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...
Apple’s A9 SoC Is Dual Sourced From Samsung & TSMC
Picking up from our conversation this morning on Apple’s A9 SoC, the crew over at Chipworks has been working hard over the weekend to decap A9 and their first...
99 by Ryan Smith on 9/28/2015
Jim Keller Leaves AMD
AMD’s history has been well documented, especially given several reorganizations in the early part of this decade along with changes in senior staff and how both its market share...
128 by Ian Cutress on 9/18/2015
The Death of Intel’s Broadwell Has Been Greatly Exaggerated - Socketed Broadwell Continues
To hop right into the heart of matters, IT World published an article earlier this afternoon stating that Intel was discontinuing their two desktop Broadwell socketed SKUs, the Core...
43 by Ryan Smith on 9/17/2015
Updates to Skylake Discrete Graphics Performance: PCIe Optimizations Incoming
In our initial review of the two 6th Generation Intel Skylake-K processors launched on August 5th, the i7-6700K and the i5-6600K, our comparative analysis to the previous generations of...
37 by Ian Cutress on 9/8/2015
The Intel Skylake Mobile and Desktop Launch, with Architecture Analysis
Intel’s 6th Generation of its Core product line, Skylake, is officially launching today. We previously saw the performance of the two high end Skylake-K 91W processors, but that was...
173 by Ian Cutress on 9/1/2015
The Mobile CPU Core-Count Debate: Analyzing The Real World
Over the last 5 years the mobile space has seen a dramatic change in terms of performance of smartphone and tablet SoCs. The industry has seen a move from...
157 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/1/2015
The Intel Skylake i7-6700K Overclocking Performance Mini-Test to 4.8 GHz
At the time of our Skylake review of both the i7-6700K and the i5-6600K, due to the infancy of the platform and other constraints, we were unable to probe...
107 by Ian Cutress on 8/28/2015
The Intel Broadwell Xeon E3 v4 Review: 95W, 65W and 35W with eDRAM
Our Broadwell coverage on the desktop has included reviews of the two consumer processors and a breakdown of IPC gains from generation to generation. One issue surrounding Broadwell on...
72 by Ian Cutress on 8/26/2015
Skylake CPU Package: Mini-Analysis
As a short side piece from our in depth review on Intel's 6th Generation Core processors, codename Skylake, the well-known overclocker Splave has posted some very interesting images on...
86 by Ian Cutress on 8/10/2015
Intel Quietly Launches Mobile Xeons: Skylake Based E3-1500M v5
In a rather understated blog post, Intel made an interesting move at the end of last week by announcing that for the first time the Xeon platform is heading...
23 by Ian Cutress on 8/10/2015
The Intel 6th Gen Skylake Review: Core i7-6700K and i5-6600K Tested
It’s the Intel review you’ve been waiting for. Today is the launch of the first two CPUs from Intel’s Skylake architecture, the 6th Generation Core i7-6700K and the Core...
477 by Ian Cutress on 8/5/2015
The Intel Broadwell Review Part 2: Overclocking, IPC and Generational Analysis
In our first part of our Broadwell coverage, we rushed to test both the i7-5775C and the i5-5765C in our new benchmarking suite against the previous generation of Haswell...
121 by Ian Cutress on 8/3/2015
AMD Launches the A8-7670K: Filling in the Gaps
AMD and Intel, in the last few years, have taken different approaches to how many CPUs enter the mainstream line of the market. Intel has historically had a large...
33 by Ian Cutress on 7/20/2015
AMD Posts Q2 2015 Results: Revenue Falls Once More
As financial week rolls along this week, today AMD announced their second quarter 2015 financial results. Earlier this month ahead of today’s announcement the company issued a warning for...
125 by Ryan Smith on 7/16/2015
Tick Tock On The Rocks: Intel Delays 10nm, Adds 3rd Gen 14nm Core Product "Kaby Lake"
For almost as long as this website has been existence, there has been ample speculation and concern over the future of Moore’s Law. The observation, penned by Intel’s co-founded...
138 by Brett Howse & Ryan Smith on 7/16/2015
Intel Announces Fiscal Year 2015 Quarter Two Results
Today Intel announced their second quarter earnings, which came in at $13.2 billion. This is down 5% from Q2 2014, but was in-line with Intel’s forecast. It actually beat...
15 by Brett Howse on 7/15/2015
Quick Note: Intel “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi & Omni-Path 100 @ ISC 2015
Taking place this week in Frankfurt, Germany is the 2015 International Supercomputing Conference. One of the two major supercomputing conferences of the year, ISC tends to be the venue...
53 by Ryan Smith on 7/13/2015
AMD Confirms 20nm Products Moved to FinFET, Warns on Q2’15 Earnings
A little bit ago AMD sent out an announcement updating their official outlook for the second quarter of 2015. Though we don’t typically publish financial projections, the long and...
62 by Ryan Smith on 7/6/2015
The Intel Xeon D Review: Performance Per Watt Server SoC Champion?
Eight 14nm Broadwell cores, a shared L3-cache, dual 10 gigabit MAC, a PCIe 3.0 root with 24 lanes and a lot more find a home in Intel's most powerful...
90 by Johan De Gelas on 6/23/2015
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