Recent #performance news in the semiconductor industry

7 months ago
➀ The Ampere AmpereOne A192-32X is reviewed, highlighting its performance, power consumption, and use in platforms like the Supermicro MegaDC ARS-211M-NR; ➁ The chip's importance in the context of the 2024 server CPU market is discussed, comparing it with Intel and AMD offerings; ➂ The cloud-native design and features of the A192-32X are detailed, including its core count, cache architecture, and support for PCIe Gen5 and DDR5.
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8 months ago

➀ Samsung introduces the new 990 EVO Plus SSD, offering a 50% performance boost;

➁ The SSD is designed for gaming, business, and creative work, enhancing PC energy efficiency;

➂ Available in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities with suggested prices starting at NT$3,879;

➃ Features Samsung's latest 8th Generation V-NAND technology and 5-nanometer controller;

➄ Offers high read and write speeds, with the 4TB model having industry-leading random read/write speeds.

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8 months ago
➀ The review introduces the CyberPowerPC Project Zero Infinity, a high-performance gaming PC with an Intel Core i9-14900KF CPU and an MSI RTX 4080 Super GPU. It highlights the system's impressive specifications, including the MSI Z790 Project Zero motherboard, 32GB of DDR5 memory, and a Corsair 3500X ARGB TG case. The article covers synthetic benchmarks, gaming performance, thermals, noise, and power consumption. ➁ The review includes detailed benchmarks with Cinebench R23, 3DMark Time Spy, and various games like Modern Warfare 3, Cyberpunk 2077, and F1 2024. ➃ The author provides their thoughts on the gaming experience and the overall performance of the system.
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8 months ago

➀ GDDR memory is a graphics-specific memory optimized for GPUs with higher bandwidth than DDR memory.

➁ HBM memory is a high-bandwidth memory designed for GPUs with larger memory bus width than GDDR memory.

➂ The choice between GDDR and HBM depends on the specific application scenario and cost considerations.

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8 months ago

➀ The research on hollow-core fibers is active but not yet widely commercialized due to various reasons, such as incomplete theoretical exploration and immature mass production processes.

➁ Y10T283 employs three segments of hollow-core fibers spliced together for academic research.

➂ This year, Changfly manufactured 15km long continuous hollow-core fibers and discussed the impact on performance in large-scale production.

➃ The wall thickness of the tube for low-loss bands exhibits certain characteristic thicknesses to achieve low-loss design goals.

➄ Thinner wall thickness results in longer resonance wavelength spacing, wider low-loss bands, but also more sensitive pressure differences.

➅ Changfly evaluated the tolerance of the inner and outer diameter ratio and pressure difference based on a balance between manufacturing difficulty and performance.

➆ Changfly selected a low-loss window with a wall thickness of 1.1μm, achieving a minimum loss of 0.25dB/km for 10km hollow-core fibers and about 0.58dB/km for 15km fibers.

➇ The article also discusses the challenges of manufacturing thin glass tubes and their impact on reliability and cost.

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8 months ago
➀ AMD's new EPYC 9005 Turin processors deliver exceptional performance with up to 768 threads per server, leveraging new Zen 5/ Zen 5c architecture and 25%+ TDP increase.➁ The processors are set to compete with Intel's server leadership, offering aggressive pricing and a range of SKUs with up to 192 cores.➂ Performance testing highlights the importance of using high-quality SSDs and NICs for optimal performance, with AMD's new platform providing a robust foundation for server environments.
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8 months ago
➀ The RTX5090 boasts 21760 CUDA Cores, a 33% increase over the RTX4090; ➁ It features 32 GB GDDR7 memory with a 512-bit bus, offering up to 2.00 TB/s bandwidth; ➂ The GPU uses the new Blackwell architecture and N4P process technology; ➃ It has a PCIe 5.0 x16 interface with double the theoretical bandwidth of the RTX4090; ➄ The TDP is a significant 600W, a 33% increase from the RTX4090.
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8 months ago
➀ SiTime launched the industry's first fully integrated MEMS Clock System-on-Chip (ClkSoC) for the automotive industry, the Chorus Automotive MEMS Clock Generator, which includes a built-in fault detection mechanism suitable for the entire clock generation signal path in automotive design. ➁ The Chorus clock generator integrates MEMS resonators, oscillators, and advanced safety mechanisms into one package, offering performance improvements up to 10 times greater than quartz oscillators with half the size, while providing critical diagnostic coverage for easier achievement of automotive functional safety standards. ➂ The Chorus generator is designed to meet the timing needs of autonomous driving or advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) with its robust MEMS timing technology and high-precision timing networks used in data centers, ensuring reliable operation across a wide temperature range. It also features early fault reporting capabilities to minimize fault tolerance time intervals (FTTI), which are common requirements for automotive safety integrity levels (ASIL).
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8 months ago
➀ The vanilla version of Intel's Arrow Lake Core Ultra 9 part shows strong single-core performance in Geekbench but weak multi-core results. ➁ The chip matches the Core i9-14900K in single-core but falls behind in multi-core, even compared to the 13th Gen Core i7-13700. ➂ Suggests Intel might be lowering power limits for non-K variants of Arrow Lake processors.
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8 months ago
➀ The Dimensity 9400 becomes the first SoC to surpass 3 million points in AnTuTu benchmarks; ➁ It achieves a score of 3,007,853 on the Vivo X200 Pro, making it 47 percent faster than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3; ➂ The GPU score sees a significant boost, with the SoC featuring ARM's newest Immortalis-G925 MP12 GPU; ➃ MediaTek's new chip is expected to be mass produced on TSMC's second-generation 3nm process, enhancing its efficiency.
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8 months ago
➀ The Intel Xeon 6900P series, with 128 cores and 12 memory channels, marks Intel's return to server CPU leadership after trailing AMD for seven years; ➁ The series features new process technology and accelerators, aiming to compete with AMD's top-end parts; ➂ Intel's design strategy includes integrating memory controllers into compute tiles for better performance.
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