CPUs

Loongson expects its next-generation microarchitecture to match Zen 3's IPC.

If that isn't fast enough, the University of Pennsylvania scientists say that the current chip design would be pushed up to 5x faster using the best commercial fabrication processes.

Industry analyst firm Trendfocus reports that Microsoft is moving to force OEMs to stop using HDDs for boot drives.

Intel's volume ramp of its 4th gen Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids is taking longer than expected.

Samsung's foundry, memory, and LSI businesses appear to be struggling.

An overclocker reportedly took this photo after delidding a new Ryzen 7000 CPU, ready for some extreme overclocking fun. Hopefully, this means the benchmarks will leak, too.

TSMC confident of revenue increases, but Arizona fab costs are growing.

Nvidia has switched from AMD Zen 3 EPYC chips to Intel's new Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs for its new Hopper DGX H100 AI unit.

Intel's Magdeburg, Germany mega site will have two fabs producing Intel 20A and better chips for Intel and its Foundry Services customers. It is expected to be fully operational by 2027.

An economist from a China government-run research group warns that TSMC is passing its secrets to the US, and that China must act if Russia-war style sanctions are applied against it.

Apple unveiled the details behind its new M2 processors that will debut in the MacBook Air and the 13" MacBook Pro.

The new socket LGA1851 could be the same length and width as LGA1700, but the 3D Foveros chip CPU package might be a tiny bit thicker, according to a leaked diagram.

Nio's AMD tie-up will reduce vehicle development times, lower TCO, and aid in autonomous driving training.

AMD and ATI Technologies have triggered a US International Trade Commission investigation of Realtek and TCL Holdings for patent infringement.

Three prototype precursor servers to the El Capitan supercomputer each rank at the 200 spot or higher in the list of world's fastest supercomputers.

Meteor Lake CPUs, the 14th Gen Intel Core processors, aren't expected to be released until early in 2023. Both desktop and laptop versions of Meteor Lake are mentioned in the driver files.

Loongson’s 16-core processors based on LoongArch are heading to servers.

Intel's 2.4 GHz Raptor Lake beats current flagship CPUs from AMD and Intel by a significant margin.

Taiwan and the European Union plan to strengthen economic and diplomatic relationships in a bid to deepen collaboration in making the semiconductor supply chain more resilient than it is today.

Intel and Barcelona Supercomputing Center to invest €400 million in laboratory developing RISC-V CPUs for supercomputers.