MSI Teases Z790 Project Zero Plus Motherboard With CAMM2 Memory Support
MSI on Thursday published the first image of a new desktop motherboard that supports the innovative DDR5 compression attached memory module (CAMM2). DDR5 CAMM2 modules are designed to improve...
8 by Anton Shilov 3 days agoTSMC's Roadmap at a Glance: N3X, N2P, A16 Coming in 2025/2026
As announced last week by TSMC, later this year the company is set to start high-volume manufacturing on its N3P fabrication process, and this will be the company's most...
46 by Anton Shilov 5 days agoTSMC Offers a Peek at 'Global Gigafab' Process Replication Program
At its European Technology Symposium last week TSMC revealed some of the details about its Global Gigafab Manufacturing program, the company's strategy to replicate its manufacturing processes across its...
11 by Anton Shilov 5 days agoTSMC to Expand CoWoS Capacity by 60% Yearly Through 2026
Customer demand for AI and HPC processors is driving a much greater use of advanced packaging technologies, particularly TSMC's chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) services. As things stand, TSMC is just barely...
8 by Anton Shilov 6 days agoOne More EPYC: AMD Launches Entry-Level Zen 4-based EPYC 4004 Series
Ever since AMD re-emerged as a major competitor within the x86 CPU scene, one of AMD’s top priorities has been to win over customers in the highly lucrative and...
14 by Ryan Smith 6 days agoLenovo Unveils Yoga Slim 7x 14 Gen 14 and ThinkPad T14 Gen 6 Notebooks Powered By Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite
While we've been expecting the availability of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor to be around the middle of this year, Lenovo has announced two new 'AI-powered' notebooks for...
17 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/20/2024TSMC Outlines Path to EUV Success: More Tools, More Wafers, & Best Pellicles In Industry
Although TSMC can't claim to be the first fab to use extreme UV (EUV) lithography – that title goes to Samsung – they do get to claim to be...
20 by Anton Shilov on 5/17/2024Not Dead Yet: WD Releases New 6TB 2.5-Inch External Hard Drives - First Upgrade in Seven Years
UPDATE 5/17, 6 PM: Western Digital has confirmed that the new 2.5-inch T GB HDDs uses 6 SMR platters The vast majority of laptops nowadays use solid-state drives, which is...
9 by Anton Shilov on 5/16/2024TSMC to Expand Specialty Capacity by 50%, Introduce 4nm N4e Low-Power Node
With all the new fabs being built in Germany and Japan, as well as the expansion of production capacity in China, TSMC is planning to extend its production capacity...
0 by Anton Shilov on 5/16/2024TSMC Readies Next-Gen HBM4 Base Dies, Built on 12nm and 5nm Nodes
Of the several major changes coming with HBM4 memory, one of the most immediate is the sheer width of the memory interface. With the fourth-generation memory standard moving from...
1 by Anton Shilov on 5/16/2024TSMC: Performance-Optimized 3nm N3P Process on Track for Mass Production This Year
As part of the second leg of TSMC's spring technology symposium series, the company offered an update on the state of its 3nm-class processes, both current and future. Building...
21 by Anton Shilov on 5/15/2024AMD Hits Record High Share in x86 Desktops and Servers in Q1 2024
Coming out of the dark times that preceded the launch of AMD's Zen CPU architecture in 2017, to say that AMD has turned things around on the back of...
44 by Anton Shilov on 5/10/2024Sabrent Launches Rocket Nano M.2-2242 SSD: Up to 5 GB/sec
Sabrent tends to get into news when it launches ultra-high-performance SSDs for enthusiast-grade desktops, but this week the company introduced a completely different type of product: a small form-factor...
4 by Anton Shilov on 5/9/2024Micron Ships Crucial-Branded LPCAMM2 Memory Modules: 64GB of LPDDR5X For $330
As LPCAMM2 adoption begins, the first retail memory modules are finally starting to hit the retail market, courtesy of Micron. The memory manufacturer has begun selling their LPDDR5X-based LPCAMM2...
13 by Anton Shilov on 5/8/2024Intel Issues Official Statement Regarding 14th and 13th Gen Instability, Recommends Intel Default Settings
Further to our last piece which we detailed Intel's issue to motherboard vendors to follow with stock power settings for Intel's 14th and 13th Gen Core series processors, Intel...
13 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/8/2024ASUS to Unveil First Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite-Based Laptop On May 20th
Asus on Tuesday said that it would announce its first 'AI PC' based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite system-on-chips later this month. The new laptop is set to be...
8 by Anton Shilov on 5/7/2024Upcoming AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 170 Processor Leaked By ASUS?
In what appears to be a mistake or a jump of the gun by ASUS, they have seemingly published a list of specifications for one of its key notebooks...
8 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/7/2024Samsung Tapes Out Its First 3nm Smartphone SoC, Gets A Boost From Synopsys AI-Enabled Tools
This week Samsung Electronics and Synopsys announced that Samsung has taped out its first mobile system-on-chip on Samsung Foundry's 3nm gate-all-around (GAA) process technology. The announcement, coming from electronic...
8 by Anton Shilov on 5/3/2024SK hynix Reports That 2025 HBM Memory Supply Has Nearly Sold Out
Demand for high-performance processors for AI training is skyrocketing, and consequently so is the demand for the components that go into these processors. So much so that SK hynix...
6 by Anton Shilov on 5/2/2024