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BFloat16 Deep Dive: ARM Brings BF16 Deep Learning Data Format to ARMv8-A

By Arne Verheyde

ARM recently announced its intent to support bfloat16 in the next revision of the ARMv8-A architecture. This article takes a look at the rise of the new deep learning number format.

AMD Delays Ryzen 9 3950X Launch, Announces Third-Gen Threadripper With 24 Cores

By Paul Alcorn

AMD delays the Ryzen 9 3950X launch until November, but announces Third-Gen Threadripper will also land in November.

Chrome OS Sets Eyes on Tiger Lake With 'Volteer' Chromebook

By Andrew E. Freedman

Google's Volteer project is putting Chrome OS on Intel's Tiger Lake platform.

Intel Stratix 10 DX Introduces PCIe 4.0, Cache-Coherency via UPI

By Arne Verheyde

Intel's Stratix 10 DX FPGA brings PCIe 4.0, Optane persistent memory and cache-coherency via UPI to the Stratix 10 series.

Intel Core i9-10980XE Cascade Lake-X CPU Benchmarks Hit Geekbench

By Zhiye Liu

The Intel Core i9-10980XE is one of two Cascade Lake-X CPUs that haven't been released yet but have seemingly been tested on Geekbench.

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X Rivals Intel Core i5-9400F in Early Listing

By Zhiye Liu

The AMD Ryzen 5 3500X is rumored to come with more L3 cache than the Ryzen 5 3500. A Chinese retailer listing pits it against the Intel Core i5-9400F budget CPU.

Intel Core i9-9900KS Will Likely Have a 127W TDP

By Zhiye Liu

Motherboard vendor Asus has listed the Intel Core i9-9900KS with a 127W TDP rating.

Intel Core i9-10900X Cascade Lake-X Benchmarks Emerge

By Zhiye Liu

Someone has benchmarked the Core i9-10900X, one of Intel's upcoming Cascade Lake-X processors, with Geekbench 4 today.

AMD Announces EPYC 7H12 Processor, 64C/128T 280W TDP and New Server Platforms

By Paul Alcorn

AMD unveiled the 64-core 128-thread EPYC 7H12 processor with a 280W TDP at its AMD EPYC Rome European launch event, along with a full spate of enterprise-class servers.

AMD's Ryzen 3000 Boost Fix Works, But Often Hits Wrong Cores

By Paul Alcorn

AMD's BIOS fix boosts our Ryzen 9 3900X up to 4.65 GHz, but often on the wrong cores.

Report: TSMC's 7nm Lead Time Triples

By Nathaniel Mott

DigiTimes reported that, according to industry sources, TSMC's lead time for 7nm chips has tripled from two months to four months.

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Pictures Surface on Reddit

By Zhiye Liu

Redditor shares photographs of the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X processor and its packaging.

DOE Enters Partnership to Use World's Largest Chips With 1.2 Trillion Transistors and 400,000 Cores

By Paul Alcorn

Intel's Tiger Lake Growls: 10nm Chip Packs 50 Percent More L3 Cache and AVX-512

By Arne Verheyde

A posting on Twitter has revealed that Tiger Lake-U will feature a 50% larger L3 cache, to 12MB. It also indicated that the Willow Cove architecture doesn't have bfloat16 support.

Motherboard Vendors Release New Firmware for Intel Core i9-9900KS

By Zhiye Liu

ASRock and Asus ready their motherboards for the new Intel Core i9-9900KS processor.

Intel’s 10nm Snow Ridge Wields Tremont Atom Cores and Mesh Architecture

By Arne Verheyde

An Intel-provided reference manual for Snow Ridge reveals the forthcoming 10nm networking SoC for 5G base stations is based on the Atom architecture. It also has a mesh.

64-Core AMD EPYC Rome Achieves World's First Real-Time 8K HEVC Encoding

By Matthew Connatser

On Friday, Beamr Imaging claims to have achieved the world's first real-time 8K HEVC encoding by using a single EPYC 7742, AMD's flagship server CPU based on its new Rome architecture.

What Is an AMD CCX? A Basic Definition

By Scharon Harding

What is an AMD CPU’s CCX? AMD core complexes explained.

India's First Three (Out of 60) Supercomputers Are Here

By Lucian Armasu

The Indian government has finished building three supercomputers as part of ITS National Supercomputing Mission, which aims to build 60 supercomputers by 2022.

Gigabyte 400-Series Motherboards for Intel Comet Lake Listed on EEC

By Zhiye Liu

Gigabyte is preparing tons of 400-series motherboards for Intel's forthcoming Comet Lake processors.