Cutress on 5/3/2018
Intel Taps Additional Facility to Assemble & Test Boxed Coffee Lake CPUs
Intel last week announced plans to start using an additional assembly and test facility to produce boxed versions of its six-core Core i5/i7 (Coffee Lake) processors. The addition of...
15 by Anton Shilov on 5/2/2018
Intel Announces EOL Plan for Kaby Lake-X Processors
Intel this week revealed plans to discontinue its Kaby Lake-X processors. The chips will not be supported by the company’s upcoming X399 platform for high-end desktops, so initialization of...
40 by Anton Shilov on 5/1/2018
MIPS Announces I7200 32-bit CPU With New nanoMIPS ISA
MIPS has been a common name in the computing industry for over 3 decades now, and nowdays it has been able to carve itself a relevant niche in mobile...
16 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/1/2018
Intel Delays Mass Production of 10 nm CPUs to 2019
Intel on Thursday announced that it would delay mass production of its 10 nm processors from 2018 to 2019 due to yield issues. The company has claimed to be...
156 by Anton Shilov on 4/27/2018
Intel Announces Q1 FY 2018 Results: Another Record
This afternoon, Intel announced their earnings for the first quarter of their 2018 fiscal year, and once again, the company has set new records, with revenue for the quarter...
18 by Brett Howse on 4/26/2018
Intel Outs Z390 & X399 PCHs for Cannon Lake & Coffee Lake CPUs
Intel this week released its new Rapid Storage Technologies drivers, and thanks to their associated release notes, Intel has indirectly confirmed their upcoming Z390 and X399 PCHs. The drivers'...
26 by Anton Shilov on 4/26/2018
CPU Design Guru Jim Keller Joins Intel; Completes CPU Grand Tour
For long-time AnandTech readers, Jim Keller is a name many are familiar with. The prolific microarchitectural engineer has been involved in a number of high-profile CPU & SoC projects...
71 by Ryan Smith on 4/26/2018
AMD Announces Q1 FY 2018 Results: Big Gains
This afternoon, AMD announced their earnings for the first quarter of their 2018 fiscal year, and their recent trend of performance has continued, with revenues for the quarter up...
14 by Brett Howse on 4/25/2018
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