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  1. cageymaru

    Bob Swan of Intel Pens Open Letter Addressing the Corporation's Supply Issues

    Intel CFO and Interim CEO Bob Swan has penned an open letter addressing supply issues at the corporation. He acknowledges the lack of consumer product availability in the retail pipeline as he explains the incredible growth that Intel is experiencing in the High-performance computing (HPC)...
  2. cageymaru

    Intel Processor Supply to Remain Tight Until 2H19

    According to Compal president and CEO Martin Wong, Intel hasn't given its downstream partners a clear schedule on when the processor shortages can be resolved. He believes that the Intel processor shortage will continue into 2H19 and will negatively affect notebook shipments during the upcoming...
  3. cageymaru

    AMD September Motherboard Shipments Up 15% in China as Demand Increases

    According to Weng Wei of China Times, AMD motherboard sales were up 15% during the month of September in China as the growth trend more than doubled. This has led to the price of AMD processors increasing from 30% to 50% within the region. The price of high-end AMD motherboards has increased...
  4. cageymaru

    AMD Could Regain 30% of Global Desktop CPU Market Share in 4Q18

    Digitimes is reporting that industry sources are convinced that AMD could rebound to a 30% market share in the 4Q18. This turnaround is based upon help from TSMC and Intel's inability to ship 10nm processors. Speculation is that AMD will switch to TSMC's 7nm process for all GPU's, server and...
  5. cageymaru

    Qualcomm Accuses Apple of Stealing Trade Secrets for Rival Intel

    Qualcomm has accused Apple of stealing "vast swaths" of trade secrets to assist Qualcomm's rival Intel in fixing engineering flaws and to increase the performance of Intel's lower quality modem chipsets used in the iPhone. Qualcomm wants to amend its original allegations in its lawsuit to...
  6. cageymaru

    Microsoft Announces New AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon H-Series VM Solutions for HPC

    Microsoft has added H-series Azure virtual machines for High-Performance Computing to the Azure CycleCloud. The HB-series VMs feature 60 AMD EPYC 7551 processor cores, 4 GB of RAM per CPU core and no hyperthreading. The AMD EPYC platform has more than 260 GB/sec of memory bandwidth which is...
  7. AlphaAtlas

    Some Intel Chipset Production Rolled Back to 22nm

    In a highly unusual move, Intel is allegedly rolling back the production of some of their chipsets to 22nm. Earlier this year, Intel suspended H310 chipset production due to 14nm production troubles, while other sites reported that Intel was outsourcing some chipsets to TSMC's 14nm node. But...
  8. AlphaAtlas

    Intels Adds 1.5TB Capacity to Optane 905P

    The PCIe and U.2 versions of the Intel Optane 905P SSD just got a capacity bump to 1.5TB. Like the 960GB version of the drive, the new SSD can do 575K random read IOPS and 550K write IOPS, and has an I/O latency of under 11 microseconds. There's no word on whether the M.2 version of the drive...
  9. AlphaAtlas

    9900K and 9700K Will be Soldered

    In a statement to OC3D, Canadian laptop developer Eurocom confirmed that the Intel 9900K and 9700K CPUs will be soldered to their IHS. When Intel launched their Ivy bridge desktop CPUs, they switched from solder to a less thermally conductive TIM, and continued the tradition all the way to...
  10. I

    Changing motherboard to B360M PRO-VDH

    My motherboard is coming and since it doesn't have wi-fi on it I'm gonna download everything such as BIOS and drivers before it comes, but what drivers do I really need? There are these drivers on MSI's website: -On-Board VGA Drivers: Intel VGA Driver (?) -LAN Drivers: Realtek PCI-E Ethernet...
  11. cageymaru

    Vulkan Has Just Become the World's First Graphics API with a Formal Memory Model

    Khronos Group has announced that Vulkan has become the world's first graphics API with a formal memory model. "A memory model, or memory consistency model, for a programming language describes how threads in a parallel processing system can access shared data and synchronize with each other...
  12. cageymaru

    Intel Core i9-9900K 5GHz Tested with Cinebench R15

    Lau Kin Lam of HKEPC has tested the Intel Core i9-9900K 5GHz with Cinebench R15. Enjoy! Before we start to have a review on the new RTX graphic cards, we can take a quick look of the new Intel CPU
  13. Z

    WTB: Intel Platinum Xeon (QS)

    So after doing a little research it looks like Dell's Bios only supports QS or OEM processors. So my ability to run ES chips it out. Looking to buy Intel QS or Retail/OEM chips! PM me for prices.
  14. cageymaru

    Intel Solidifies Deep Learning Portfolio with Varied Architectures and Packages

    Gadi Singer is the vice president and general manager of the Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel. In an interview with Ed Sperling of Semiconductor Engineering, he discusses how Intel is evolving to meet the ever changing requirements for deep learning. He believes that Xeon...
  15. AlphaAtlas

    Intel CPU Shortage Could Lower DRAM Prices

    DRAM prices are high, but DRAMeXchange claims that some relief could be on the horizon. Mirroring previous reports of 14nm shortages, the site claims that OEMs have an "insufficient supply" of Whiskey Lake laptop CPUs, which will impact DRAM prices. Trendforce also expects SSD prices to drop in...
  16. AlphaAtlas

    Intel Acquires On Chip Networking Company

    Intel announced the acquisition of on-chip networking company NetSpeed. Intel already uses some products from the the San Jose based company, and says deals with existing customers will remain intact. The co-founder and chief executive of NetSpeed, Sundari Mitra, used to work at Intel herself...
  17. cageymaru

    Intel Core i7-9700K Review Posted Online

    The Intel Core i7-9700K has been reviewed by the website El Chapuzas Informatico. This Intel CPU doesn't have HyperThreading, so it has to rely on 8C/8T. According to the article it has a base speed of 3.60GHz and turbos to an all core speed of 4.60GHz, with a single core speed of 4.90GHz...
  18. AlphaAtlas

    Intel to Outsource Chip Production to TSMC

    Amid reports of Intel having trouble supplying 14nm parts, Digitimes claims Intel is looking to outsource some production to Taiwan Semiconductor. The sources say that "entry-level H310 and several other 300 series desktop processors" will get outsourced to TSMC, and that higher margin products...
  19. 5150Joker

    Hardware Unboxed - BF 5 benchmarks

    This is why I can’t take AMD seriously in the high end CPU market for consumers, they get pummeled in games. Yeah Ryzen has cores but that’s about it really. The game might be in a beta stage but I doubt this result will change much between now and final release. Video:
  20. cageymaru

    Intel Reaffirms Interest in Adaptive Sync Technology

    Chris Hook, head of Discrete Graphics and Visual Technologies Marketing at Intel has confirmed to a Redditor via Twitter that Intel still has an interest in Adaptive Sync technology. This means that the Windows switchable graphics feature that allows an Nvidia GPU's frame buffer to copied to an...
  21. Z

    Anyone running Intel 8176 QL1F (Intel Platinum ES/QS)

    Just seeing what peoples experiences were with these chips. Looking to possibly grab one or two for some VM testing. Thanks!
  22. DooKey

    Cascade Lake at Heart of 2019 TACC Supercomputer

    The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has decided to go with Cascade Lake CPUs for their new supercomputer. This supercomputer will have computing power of 35 to 40 petaflops and should place it in the top five of the most powerful supercomputers. They decided to go with the Intel CPUs over...
  23. cageymaru

    The Firefox Public Data Report Details Hardware and Browsing Tendencies

    Mozilla has released the Firefox Public Data Report which details the computer hardware, language used, countries that most users are from and other metrics. It even has the most used addons, CPU and GPU manufacturers, etc. I found the fact that only 1.29% of users utilized the Always On...
  24. cageymaru

    GLOBALFOUNDRIES Throws in the Towel on 7nm FinFET Process Development

    GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) has placed an indefinite hold on the development of a 7nm FinFET program and is instead focusing on 14/12nm FinFET. GF is also reducing their workforce by 5%. This leaves only Intel, TSMC, and Samsung to develop the most cutting edge processes. "Lifting the burden of...
  25. cageymaru

    Steam Audio 2.0 Adds Open-Source AMD Radeon Rays Technology

    Steam Audio Beta 15 has added support for ray-tracing via the open-source AMD Radeon Rays technology. Steam Audio can use ray tracing to bake indirect sound propagation as sounds bounce around a scene until they hit a source. Thousands of ray tracing probes can be used in a scene and AMD...
  26. cageymaru

    OpenBSD Co-Founder Drops Hyper-Threading Support to Mitigate Foreshadow Attacks

    Theo de Raadt, an OpenBSD co-founder has officially announced that the open-source operating system will not utilize Hyper-threading for Intel processors. He complains that Intel isn't telling them about upcoming discovered threats and the steps that an OS developer needs to take to mitigate...
  27. DooKey

    Intel Gags Customers from Publishing Performance Impact of Microcode Updates

    Just when you thought the optics for Intel couldn't get any worse than they are Intel updates their license terms for the latest microcode update and shoots themselves in the foot. The latest license agreement says you can't "publish or provide any Software benchmark or comparison test results."...
  28. cageymaru

    HTC Vive Wireless Adapter Launches in September

    The HTC Vive and Vive Pro are cutting the cord for wireless freedom with the upcoming launch of the $299 HTC Vive Wireless Adapter. The Vive Pro needs an additional Vive Pro compatibility pack which costs $60 as it requires a different attachment device and foam padding. The device can be run...
  29. M

    FS: Optane 900P 480GB PCI-E SSD; Samsung 960 Pro M.2 1TB SSD; NVIDIA Titan X GPU w/EKWB block; more

    All items shipped free to continental US. $750 - NVIDIA Titan X (Pascal) 12GB GDDR5x GPU w/ EKWB Water Block and Backplate (Nickel, Clear Acrylic; needs cleaning inside the WB but runs flawlessly as is) $200 - GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980Ti 6GB G1 Gaming OC Edition $450 - Intel Optane 900P...
  30. FrgMstr

    AMD Puts its Sights on Intel's i5-8400

    AMD is taking a direct shot at Intel's i5-8400 ($200), putting it up against its own Ryzen 5 2600 CPU ($166). Both systems are using a GTX 1070, run at 1080p with Ultra settings. Frametimes are tight together but Intel gets clobbered when you move to a streaming situation and transcoding. If...
  31. DooKey

    Intel Teases New Graphics Card Entry

    By now everyone around here has heard that Intel wants to join the GPU marketplace with AMD and NVIDIA, but they've been rather coy about when we can expect some kind of product to hit the market. I guess we can put that to bed now because their new Twitter account @IntelGraphics has a teaser...
  32. FrgMstr

    Intel Coffee Lake 9000 Series Refresh to have Soldered TIMs

    Thanks for Videocards for the slides. Here are all the base specs on the i9-9900K, i7-9700K, and i5-9600K. Nothing new in terms of the specs we have seen, but on the second slide below we see "NEW Solder Thermal Interface (STIM)" noted. Your delidding tools just dropped in value. Sell! Sell...
  33. DooKey

    Arm Wants to Power Your Next Laptop

    According to Ian Smythe, Senior Director of Marketing, Intel better watch out because Arm processors are on a steady curve to out-compute their competitor at the i5 level. He claims next gen Arm processors based on 7nm and 5nm processes will exceed the performance of Intel chips. Of course this...
  34. cageymaru

    Microsoft Patch Tuesday Addresses Intel L1 Terminal Fault Vulnerability

    Microsoft Patch Tuesday has implemented fixes and improvements to address the newly disclosed Intel L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF). AMD's Bulldozer and Jaguar processors reclaim lost performance as an issue that caused high CPU usage and degradation with Family 15h and 16h AMD processors was...
  35. cageymaru

    Intel Has Disclosed New Security Flaws that Affect SGX and Virtualization

    Intel has disclosed a new set of security flaws collectively called the L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF). These flaws were discovered in conjunction with researchers at KU Leuven University and other universities. The researchers call their discoveries Foreshadow and Foreshadow - Next Generation (NG)...
  36. cageymaru

    Open Data Blender Benchmark Tests Your System's Ability to Run Blender

    Blender is an free and open source 3D creation suite which appeals to a demographic ranging from professionals to amateur video editors. Now they want to assist developers with understanding their system's ability to run Blender. A Blender Benchmark has been developed and released as a beta...
  37. cageymaru

    Intel has Officially Announced the New Data Center Roadmap

    Intel's Executive VP and GM of the Data Center Group, Navin Shenoy has released a statement announcing the new Intel data center roadmap. First he announced new server accessories such as the Intel Optane DC persistent memory which allows for a larger persistent memory tier between the DRAM and...
  38. cageymaru

    How Does Intel Really View the PC?

    An interesting article entitled "Has Intel Given Up on the PC?" by Ashraf Eassa sheds a different light on the [H]ardocp article "How Intel Feels About PC Users." Ashraf makes an excellent point that the client computing group within Intel generated the most revenue by a long shot...
  39. cageymaru

    AMD EPYC Server Sales Show Great Promise According to Analysts

    AMD EPYC server sales are eroding Intel's positioning in the server market. Intel has fallen from a 99.5% share of the server CPU market to 98.7% in a year. This roughly translates to $57.66 million in revenue for AMD in the second quarter 2018 alone. Aaron Rakers from Wells Fargo expects AMD...
  40. cageymaru

    Intel Server Technology Falls Behind AMD as 10nm Struggles Continue

    Charlie over at Semiaccurate has an interesting article about how Intel's server future relies on 10nm technology that is now 4 years delayed, raising server CPU prices by $7,000 for what is essentially the same chip; just clocked higher and drawing more power, and how it will combat AMD's 7nm...
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