One of the aspects that make semiconductor manufacturing unique is the long-term planning and research that goes into it. Companies often have to prepare for new process nodes ...
February 11, 2017 at 11:54 am by Samuel Wan
Yesterday, some surprising rumours came out about Intel’s response to Ryzen. Due to the new threat posed by AMD’s new Zen architecture, Intel was reportedly ...
February 8, 2017 at 11:16 am by Samuel Wan
One of the measures for the cost of a CPU is the size of its die. With a smaller die size, it’s possible to stuff more onto a single silicon wafer and reduce the cost of ...
February 8, 2017 at 1:00 am by Samuel Wan
Now that Intel has finished launching their mainstream Kaby Lake lineup, the focus is shifting their Xeon professional CPUs. As usual, the Xeons tend to follow the consumer ...
January 25, 2017 at 11:00 am by Samuel Wan
As you might expect with any new hardware launch these days, the first leaks nearly always come from various sources in China. Kaby Lake is no exception with the first leaked ...
November 30, 2016 at 12:59 am by Samuel Wan
With only a couple of weeks to go until Kaby Lake-S arrives, we’ve been getting more leaks for Intel’s new lineup. After Kaby Lake arrives in full, the next major ...
November 12, 2016 at 9:08 am by Samuel Wan
As one of the biggest players in the foundry business, Samsung has been helping to push the envelope on new process nodes. With the increasing difficulty of moving to smaller ...
November 4, 2016 at 11:20 am by Samuel Wan
In just a few short months, Intel will be launching their new desktop platform. Kaby Lake will be arriving on January 5th 2017 with the i5 7600K and i7 7700K along with other ...
November 4, 2016 at 10:00 am by Samuel Wan
With some mobile Kaby Lake CPUs running around, it was only a matter of time before we got some desktop numbers as well. Earlier, some overclocking numbers pop up for the i7 ...
October 22, 2016 at 11:00 am by Samuel Wan
When Polaris first made the news, it seemed that AMD had a real winner with dramatically improved efficiency and performance. Now that the cards have launched, we know that ...
October 14, 2016 at 9:41 am by Samuel Wan
One of the things that never gets old with the tech industry is the crazy and wacky code names they come up with. Honestly, sometimes I have no idea how they come up with ...
October 2, 2016 at 10:42 am by Samuel Wan
Earlier in the year, we first got rumours about a massive AMD CPU. Codenamed Starship, the rumoured chip would feature up to 48 cores on the 7nm FinFET process with the latest ...
September 25, 2016 at 2:00 pm by Samuel Wan
Last month, reports came out that AMD has scored a major Apple design win. According to the rumours, AMD’s new Polaris GPUs had been chosen to power the next ...
September 25, 2016 at 1:00 pm by Samuel Wan
Earlier in the month, a surprising rumour came out from GlobalFoundries future plans. According to the report, the semiconductor foundry was planning to jump straight from ...
September 19, 2016 at 8:40 am by Samuel Wan
Last year, Intel finally admitted to a major roadblock in their silicon manufacturing. Despite holding to the Tick-Tock strategy for the better part of a decade, the chip ...
September 17, 2016 at 5:00 pm by Samuel Wan
