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Tag: Processors

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…
Intel engineer begs management and Trump to not ‘sell out’ to TSMC just as the company is set to regain its ‘technical lead’ in chip manufacturing

Intel engineer begs management…

“A horrible, demoralizing mistake.” So said Joseph Bonetti, Principal Engineering Program Manager at Intel Corporation, on Linkedin earlier this…
One lucky Walmart employee bought two Ryzen 7 7800X3D chips for $99 each and immediately cashed them out for over $700 on eBay

One lucky Walmart employee…

7800 3d is 99$ at my Walmart from r/pcmasterrace With one Walmart closing its electronic section, an employee finished…
Claims about AMD moving to a 12-core chiplet design for Zen 6 have got me all kinds of excited for the next generation of X3D processors

Claims about AMD moving…

In 2019, AMD started a new paradigm in processor design, with its Zen 2 architecture and the use of…