Ryan Smith
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The Apple 2023 Fall iPhone Event Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/17:00 UTC)
It's that time of the year again - Apple's fall iPhone event, where the Cupertino company to unveil its newest generation family of iPhones. This year's theme is "Wonderlust," and will be the backdrop for the launch of iOS 17 as well as what should be the iPhone 15 series. This year is widely expected to see Apple switch from their proprietary Lightning connector to the newer USB-C connector, in… → Read More
Qualcomm Extends Deal To Supply 5G Modems for Apple Through 2026
Qualcomm just shot over a brief note this morning, announcing that the company has signed an extended agreement with Apple to supply 5G modem-RF... → Read More
Hot Chips 2023: Intel Details More on Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest Xeons
With the annual Hot Chips conference taking place this week, many of the industry’s biggest chip design firms are at the show, talking about their latest and/or upcoming wares. For Intel, it’s a case of the latter, as the company is at Hot Chips to talk about its next generation of Xeon processors, Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest, which are set to launch in 2024. Intel has previously revealed… → Read More
AMD Teases FSR 3 and Hypr-RX: Updated Radeon Performance Technologies Available in September
Alongside this morning’s announcement of the new Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT video cards, AMD is also using their Gamescom launch... → Read More
AMD Announces Radeon RX 7800 XT & Radeon RX 7700 XT: Enthusiast-Class RDNA3 For 1440p Gaming
With the Gamescom convention taking place in Germany this week, AMD is using Europe’s largest video game trade show as the venue for their latest Radeon video card announcements. This morning the company is announcing their long-awaited middle members of the Radeon RX 7000 series, the Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon RX 7700 XT. Aimed at the 1440p gaming market and based on AMD’s new Navi 32 GPU,… → Read More
NVIDIA Reports Q2 FY2024 Earnings: $13B Revenue Blows Past Records On Absurd Data Center Demand
NVIDIA this afternoon has announced their results for the second quarter of their 2024 fiscal year, delivering what’s arguably the most anticipated earnings report... → Read More
Arm to Be Public Once More, Files for IPO on Nasdaq
The ongoing saga of ownership of Arm appears to be finally nearing its end, as Arm has announced this afternoon that the company has... → Read More
AMD Announces Radeon Pro W7600 & W7500: Pro RDNA 3 For The Mid-Range
As AMD continues to launch their full graphics product stacks based on their latest RDNA 3 architecture GPUs, the company is now preparing their... → Read More
PCI-SIG Forms Optical Workgroup
The PCI-Express interconnect standard may be going through some major changes in the coming years, based on a new announcement from the group responsible... → Read More
Samsung Completes Initial GDDR7 Development: First Parts to Reach Up to 32Gbps/pin
Samsung has announced this evening that they have completed development on their first generation of GDDR7 memory. The next iteration of the high bandwidth... → Read More
AMD To Release Limited Run Ryzen 5 5600X3D for $230, Micro Center Exclusive
With AMD now several months post release of their current AM5 platform, I figured that the sun was setting on AMD’s previous-generation AM4 platform. But, it would seem, AM4 is going to get one last hurrah, as AMD is preparing to release a new chip for the platform: a V-cache equipped, hex-core Ryzen 5 5600X. And while the chip itself is notable in a couple of ways, what’s likely going to end up… → Read More
AMD: Partial RDNA 3 Video Card Support Coming to Future ROCm Releases
AMD this morning is formally announcing the launch of the latest version of its GPU compute software stack, ROCm 5.7. Along with making several... → Read More
Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 4 Gen 2: Modest Modernization For Low-End Mobiles
Qualcomm this morning is taking the wraps off its next generation Snapdragon 4-class mobile SoC, the aptly named Snapdragon 4 Gen 2. The company’s... → Read More
AMD: EPYC "Genoa-X" CPUs With 1.1GB of L3 Cache Now Available
Alongside today’s EPYC 97x4 “Bergamo” announcement, AMD’s other big CPU announcement of the morning is that their large cache capacity “Genoa-X” EPYC processors are... → Read More
PCI Express 7.0 Spec Hits Draft 0.3, 512GBps Connectivity on Track For 2025 Release
In what’s quickly becoming a very busy week for data center and high-performance computing news, the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) is hosting its... → Read More
AMD Expands AI/HPC Product Lineup With Flagship GPU-only Instinct Mi300X with 192GB Memory
Alongside their EPYC server CPU updates, as part of today’s AMD Data Center event, the company is also offering an update on the status of their nearly-finished AMD Instinct MI300 accelerator family. The company’s next-generation HPC-class processors, which use both Zen 4 CPU cores and CDNA 3 GPU cores on a single package, have now become a multi-SKU family of XPUs. Joining the previously… → Read More
AMD Intros EPYC 97x4 “Bergamo” CPUs: 128 Zen 4c CPU Cores For Servers, Shipping Now
Kicking off a busy day of product announcements and updates for AMD’s data center business group, this morning AMD is finally announcing their long-awaited high density “Bergamo” server CPUs. Based on AMD’s density-optimized Zen 4c architecture, the new EPYC 97x4 chips offer up to 128 CPU cores, 32 more cores than AMD’s current-generation flagship EPYC 9004 “Genoa” chips. According to AMD, the… → Read More
AMD Data Center and AI Technology Premiere Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/17:00 UTC)
12:55PM EDT - AMD this morning is hosting their first data center and server-focused event in quite some time. Dubbed the "AMD Data Center and AI Technology Premiere," we're expecting a sizable number of announcements from AMD around their server and AI product portfolio 12:55PM EDT - Highlighting this should be fresh news on AMD's forthcoming MI300 accelerator, the company's first server APU,… → Read More
The Apple WWDC 2023 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/17:00 UTC)
12:55PM EDT - As we round the corner after Computex and transition into June, it's time once more for Apple's annual World Wide Developers Conference. As always, Apple kicks off WWDC with their big keynote event, which though aimed first and foremost at developers, is also used as a venue to announce new products and ecosystem strategies. The keynote starts at 10am Pacific (17:00 UTC) today, and… → Read More
Intel Details PowerVia Chipmaking Tech: Backside Power Performing Well, On Schedule For 2024
At next week’s annual VLSI Symposium, Intel will be presenting a trio of highly-anticipated papers about their progress with their upcoming PowerVia chip fabrication technology – the company’s in-development implementation of backside power delivery networks. Along with Intel’s RibbonFET technology for gate-all-around transistors, PowerVia and RibbonFET are slated to serve as Intel’s big one-two… → Read More