Tag: Processors

Ex-Intel engineers are developing the ‘biggest, baddest CPU in the world’ by targeting IPC, not clockspeed or core counts

Ex-Intel engineers are developing…

Intel, CPUs, and the concept of “badness” aren’t necessarily things you’d want to shout about, what with numerous well-documented…
I spoke with Arm about PC gaming and was told that Windows software compatibility is ‘largely a solved problem’

I spoke with Arm…

Last week, I got the chance to speak to Chris Bergey, Senior VP and General Manager for the Client…
TSMC boss claims the chipmaker doesn’t need to pick winners to work with, just wait patiently ‘because they will all come to us in the end’

TSMC boss claims the…

Yesterday, TSMC held a shareholder meeting, and in an interview following this the company showed every sign of confidence…
This $6,000 professional grade direct transfer printer comes with plenty of viruses for no extra cost, unless it also steals your crypto

This $6,000 professional grade…

It’s a sad truth that you just can’t ever let your guard down when it comes to malicious software,…
AMD unleashes up to 96 cores of Zen 5 with its new Threadripper 9000 Series chips

AMD unleashes up to…

Workstations get all the fun stuff. First, there was Maxsun’s dual-GPU graphics card, now we’re eyeing up 96 cores…
Rumours of an Arm-based CPU from AMD just won’t go away as analysts reckon Arm is eating into the PC processor market

Rumours of an Arm-based…

AMD is plotting a CPU based on the Arm rather than x86 instruction set. So goes the rumour and…
It sounds like a six-word horror story, but ‘Ransomware running directly from your CPU’ is now a real thing

It sounds like a…

Ransomware is already a horrible blight on the tech world. These insidious programs are designed especially to hold your…
Intel admits it doesn’t have any ‘significant’ commitments from customers to make advanced chips in its fabs

Intel admits it doesn’t…

For almost as long as we can remember (okay, about three years), the 18A node has been all-important for…
Now it’s AMD’s Ryzen 9000-series processors alleged to be suffering from terminal voltage spikes and we’re not sure if any CPUs are totally safe

Now it’s AMD’s Ryzen…

As the Raptor Lake crashing CPU debacle rumbles on, maybe AMD’s latest Ryzen 9000-series processors suffer from the same…
A year later and over six months since the last patch, Intel is STILL releasing updates to fix instability problems with its 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs

A year later and…

A couple of weeks ago I reported the surprising news that Intel’s elderly and bug-infested 13th and 14th Gen…