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Apple Hires CPU Engineer who worked at AMD, ARM, Intel
Apple Hires Mike Filippo from ARM One of the keys to Apple’s massive success is its push for vertical integration. The company is never content with relying on outside suppliers for core components. After bringing iPhone CPUs and GPUs in-house, the next obvious target is mobile MacBook CPUs. To this…
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AMD Releases Radeon Software 19.6.3 Drivers
AMD Brings F1 2019 Support AMD has been on fire lately on the GPU. Along with the new graphics cards offerings in the 5700 series, the company has been keeping up their software end of things as well. After 2 new drivers earlier in the month, we are getting another…
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AMD Releases Radeon Software 19.4.1 Drivers
Right on the first of the month, AMD has decided to give us yet another new driver. After a rapid fire 3 drivers last month, the company is not letting up. Today, we now have the AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.4.1 drivers. As a beta optional release, it…
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Intel Prepping New 9th Gen CPU Stepping
In the heyday of CPUs, new steppings were quite common as process nodes and designs were constantly changed. Generally speaking, a new stepping makes changes to either the process, architecture or other feature of the CPU. For the recently launched 9th generation processors, Intel is releasing a new stepping. The…
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Microsoft Lets Windows 10 Home Defer Updates for 35 Days
With every new Windows update, Microsoft keeps tweaking Windows update. When Windows 10 first debuted, Microsoft switched to a software as a service model (SaaS). Due to the need to keep a consistent user base, updates are now pushed out frequently. Unfortunately, this means forcing updates onto users even when…
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AMD Releases Radeon Software 19.3.1 Beta Drivers
Within the first week of March, AMD has released their first new driver for the month. Following on the drivers in February, the company is making available Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.3.1 beta optional drivers. With the promise of more frequent drivers, the company has been releasing new drivers…
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AMD Ryzen 3000 Pricing Leaks Look Great
AMD Pricing Leaks for Ryzen 3000 Show Promise With Ryzen 3000 approaching, more details are starting to emerge about the new lineup and processors from AMD. Due to the unannounced nature of these processors, you have to take everything with a grain of salt. The leak comes courtesy of Singaporean retailer Bizgram.…
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AMD Updates Radeon Software With 19.2.3 APU Support
AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.2.3 Beta Driver As a hybrid company, AMD has both standalone and integrated graphics solutions. Ever since the AMD/ATI merger, the two parts have an interesting relationship. At launch, AMD has a different driver update schedule for Ryzen APU iGPUs compared to dGPUs though…
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Chinese Fab SMIC Will Start 14nm Production in 2019
SMIC Will Deliver 14nm SoC in 1H 2019 When it comes to major processor fabs, Intel, Samsung, TSMC, GlobalFoundries and IBM are the leaders. Over the years, the various smaller fabs have consolidated into these giants. Due to the massive expense and expertise involved, even these fabs have troubles sometimes…
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Intel Ready to Start D1X Oregon Fab Expansion
Intel Plans Oregon Expansion For 2019 Last year, Intel announced plans for major fab expansions. At the time, the company revealed that 3 locations were going to see the new fab capacity. These were Oregon, Israel and Ireland. This month, the company started to provide more details about the Oregon expansion.…
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Intel Core i5 9400F Might Come With Thermal Paste
Intel Mixes Thermal Paste With Solder For 9400F With the new generation of 9th Gen Coffee Lake CPUs, Intel has introduced two often called for features. One is the return of solder TIM (sTIM) for the mainstream CPU lineup. Second is the introduction of CPUs that do not have integrated…
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Intel Finally Kills Itanium, IA-64 May Soon Follow
Intel Will Discontinue Itanium in 2021 Over the past decade, most of the computing world has moved to 64bit CPUs. In the x86 space, there were two main competitors to reach 64bit. Intel offered up IA-64 or Itanium, while AMD countered with AMD64. While Intel offered a more radical approach,…
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AMD Amends Wafer Supply Agreement With GlobalFoundries
AMD Secures Changes to Wafer Supply Agreement In their latest Q4 2018 earnings report, AMD provided a number of updates for the company. One of the ongoing issues is the Wafer Supply Agreement with GlobalFoundries. The two firms have a long history between the two of them that stretches back…
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TSMC Fab 14 B Contamination May Hit Nvidia and AMD
TSMC Loses 10,000 Wafers to Contamination As the biggest third-party fab, TSMC supplies the chips for a large portion of the silicon market. Due to their market dominance, any hiccups at TSMC has serious repercussions for the entire market. Unfortunately, one such hiccup has just happened at one of the…
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Intel Prepping Low Power 35W Core i9 9990T CPU
Intel Packs 8 Cores Into 35W CPU With the mainstream CPU core counts creeping up, the low power models have to follow suit as well. Since there are now 8 cores for the consumer platforms, it seems logical to have a low power variant as well. Historically, 65W was where the…
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