AMD says it’ll make a lot more 9800X3D chips soon, so just hold on
AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the new hotness around the gaming PC picnic table. The CPU is so in demand and hard to find that it’s going for hundreds of dollars over retail price on…
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Microsoft to launch new custom chips for data processing, security
Microsoft on Tuesday revealed new custom chips aimed at powering workloads on its Azure cloud and bolstering security, particularly a new hardware accelerator that can manage data processing, networking, and storage-related tasks. The Azure Boost…
Hyperthreading is dead in Intel’s new Core Ultra PC chips
Intel’s latest Arrow Lake processor for desktop PCs fuses its “Meteor Lake” and “Lunar Lake” architectures together, carrying over Meteor Lake’s NPU and Lunar Lake’s abandonment of hyperthreading. Yes, hyperthreading has been banned from Intel’s…
AMD teases Ryzen 9000 X3D chips for November 7, slashes CPU prices
It may not be Black Friday, or even some version of Amazon’s Prime Day, but AMD is having a sale anyway: the company is taking up to $50 off its top Ryzen processors, just because.…
Intel’s Arrow Lake roadmap includes laptop gaming chips too
Intel’s “Arrow Lake” processor plans include both desktop and laptop chips, creating two new performance tiers atop its existing “Lunar Lake” laptop processors plus the Core Ultra 200S desktop processors it’s launching today. Intel disclosed…
Intel’s new PC chips strike another blow against hyperthreading
Intel’s latest Arrow Lake processor for desktop PCs fuses its “Meteor Lake” and “Lunar Lake” architectures together, carrying over Meteor Lake’s NPU and Lunar Lake’s abandonment of hyperthreading. Yes, hyperthreading has been banned from Intel’s…
Hackers targeted Android users by exploiting zero-day bug in Qualcomm chips
On Monday, chipmaker Qualcomm confirmed that hackers exploited a zero-day — meaning a security flaw that was unknown to the hardware maker when it was abused — in dozens of its chipsets found in popular…
Apple may soon make at least some chips in the United States
Independent tech journalist Tim Culpan reports that Apple is now in early production of A16 chips at TSMC’s new Arizona plant. The A16 is manufactured on an advanced 5nm process (some call it 4nm) that…
Nvidia’s AI chips are cheaper to rent in China than US
VGG | Getty Images The cost of renting cloud services using Nvidia’s leading artificial intelligence chips is lower in China than in the US, a sign that the advanced processors are easily reaching the Chinese…
Asus microsite confirms Ryzen 9000 X3D chips are on the way
AMD’s X3D processors, outfitted with extra V-cache that can boost performance for 3D games, are all the rage with system builders. In fact, the existence of these souped-up chips might be part of the reason…