There’ s a new and exciting addition to the family of AMD, AMD Athlon 3020e processor, an APU-CPU with integrated iGPU designed for affordable laptops. Athlon 3020e – New Hybrid CPU from AMD for affordable laptops AMD will expand the Athlon laptop processor family with the Athlon 3020e, which is already included in one of … Read more
Samsung has officially validated and certified the Cadence and Synopsys design tools, which cover the entire design flow of a chip to be manufactured according to the company’s 5nm EUV process so that chips can now be developed for this process. Samsung 5nm lithography The certified tools were Synopsys Fusion Design Platform and Cadence Full-Flow … Read more
ASUS today introduced a new model of motherboard WS X299 PRO, which as it indicates. Also, it is a model designed for Workstations. The new X299 board has the same LGA-2066 socket that we would find on the other boards of this chipset. Users of this motherboard can install from the powerful 18-core Skylake-X processors … Read more
MariaDB Corporation announced the launch of the MariaDB SkySQL database, available as a cloud service – database-as-a-service (DBaaS). The new service is based on the MariaDB platform optimized for cloud systems. MariaDB SkySQL can be used for transactions or for collecting and storing analytical data. The company calls its solution a “new generation service”: it … Read more
Xiaomi Mi 8 was released recently, now we get some leaks about its successor, Xiaomi Mi 9. The flagship series of Xiaomi phones will certainly see another model. The first leaks come from Gizkhin, which in turn relies on suppliers to send electronics to companies. The Xiaomi Mi 9 is expected to be launched in … Read more
Intel informed its partners and customers on Thursday that it will no longer be using its Kittson Itanium 9700 series processors, the latest Itanium chips on the market. As part of its product phase-out plan, Intel will stop shipping Itanium CPUs until mid-2021or just over two years from now. The impact on hardware suppliers should … Read more
NVIDIA has bet heavily on artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles. At CES 2018, Jensen Huang, CEO of the company, showed Drive Xavier. That is the first processor for autonomous cars that has impressive specifications among which the presence of its Volta chips stands out. According to NVIDIA, Drive-Xavier is the most complex chip. It has 9 billion transistors distributed in the space … Read more
Samsung has officially introduced its NVMe 980 PRO SSD series, the world’s fastest PCIe 4.0 SSD for consumers. On its Singapore website, Samsung has listed the 1TB, 500GB and 250GB models that promise sequential read speeds of 7,000MB/s, exceeding the 5,000MB/s speeds of today’s other PCIe 4.0 offerings. Samsung 980 PRO, NVMe SSD announced with … Read more
Last month, TSMC introduced the world’s largest chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) interposer. Given the COVID-19 situation in the middle of the world, one would expect production to cease, but at TSMC the opposite is true. According to the anonymous source in DigiTimes, demand for CoWoS has skyrocketed. TSMC CoWoS, Nvidia and AMD are trying to take over … Read more
Things get interesting in 2022 with the introduction of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D with 3D V-Cache and the official announcement of the 5nm Zen 4 “Raphael” platform for the second half of 2022. Watch out for this processor as it puts the entire evolution of 3D cache stacking technology of AMD CPUs to the test. … Read more
