The overwhelming contributor to energy consumption in AI processors is not arithmetic; it’s the movement of data.

When it comes to PCs, Westerners are most most familiar with x86/x64 processors from Intel and AMD, with Apple Silicon taking up a significant market share, too. However, in China, a relatively ...

AMD’s roadmap marches on: the company confirmed the presence of its next-generation Zen 7 architecture, and talked briefly about the company’s next-generation PC graphics roadmap as well. AMD hosted a ...

The RISC-V CPU architecture currently accounts for under 1% of the world’s processor market, but that is going to change rapidly over the next years as its parallel processing is perfectly suited to ...

One of Jim’s strongest convictions is how open ecosystems like RISC-V and Atlas are what create real progress. In his words, ...

It’s been almost two years since AMD introduced its Ryzen 7000 series desktop CPUs and the Zen 4 CPU architecture. Today, AMD is announcing the first concrete details about their successors. The Ryzen ...

In just a week, we went from only having one option for AI PCs, or what Microsoft calls Copilot+PC, to three. At Computex, Intel announced the new Core Ultra system-on-chip (SoC) codenamed Lunar Lake ...

These popular CPUs were once cutting edge, but the pace of technology means that the latest-gen hardware can become obsolete ...

The release of next-gen gaming CPUs is inherently tied to the development of new breakthroughs in CPU manufacturing and design. One such step towards a future Intel CPU design has seemingly been ...

I pit the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 against the 8 Elite Gen 5, comparing performance, AI, and GPU to see how the new budget chip ...

This article provides a retrospective on one such case: the TRIPS project at the University of Texas at Austin. This project started with early funding by the National Science Foundation (NSF) of ...