Anton Shilov 
Ampere’s flagship 128-core Altra Max M128-30 may not be the world’s highest-performing processor, yet it packs an unprecedented number of general-purpose 64-bit cores, has a reasonable power consumption and is priced at a fraction of what AMD and Intel charge … Read more
Intel formally confirmed that select 4th Generation Xeon Scalable ‘Sapphire Rapids’ processors will feature on-package HBM memory late last year, but the company has never demonstrated an actual CPU equipped with HBM or revealed its DRAM configuration. At the International Symposium on Microelectronics hosted by … Read more
When Intel announced its public CPU and CPU microarchitecture roadmap last August, it did not formally confirm that its upcoming Sapphire Rapids processor will use its upcoming Golden Cove microarchitecture. For some reason, Intel was publicly quiet about this fact … Read more
Chinese processor developer Loongson Technology this week announced that it had developed its own CPU instruction set architecture (ISA), Loongson Architecture (LoongArch) that has nothing to do with architectures designed outside of China. Surprisingly, the first processors based on the new architecture … Read more
SiFive on Tuesday said that that its OpenFive division has successfully taped out the company’s first system-on-chip (SoC) on TSMC’s N5 process technology. The SoC can be used for AI and HPC applications and can be further customized by SiFive customers … Read more
Intel uploaded a detailed description of its upcoming Ponte Vecchio Xe-HPC GPU for supercomputers just hours after outlining its IDM 2.0 strategy that involves usage of internal and external manufacturing capabilities. Ponte Vecchio, which employs components produced by Intel, Samsung, and TSMC using a … Read more