The next-generation on-chip neural processing unit (NPU) architecture, called XDNA 2, was first mentioned by AMD in its announcement of mobile processors for the Ryzen 8040 series “Hawk Point” series. Above all, compared to the first generation XDNA NPU powering…
Activision has made a number of feature announcements for the RTX ecosystem, and NVIDIA is commemorating 500 games and apps that are a part of the ecosystem. First off, on December 6th, Call of Duty: Warzone Season 1: Urzikstan will…
The new GeForce RTX 4090 D, a graphics card SKU designed specifically for the Chinese market and targeted primarily at gamers, is nearing completion according to NVIDIA. Since Chinese companies have purchased all of the stock of the regular RTX…
The export ban on RTX 4090 GPUs to China on November 17th has had the somewhat expected effect of causing AMD’s top products to sell out faster than AMD or its partners can produce them. It has also been rumored…
With AMD’s 3D V-Cache technology, the processor can access large cache pools for applications by stacking SRAM blocks on top of the CPU logic die, which houses the CPU cores. Nonetheless, it seems feasible to use this additional level 3…
Further information about Intel’s upcoming 5th generation Xeon Scalable processors, codenamed Emerald Rapids, is emerging from the benchmark submission database Geekbench. We previously discussed the leak of the 48-core Xeon 8558U and the potentially top-tier 64-core Xeon 8592+ Platinum processors.…
A number of major semiconductor companies, such as NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel, have been severely harmed by the new U.S. government limits on AI hardware exports to China, which prevent them from offering high-performance AI processors for sale in China.…
As part of its ongoing efforts to produce next-generation solutions, AMD’s Linux team has submitted a few intriguing tweaks today, which Phoronix reports made a modest appearance through recent GitHub updates for GFX12 targets. Two additional discrete GPUs have been…
Users of AMD Socket AM4 are in for a treat, as the company has two more Ryzen 5000X3D series processor models planned, according to chi11eddog, a trustworthy source with AMD leaks. Despite having an older “Zen 3” microarchitecture, these chips…
Though they share a nearly identical microarchitecture, the 14th generation Core “Raptor Lake Refresh” processors are distinguished from the 13th generation by a special feature called Intel Application Performance Optimization (APO). APO, or application-specific processor optimization, is software-based and has…
