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...
It Begins: AMD Announces Its First ARM Based Server SoC, 64-bit/8-core Opteron A1100
Around 15 months ago, AMD announced that it would be building 64-bit ARM based SoCs for servers in 2014. Less than a month into 2014, AMD made good on...
124 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/28/2014
Floating point peak performance of Kaveri and other recent AMD and Intel chips
With the launch of Kaveri, some people have been wondering if the platform is suitable for HPC applications. Floating point peak performance of the CPU and GPU ...
102 by Rahul Garg on 1/22/2014
AMD Kaveri Docs Reference Quad-Channel Memory Interface, GDDR5 Option
Our own Ryan Smith pointed me at an excellent thread on Beyond3D where forum member yuri ran across a reference to additional memory controllers in AMD's recently released Kaveri...
127 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/16/2014
AMD Kaveri Review: A8-7600 and A10-7850K Tested
The first major component launch of 2014 falls at the feet of AMD and the next iteration of its APU platform, Kaveri. Kaveri has been the aim for AMD...
380 by Ian Cutress & Rahul Garg on 1/14/2014
AMD’s Kaveri: Pre-Launch Information
On the back of AMD’s Tech Day at CES 2014, all of which was under NDA until the launch of Kaveri, AMD have supplied us with some information that...
133 by Ian Cutress on 1/6/2014
NVIDIA Reveals First Details about Project Denver CPU Core
During its CES press conference, NVIDIA revealed its new Tegra K1 SoC will be available in two versions. One version will ship with four ARM Cortex A15s, while the...
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/6/2014
Intel Gaming System Giveaway - Holiday 2013: Part 1, Gaming Core i5
Earlier this year Intel came to us with an interesting proposition: using Haswell CPUs and Intel SSDs, we had to come up with four of our best system builds...
4055 by Anand Lal Shimpi, Jarred Walton & Ian Cutress on 12/13/2013
Best Desktop CPUs: Holiday 2013
Next up in our series of Holiday Buyer’s Guides is a look at processors. Building systems in time for a holiday season means that picking the right components...
25 by Ian Cutress on 11/25/2013
AMD 2014 Mobile APU Update: Beema and Mullins
Today AMD is taking the wraps off their upcoming mobile APUs, joining the already discussed desktop Kaveri. While Kaveri will also be coming to laptops at some point in...
47 by Jarred Walton on 11/13/2013
AMD Kaveri APU Launch Details: Desktop, January 14th
Kicking off today is AMD’s annual developer conference, which now goes by the name APU13. There will be several APU/CPU related announcements coming out of the show this week...
97 by Ryan Smith on 11/11/2013
Intel to Fab Altera FPGAs with ARM IP
In a story posted today on EETimes, Altera announced at the ARM Developers Conference that they have entered into a partnership with Intel to have their next generation 64-bit...
44 by Jarred Walton on 10/30/2013
AMD News: A10-6790K, 13.11 Beta6 Drivers, FM2+ Motherboards, Kaveri
AMD held a brief press conference this morning to disclose a new part that should be for sale shortly, the A10-6790K. The performance of the 6790K should be very...
26 by Jarred Walton on 10/28/2013
Choosing a Gaming CPU October 2013: i7-4960X, i5-4670K, Nehalem and Intel Update
Back in April we launched our first set of benchmarks relating to which CPU we should choose for gaming. To that list we now add results from several...
137 by Ian Cutress on 10/3/2013
Intel Announces Galileo: Quark Based Arduino Compatible Developer Board
At this year’s IDF Intel announced its third major microarchitecture family: Quark. Before Quark we had Core at the high-end and Atom for smartphones/tablets/cheap PCs. Quark adds a third...
42 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/3/2013
A Closer Look at Broadwell & its New Small Form Factor Package
First, a quick recap. There are four different Haswell versions: D, M, ULT and ULX. D is for desktop, M is for mobile, ULT is for Ultrabooks and ULX...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2013
Intel Demos 14nm Broadwell: Up to 30% Lower Power than Haswell
Intel just demonstrated 14nm Broadwell ULT (Y-series) silicon, normalized for performance against 22nm Haswell ULT (Y-series) silicon running a multithreaded Cinebench test. Intel was monitoring SoC power during the...
38 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2013
The Bay Trail Preview: Intel Atom Z3770 Tested
Earlier this year Intel unveiled Silvermont, its first true architectural update to Atom since its introduction in 2008. I won’t rehash Silvermont’s architecture here, but it’s designed to be...
190 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 9/11/2013
Intel 14nm Progress Update: Broadwell & Airmont On Schedule
Continuing our IDF 2013 keynote coverage, Intel is also using this morning’s keynote to announce progress updates on previously announced 14nm products. Intel’s plans here remain unchanged, with Intel...
36 by Ryan Smith on 9/10/2013
Analyzing the Price of Mobility: Desktops vs. Laptops
Computers have been getting faster over the years, and with the increased performance we eventually passed the point where most systems were “fast enough” and the various features and...
110 by Jarred Walton on 9/7/2013
Understanding AMD's Semi-Custom Strategy
With Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia we are now living in a world where all three major client OS providers (Apple, Google and MS) all own/are device companies. Samsung gets...
51 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/5/2013
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