Tag: Processors

So, it’s the mirrors

So, it’s the mirrors.…

Profiteering, the AI boom, latterly the looming threat of tariffs—there are a lot of reasons why computer chips have…
The Intel-TSMC unholy chip factory alliance rumour re-emerges and this time a ‘preliminary’ deal is said to have been done

The Intel-TSMC unholy chip…

It’s the ‘shipping story that just won’t die, so here’s the latest twist in the almost fanfic pairing of…
More details of an extra big Intel Nova Lake ‘bLLC’ CPU die with added cache and designed to take on AMD’s X3D chips emerge

More details of an…

The Intel Nova Lake leaks are coming thick and fast today. Earlier, Nick reported on the apparently outsized power…
AMD says the problem with Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips failing to boot is down to memory compatibility issues and not actually dead CPUs

AMD says the problem…

Day 97 (or something like that), the saga of the imploding AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs continues. Yesterday, we…
Same plan, different CEO: Intel’s Lip-Bu Tan laments ‘past mistakes’ while promising a brighter ‘engineering focused’ future

Same plan, different CEO:…

Intel’s new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, leant heavily into the company’s failures in his debut keynote performance at the Intel…
Crumbs: ASRock finds ‘debris’ in X870 motherboard accused of toasting AMD Ryzen CPU

Crumbs: ASRock finds ‘debris’…

“There’s surely more to come from this story,” I said back in February and sure enough ASRock has a…
Intel is reportedly ‘working to finalize commitments from Nvidia’ as a foundry partner, suggesting gaming potential for the 18A node

Intel is reportedly ‘working…

If the reports that Nvidia is interested in partnering with Intel’s foundry business “potentially for gaming appplications” is actually…
AMD’s next-gen ‘Gorgon Point’ APU outted and seemingly sticks with RDNA 3

AMD’s next-gen ‘Gorgon Point’…

AMD’s next-gen APU has apparently leaked. But don’t get too excited because “Gorgon Point”, as it’s known, looks very…
‘There might be a party

‘There might be a…

Given the year Intel’s had, it wasn’t the biggest surprise when there started to be talk of the company…
While we despair of RTX 50-series supplies and wait on next-gen Rubin, Nvidia reveals its next-next GPU architecture will be known as Feynman and is due in 2028

While we despair of…

Nvidia has revealed the name and planned launch date of its GPU architecture two generations hence. Give it up…