Intel Tosses CEO Bob Swan, Appoints Pat Gelsinger to Top Job
…it will build which chips. In the future, Intel may license process nodes from other foundries, or pay other companies to build its CPUs, GPUs, and other products. While Intel has used…
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Overclocker Claims Intel X299 VRM Temps are a 'Disaster' With Skylake-X
…According to der8auer, this chip is known to hit 5GHz and was chosen for these tests precisely because its behavior had been well-characterized. The cores were tested in the non-AVX…
Ampere Will Launch 128-Core ARM CPUs by the End of 2021
…Additionally, the company will transition to its own custom CPU architecture rather than continuing to tap ARM's Neoverse line of products. ServeTheHome wrote (Opens in a new window) an excellent review…
Rumored ASIC Cryptocurrency Miners Could Be Welcome Relief for the GPU Market
…Ryzen and Epyc, introduce new product models, and transition its designs to 7nm. In GPUs, it's talking about mobile Vega hardware and a machine learning chip that's expected to debut…
Qualcomm Accuses Apple of Giving Trade Secrets to Intel
…Now, Qualcomm has accused Apple of stealing trade secrets and sharing them with Intel to help get Chipzilla's modem technology ready for the iPhone. The charge (Opens in a new window…
New Giant Double-Screened Axon M Phone is Magnificently Weird
…The problem here is that screens often eat more battery power than CPUs do these days, and running two screens together are going to impact endurance. A lower-power chip built on…
Intel Roadmap Details Plans for Arc GPUs, New Cloud Gaming Service
…Intel appears to have switched to a new lithography strategy for its desktop and its server products. Server and desktop chips will now move in two different cadences, as shown in the…
AMD vs. Intel, the ultimate gaming showdown: 5GHz FX-9590 vs. i7-4960X
…On the one hand, AMD was simultaneously reaching back to its enthusiast roots and offering a chip significantly faster than anything else in its own product stack. On the other, even at…
Nintendo's Refusal to Allow Saved Game Backups is Driving Switch Hacking
…Clearly, Nintendo's early issues with its JoyCon controllers or reports that the Switch could warp in certain circumstances have had no impact on the console's popularity. One issue that Nintendo…
Motherboard Vendors Unhappy With Alder Lake's 12VXO Power Standard: Report
…The question is, are Intel's motherboard partners on board with the change? Current scuttlebutt suggests not, though this won't necessarily impact shipping products one way or the other. Multiple OEMs…