Recent #cpu news in the semiconductor industry

4 months ago

➀ A team from Saarland University's Faculty of Engineering and Medicine is developing smart implants at the university and university hospital to monitor and promote healing in body bone fractures.

➁ The robotic implants can stiffen and soften through shape-memory technology, allowing for permanent monitoring of fracture healing.

➂ The research team is miniaturizing the technology for use in market screws as part of an EU project.

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4 months ago

➀ Apple's new M3 Ultra chip, used in the Mac Studio, has been benchmarked on Geekbench, showing impressive multi-core performance that surpasses the M4 Max.

➁ The M3 Ultra's single-core score is not as impressive, falling behind the M4 Max and even the entry-level M4 in some cases.

➂ The M3 Ultra's multi-core score is notably higher, with a performance uplift of around 8% over the M4 Max.

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5 months ago

➀ The Chinese government is shifting its focus from x86 and Arm CPUs to promote RISC-V chips, aiming to reduce reliance on foreign technologies.

➁ The new policy is expected to be announced soon, marking the first official government push for RISC-V adoption in China.

➂ Chinese companies like Alibaba and Nuclei System Technology are investing in RISC-V, and the technology is gaining traction in the country.

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5 months ago

➀ Lois Rossmann, a renowned RepairTuber, expresses disappointment with Brother's shift towards becoming an 'anti-consumer printer company';

➁ Brother's recent firmware updates have disabled third-party toner and prevented color registration functionality on color devices;

➂ Older firmware versions are being removed from support portals, making it difficult for users to roll back updates.

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5 months ago

➀ The ASRock Rack TURIN2D16-2T is designed to handle high-end server processors with dual AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs and sixteen DDR5 slots.

➁ It features an EEB form factor, providing ample space for the large SP5 CPU sockets and PCIe connectivity.

➂ Despite its size, it offers five PCIe x16 slots, with support for Gen4 and Gen5, and also CXL 2.0, making it a powerful server platform.

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5 months ago

➀ Intel has launched the Xeon 6300 series for entry-level servers, with up to 8 cores and performance claims up to 1.3x that of the Xeon E-2400 series.

➁ The new processors support DDR5-4800 ECC memory and have a turbo clock of 5.7GHz.

➂ Concerns are raised about Intel's focus on the entry-level Xeon space, with AMD's 16-core Zen 4 EPYC 4004 series offering a significant challenge.

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5 months ago
➀ The leaked Geekbench results for AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D show a single-core performance improvement of about 15% and a multi-core performance improvement of 4% compared to the previous generation. ➁ The CPUs are expected to launch this quarter, possibly alongside the RDNA4 GPUs. ➂ The performance gains are significant, with the 9950X3D showing a 15% single-core improvement and the 9900X3D a 14.5% single-core improvement.
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5 months ago

➀ Intel has announced the Granite Rapids-SP platform, known as the Intel Xeon 6700P, which has been teased for many quarters;

➁ The platform is Intel's mainstream Xeon platform and has been listed online by various retailers and Intel's public documents;

➂ The online listings show a variety of SKUs for the new processors, with some featuring 144MB to 336MB of cache and base clock speeds ranging from 2 to 2.9GHz.

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5 months ago

➀ The IEEE’s International Solid-State Circuit Conference in San Francisco featured an overview of next-generation high-performance CPUs.

➁ AMD revealed aspects of Zen 5, its x86-64 microprocessor for desktops and laptops.

➂ IBM described its 5.5GHz Telum II processor with enhanced AI acceleration and new data processing units.

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