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Tag: Processors

Return of the gigahertz wars: New Chinese transistor uses bismuth instead of silicon to potentially sock it to Intel and TSMC with 40% more speed

Return of the gigahertz…

Silicon has dominated the chip industry as its foundational material since, well, forever. But now researchers at Peking University…
So, wait, now TSMC is supposedly pitching a joint venture with Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom to run Intel’s ailing chip fabs?

So, wait, now TSMC…

In the on-again, off-again saga of TSMC’s supposed designs on Intel’s chip factories, there’s a new twist. Reuters reports…
This Amazon-bought fake AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is actually a 14-year-old Bulldozer chip with a cheap sticker on it

This Amazon-bought fake AMD…

YouTube channel Hardware Busters claims it purchased what looked like an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU from Amazon for…
Intel is still using TSMC for 30% of its wafer demands: ‘We were talking about trying to get that to zero as quickly as possible

Intel is still using…

Intel’s foundry business never seems far from the headlines these days, not least because various ex-executives continue to publicly…
Next-gen Snapdragon X2 chip rumoured to pack 18 cores and a new CPU architecture, but we’re still waiting for gaming to really be a goer on the original Snapdragon X

Next-gen Snapdragon X2 chip…

Back when Qualcomm first announced the Snapdragon X Arm-based chip for PC, it made big claims about gaming prowess,…
Broadcom and Nvidia are claimed to be testing manufacturing on Intel’s 18A process node, and even AMD is reportedly interested

Broadcom and Nvidia are…

While Intel has been experiencing rough times of late, there might be some good news on the horizon for…
Nvidia’s long-awaited Arm-based chip for PCs reportedly spotted running Geekbench very badly

Nvidia’s long-awaited Arm-based chip…

Back in November we reported that Nvidia was planning to put an ARM CPU for the PC into production…
Newsflash: Intel’s all-important 18A node is officially ‘ready’ but what exactly happened to the ‘five nodes in four years’ thing?

Newsflash: Intel’s all-important 18A…

“Intel 18A is now ready.” So proclaims a new landing page on Intel’s website for the company’s all-important new…
‘This is not unlocking shareholder value, it’s a fire sale’: Jim Keller weighs in on a possible ‘careless’ Intel chip and fab spin-off

‘This is not unlocking…

Love it or hate it, if President Trump’s tariff-heavy threats have done one thing it’s show the world that…
Microsoft’s wacky Majorana 1 chip, powered by an ‘entirely new state of matter’, could have industrial quantum computing here ‘in years, not decades’

Microsoft’s wacky Majorana 1…

Yes, the scientists are doing weird stuff again, and this weird stuff is sure to lead to other weird…