The curtain lifts on the Ryzen 7000X3D pricing, availability
After the initial specs unveiling at CES 2023, AMD provides us with the when and how (much).
AMD unveils CPUs, mobile GPUs at CES 2023
The new product reveals in a condensed summary from Dr. Lisa Su’s keynote address.
Intel splits graphics group
Market segmentation trumps scalability.
AMD gen 4 Epyc impresses with 96 cores
Combining architecture tweaks and process yields big results
AMD gets ‘Zen’ at recent media presentation
AMD just announced the long-awaited news: Their newest CPUs are finally coming to the market. This first set of Zen 4 CPUs will be the 7950X, the 7900X, the 7700X, and the 7600X. The prices of the processors range from $299 for the 7600X to $699 for the 7950X, the new flagship model. They will all be available on September … Read more
MediaTek soups up its Dimensity 9000 to a ‘plus’
MediaTek has introduced their Dimensity 9000+, an enhancement to the company’s top-of-the-line 5G smartphone chipset. This new high-end offering, says the company, delivers a boost in performance over the Dimensity 9000 to make the next generation of flagship smartphones even more powerful and efficient. The Dimensity 9000+ SoC uses Arm’s v9 CPU and is built in a 4-nm octa-core process. … Read more
Imagination catapults RISC-V cores into the market
(Source: Wikipedia) Imagination Technologies (IMG) announced it has a RISC-V processor design available. The IMG RTXM-2200 is the company’s first real-time embedded RISC-V CPU. It is, according to IMG, a scalable, 32-bit flexible design for a wide range of high-volume devices. The RTXM-2200 is one of the first commercial cores in Imagination’s Catapult CPU family. The company announced it … Read more
AMD’s Q4 2021 results
AMD reported record quarterly revenue of $4.8 billion up 49% year-over-year and record full-year revenue of $16.4 billion up 68%. Gross margin expanded and operating income more than doubled from the prior year. “2021 was an outstanding year for AMD with record annual revenue and profitability,” said AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. “Each of our businesses performed extremely … Read more
AMD’s new Ryzen 6000 processor
AMD announced the Fusion project in 2006 after the acquisition of ATI: the integrating of a GPU with the CPU. However, Intel beat AMD to it and in January 2011 introduced the Clarkdale with an integrated GPU. AMD came out in June 2011 with the Llano and called it an APU—Accelerated Processing Unit. AMD always had more shader cores than … Read more
Imagination back in the CPU business
Imagination is no newcomer to CPUs and designed a few for its audio and TV products and some other special-purpose products. Its big move, however, was In 2012 when Imagination announced it would acquire MIPS for $60 million. In 2017 Imagination sold MIPS for $65 million, so Imagination could be acquired by Canyon bridge. Imagination had been a partner with … Read more
Qualcomm takes on the ARM CPU challenge
When Qualcomm introduced its PC clone that could run Windows and apps, people got curious. Was it just a Chromebook competitor or was there something new going on? Intel tried it with PDAs back in 1999 with StrongARM, but Microsoft didn’t get it then and made a half-hearted offering of a stripped-down OS, not the real Windows, and people weren’t … Read more
Happy 50th birthday to the Intel 4004
The chip that changed the world