Intel launches more 14th gen Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs
A total of eighteen 65W and 35W SKUs
Intel has announced a total of 18 new Raptor Lake Refresh desktop CPUs, or as Intel likes to call them, 14th Gen Mainstream Desktop Processors. Intel is promising up to 37 percent higher multi-threaded performance compared to the previous generation.
AMD refreshes socket AM4 desktop CPU lineup with Ryzen 5700X3D, 5700 and 5000GT APUs
Might be quite popular on the market
In addition to the new Ryzen 8000G series lineup and the Radeon RX 7600 XT 16GB graphics card, AMD has unveiled a couple of new AM4 desktop processors, including the Ryzen 7 5700X3D, Ryzen 7 5700, and a couple of Ryzen 5000GT series APUs.
Chipzilla pushes urgent microcode updates
Reptar is a high-severity CPU bug
Intel has pushed some microcode updates to fix a high-severity CPU bug that has the potential to be maliciously exploited against cloud-based hosts.
Intel confirms Meteor Lake desktop CPUs for next year
Kills those Meteor Lake-S cancellation rumors
While earlier rumors suggested that Intel might have canceled its Meteor Lake-S, it appears these CPUs will indeed launch, but sometime next year.
Chinese boffins create RISC-V CPU in five hours
AI is risky business
A group of Chinese scientists has published (PDF) a paper titled Pushing the Limits of Machine Design: Automated CPU Design with AI in which they tell the epic adventure of how they created a new industrial-scale RISC-V CPU in under five hours.
The DGX GH200 AI Supercomputer makes an appearance
Nvidia kicked off its Computex 2023 presence with a keynote led by its founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, and a bunch of big announcements, starting with the full production of its Nvidia GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, which will power systems from its various partners as it becomes available later this year. Nvidia also unveiled the massive 1-Exaflop DGX GH200 AI Supercomputer.
Brits gearing up to turn ReRAM in reality
This is what a tomato free diet does for you
A half-starved British company has turned their post-Brexit turnip diet into something useful by coming up with a viable version of ReRAM.
Fujitsu working on Arm-based CPU
Even Seno fears Monaka
A Fujitsu representative has mentioned that the company has has been working on an ARM based processor, codenamed Monaka.
Samsung making its own CPU for laptops
Has formed an internal team to create a new core
The Dark Satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn that Samsung has apparently formed a new team to build a CPU for its Galaxy Book Windows notebook PCs.
Fourth quarter of 2022 worst for CPUs in 30 years
Thus spake the great god Mercury
Beancounters sitting at the crossroads have declared that the fourth quarter of 2022 saw the biggest fall in PC processor shipments in three decades.