CPUs
Qualcomm this morning is taking the wraps off of a new smartphone SoC for the mid-range market, the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3. The second of Qualcomm’s down-market ‘S’ tier Snapdragon 7 parts, the 7s series is functionally the entry-level tier for the Snapdragon 7 family – and really, most Qualcomm-powered handsets in North America. With three tiers of Snapdragon 7 chips, the 7s can easily be lost in the noise that comes with more powerful chips. But the latest iteration of the 7s is a bit more interesting than usual, as rather than reusing an existing die, Qualcomm has seemingly minted a whole new die for this part. As a result, the company has upgraded the 7s family to use Arm’s current Armv9 CPU cores...
The Intel Kaby Lake-X i7 7740X and i5 7640X Review: The New Single-Threaded Champion, OC to 5GHz
Intel’s direction for the high-end desktop space has taken an interesting turn. After several years of iterative updates, slowly increasing core counts and increasing IPC, we have gotten used...
177 by Ian Cutress on 7/24/2017
New Intel Kaby Lake Core i3 Processors: i3-7340, i3-7320T, i3-7120T, i3-7120
Last week Intel recently updated its specifications for the 7th generation processors. In doing so, we can see several new Kaby Lake i3 SKUs coming to desktop, along with...
52 by Ian Cutress & Joe Shields on 7/14/2017
Patriot Publishes List of AMD Ryzen Compatible DIMMs: Up to DDR4-3400, 64 GB
Patriot has published a list of its memory modules that are verified and compatible with AMD Ryzen processors. This includes the Viper 4 and Viper Elite modules that are...
3 by Anton Shilov & Joe Shields on 7/13/2017
AMD Threadripper 1920X and 1950X CPU Details: 12/16 Cores, 4 GHz Turbo, $799 and $999
Last night out of the blue, we received an email from AMD, sharing some of the specifications for the forthcoming Ryzen Threadripper CPUs to be announced today. Up until...
225 by Ian Cutress on 7/13/2017
Sizing Up Servers: Intel's Skylake-SP Xeon versus AMD's EPYC 7000 - The Server CPU Battle of the Decade?
This morning kicks off a very interesting time in the world of server-grade CPUs. Officially launching today is Intel's latest generation of Xeon processors, based on the "Skylake-SP" architecture...
219 by Johan De Gelas & Ian Cutress on 7/11/2017
Intel's Data Center Event Live Blog (8:30am PT)
Today Intel is running an event announcing the latest developments in their data center business. We're ready to live blog the registration-only event, and expect to see Navin Shenoy...
11 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 7/11/2017
Best CPUs Q2 2017
In our series of Buyer Guides, here’s the latest update to our recommended CPUs list. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the time of...
1 by Ian Cutress on 7/6/2017
AMD Inadvertently Reveals Ryzen 3 1300 & 1200 Details
If you were paying close attention to this morning’s announcement of AMD’s new Ryzen Pro SKUs, then you likely noticed something interesting: the non-X PRO chips all have the...
47 by Ryan Smith on 6/29/2017
AMD Launches Ryzen PRO CPUs: Enhanced Security, Longer Warranty, Better Quality
This morning AMD is introducing their Ryzen PRO processors for business and commercial desktop PCs. The new lineup of CPUs includes the Ryzen 3 PRO, Ryzen 5 PRO and...
77 by Anton Shilov on 6/29/2017
AMD's Future in Servers: New 7000-Series CPUs Launched and EPYC Analysis
The big news out of AMD was the launch of Zen, the new high-performance core that is designed to underpin the product roadmap for the next few generations of...
131 by Ian Cutress on 6/20/2017
AMD EPYC Launch Event Live Blog (Starts 4pm ET)
I'm in Austin for AMD's launch event for their new server parts, named EPYC. Come back at 4pm ET (3pm Austin) for the Live Blog on the official announcement!
22 by Ian Cutress on 6/20/2017
The Intel Skylake-X Review: Core i9 7900X, i7 7820X and i7 7800X Tested
Building a PC is an experience worth having. Finding out what works with what and putting it all together is an experience, and the first time always gives a...
264 by Ian Cutress on 6/19/2017
PathForward: US Dept. of Energy Awards $258M in Research Contracts To Develop Exascale Supercomputer Technology
Even though the major US national laboratories are just now starting to take delivery of the supercomputers they ordered a few years back, due to the long and complex...
22 by Ryan Smith on 6/15/2017
Intel Announces X299, Skylake-X, and Kaby Lake-X Release Schedule: Pre-Orders June 19th, Availability June 26th
At Computex a couple of weeks ago, Intel announced its new Basin Falls platform, consisting of the X299 chipset with motherboards based on it, a pair of Kaby Lake-X...
68 by Ian Cutress on 6/13/2017
Intel's Credit-Card Sized Compute Card Detailed, Shipping in August
Intel unveiled its credit card-sized Compute Card at CES earlier this year, and now at Computex, the company has brought us up to speed on the available SKUs and...
37 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2017
AMD CPU Updates: 16 Core ThreadRipper w/64 PCIe Lanes This Summer, Epyc Launching June 20th
Wrapping up just a bit ago was AMD’s annual Computex press conference. AMD brings their A-game to Computex, and for a good reason: as a PC focused show, it...
71 by Ryan Smith on 5/30/2017
Computex 2017: AMD Press Event Live Blog
AMD is having a press conference here in Taipei for Computex 2017. We plan to get as near to the action as possible - come back at 10am Taiwan...
31 by Ian Cutress on 5/30/2017
Intel Announces Skylake-X: Bringing 18-Core HCC Silicon to Consumers for $1999
There are days in this profession in which I am surprised. The longer I stay in the technology industry, they become further and further apart. There are several reasons...
203 by Ian Cutress on 5/30/2017
Intel Announces Kaby Lake-X Processors: High-End Desktop Getting the Latest Microarchitecture
Anyone following the high-end desktop space lately will have realized that we’ve recently been tripping up over information on upcoming platforms. Intel’s successor to Broadwell-E has been expected for...
54 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 5/30/2017
Intel Announces Basin Falls: The New High-End Desktop Platform and X299 Chipset
Discussion about the High-End Desktop Space this year has been unparalleled. When an age-old competitor re-entered the field, it provided new life into a somewhat dormant platform: how to...
38 by Ian Cutress on 5/30/2017
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