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Intel is launching a series of server processors that it says are 1.65 times faster than its previous generation of chips. The Intel Xeon Scalable chips range from 8 cores, or processing brains, to 28, and they represent the chip giant’s biggest effort to stay ahead of rival Advanced Micro Devices, which recently launched its […]
Virtually every central processor in your devices uses a tiered set of memory caches to speed things up by fetching commonly used data. But it’s not very efficient — in trying to accommodate everything, it’s rarely the fastest at anything. MIT’s CSAIL researchers want to fix that. They’ve developed a cache system (appropriately named Jenga) […]
Enlarge (credit: NASA) Back in 2012, I had the pleasure of visiting the IBM Watson research center. Among the people I talked with was George Tulevski, who was working on developing carbon nanotubes as a possible replacement for silicon in some critical parts of transistors. IBM likes to think about developing technology with about a […]
Enlarge / Back in February, Intel said only “greater than 15 percent” boost from 7th generation (Kaby Lake) to 8th generation (Coffee Lake) on its incrementally improved 14nm process. Now the company is saying “30 percent” improvement. (credit: Intel) While Intel’s big news today is the announcement of its 18 core, 36 thread, high-end desktop […]
When ARM showed up at Computex last year, it brought a bundle of smartphone processors that pushed for better mobile VR. As you might’ve noticed, though, AI is one of the big new trends in mobile this year — is it any surprise that the ARM’s pushing that angle with its latest batch of silicon? […]
Enlarge / The 180 TFLOPS Cloud TPU card. (credit: Google) Google has developed a 45-teraflops chip for machine learning and artificial intelligence, its second generation tensor processor unit (TPU), and the company is bringing it to the cloud. The custom chips are 15-30 times faster and 30-80 times more power efficient than CPUs and GPUs […]
Scientists from Duke University and Intel have come up with a new mechanism for keeping high-performance electronics cool: fill their insides with bouncing water droplets. It sounds like a late April Fool’s joke, but the researchers say such a system could keep high-performance electronics running at full speed by organically targeting hot-spots. The scientists were […]
(credit: Qualcomm) Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors are its most notable products, but the company wants you to know that it does other stuff, too. The solution? “Snapdragon” branding will no longer be used to refer to processors. It will instead refer to the entire hardware and software platform that ships in a phone with a Snapdragon […]
Advanced Micro Devices said it is launching four Ryzen 5 mainstream desktop processors worldwide on April 11. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company hopes the chips will help it steal some market share back from Intel, the world’s largest chip maker. Earlier this month, AMD launched its Ryzen 7 high-end desktop processors. The Ryzen family is based […]
It’s clearer than ever that the days of tick-tock Intel chip upgrades (new process one generation, new architecture the next) are long gone. Intel has revealed that its 8th-generation Core processors, due in the second half of 2017 will once again be built on a 14-nanometer process — yes, for the fourth time in a […]
