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AMD CPU Sales Rise As Intel Shortages Make OEMS Unhappy
AMD Benefitting From Intel Shortage Over the past month or so, Intel has been struggling with a looming CPU shortage. Due to the demands placed on their 14nm process, supply has not been keeping up. As expected, these shortages have pushed the prices for the chips way up due to supply…
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Intel CPU Prices Jump Significantly as 14nm Shortages Persist
Massive Price Hike on Intel CPUs If you are planning on building an Intel-based system lately, chances are you would have noticed the significant price jump. A quick glance at PCPartpicker UK shows a clear ramping up of prices starting at the beginning of August. Take the flagship Intel Coffee…
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Intel Back to the Past with Chipset Return to 22nm
Intel Pushes H310 Production to Old 22nm Process A noticeable trend over the past couple months is that Intel CPUs are edging up in price. The main cause for the brewing shortage is the delay in the new 10nm. With 10nm largely a bust, 14nm has had to take up…
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Intel CPU Shortage To Get Worst Before The End Of The Year
Intel CPU Shortage To Get Worst Before The End Of The Year We are literally only weeks away before we get a closer look at Intel’s new line of CPUs. With a lot of excitement building about their performance levels, there have been growing concerns that there may be major…
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Intel Facing Supply Issues With 14nm Production
Intel Facing Double Whammy Hit to Supply At the start of the month, rumours started circulating about serious 14nm supply issues from Intel. Over the past week, these have bubbled up in a new report. According to a new report out this week, Intel is planning to ink a new…
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Intel Reportedly Outsourcing 14nm Chipset Production to TSMC
Intel Production Woes May Force Tough Choice Just 5 years ago, Intel was the undisputed leader in silicon production. With the best in-house fabs, the company was at the forefront of the latest production nodes. Unfortunately, time has not been kind to the Intel frontrunner. Chipzilla has arguably fallen behind…
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Intel’s Supplies Could (Basically) Delay The i9 9900K Until 2019
Intel’s Supply Issues Could (Basically) Delay The i9 9900K Until 2019 Within the next month (or so) we’re expecting Intel to release their new line of high-end processors. While AMD has taken massive strides with their Ryzen range (particularly the 2nd-gen Threadrippers) Intel is still very firmly at the…
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Intel Confirms Xeon CPU Roadmap – 10nm Ice Lake by 2020
Cascade Lake-SP and Beyond Intel has announced their official Xeon roadmap up to 2020 at Santa Clara today. This confirms the rumours that their upcoming Cascade Lake-SP as well as Cooper Lake-SP will remain in 14nm. The Cascade Lake server platform is expected to arrive Q4 2018. With it comes…
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Intel Stuck With Ageing 14nm For Another Year
Intel 10nm Launch Slips to Holiday 2019 Once the dominant semiconductor foundry, Intel has now fallen on tougher times. Intel first debuted their current mainstream 14nm process back in 2014. The plan was that the company would transition to 10nm sometime in 2016 or 2017. Unfortunately, those plans did not…
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Intel Claims 30% Performance Improvement For 8th Gen Processors
With every new processor launch, both Intel and AMD throw around big performance gain numbers. Intel, for instance, claimed a 15% performance increase for their 7th Gen Kaby Lake over the 6th Gen Skylake processors. AMD even tossed out a 52% IPC improvement for their new Ryzen processors. For the…
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AMD Planning 2000 Series Ryzen Processors on 14nm+
After their recent Analyst Day event, AMD shared some details about their future Ryzen plans. As we all know by now, AMD set up Ryzen to be a long term brand they hope to build. Underlying Ryzen, AMD has their new iterative Zen architecture. In order to keep Ryzen and…
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TSMC Engineer Charged With Stealing Trade Secrets
A former engineer at semiconductor foundry Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has been charged with stealing trade secrets from the company, which may include technologies used by NVIDIA and AMD in their graphics cards. According to DigiTimes, the former engineer, referred to only as Hsu, took materials related to TSMC’s…
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Intel Claims New 10nm Process Full Generation Ahead of Competition
After many delays, Intel is finally ready to unveil their new 10nm process. According to the company, the new 10nm process will be 2.7x denser than their current 14nm process. Even more surprising is the fact that it will be 2x denser than the 10nm nodes from competitors Samsung and…
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QNAP Announces the TS-453Bmini 4-Bay Vertical NAS
It has been about a year and a half since QNAP introduced their awesome TS-453 Mini with its tiny footprint and now the company is back with a successor to that awesome NAS: The TS-453Bmini. The new NAS is powered by the Intel 14nm J3455 quad-core 1.5GHz processor (burst to…
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UMC Announces 14nm Process For Q1 2017
When we think of the semiconductor industry, the first names that come to mind are Intel, Samsung, TSMC and Global Foundries. These companies are often on the bleeding edge of the latest process and are used by some of the biggest names in chip design. However, we can’t forget about the…
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