Intel Skylake-X, Kaby Lake-X Leaks vs AMD
Intel's Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X specifications surface from the rumor mill.
EPYC, Ryzen Pro Processors, Integrated Vega Graphics For APUs, 7nm Ryzen Roadmap
AMD Announces Threadripper, EPYC, And Ryzen Pro Processors, Integrated Vega Graphics for APUs, and an updated roadmap to 7nm.
Intel Announces Scalable Platform Family, Skylake
Intel is reorganizing its enterprise CPU branding from the traditional Xeon E5 and E7 SKUs into a new Xeon Processor Scalable family that is stratifie...
AMD Ryzen: Good For Enthusiasts, Bad For Investors
The news that AMD took a drubbing in the stock market was quite unexpected, especially considering the company's solid revenue growth.
Intel AMT Vulnerability Shows Intel’s Management Engine Can Be Dangerous
Intel published a security advisory for a privilege escalation bug in its Active Management Technology (AMT). The vulnerability exposes all Intel chip...
AMD’s Stock Plummets, Worst Single-Day Drop In More Than A Decade
AMD has suffered its biggest single-day stock decline in more 12 years.
Product Launch – HyperX Impact DDR4 SODIMM – 1R 8GB SKU Additions – (May 8th)
Stay ahead of the curve with next-gen DDR4 SODIMM
Keep ahead of the curve by fully loading up your notebook or small form factor machine with HyperX® Impact DDR4 SODIMM and crank the settings to max.
Noctua Lets Intel’s Skylake-X ‘Basin Falls’ X299 Socket Slip, LGA 2066 Inbound
Noctua’s latest announcement is the first official recognition of the rumored LGA2066 socket for the forthcoming X299 Basin Falls platform, which marks a departure for Intel’s HEDT platform. In the past, HEDT processors shared the same socket as the E5 Xeon server family, such as the 2011-3 socket with Broadwell-E. Last year, we discovered the massive LGA 3647 socket that Intel is deploying for Purley (aka Xeon Skylake-EP).
SK Hynix posts record high earnings in Q1 on chip price hikes
South Korea’s memory chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. posted all-time high quarterly earnings in the first quarter ended March this year, benefiting from the so-called super cycle in semiconductors when prices jump on both tight supply and strong demand to suggest a lengthy boon.
IBM, Stone Ridge Technology, Nvidia Break Supercomputing Record
It's no secret that GPUs are inherently better than CPUs for complex parallel workloads. IBM's latest collaborative effort with Stone Ridge Technology and Nvidia shined a light on the efficiency and performance gains for reservoir simulations used in oil and gas exploration. The oil and gas exploration industry operates on the cutting edge of computing due to the massive data sets and complex nature of simulations, so it is fairly common for companies to conduct technology demonstrations using the taxing workloads.