AMD Fixes Intermittent USB Connectivity Issues on 500 Series Chipsets, BIOS Update Arrives in April

AMD Fixes Intermittent USB Connectivity Issues on 500 Series Chipsets, BIOS Update Arrives in April

AMD has four weeks ago acknowledged that there was a problem with 500 series motherboard chipsets. The problem has occurred with a few chipset functions like USB connectivity, USB 2.0 audio crackling (e.g. DAC/AMP combos), and USB/PCIe Gen 4 exclusion. To fix these problems, consumers were forced to either put up with...

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Intel Core i9 and Core i7 “Rocket Lake” Lineup Leaked, Claims Beating Ryzen 9 5900X

Intel Core i9 and Core i7 “Rocket Lake” Lineup Leaked, Claims Beating Ryzen 9 5900X

Intel is planning to debut its 11th Generation Core “Rocket Lake-S” desktop processor family with a fairly large selection of SKUs, according to leaked company slides shared by VideoCardz, which appear to be coming from the same source as an earlier report from today that talk about double-digit percent gaming performance...

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Intel Core i9-11900K “Rocket Lake” Gaming Performance Leaked

Intel Core i9-11900K “Rocket Lake” Gaming Performance Leaked

An alleged Intel marketing slide highlighting the gaming performance advances of the company’s upcoming Core i9-11900K “Rocket Lake” processor was leaked to the web. The slide compares the i9-11900K to the previous generation i9-10900K “Comet Lake-S,” showing that despite two fewer CPU cores, the new chip is able to post...

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Intel Prepares 19 Alder Lake Processors for Laptops Ranging from 5-55 Watts

Intel Prepares 19 Alder Lake Processors for Laptops Ranging from 5-55 Watts

As we are getting closer to the launch of Intel’s next-generation Alder Lake processors, more information is getting leaked. Today, thanks to the leaked presentation slide, we have some more details regarding Intel’s Alder Lake offerings in the laptop sector. As a reminder, Alder Lake uses a hybrid approach to...

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AMD Acknowledges USB Connectivity Issues on 500 Series Chipset Motherboards

AMD Acknowledges USB Connectivity Issues on 500 Series Chipset Motherboards

Users have recently been reporting various intermittent USB connectivity errors on AMD 500 series motherboards. AMD has acknowledged these issues in a recent Reddit post where they have asked affected users for more information to help them resolve the issues. The issues appear to be most commonly found when using...

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Intel Rocket Lake Early Gaming Benchmarks Show Incremental Improvements

Intel Rocket Lake Early Gaming Benchmarks Show Incremental Improvements

We have recently received some early gaming benchmarks for the upcoming Intel Core i7-11700K after German retailer MindFactory released the chip early. The creator of CapFrameX has managed to get their hands on one of these processors and has put it to the test comparing it with the Intel Core...

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AMD “Zen 4” Microarchitecture to Support AVX-512

AMD “Zen 4” Microarchitecture to Support AVX-512

The next-generation “Zen 4” CPU microarchitecture powering AMD’s 4th Gen EPYC “Genoa” enterprise processors, will support 512-bit AVX instruction sets, according to an alleged company slide leaked to the web on the ChipHell forums. The slide references “AVX3-512” support in addition to BFloat16 and “other ISA extensions.” This would make...

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AMD “Genoa” Expected to Cram Up to 96 Cores, MCM Imagined

AMD “Genoa” Expected to Cram Up to 96 Cores, MCM Imagined

AMD’s cutting edge EPYC enterprise processor that succeeds the forthcoming third Gen EYPIC “Milan,” codenamed “Genoa,” is required to be the primary significant stage update for AMD’s undertaking stages since the 2017 presentation of the “Zen” based “Naples.” Implementing the most recent I/O interfaces, like DDR5 memory and PCI-Express gen...

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SiPearl to Manufacture its 72-Core Rhea HPC SoC at TSMC Facilities

SiPearl to Manufacture its 72-Core Rhea HPC SoC at TSMC Facilities

SiPearl has this week reported their joint effort with Open-Silicon Research, the India-based element of OpenFive, to deliver the cutting edge SoC intended for HPC purposes. SiPearl is a piece of the European Processor Initiative (EPI) group and is liable for planning the SoC itself that should be a base...

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Intel Core i7-11700K “Rocket Lake” Shows Up on European Retailer for 469€

Intel Core i7-11700K “Rocket Lake” Shows Up on European Retailer for 469€

The forthcoming Intel Core i7-11700K “Rocket Lake-S” work area processor appeared on European Retailer Mindfactory.de as a pre-request, recorded at 469€ (counting VAT). This is an immense advance up from the retailer’s present selling cost of the i7-10700K “Comet Lake-S” of 317.50€, albeit generally in accordance with its dispatch cost....

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