Ryzen 9 3950X laptop is 2X more efficient than an i9-9900K

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At the end of March, we informed you about the XMG APEX 15 laptop equipped with a 16-core processor type Ryzen 9 3950X. Ryzen 9 3950X is part of the XMG APEX 15 laptop The Ryzen 9 3950X included in XMG APEX 15 is “special” in that it has 65W TDP (ECO mode) instead of … Read more

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X is faster than the Intel Core i3-10300

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We have a new comparison of the AMD Ryzen 3 3300X that puts it up against the Intel Core i3-10300, a comparison that seems to be fairer as they compete for the same market segment. AMD Ryzen 3 3300X is faster than the Intel Core i3-10300 The latest leak from @TUM_APISAK compares the Ryzen 3 … Read more

Intel Tiger Lake to confirm its launch around mid 2020

Intel Tiger Lake

A slide confirms that the company plans to launch its Tiger Lake processor series by mid-year, probably between June and August 2020. Intel has high hopes for Tiger Lake as it forms the micro-architecture behind its most advanced 11th-generation mobile core processors. Intel today released its financial results for the first quarter of 2020. In … Read more

Debian announces updated Intel microcode for Coffee Lake CPUs

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A new microcode security update for Intel CPU microarchitectures has been released by the Debian project to fix problems with Xeon processors and add mitigation for Lake Coffe CPUs. Debian releases updated Intel microcode for Lake Coffe CPUs Last month, on November 13, Debian released an updated CPU microcode for various types of Intel CPUs … Read more

Intel builds exclusive 28-watt Ice Lake processors for the Apple MacBook Pro

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Last August, Intel finally provided detailed information about the tenth generation of the new Ice Lake processors and, after several years of waiting, presented its first 10 nm processors. Together with the 9W Y series and 15W U series processors, a 28W Core i7-1068G7 processor was introduced. However, the Core i7-1068G7 is no longer listed … Read more

Intel ‘Nanoribbon’, the company’s future GAAFET transistors

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These new transistors are called ‘Nanoribbon’ by Intel. Intel plans to move beyond its FinFET transistor designs in the hope of moving to a new transistor design called GAAFET that will offer higher efficiency and better silicon performance. Intel ‘Nanoribbon’, the company’s future GAAFET transistors Intel’s GAAFET is called “Nanoribbon”, a new design that improves … Read more

Ponte Vecchio, Intel confirms new ‘Exascale’ HPC graphics card

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Intel officially announced “Ponte Vecchio”, its new GPU architecture developed in 7nm and focused on the large HPC market. Nvidia has already implemented its technology for this purpose, especially for AI calculation, and Intel seems willing to enter this market with Ponte Vecchio and its Xe architecture. In the midst of announcing the Ponte Vecchio … Read more

Cloudflare upgrades its Intel Xeon servers to AMD EPYC

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The renowned Internet services company Cloudfare has updated its “Gen 9” servers based on Intel Xeon to new “Gen X” servers based on AMD EPYC, another major achievement for the Reds, who are gradually expanding the market in the field of servers. Instead of two Intel Xeons, Cloudfare now uses a single EPYC with 48 … Read more

Micron SSD 3D XPoint: SSD X100 defeats Intel Optane SSD

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Micron today announced its SSD X100, the world’s fastest 9GB/sec sequential SSD for both read and write and mixed workload with up to 2.5 million random IOPS. Micron believes that the new device, which uses PCIe 3.0 x16, offers an impressive 8-microsecond latency that is faster than the 10-microsecond latency of Intel Optane SSDs. The … Read more