Using a PCIe Slot to Install DRAM: New Samsung CXL.mem Expansion Module
In the computing industry, we’ve lived with PCIe as a standard for a long time. It is used to add any additional features to a system: graphics, storage, USB...
47 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/11/2021
Supermicro: We Put Two 10nm Ice Lake Xeon LGA4189 Sockets on an ATX Motherboard
Usually, when vendors release dual-socket motherboards, this is typically done on larger form factors such as extended ATX (E-ATX) and even larger ones such as SSB-EEB for server form...
22 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/10/2021
AMD's Wi-Fi 6E Module: The RZ608
One of the elements of building a complete end-to-end solution means having all the components under one brand. The complexity of modern gadgets means that having everything made under...
51 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/10/2021
IBM Creates First 2nm Chip
Every decade is the decade that tests the limits of Moore’s Law, and this decade is no different. With the arrival of Extreme Ultra Violet (EUV) technology, the intricacies...
117 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/6/2021
GlobalFoundries Upgrades for Silicon Photonics in Quantum Computers
One of the targets of the modern foundry business is to have a wide array of manufacturing process technologies. This enables it to cater to as many customers as...
31 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/5/2021
Intel EMEA To Partners: Not Invulnerable to Substrate Shortages through 2021
As part of Intel’s Partner Connect conference last month, AnandTech has learned that information has been provided to European, Middle East and Asia (EMEA) customers and partners regarding the...
9 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/4/2021
Intel’s Chief Revenue Officer: We have Silicon, but Shortages in Wi-Fi, Substrates, Panels
One of the key commentaries about the current semiconductor shortages is around where exactly the bottlenecks are. The traditional interpretation of a semiconductor shortage implies that not enough silicon...
24 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/4/2021
Intel to Invest $3.5 Billion USD into Foveros and EMIB Production in Rio Rancho
At a news conference today, Intel has announced that its Rio Rancho campus in New Mexico will be getting an investment of $3.5 billion USD for an expansion of...
20 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/3/2021
NVIDIA Updates GeForce RTX 3060 Ethereum Throttle; Updated Drivers Required For Future 3060s
NVIDIA this morning has released a new driver set for their GeForce cards, version 466.27. And though it’s primarily for next week’s release of Metro Exodus PC Enhanced Edition...
90 by Ryan Smith on 4/29/2021
AMD: Mobile Radeon RX 6000 Still On Track For Q2 Launch
Among the items touched upon by AMD in today’s earnings release, CEO Dr. Lisa Su’s prepared remarks included a brief update on AMD’s GPU product roadmap. For those of you...
54 by Ryan Smith on 4/27/2021
AMD Reports Q1 2021 Earnings: Firing on All Cylinders and Setting Records
As Q1 earnings season continues to roll along, on deck today is AMD, who is getting the privilege of reporting some very positive earnings for the first three months...
75 by Ryan Smith on 4/27/2021
Intel Confirms Tiger Lake-U Refresh Later in 2021
The combination of Intel’s ability to drive 10nm product onto the shelves coupled with silicon supply chain shortages has put into question exactly what might be coming into the...
36 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/27/2021
Microsoft and Intel Enable AI-Backed Protection Against CPU Cryptocoin Mining
The fervor of cryptocoin mining has consumed a large part of the semiconductor industry of late. The demands for high performance silicon to mine these virtual assets with value...
24 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/27/2021
TSMC Update: 2nm in Development, 3nm and 4nm on Track for 2022
For TSMC, being the world's largest foundry with nearly 500 customers has its peculiarities. On the one hand, the company can serve almost any client with almost any requirements...
73 by Anton Shilov on 4/26/2021
MLPerf Inference v1.0: 2000 Suite Results, New Power Measurements
There has been a strong desire for a series of industry standard machine learning benchmarks, akin to the SPEC benchmarks for CPUs, in order to compare relative solutions. Over...
11 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/21/2021
Seagate Unveils FireCuda-Branded External HDD Solutions
Seagate has been marketing their gaming-focused storage products under the FireCuda brand over the last few years. With a focus on performance, these products have typically been flash-based and/or...
23 by Ganesh T S on 4/21/2021
AI Funding Spree: +$300m for Groq, +$676m for SambaNova
The growth of AI has seen a resurgence in venture capital funding for silicon start-ups. Designing AI silicon for machine learning, both for training and inference, has become hot...
14 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/19/2021
Biostar Announces B550T-Silver Mini-ITX Motherboard For AMD's Ryzen 5000 Family
Biostar has unveiled its latest mini-ITX motherboard for the AMD B550 chipset, the B550T-Silver, which is designed for use with AMD's Ryzen 5000 and Ryzen 3000 processors. The small-sized...
62 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/16/2021
Sales of Fab Tools Surge to Over $71 Billion in 2020
SEMI, an organization representing chipmakers and producers of semiconductor production tools, published this week that sales of wafer processing equipment has surged to an all-time record of $71.19 billion...
18 by Anton Shilov on 4/15/2021
TSMC Q1 2021 Process Node Revenue: More 7nm, No More 20nm
This week TSMC has disclosed its full quarterly financial results for Q1 2021. In those results the company often explains where the revenue demand is for its technologies, and...
40 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/15/2021
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