CPU

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