Launch Date Leaks for Intel’s 14th Gen Core Processors
According to VideoCardz, Intel will introduce its next-generation Core processor in the middle of the following month, or at least some of them will. It appears to be a staggered rollout, as it often is when it comes to Intel and product introductions, but this time it’s starting to seem...
Leak Suggests New SP7 Socket Connected to AMD 6th Gen EPYC “Venice” CPUs
YuuKi_AnS, a hardware leaker, has momentarily shifted their focus away from anything Team Blue; their most recent leak concerns forthcoming server-grade AMD chips. This information appears to have been acquired from a server manufacturer’s product roadmap and refers to a Zen 6 core-based 9006 EPYC CPU series with the codename...
Geekbench & CPU-Z Tests of the Intel Core i9-14900K
The results of a recent CPU-Z test on a purported Intel Core i9-14900K engineering sample CPU, which were released earlier this week by wnxod, were 978 points for single-core performance and 18117.5 points for multi-core performance. With improvements of 19.4% SC/59% MC over the i9-12900K (Alder Lake) and 9.7% SC/8.4%...
Ready for Intel Raptor Lake Refresh SKUs with HWMonitor v1.52
The HWMonitor software program’s most recent version (1.52) is ready in advance for a wide range of upcoming PC hardware items, most notably Intel’s Raptor Lake Refresh desktop processors. The Core i5-14600K/KF (14 cores), i7-14700K/KF (20 cores), and i9-14900K/KF (24 cores) CPUs are among the exact SKUs mentioned in the...
Ryzen 8000 “Granite Ridge” desktop CPUs from AMD could use the same IO die.
AMD plans to introduce its Ryzen 8000 desktop CPUs, also known as “Granite Ridge,” sometime in 2019. The most recent batch of Team Red product roadmaps indicate that the Zen 5 core microarchitecture will be released alongside (Navi) RDNA 3.5 iGPU cores. We already know that Granite Ridge will be...
Smugglers carrying 780 Intel CPUs Worth More Than $137,000 are discovered
Chinese customs recently stopped 780 Intel CPUs that smugglers were trying to bring in at Gongbei Port, which connects Macau and Zhuhai. Chinese smugglers are renowned for using creative strategies to get around customs. These smugglers try to avoid paying customs in a variety of ways, one of which is...
Ryzen Chipset Drivers Updated by AMD to Improve 3D V-Cache Optimization?
Version 5.08.02.027 of the Ryzen Chipset software was released by AMD. The drivers include application support for a “New program support and some new drivers added,” in addition to bug fixes for its many components. The AMD SFH 1.1 driver, AMD PMF-7040Series driver, and the oddly called AMD Interface driver...
Intel lists testing interposers for Battlemage, Arrow Lake-HX, and Lunar Lake-M
Interposers are devices used to test forthcoming chips prior to their actual product integration, according to a new update on Intel’s website. A special webpage now displays parts utilized by various tools, particularly the “Gen5 VR,” which in this context refers for CPU Voltage Regulator. The update’s centerpiece discloses at...
There will be 3 MB of L2 cache on each performance core in Intel Arrow Lake-S.
Intel’s next designs are almost ready to be released, and we are already learning more about them. As of right now, we know that each performance core in Intel’s desktop/client versions of the Arrow Lake family will have access to up to 3 MB of level two (L2) cache. The...
Intel CPU vulnerability known as “Downfall” can reduce performance by 50%
Downfall (CVE-2022-40982), a security flaw recently disclosed by Intel, affects several generations of Intel processors. The weakness is related to Intel’s memory optimization feature and takes advantage of the Gather instruction, which speeds up data retrieval from dispersed memory locations. By accident making internal hardware registers visible, it gives malicious...
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