Last year, rumours came out that Samsung was planning to develop their own GPU technology. While nothing came out immediately from those reports, we’re now getting a new ...
September 13, 2016 at 8:52 am by Samuel Wan
For mainstream CPUs and GPUs, being at the forefront of silicon is a crucial aspect of their competitiveness. With each new process node, power efficiency, density, and ...
September 12, 2016 at 9:55 am by Samuel Wan
When the first reports of Zen came out from AMD, the suggestion was that they would arrive in late 2016. Some rumours even pointed to October as the likely release. however, ...
September 12, 2016 at 9:11 am by Samuel Wan
As part of the recent amendment to their Wafer Supply Agreement with Global Foundries, AMD has dropped some hints for their future plans. So far inextricably linked with their ...
September 5, 2016 at 9:40 am by Samuel Wan
Ever since spinning off their own semiconductor foundries, AMD has had a rocky road with their foundry partner. Called Global Foundries, the once AMD own fabs have remained a ...
September 4, 2016 at 8:10 pm by Samuel Wan
Slightly ahead of the rumoured schedule, Intel has released their latest update to their CPU lineup. Dubbed Kaby Lake, the new chips feature tweaked versions of the previous ...
August 31, 2016 at 10:00 am by Samuel Wan
Earlier in the week, we got our first glimpse of the Intel Kaby Lake lineup. Utilising the now true and tested 14nm process node, the new CPU architecture optimation was ...
August 28, 2016 at 10:07 am by Samuel Wan
In of the biggest surprises of the year to come from the graphics industry, Nvidia is reportedly planning to utilize a new process node later this year. According to a South ...
August 14, 2016 at 10:11 am by Samuel Wan
Until recently, Kaby Lake didn’t even exist at Intel as a product. However, even Intel has run up against the limitations of silicon in recent years. One of the first ...
July 24, 2016 at 9:37 am by Samuel Wan
Introduction Shuttle has had a lot of success with their compact systems and barebone systems and today I’m excited to take a look at one of the newest models for both ...
July 2, 2016 at 9:00 am by Bohs Hansen
Introduction The old adage that PC gaming is significantly more expensive than consoles stems from the media coverage and fascination regarding flagship graphics cards. This ...
June 29, 2016 at 2:00 pm by John Williamson
Gigabyte is an associate member of the Intel Internet of Things Solutions Alliance and as such it isn’t a big surprise that they brought along their EL-20 IoT gateway ...
June 3, 2016 at 10:59 am by Bohs Hansen
Even though Intel is trying to look beyond the PC market, the firm is undoubtedly still a PC company. Its CPUs continue to be the best in the x86 world and their process ...
May 2, 2016 at 9:22 am by Samuel Wan
Samsung has revealed its foundry’s roadmap for the next few years, which includes the development of a low-cost 14nm FinFET process (14LPC), with hopes that it can pass on ...
April 22, 2016 at 10:40 pm by Ashley Allen
One of the biggest concerns about Polaris 10 has been whether or not it will be a true replacement for Fury X. With the latest leaks out, most of the information points to ...
April 21, 2016 at 8:50 am by Samuel Wan
