Everything Zen: AMD Presents New Microarchitecture At HotChips
AMD timed its recent revelation of the Zen microarchitecture and Bristol Ridge CPUs at an offsite location during IDF perfectly to steal a bit of [Read More…]
Day: August 28, 2016
Intel LGA 3647 Purley Platform Supports Knights Landing, Skylake-EP
The unexpected (and unsanctioned) display of Intel’s future Purley platforms at Computex 2016 revealed that the LGA 3647 socket, which is already employed in socketed [Read More…]
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If you don’t have the time to research benchmarks, or if you don’t feel confident enough in your ability to pick the right processor for [Read More…]
Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing Now Shipping; Omni Path Update, Too
Intel announced at the ISC 2016 High Performance Computing event that its Xeon Phi Knights Landing products, which it originally announced back in November at [Read More…]
CPU Overclocking Guide: How (and Why) to Tweak Your Processor
Learn the pros and cons of overclocking your CPU, the physics behind changing your clock rate and the basics of overclocking an Intel or AMD [Read More…]
Intel CEO Confirms Kaby Lake Is Shipping To Device Manufacturers
Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich announced that Kaby Lake is shipping during the Q&A session of its Q2 2016 financial report. Kaby Lake is the code-name [Read More…]
Chip Fights: Nvidia Takes Issue With Intel’s Deep Learning Benchmarks
Intel recently published some Xeon Phi benchmarks, which claimed that its “Many Integrated Core” Phi architecture, based on small Atom CPUs rather than GPUs, is [Read More…]
AMD Unveils Zen Microarchitecture, Demos Summit Ridge Performance
AMD hosted an offsite invitation-only briefing during IDF to unveil the company’s new Zen processor core microarchitecture, which will initially come to market in its [Read More…]
AMD Stock Continues To Skyrocket After Zen Launch, Up 330 Percent This Year
AMD’s stock began skyrocketing earlier this year, but the rate of ascent is increasing after AMD CEO Lisa Su unveiled the new Zen microarchitecture this [Read More…]
Intel Lights Up Silicon, Shipping Silicon Photonics Transceivers
Intel announced at IDF that it is in volume production of its silicon photonics products, which blend a normal integrated circuit with semiconductor lasers to [Read More…]