The Apple "Peek Performance" Event Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/18:00 UTC)
Join us a bit later today for Apple's spring product launch event, which for this year is being called "Peek Performance". The presentation kicks off at 10am Pacific (18:00 UTC...
79 by on 3/8/2022
Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) Announced: Setting Standards For The Chiplet Ecosystem
If there has been one prominent, industry-wide trend in chip design over the past half-decade or so, it has been the growing use of chiplets. The tiny dies have...
25 by on 3/2/2022
Intel Launches Alder Lake U and P Series Processors: Ultraportable Laptops Coming In March
Following the January launch of Intel’s first Alder Lake-based 12th Gen Core mobile processors, the Alder Lake-H family, Intel this morning is following that up with the formal launch...
95 by on 2/23/2022
Intel Goes Full XPU: Falcon Shores to Combine x86 and Xe For Supercomputers
One of Intel’s more interesting initiatives over the past few years has been XPU – the idea of using a variety of compute architectures in order to best meet...
28 by on 2/17/2022
Intel’s Arctic Sound-M Server Accelerator To Land Mid-2022 With Hardware AV1 Encoding
Rounding out Intel’s direct GPU-related announcements from this morning as part of the company’s annual investor meeting, Intel has confirmed that the company is also getting ready to deliver...
18 by on 2/17/2022
Intel Meteor Lake Client Processors to use Arc Graphics Chiplets
Continuing with this morning’s spate of Intel news coming from Intel’s annual Investor meeting, we also have some new information on Intel’s forthcoming Meteor Lake processors, courtesy of this...
20 by on 2/17/2022
Intel Arc Update: Alchemist Laptops Q1, Desktops Q2; 4mil GPUs Total for 2022
As part of Intel’s annual investor meeting taking place today, Raja Koduri, Intel’s SVP and GM of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) Group delivered an update to...
13 by on 2/17/2022
Intel to Acquire Tower Semiconductor for $5.4B To Expand IFS Capabilities
Continuing their recent spending spree in expanding their foundry capabilities, Intel this morning has announced that it has struck a deal to acquire specialty foundry Tower Semiconductor for $5.4...
7 by on 2/15/2022
Update: AMD’s Acquisition of Xilinx Receives Regulatory Go, Deal Closes At $49B
Update 02/14: AMD has sent out a brief statement this morning announcing that the Xilinx deal has formally closed. AMD has now fully acquired Xilinx. The final value of...
34 by on 2/14/2022
NVIDIA-Arm Acquisition Officially Nixed, SoftBank to IPO Arm Instead
NVIDIA’s year-and-a-half long effort to acquire Arm has come to an end this morning, as NVIDIA and Arm owner SoftBank have announced that the two companies are officially calling...
108 by on 2/8/2022
AMD Reports Q4 2021 and FY 2021 Earnings: Turning Silicon Into Gold
As the full year 2021 earnings season rolls along, the next major chip maker out of the gate is AMD, who has been enjoying a very positive trajectory in...
26 by on 2/1/2022
Intel Reports Q4 2021 and FY 2021 Earnings: Ending 2021 On A High Note
Kicking off yet another earnings season, we once again start with Intel. The reigning 800lb gorilla of the chipmaking world is reporting its Q4 2021 and full-year financial results...
18 by on 1/26/2022
Launching This Week: NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3050 - Ampere For Low-End Gaming
First announced as part of NVIDIA’s CES 2022 presentation, the company’s new GeForce RTX 3050 desktop video card is finally rolling out to retailers this month. The low-end video...
44 by on 1/26/2022
Vulkan 1.3 Specification Released: Fighting Fragmentation with Profiles
Khronos this morning is taking the wraps off of Vulkan 1.3, the newest iteration of the group’s open and cross-platform API for graphics programming. Vulkan 1.3 follows Khronos’s usual 2...
12 by on 1/25/2022
Intel Announces Ohio Fab Complex: 2 New Fabs For $20B, And Space For More
With fab expansions on tap across the entire semiconductor industry, Intel today is laying out their own plans for significantly increasing their production capacity by announcing their intention to...
114 by on 1/21/2022
Launching Today: AMD's Radeon RX 6500 XT, Starring Navi 24
Following its announcement back at CES, today AMD is formally launching the entry-level member of its Radeon RX 6000 series of video cards: the Radeon RX 6500 XT. Based...
101 by on 1/19/2022
PCI Express 6.0 Specification Finalized: x16 Slots to Reach 128GBps
This morning the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) is releasing the much-awaited final (1.0) specification for PCI Express 6.0. The next generation of the ubiquitous bus is once again...
77 by on 1/11/2022
NVIDIA Quietly Launches GeForce RTX 3080 12GB: More VRAM, More Power, More Money
NVIDIA this morning is quietly adding to its menagerie of high-end video cards with a third version of the GeForce RTX 3080, the simply-named GeForce RTX 3080 12GB. Just...
36 by on 1/11/2022
NVIDIA Briefly Teases GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, More Details Later This Month
As part of today’s CES keynote for the company, NVIDIA GeForce SVP and GM Jeff Fisher very briefly teased a new flagship NVIDIA video card. The GeForce RTX 3090...
21 by on 1/4/2022
Mobileye Announces EyeQ Ultra: A Level 4 Self-Driving System In A Single SoC
While CES may have started out as the Consumer Electronics Show, the global event has over the years expanded to include everything from enterprise technologies to automobiles. As a...
10 by on 1/4/2022
Facebook
Twitter
RSS
