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    AMD Sets New Records in x86 CPU Market Share for Q1 2024

    AMD Sets New Records in x86 CPU Market Share for Q1 2024

    AMD has achieved a groundbreaking milestone in the x86 CPU market, reaching its highest-ever market share in the first quarter of 2024. This significant accomplishment highlights AMD’s increasing dominance in the processor industry, which has seen a consistent rise since the introduction of its Zen architecture in 2017. Desktop and…

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    AMD President Dr. Lisa Su to Deliver CEO Keynote at Computex 2019

    AMD CEO Lisa Su Has Set Her Sights on Energy Efficiency

    Advancements In Power Efficient Computing One of the biggest talking points with enthusiast PC building hardware at the moment is power requirements, primarily with the newest Nvidia Graphics cards with the high-end RTX 3090ti and 4090 reaching an almost 500W TDP. Consumers are desperate for more power-efficient components, especially with…

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    Huawei CFO had More Apple Than Huawei Devices When Arrested

    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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    Intel Rolls Out Core i9 Mobile Processors

    Intel Ice Lake May Boost L1 and L2 Cache Sizes

    Intel May Rebalance Ice Lake Cache Sizes As the x86 performance king, Intel has done a lot of work to build and maintain their lead. After the stumble with Pentium 4, the company has come a long way. With success, however, is ever higher expectations. To keep things moving along, the company may soon…

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    Gigabyte Launches Pair of ThunderX2 ARM Processor Servers

    Gigabyte Launches Pair of ThunderX2 ARM Processor Servers

    Gigabyte Server Alternative to x86 Gigabyte is expanding their server offering with the launch of two new ThunderX2 ARM server systems. The R181-T90 and R281-T91 are 1U and 2U bay servers featuring 2 x Cavium ThunderX2 CN9975 28-core ARM processors. These present a genuine alternative to x86 servers and performs 2…

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    AMD EPYC 7551P 32-Core/64-Thread SP3 Processor Review

    Introduction AMD EPYC 7551P 32-Core/64-Thread SP3 Processor GIGABYTE send us some AMD EPYC processors (link) so we can test the matching motherboards, so it’s only suitable to offer you full reviews of the processors themselves. Today we’re taking a closer look at the first of two, the AMD EPYC 7551P.…

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    Chinese Firm Begins Making AMD Zen Based x86 CPUs

    AMD Chinese Joint Venture Turns EPYC into “Dhyana” AMD and Intel are the two major players in x86. Due to the x86 and x86-64 patents, the two have a near duopoly over x86 CPU design. While rivals, the two companies have complex cross-licensing deals that allow them to use each…

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    Former AMD Lead Architect Jim Keller Joins Intel

    Former AMD Lead Architect Jim Keller Joins Intel

    Jim Keller to Lead Intel Silicon Engineering Rumours of former AMD lead architect Jim Keller joining Intel were circulating early this week. Now, the chip giant has confirmed that Keller is indeed onboard as a new Senior VP. Specifically, he will lead the company’s silicon engineering, which encompasses system-on-chip (SoC)…

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    Intel H370, B360 and H310 Chipset Motherboards Get Listed

    Intel Rumoured To Be Considering big/LITTLE x86 Cores

    Intel Rumours For big.LITTLE Surface Again Over the past decade, there has been a long-term drive to improve efficiency. Both AMD and in particular, Intel, have made massive improvements to their x86 CPUs. Intel has focused on cutting power for their Core series to the point that some users complain…

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    AMD Ryzen 7 2700X and Ryzen 5 2600 Benchmarks Leak Out

    AMD Ryzen May Hit Athlon 64 Marketshare Levels

    AMD Ryzen Powering CPU Marketshare Growth Since their formation, AMD has had to live under the shadow of Intel. As the perpetual underdog, it has struggled to compete over the past decade. One bright spot in the past was the Athlon 64 processors where AMD posed a real danger to Intel.…

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    Intel Launches 'Gemini Lake' Pentium Silver and Celeron CPUs

    Intel Kernel Security Flaw Fix Could Reduce Performance By 27%

    Security Flaw in Intel x86 Processors A significant design flaw has been found in Intel x86 processors which could impact heavily on Linux, Windows and MAC users. The solution to which, maybe cause owners of this processor type to experience slowdown of anything up to 27%. A flaw was located…

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    Intel Fires Warning Shots at Microsoft over x86 Patents

    Since Intel scored the x86 gravy train all those years ago, it has jealously guarded its money tree. For decades, the collaboration between Intel and Microsoft, WinTel, have secured the dominance of both platforms. In response to the mobile uprising, Microsoft has started to flirt with ARM processors. Due to a…

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    Qualcomm to Launch Snapdragon PCs Later This Year

    American semiconductor manufacturer Qualcomm has revealed that it is releasing its own ARM-based Snapdragon-powered Windows 10 PCs later this year. Based on the Snapdragon 835 processor, these new Qualcomm PCs are set for release before the end of 2017, according to the company’s CEO. Thus far, we’ve only seen Windows…

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    AMD Ryzen 5 1400 Reviews Goes Live Before Launch

    With the latest generation of releases, it seems like both Intel and AMD have had trouble keeping control over their chips. Earlier in the week, we got a review of the Ryzen 5 1600 which somehow slipped past AMD. Today, we have yet another Ryzen 5 processor being reviewed before the official…

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    AMD Ryzen

    More AMD 16 Core 32 Thread Ryzen Details Leak

    Just a few short weeks ago, AMD debuted their new Ryzen processor lineup. Featuring up to 8 cores and 16 threads on their new Zen architecture, AMD challenged Intel for most of the consumer market. However, at the top of end of things, Intel still rules supreme with their 10…

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