Select Chromebooks Get Alpha Version of Steam By Anton Shilov published 22 March 22 Select Chromebooks finally get proper gaming support with Steam alpha.
Nvidia Unveils 144-core Grace CPU Superchip, Claims Arm Chip 1.5X Faster Than AMD's EPYC Rome By Paul Alcorn published 22 March 22 Nvidia unveiled its new 144-core Arm-based Grace CPU Superchip at GTC 2022 along with a host of new interconnect technologies.
Watch The Nvidia GTC 2022 Keynote Here Now By Paul Alcorn published 22 March 22 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will take to the stage for GTC 2022 to make a broad array of announcements that will likely include the Hopper GPU architecture.
Purported Intel Core i9-12950HX Spotted in Geekbench By Mark Tyson published 22 March 22 The new top model of the Alder Lake mobile family looks like it will be the Intel Core i9-12950HX with 16C/24T, a base/boost speed of 2.5/4.9 GHz and 55W TDP.
Russian Government Mulls Chinese Foundries, State Aid to Evade US Sanctions By Anton Shilov published 22 March 22 Amid severe sanctions, Russian government wants to transition Baikal and Elbrus chip production from Taiwan to China.
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Zen 3 Flagship Hits All-Time Low of $549 By Brandon Hill published 21 March 22 Newegg brings the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X down to an all-time low as the desktop CPU pricing war heats up.
AMD Launches Milan-X With 3D V-Cache, EPYC 7773X With 768MB L3 Cache for $8,800 By Paul Alcorn published 21 March 22 AMD announced the general availability of its Milan-X chips that come with a revolutionary new 3D V-Cache technology that stacks L3 cache vertically to enable up to a whopping 768MB of cache.
Asahi Linux Is The First Linux Distro To Support Apple Silicon By Mark Tyson published 19 March 22 As an alpha, be aware there are bugs and missing features.
Mac Studio Dissected: M1 Ultra About 3x Bigger Than AMD's Ryzen CPUs By Anton Shilov published 19 March 22 Mac Studio dissected: A masterpiece of high-precision engineering that will obstruct repairability.
First Intel Arc-Based Laptop Listed, Pulled By Anton Shilov published 17 March 22 Samsung offers Galaxy Book 2 Pro with Alder Lake CPU and standalone Arc GPU.
Core i9-12900KS Takes 9% Cinebench R23 Multi-Core Lead Over 5950X By Zhiye Liu published 17 March 22 One lucky consumer got a Core i9-12900KS before the official launch and has benchmarked the CPU.
Intel Subsidies for Ohio, Magedeburg Fabs Measure in Billions of Dollars By Anton Shilov published 17 March 22 Intel and Micron to substantiate government support for chip fabs in front of U.S. Senate next week.
AMD Confirms Ryzen 7 5800X3D Is Not Overclockable By Anton Shilov published 17 March 22 AMD's 3D V-Cache does not scale with high voltages.
Intel's Special Edition i9-12900KS Already in Customer Hands By Aaron Klotz published 15 March 22 Core i9-12900KS Special Edition processors have already been spotted in the hands of customers, with the first wave of 12900KS CPUs apparently already on sale.
Intel SVP in China: Chinese Chipmakers Could Become Strong Rivals by 2025 (Updated) By Mark Tyson published 15 March 22 Intel is considering the possibility of tougher competition from Chinese CPU firms.
AMD Fires Back With 7 New Chips, Flagship $449 Ryzen 7 5800X3D Lands April 20 By Paul Alcorn published 15 March 22 AMD announced its flagship Ryzen 7 5800X3D and six other new chips that lower the price of entry to the Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 ecosystem.
Arm Owner Prepares for up to 15% Staff Layoffs in IPO Preparations By Anton Shilov published 15 March 22 SoftBank to reduce Arm headcount by 15%, a report says.
Raptor Lake iGP Loses to Intel's Older UHD 770 Graphics in Benchmark By Aaron Klotz published 14 March 22 A new Raptor Lake graphics benchmark has come out from SiSoftware showcasing slower-than-expected performance. The modern iGP was unable to outperform Intel's older UHD 770.
AMD CPUs See Less Than 10% Performance Drop From Revised Spectre-v2 Mitigations By Zhiye Liu published 12 March 22 Phoronix tests the impact of the latest revised BHI mitigations on various AMD Ryzen processors.
AMD's Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995WX Tops CPU Benchmark By Anton Shilov published 12 March 22 A CPU with 64 cores at high clocks always wins, or nearly always.