AMD’s been on a roll with its laptop, desktop, and server chips over the past few years. Now the company is apparently taking aim at the FPGA space. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, AMD is in advanced talks to buy chip maker Xilinx in a deal worth more than $30 billion. […]
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AMD Zen 3 desktop chips coming Nov 5 for $299 and up (Ryzen 5000)
Intel’s 11th-gen “Rocket Lake S” desktop processors may be coming early next year. But rival AMD’s newest desktop chips are coming next month. The company has unveiled four new Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors with prices ranging from $299 to $799 and the promise of major improvements in single-core performance, multi-threaded performance, and energy efficiency. The […]
High-performance ARM chips will be 64-bit only starting in 2022
ARM has been designing chips that support 64-bit software for years, but the company has also continued to support 32-bit code. That’s going to change in a few years. Kind of. ARM has announced that starting in 2022 all of its “big” CPU cores will be 64-bit only. But that leaves open the possibility that […]
11th-gen Intel “Rocket Lake” chips coming to desktops in Q1, 2021
The first laptops and compact desktop computers powered by 11th-gen Intel “Tiger Lake” chips are already starting to ship. But early next year Intel will expand the 11th-gen family with the introduction of a new set of chips designed for higher-performance desktops. Code-named “Rocket Lake,” these chips will be the follow-up to Intel’s current-gen “Comet […]
AMD introduces Ryzen and Athlon chips for Chromebooks
Last year AMD introduced its first chips designed for Chromebooks, and within a few months a handful of PC makers began selling Chrome OS laptops powered by the inexpensive, low-power processors. Now AMD is taking aim at higher-performance Chromebooks. The company has introduced a new line of Ryzen and Athlon chips for Chromebooks. And unlike […]
3rd-party Intel Tiger Lake tests suggest big performance boosts
Intel promised that it’s 11th-gen Core “Tiger Lake” processors would bring up to a 2x boost in graphics performance over previous-gen “Ice Lake” chips, as well as more modest CPU performance gains. But up until now we’ve only had Intel’s word to go on. Now a handful of tech news websites have published the results […]
Intel quietly launches two new Comet Lake-H processors
When Intel launched its Comet Lake H family of 45-watt chips for laptops and compact desktop computers in April, there were six processors in the lineup. Now there are nine. A little while back, Intel added the Core i9-10885H, and this week Intel quietly added two new Comet Lake-H processors to its website, and according […]
SiFive plans to unveil the first RISC-V PC in October, along with new RISC-V chips
Now that NVIDIA has announced plans to acquire Arm holdings, it may be a good time for a reminder that ARM and x86 aren’t the only options for chip designs. RISC-V is a free and open instruction set available for anyone to use without paying a royalty fee. While RISC-V isn’t as mature as some […]
NVIDIA is buying Arm for $40 billion
Four years after buying Arm Holdings for $32 billion, Softbank is selling Arm to NVIDIA for $40 billion. It’s the most expensive deal in the semiconductor space to date, and it would put NVIDIA in control of the technology that powers most of the world’s smartphones and a growing number of other devices. Qualcomm, Samsung, […]
Lilbits: AMD, Apple schedule announcements
Apple is holding an event next week, when the company is expected to introduce its next-gen iPad and Apple Watch. We’ll probably have to wait another month for iPhone news. That’s the same month we expect to learn more about Google’s Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 (or maybe Pixel 5s), although they most likely […]