Intel Bringing oneAPI to Gaming, Demoes Rendering Toolkit for Graphics By Arne Verheyde published 22 March 20 Intel has showed several libraries of the oneAPI Rendering Toolkit and their applicability for games. GPU support for multiple of those is coming.
Intel 14nm Rocket Lake-S Leaked: New Core Architecture, Xe Graphics, PCIe 4.0 By Arne Verheyde last updated 22 March 20 Rocket Lake to fuel Intel's desktop competitiveness.
Intel Pairs Integrated Graphics With Discrete AMD Card in Search of Higher Performance By Arne Verheyde published 19 March 20 Intel proof-of-concept combines Intel HD 530 integrated graphics with an AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics card to simulate four million particles.
Intel's New Research System Has the Neural Capacity of a Small Mammal Brain By Arne Verheyde published 18 March 20 Intel's Pohoiki Springs research system features 786 Loihi neuromorphic chips and takes up five servers' worth of space.
Marvell's 7nm ThunderX3 Arm CPU Comes With 96 Cores and 384 Threads By Arne Verheyde published 17 March 20 Marvell's next-gen ThunderX3 Arm-based processor comes with 96 cores and four threads per core. Marvell claims an over 25% improvement in IPC and over 3x the performance per socket.
AMD's EPYC Rome up to 5x Faster on Linux Netfilter With AVX2 Implementation By Arne Verheyde published 17 March 20 An AVX2 implementation of the Linux Netfilter framework has significantly improved performance. It was tested to be up to 420% faster on an AMD Rome processor.
Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway Boards By Arne Verheyde published 14 March 20 Bill Gates leaves Microsoft's board to focus on philanthropy.
Leaked Intel Barlow Pass DIMM Slide Shows 3200MT/s Support, 15W TDP By Arne Verheyde published 14 March 20 A new leaked Intel slide shows that the upcoming Barlow Pass Optane persistent memory DIMMs in Whitley and Cedar Island will support 3200MT/s with a 15W TDP.
Intel Lakefield Die Shot Shows 82mm² Chip By Arne Verheyde last updated 14 March 20 An image of Intel's first 3D stacked chip, Lakefield, has appeared. It measures a mere 82mm².
Intel Linux Patch Said to Improve Graphics Efficiency up to 43% By Arne Verheyde published 11 March 20 Intel has released a new series of patches for its P-state driver, which improves GPU efficiency substantially in I/O-bound conditions.
Report: TSMC 5nm Chip Production Already Fully Booked By Arne Verheyde published 11 March 20 TSMC is reportedly entering 5nm chip production next month.
Xilinx Unveils 7nm Versal Premium: 123TB/s Bandwidth, PCIe 5.0, CXL, 112G Transceivers By Paul Alcorn, Arne Verheyde last updated 12 March 20 Xilinx revealed its 7nm Versal Premium APACs for space- and thermally-constrained deployments.
Intel Demonstrates 10nm 116 Gbps Transceiver Test Chip on Agilex-I FPGA By Arne Verheyde published 10 March 20 Intel has demonstrated a 10nm transceiver test chip operating at 116Gbps, compliant with the 112G specification. Intel will incorporate it in its Agilex-I FPGAs.
Intel Adds Bare-Metal oneAPI Support to Linux via its Compute Runtime By Arne Verheyde published 10 March 20 Intel has added bare-metal oneAPI (Level Zero) support to its open-source Graphics Compute Runtime.
Intel Alder Lake-S 16-Core Could Bring Hybrid Architecture (big.Little) to Desktop By Arne Verheyde published 9 March 20 According to a new leak, Alder Lake-S will feature an implementation with Intel's big.Little hybrid architecture with eight small cores alongside eight big cores.
IBM z15 Almost Doubles Cache Density, Features 960MiB L4 eDRAM By Arne Verheyde published 8 March 20 IBM's z15 mainframe has almost twice the cache density of its predecessor z14 despite using the same process technology. It features almost 1GB L4 cache alone.
Chinese Fab SMIC to Start 7nm Production in the Fourth Quarter: Report By Arne Verheyde published 8 March 20 SMIC is reportedly planning initial production of 7nm in the fourth quarter of the year, earlier than previously expected and closely following its 14nm production.
Intel Demonstrates Industry’s First Co-Packaged Switch With 1.6Tbps Silicon Photonics By Arne Verheyde published 6 March 20 Intel has demonstrated the industry's first integrated switch package with silicon photonics.
Hailo Raises $60 Million for 26 TOPS Edge AI Chip By Arne Verheyde published 6 March 20 Startup Hailo has raised $60 million in a series B funding for its Halio-8. The AI edge inference chip has 26 TOPS and is aimed at a variety of IoT applications.
Nokia Partners With Intel on 5G Infrastructure Silicon By Arne Verheyde published 5 March 20 Nokia is collaborating with Intel on the recently announced Atom P5900 that it leverages in its base stations, as well as adopting second-generation Xeon Scalable processors.
Breakthrough DL Training Algorithm on Intel Xeon CPU System Outperforms Volta GPU By 3.5x By Arne Verheyde last updated 5 March 20 The new code speeds up AI training on processors.
Unisoc Announces World's First 6nm EUV Chip, the Tiger T7520 5G SoC By Arne Verheyde published 5 March 20 Unisoc has announced the world's first 6nm chip. The Tiger T7520 SoC features integrated 5G and an octacore CPU.
Xilinx Launches Alveo U25 as ‘Industry’s First’ SmartNIC, Shows FPGA in OAM Form Factor By Arne Verheyde published 3 March 20 Xilinx has announced what it claims is the industry's first SmartNIC platform and also showed a proof-of-concept of the first FPGA based on the OAM form factor.
Coronavirus News: Intel CFO Says Company Unaffected by Outbreak, on Track for 10nm By Arne Verheyde published 3 March 20 Intel's CFO George Davis said the company is operating on a relatively normal basis in Asia, where it has a fab, an assembly and test facility and several design centers.
Intel Adds Fourth ‘Test and Finish’ Site in Costa Rica, Aimed at Xeon Production By Arne Verheyde published 2 March 20 Intel has added a fourth assembly and test facility, located in Costa Rica. It will start deliveries to customers in April, and is aimed at second-generation Xeon Scalable processors.
