Soft Machines Reveals Proof of Concept VISC CPU
Ever since Soft Machines first revealed their plans for a VISC style processor, many CPU fans have grown interested in what is essentially “reverse ...
October 8, 2015 at 8:00 pm by Samuel Wancpu
DARPA Developing On-Chip Liquid Cooling
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is helping to develop on-chip liquid cooling for field-programmable gate array (FPGA) systems that could easily be adapted for ...
October 6, 2015 at 4:26 pm by Ashley Allen
Intel to Enable SGX on Latest Batch of Skylake CPUs
Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX) originally arrived on the Haswell architecture and provides an instructions set which allows programs to offset private memory ...
October 5, 2015 at 5:00 pm by John Williamson
AMD Patch Reveals Highly Competitive Zen Architecture Details
All hopes at AMD are pinned on their new Zen CPU architecture performing well against Intel’s currently superior lineup. While we have seen some leaked block diagrams ...
October 5, 2015 at 10:45 am by Samuel Wan
Microsoft Buys Havok Physics From Intel
Microsoft today is announcing their acquisition of Havok Physics from long time owner Intel. Used in a large number of AAA games as middleware and psysics engine, Havok is ...
October 3, 2015 at 1:00 pm by Samuel Wan
Intel May Increase Mainstream Core Count for Cannonlake
Intel has long limited the mainstream platform to 4 physical cores, with 8 threads due only to Hyper-Threading. This has held true for the longest time, with power users who ...
October 1, 2015 at 7:00 pm by Samuel Wan
Arctic Announces Semi Passive Freezer CPU Cooler
Arctic has released some impressive cooling solutions in the past, for both CPUs and GPUs. Their newest CPU cooler is the Freezer i32 or a32 depending on whether you’ll ...
September 29, 2015 at 5:00 pm by Bohs Hansen
Apple iPhone 6S Teardown Confirms Weaker Battery
IFixIt has performed a comprehensive technical Teardown of the iPhone 6S to examine the handset’s build quality and overall construction. The iPhone 6S features an Apple ...
September 25, 2015 at 4:09 pm by John Williamson
AMD Zen to use TSMC 16nm as GF 14nm Falters
TSMC has just scored a major CPU customer as AMD is allegedly moving their Zen CPUs over to the fab. Originally meant for GlobalFoundries 14nm process, delays at the once AMD ...
September 25, 2015 at 9:26 am by Samuel Wan
Intel Withheld Haswell Shipments in order to Push Skylake Sales
While PC sales have been slower over the past few years, it looks like Intel had been planning for such an occurrence. According to market data, Intel withheld processor ...
September 25, 2015 at 9:04 am by Samuel Wan
Valve’s Dan Ginsburg Claims Vulkan is Better than DirectX 12
Valve developer Dan Ginsburg spoke at length regarding the two upcoming APIs, DirectX 12 and Vulkan, during this year’s SIGGRAPH event. While both are much anticipated, ...
September 23, 2015 at 6:25 pm by Ashley Allen
AMD Confident Zen Will Deliver on Performance
AMD took a blow this past week after another major departure. While some have taken Jim Keller’s departure to be negative news, we aren’t so sure. Internally ...
September 21, 2015 at 9:29 am by Samuel Wan
Pharmonic HEX 1.0 Cooler Uses Refrigeration to Cool Your PC
Phononic is working on a CPU cooler that could revolutionise PC temperature regulation, one that uses refrigeration technology. The HEX 1.0 looks like a game-changer for ...
September 20, 2015 at 5:00 pm by Ashley Allen
CPU Wizard Jim Keller Leaves AMD
One of the most renowned members of AMD, Jim Keller is leaving the firm once again. The former Chief Architect of Microprocessor Cores is leaving today to pursue other ...
September 19, 2015 at 11:30 am by Samuel Wan
AMD’s Carrizo APU Reduces Carbon Footprint by 46%
Earlier this year, AMD launched the A-series APUs under the “Carrizo” codename which strive for energy efficiency and lower wattage demands. In 2014, AMD outlined ...
September 18, 2015 at 10:21 am by John Williamson
