2023-09-21 09:10:00 www.anandtech.com Compact computing systems have gained significant market share over the last decade. Improvements in the performance per watt metric of processors have enabled the replacement of bulky desktop PCs by ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF) …
Dev Work On Intel 18A, Production On Future Node
2023-09-20 19:20:00 www.anandtech.com As part of Intel’s suite of hardware announcements at this year’s Intel Innovation 2023 conference, the company offered a brief update on their plans for High-NA EUV machines, which will become a cornerstone …
Intel Demos Lunar Lake Client Processor In Action, Silicon Pulled In To Intel 20A?
2023-09-19 15:45:00 www.anandtech.com As part of Intel’s Innovation 2023 conference, the company is not only showing off their current and soon-to-be-current products like Meteor Lake, but the forward-looking keynote by CEO Pat Gelsinger was also used …
Intel 4 Heralds the Disaggregated Future of Mobile CPUs
2023-09-19 11:35:00 www.anandtech.com During the opening keynote at Intel’s Innovation event in San Jose, Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger unveiled a score of details about the upcoming Meteor Lake client platform. Intel’s Meteor Lake marks the …
Netgear Unveils Orbi 970 Wi-Fi 7 Quad-Band Mesh System
2023-09-19 08:30:00 www.anandtech.com Wi-Fi has seen rapid advancements over the last decade, starting with the introduction of 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5). 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) came with significant improvements in total throughput. The Wi-Fi 6E standard brought 6 …
Zen 4c For Edge-Optimized Server Chips
2023-09-18 09:00:00 www.anandtech.com AMD this morning is releasing the fourth and final member of its 4th generation EPYC processor family, the EPYC 8004 series. Previously disclosed under the codename Siena, the EPYC 8004 series is AMD’s …
Intel Broadens FPGA Range with New Products Across All Six FPGA Platforms
2023-09-15 16:30:00 www.anandtech.com Intel’s Programmable Solutions Group (PSG) is broadening its FPGA product range with the introduction of six new programmable platforms aimed at different types of customers and workloads. In addition to a new sub-family of Agilex 5-series offerings, Intel is launching its …
ASRock’s Low-Profile Arc A310 Fits Every PC and Every Budget
2023-09-14 18:30:00 www.anandtech.com ASRock this week has introduced an Intel Arc-based A310 Low Profile 4 GB graphics card. Aimed at the lower power/size/cost portion of the video card market, the entry-level A310 card carries a cut-down …
Intel Unveils Barlow Ridge Thunderbolt 5 Controllers
2023-09-12 09:00:00 www.anandtech.com The USB-IF and VESA released the specifications of USB4 v2 and DisplayPort 2.1 in Q4 2022. At that time, Intel also announced that their next-gen Thunderbolt specifications would build upon these standards. However, …
Qualcomm Extends Deal To Supply 5G Modems for Apple Through 2026
2023-09-11 08:15:00 www.anandtech.com Qualcomm just shot over a brief note this morning, announcing that the company has signed an extended agreement with Apple to supply 5G modem-RF chips for their smartphones and other products that will …
Minisforum Unveils Mini-ITX Motherboard with MXM Slot for… SSDs
2023-09-08 20:00:00 www.anandtech.com Minisforum continues to diversify its business beyond compact PCs and this week it introduced a rather unusual Mini-ITX motherboard with an MXM slot. Typically used for graphics cards, Minisforum’s Eyertec AD650i motherboard instead …
The Be Quiet! Silent Loop 2 AIO Cooler Review: Quiet and Unassuming
2023-09-07 09:30:00 www.anandtech.com A familiar presence here at AnandTech, Be Quiet! has settled in to distinct niche for itself in the PC peripherals market over the years by simply living up to the company’s name. Tuning …
ASML to Deliver First High-NA EUV Tool This Year
2023-09-06 22:00:00 www.anandtech.com In a promising sign for the development of the next generation of EUV lithography machines, ASML has revealed that the company is set to deliver the industry’s first High-NA extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography …
SFF PCs with AMD Phoenix and USB4
2023-09-05 12:00:00 www.anandtech.com ASRock Industrial has introduced a new lineup of NUC-like systems based on AMD’s Ryzen 7040-series ‘Phoenix’ processors for laptops and compact desktops. The new 4×4 Box 7040 series compact PCs can be used …
MSI Goes Compact with New GeForce RTX 40-Series Gaming Slim Cards
2023-08-30 17:30:00 www.anandtech.com Modern graphics cards are notorious for their massive cooling systems and dimensions that are hard to fit into mainstream PC chassis and almost impossible to fit into compact PC cases that are rather …
GEEKOM Mini IT13 Packs Core i9 into 4×4 NUC Chassis: 14-Cores NUC
2023-08-25 14:00:00 www.anandtech.com While Intel’s classic 4×4 NUCs have been pretty powerful systems capable of handling demanding workloads, the company never cared to install its top-of-the-range CPUs into its compact PCs. GEEKOM apparently decided to fix …
Updated Radeon Performance Technologies Available in September
2023-08-25 11:31:00 www.anandtech.com Alongside this morning’s announcement of the new Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT video cards, AMD is also using their Gamescom launch event to deliver an update on the state of …
Samsung 990 Pro SSD Gets 4TB Model
2023-08-24 19:00:00 www.anandtech.com When Samsung launched its 990 Pro family of SSDs for retail market last year, it only introduced 1 TB and 2 TB models, surprisingly omitting premium high-capacity 4 TB version. Now, the company …
An Ultimate Curved Gaming LCD
2023-08-24 09:00:00 www.anandtech.com Samsung has begun taking pre-orders for its new curved 57-inch Odyssey Neo G9 gaming monitor, with the aim of raising the bar for ultrawide gaming displays. Dubbing the 57-incher the “world’s first dual …
A Complete AMD Phoenix Package at 65W
2023-08-24 08:00:00 www.anandtech.com The increasing popularity of small form-factor (SFF) PCs has allowed a number of second and third tier vendors to market their wares. While the trend was kickstarted by the Intel NUC in the …
SK hynix Begins Sampling HBM3e, Volume Production Planned For H1 2024
2023-08-21 16:15:00 www.anandtech.com SK hynix on Monday announced that it had completed initial development of its first HBM3E memory stacks, and has begun sampling the memory to a customer. The updated (“extended”) version of the high …
Intel Calls Off Tower Acquisition, Forced to Focus Solely on Leading-Edge Nodes
2023-08-17 05:30:00 www.anandtech.com Intel Corp. will not proceed with its $5.4 billion deal to acquire Tower Semiconductor foundry due to a lack of regulatory approval from China, the two companies announced on Wednesday. Instead of renegotiating, Intel will …
OWC Teams Up with Frore for 32TB and 64TB SSD Devices
2023-08-15 10:00:00 www.anandtech.com OWC and Frore Systems demonstrated silent 32 TB and 64 TB solid-state storage devices that use Frore’s AirJet Mini coolers at the Flash Memory Summit 2023. Both devices promise consistently high performance while remaining completely quiet. …
Intel and Synopsys Ink Deal to Develop IP for Intel’s 3 and 18A Nodes
2023-08-15 08:00:00 www.anandtech.com Intel and Synopsys this week signed an agreement under which Synopsys will develop a portfolio of various IP offerings for Intel 3 and 18A fabrication technologies for Intel Foundry Services (IFS) customers. The …
Samsung, MemVerge, and H3 Build 2TB CXL Memory Pool
2023-08-14 10:06:00 www.anandtech.com Samsung, MemVerge, H3 Platform, and XConn have jointly unveiled their 2 TB Pooled CXL Memory System at the Flash Memory Summit. The device can be connected to up to eight hosts, allowing them to use its …
Memory Makers on Track to Double HBM Output in 2023
2023-08-09 15:00:00 www.anandtech.com TrendForce projects a remarkable 105% increase in annual bit shipments of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) this year. This boost comes in response to soaring demands from AI and high-performance computing processor developers, notably Nvidia, and cloud …
Micron’s CZ120 CXL Memory Expansion Modules Unveiled: 128GB and 256GB
2023-08-09 08:00:00 www.anandtech.com This week, Micron announced the sample availability of its first CXL 2.0 memory expansion modules for servers that promise easy and cheap DRAM subsystem expansions. Modern server platforms from AMD and Intel boast …
NVIDIA Completes ProViz Ada Lovelace Lineup with Three New Graphics Cards
2023-08-08 16:00:00 www.anandtech.com When NVIDIA began to roll out their Ada Lovelace architecture to the workstation market, the company introduced its new flagship RTX 6000 Ada graphics card meant to offer the highest performance possible as …
NVIDIA Unveils GH200 ‘Grace Hopper’ GPU with HBM3e Memory
2023-08-08 14:20:00 www.anandtech.com At SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles, NVIDIA unveiled a new variant of their GH200′ superchip,’ which is set to be the world’s first GPU chip to be equipped with HBM3e memory. Designed to crunch …
The Be Quiet! Pure Rock 2 FX CPU Cooler Review: For Quiet Contemplation
2023-08-08 08:00:00 www.anandtech.com While stock CPU coolers do serve their intended purpose, they aren’t designed for much more – they’re good enough, cheap enough, and that’s about it. Which is fine for the rank and file …
Colorful Reveals Mini-ITX GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
2023-08-08 08:00:00 www.anandtech.com Colorful has quietly introduced GeForce RTX 4060 Ti graphics cards in Mini-ITX form-factor that combine compact dimensions and performance of Nvidia’s latest Ada Lovelace GPUs. In fact, with the boosted performance of 22 …
Up to 30.72 TB, PCI 5.0 x4 Interface
2023-08-07 09:28:00 www.anandtech.com Hyperscale data centers have very specific requirements for different tiers of storage devices: some tiers need maximum performance, and others demand maximum storage density. Kioxia’s new CD8P drives for data centers seem to …
Gigabyte Launches Low-Profile GeForce RTX 4060 Graphics Card
2023-08-07 08:00:00 www.anandtech.com The relatively low power consumption of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4060 graphics processor allows graphics card makers to experiment with the form factors of their products. We have already seen Mini-ITX GeForce RTX 4060 graphics …
Intel Plans Massive Expansion in Oregon: D1X and D1A to Be Upgraded
2023-08-02 12:00:00 www.anandtech.com Intel has filed a permit application that outlines significant expansion plans for its campus near Hillsboro, Oregon. According to filings submitted to state regulators, the tech giant's ambitious proposals include a fourth expansion phase for the D1X research facility and an …
PCI-SIG Forms Optical Workgroup – Lighting The Way To PCIe’s Future
2023-08-02 11:00:00 www.anandtech.com The PCI-Express interconnect standard may be going through some major changes in the coming years, based on a new announcement from the group responsible for the standard. The PCI-SIG is announcing this morning …
Ryzen Mobile Gets 3D V-Cache
2023-07-27 21:00:00 www.anandtech.com For this year’s ChinaJoy expo, AMD is taking to the show to announce a new and very special mobile CPU for high-end, desktop replacement-class laptops: the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D, AMD’s first V-cache-equipped mobile …
32 Gb DDR5 DRAMs, GDDR7, HBMNext
2023-07-27 09:00:00 www.anandtech.com In addition to unveiling its first HBM3 memory products yesterday, Micron also published a fresh DRAM roadmap for its AI customers for the coming years. Being one of the world’s largest memory manufacturers, …
1.2 TB/sec Memory Stacks For HPC and AI Processors
2023-07-26 09:00:00 www.anandtech.com Micron today is introducing its first HBM3 memory products, becoming the latest of the major memory manufacturers to start building the high bandwidth memory that’s widely used in server-grade GPUs and other high-end …
Crucial X9 Pro and X10 Pro High-Performance Portable SSDs Announced
2023-07-25 09:00:00 www.anandtech.com Crucial’s X6 and X8 Portable SSDs have been attractive budget options for the mainstream consumers looking to purchase high-capacity direct-attached storage drives. The company has been delivering some industry-firsts in these drives. However, …