18th of June 2013 03:29 GMT
While Intel is making full use of the bragging rights that come with a new Xeon Phi coprocessor collection and the strongest ever supercomputer, AMD is making some noise of its own. Not much though. Unlike on some previous occasions, when it was its CPUs, not Intel's, that led the charge, AMD doesn't have...
18th of June 2013 02:15 GMT
The 2013 edition of the International Supercomputing Conference is now underway, which means that Intel has a new range of products to offer its existing and possible future HPC customers. Before we speak about the newest top supercomputer, some context is needed: Intel has introduced the Knights Landing Xeon Phi P...
15th of June 2013 03:54 GMT
One would think that a few more months would pass before Intel shared information about a CPU collection scheduled for release in 2014, especially since the predecessor of that line has yet to come out itself. Nevertheless, the Haswell-E series of high-end central processing units has been detailed by the folks at ...
14th of June 2013 15:51 GMT
TSMC, Globalfoundries, IBM, UMC and more or less every other foundry out there have to constantly improve their manufacturing technologies, which means their research labs are always looking into more advanced nodes. Not everything can be done alone though, especially when one of the features you need is patented b...
11th of June 2013 08:28 GMT
About a week ago, we reported on a rumor that Advanced Micro Devices was about to release a central processing unit with a clock frequency of 5 GHz. Now we are here to tell you all that the rumor was true. In fact, the rumor was just half of it. FX-9000 stands for a line of CPUs, not just one processor. There is a ...