Sometimes in the next 18 months, Intel will power the world's most powerful supercomputer. Consisted out of approximately 100,000 Ivy Bridge-EP based Xeon E5's and 100,000 Xeon Phi boards (Knights Landing), the Chinese supercomputer should be the world's most powerful, reaching no less than 100 PFLOPS of compute power. (more…)
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AMD is finally becoming more aggressive in their bid to win the lucrative HPC share, which is set to explode with this week's SC'12 supercomputing conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. (more…)
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The future of much criticized Intel Itanium processor is often blurry. In fact, it was even a matter of recent court spat between ORACLE and HP, where ORACLE wanted to abandon Itanium altogether. Thus, Intel is making a strategic move to ensure the future of this niche product line. (more…)
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The new tablet wars are getting more and more interesting, but benchmarking performance is getting to be quite difficult thanks to draconian application side loading restrictions. To resolve this, Futuremark has released some performance figures derived from their Peacekeeper browser based benchmark on three hot tablets for the 2012 Holiday
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Without much fanfare (or pre-release product briefings), AMD has released its new Opteron processors previously known as "Abu Dhabi". At the same time, two executives added to the exodus by leaving the company. (more…)
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At the ARM TechCon which is being held in Santa Clara, CA the company introduced its first processors based on 64-bit ARMv8 architecture. Under the name Cortex-A53 and -A57, the company plans to usher itself into the microserver era, where it won't face competition from Intel until 2016. (more…)
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One of questions often asked by our readers is how projects get their codenames. In our discussions with Intel representatives during the event held at Texas Advanced Computing Center, we learned how "Larrabee-reborn" got its name. (more…)
Read MoreThere's a lot of flak that both AMD and Intel are receiving on the mobile side of things. The investors want to see them go into the mobile market and earn $5-10 per chip instead of $30-X,XXX, but that’s just how the world works. (more…)
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Recently, a new controversy appeared in the high emotional world of performance graphics cards. EVGA has just announced that they will no longer support EVBot overvoltage tool for their highest end cards. We dug up and found the reason why - to meet the Green Light program. We investigate the
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For quite some time, numerous media outlets and gamers themselves were calling the next-gen Xbox console - Xbox 720. Naturally, it made sense as it would be double the 360, but in reality, that designation never stood any chance. (more…)
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During the disappointing quarterly results call (joining in all other tech companies which had a miserable quarter, including Intel etc), AMD's CEO Rory Read announced the restructuring of the company, which includes letting go 15% of its workforce. (more…)
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Nvidia is preparing to unveil its highest end Kepler at the SC'12, but a lot of details were hidden from the public… until now. Thanks to CADnetworks' premature specifications, we learned everything that was missing. (more…)
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There's no doubt that GPGPU or GPU Computing is becoming a big business. After speaking with sources close to the company, we learned that NVIDIA scored a great deal with Amazon for its Amazon Web Services (AWS). (more…)
Read MoreAt approximately the same time last year, AMD management announced Project WIN, which many of the people thought it was a strategy to get the company to its winning ways. Rather than that, it was a purge of around 5% of the company, with many of key executives and engineers
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GlobalFoundries delivered a 1-2 punch today, announcing the 14nm process for 2014. The semiconductor maker plans to manufacture chips in 14nm node named "eXtreme Mobility", offering FinFET three-dimensional transistors and Fully Depleted SOI to boot. (more…)
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The traditional way of purchasing goods might be changing forever, at least in terms of gizmos. MakerBot, manufacturer of most popular 3D printers announced opening of its first store in New York with one goal… to sell 3D printed items. (more…)
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Recently we witnessed an alleged leak for the first member of the Sea Islands Family, which is scheduled to appear in the first quarter of 2013. We dug deeper and discovered codenames for GPUs coming in the next couple of years. (more…)
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While mobile devices such as the tablets and smartphones are gaining in numbers, they still lack the ease of use when it comes to content production. Korea Telecom has an idea how to bridge that gap - meet the Spider Laptop. (more…)
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The mobile wars are heating up and Korean giant LG is firing the first shot in the Battle of 2013. The company recently launched Optimus G, also known as the E97x - powered by Qualcomm's first quad-core chip, the Snapdragon S4. Graphics power is provided by Adreno 320, and it
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Recently, there were a lot of rumors that AMD reorganized its roadmap and that some late 2012 and regular 2013 parts were cancelled. Before going any forward, we can now say that some of those rumors are true. (more…)
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