TSMC produces ARM Cortex-A9 at 28nm and 3.1 GHz
CPU / Chipset
Published on Thursday, 03 May 2012 11:30 Written by Jacob Hugosson
TSMC is ARM's closest partner for manufacturing, and to many the given choice for manufacturing. The two have now designed a dual-core Cortex-A9 clocked at 3.1 GHz using the latest 28 nanometer HPM technology.
AMD Trinity and Piledriver detailed
CPU / Chipset
Published on Monday, 30 April 2012 17:10 Written by Jacob Hugosson
On May 15th AMD will launch the successor to the successful A series Llano processors, code-named Trinity. The first presentation slides have leaked and we see a bunch of news and improvements over last generation.
China to pick national processor architecture standard
CPU / Chipset
Published on Monday, 30 April 2012 12:19 Written by Jacob Hugosson
The big dragon in the east is relectant to import technology and most of all being reliant on technology developed outside of the country, not the least processors from Intel and AMD, but it's not easy to make such products on your own. China is now about to choose its own processor architecture, that will be used within the country - and it will not be x86.
AMD gaining shares in x86 markets, despite loss
CPU / Chipset
Published on Thursday, 26 April 2012 14:40 Written by Jacob Hugosson
AMD managed to increase its shares in the market, thanks to cheap computers with the A series Llano processors. Despite a good quarter the company made a loss, which the company once again can thank GlobalFoundries for.
AMD Trinitys 3DMark 11 performance revealed in advertisement
CPU / Chipset
Published on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:00 Written by Jacob Hugosson
AMD's upcoming generation of APUs that is called Trinity is only a few weeks away from launch right now. The advertising for the upcoming top model on the mobile side: A10-4600M reveal an increase in performance of around 58 percent compared to Intel HD 4000 in 3DMark 11.
Ivy Bridge sells with 95W TDP, but uses a maximum of 77W
CPU / Chipset
Published on Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:30 Written by Anton Karmehed
The first consumer samples from Intel's new processor family Ivy Bridge is as we uncovered earlier being shipped with a TDP value of 95W. This is a well thought out strategy according to the processor giant, despite that the models which is being launched has a TDP value that never exceeds 77W.
Intel Broadwell running on 14 nanometer will have a "SoC"-design
CPU / Chipset
Published on Monday, 16 April 2012 11:43 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Broadwell is still approximately two years in to the future, but when it arrives Intel will take another step towards the integration of all logics to one circuit. When they migrate to the 14 nanometer technology they will be able to place both the processor and the south bridge in the same package
Ivy Bridge gets 95W TDP, worse overclocker than Sandy Bridge
CPU / Chipset
Published on Saturday, 14 April 2012 20:13 Written by Marcus Heinemo
The launch of Intel's next generation processores is getting closer, and now the first results with air cooling is coming in. The TDP is higher than expected though, and max frequencies when overclocking is lower than anticipated.
Haswell chipset gets 50 percent lower power consumption
CPU / Chipset
Published on Thursday, 12 April 2012 17:35 Written by Jacob Hugosson
We eagerly await Ivy Bridge that is just two weeks away, but in the true spirit of Intel information on the next generation has appeared. Haswell will bring a whole new architecture and a much more efficient chipset with more functions than ever before.
Piledriver up to 20 percent faster than Bulldozer?
CPU / Chipset
Published on Tuesday, 10 April 2012 13:40 Written by Jacob Hugosson
AMD's coming Trinity processors is not far off now, and more benchmarks have reached the surface. Trinity builds on a new graphics processor and the new Piledriver cores, evolved from Bulldozer.
NVIDIA Tegra 4 rumored to get 4-plus-1 ARM A15 cores
CPU / Chipset
Published on Monday, 09 April 2012 12:59 Written by Jacob Hugosson
NVIDIA Tegra 3 became the first quad-core system processor for smartphones and tables , or even five penta-core in a 4-plus-1 configuration. Tegra 4 will apparently follow down the same path, but this time with a lot more powerful processor cores.
Intel launches 7 series chipsets for Ivy Bridge
CPU / Chipset
Published on Monday, 09 April 2012 08:56 Written by Anton Karmehed
Intel ha entered phase one of the launch of the new processor platform Ivy Bridge. Unfortunately it is without any processors from said processor family but instead the new 7 series chipsets that are ready. Intel launches Z77, Z75 and H77, which also supports Sandy Bridge.
Intel Haswell moves servers to DDR4 early 2014
CPU / Chipset
Published on Thursday, 05 April 2012 12:35 Written by Jacob Hugosson
While retail applications are not making use of all available bandwidth, the server industry is screaming for more bandwidth. Intel is expected to transition to DDR4 for servers in 2014 already, while the retail will have to wait for the year after.
Samsung hires Pat Patla from AMD - refuse to say why
CPU / Chipset
Published on Wednesday, 04 April 2012 10:05 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Pat Patla was VP of AMD's Opteron division and was with the company during the glory days. Pat Patla has apparently left AMD to start working for Samsung, in a coming server division?
AMD Trinity A8-4500M benchmarked in Folding
CPU / Chipset
Published on Monday, 02 April 2012 15:30 Written by Jacob Hugosson
AMD's coming Trinity architecture is not far off, and has now been benchmarked in Folding with a mobile version: A8-4500M. The processor performance is actually better than expected, even though we are dealing with Piledriver cores.
Intel's first 14 nanometerk circuit will not be a x86 processor?
CPU / Chipset
Published on Monday, 02 April 2012 13:50 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Intel will start to produce the first 14nm circuits in early 2013 in small scale, for internal tests, validation and troubleshooting for coming products. The manufacturing technology is expected to come first where it makes the most use - LTE/4G.
Qualcomm's quad-core S4 to counter Intel Ultrabook
CPU / Chipset
Published on Monday, 02 April 2012 11:35 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Qualcomm has quad-core system processors coming in the Snapdragon S4 family, mainly targeting tablets. Together with Windows 8 the company also targets Intel's ultrabook, and also the fact Qualcomm has revised the 64-bit support for the Snapdragon processors.
Intel speed up launch of Ivy Bridge to April 23rd
CPU / Chipset
Published on Monday, 02 April 2012 10:00 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Intel's third generation "Core i" processors Ivy Bridge was initially intended to launch on April 8th, but was moved to April 29th for reasons unknown. Now the launch has been moved up a week?
Intel "Valley View" Atom gets Ivy Bridge graphics
CPU / Chipset
Published on Saturday, 24 March 2012 21:10 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Intel Atom has never been associated with high or even sufficient performance, but this looks to change. The new Valley View that arrives next year will get up to four new cores and graphics performance in the same division as Ivy Bridge.
AMD preparing FX-4130 and FX-6130 processors
CPU / Chipset
Published on Wednesday, 21 March 2012 12:50 Written by Jacob Hugosson
AMD continues to launch more models in the FX series of processors, and yet again it is in the lower segment. Among the news we find FX-4130, which will be first model with reduced L3 cache.
AMD Trinity A10-5800K benchmarked, 50% faster graphics
CPU / Chipset
Published on Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:40 Written by Jacob Hugosson
AMD is expected to announce the coming Trinity architecture in Q2 and we have now found some of the first benchmarks out in the wild. We see a huge boost in graphics performance, and a small boost in processor performance.
Haswell graphics gets dedicated L4 cache
CPU / Chipset
Published on Monday, 19 March 2012 16:16 Written by Jacob Hugosson
With Haswell, Intel will go back to a MCM solution where it combines two different circuits in one and the same package, and once more it is the graphics circuit in focus. With a fourth level of cache Intel hopes to boost performance substantially.
AMD Trinity A6-4400M appears in notebook from HP
CPU / Chipset
Published on Monday, 19 March 2012 10:29 Written by Jacob Hugosson
AMD is expected to announce Trinity in Q2, the successor to the successful Llano APU; a processor with integrated graphics. One of the first mobile circuits has now appeared in a computer from HP; Pavilion G4-2002AX.
AMD not ready to dump SOI for bulk - yet
CPU / Chipset
Published on Wednesday, 14 March 2012 09:30 Written by Jacob Hugosson
AMD's new strategy will be the biggest change in AMD history, and with it comes some big changes. In time it means AMD will dump SOI technology for making processors, but not quite yet.
Intel Ivy Bridge launches April 29th, roadmap says
CPU / Chipset
Published on Friday, 09 March 2012 14:19 Written by Anton Karmehed
Ivy Bridge will launch April 29th, this is confirmed by leaked raodmaps from Intel. With brand new 22nm technology and 3D transistors Ivy Bridge is expected to raise the bar for CPU performance, while the maximal energy consumption will drop considerably.
Exynos 5250 gets 2-4 Mali-T604 GPUcores [Exclusive]
CPU / Chipset
Published on Thursday, 08 March 2012 11:10 Written by Jacob Hugosson
During our visit at GDC we saw many familiar faces that we could relate to games, but you coudl tell the foucs was on the mobile. During a talk with ARM details were revealed about Samsung's Exynos 5250, and especially the powerful graphics circuit.
Intel Core i7 3770K benchmarked - AMD still has the fastest GPU
CPU / Chipset
Published on Wednesday, 07 March 2012 09:47 Written by Anton Karmehed
Intel's Ivy Bridge architecture will be the fastest CPU architecture for the mid-range and performance segment over the coming year, bot now that Intel's top model Core i7 3770K has been benchmarked we see that AMD has a lifeline to hold on to.
Intel hurries development of Atom for smartphones - 14nm in 2014
CPU / Chipset
Published on Thursday, 01 March 2012 09:00 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Intel has been forced to slow down the Tick-Tock strategy due to problems in the manufacturing of new processors at 22 nanometer. But it promises an aggressive way forward with the Atom architecture for smartphones and will be at 14 nanometer in 2014 already.
Dell experimenting with ARM for servers
CPU / Chipset
Published on Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:15 Written by Carl Holmberg
As one of the world's largest PC makers and suppliers Dell has been long faithful to the x86 architecture. The market is changing though, and Dell is not letting old habits hinder it from keeping up, but is actively experimenting with servers based on the ARM architecture.
Intel Z2580 for smartphones gets impressive specifications
CPU / Chipset
Published on Monday, 27 February 2012 21:30 Written by Jacob Hugosson
We started to doubt Intel in smartphones since Qualcomm Krait is just weeks from retail products. The company has now geared up and has announced a new system processor with two Atom cores, Hyper-threading and a graphics processor faster than Apple A5.
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