Although many people are currently away on vacation, aside from tech journalists obviously, AMD engineers are apparently hard at work in their labs testing next-generation APUs. The distributed computing platform [email protected] recently posted a listing for a contributor with all the markings of a Zen 5 APU, which the company …
Read More »New Cerebras’s Supercomputer
Cerebras unveiled its new AI supercomputer Andromeda at SC22. With 13.5 million cores across 16 Cerebras CS-2 systems, Andromeda boasts an exaflop of AI compute and 120 petaflops of dense compute. Its computing workhorse is Cerebras’ wafer-scale, manycore processor, WSE-2. Each WSE-2 wafer has three physical planes, which handle arithmetic, …
Read More »Seagate RISC-V Cores
Seagate has designed a pair of custom RISC-V cores to be used in future products as next-generation storage controllers. The chips, which are not referred to by any codename or brand, come in two flavors: A high-performance core and an area-optimized core. The high performance core has already been …
Read More »32 High Performance Cores
Once the M1 hit a few weeks back, it was clear that the diminutive processor was but a sign of things to come. Reports suggest that Apple will be upping the competitive ante in short order. The company plans to launch M1 follow-ups with up to 16 high-performance cores …
Read More »Ampere Altra Coming Soon
80 Cores, 3.3GHz Clocks, With 128 Cores Ampere, founded by former Intel president Renee James, is one of a handful of upstart semiconductor design firms seeking to challenge the likes of Intel and AMD using the ARM architecture. The company released new information on its Altra line of processors this …
Read More »Samsung’s Exynos 8895 features custom CPU cores, first 10nm chip to market
Mobile World Congress doesn’t start for a few days, but Samsung has already jumped the gun to announce its own SoC. The Exynos 8895 will be the first 10nm chip produced in commercial volume, and it’ll feature a new custom CPU core of Samsung’s own design. We’ve discussed Samsung’s M1 …
Read More »Apple may integrate new custom ARM cores into future Macs, but x86 swap still unlikely
When Apple launched its new MacBook Pros with the new Touch Bar, they also included a new ARM core, dubbed the T1, to handle the Touch Bar screen and certain other aspects of the system. Now, a new report claims that Apple will include more ARM silicon in future products. …
Read More »Some AMD RX 460s can be modded to unlock missing cores, additional performance
From time to time, AMD and Nvidia release a GPU that can be modded to function like a different class of card. In the old days, there were so-called “soft mods” that could identify consumer GPUs as workstation equivalents to improve compatibility with various applications, and there’ve been a number …
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