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Intel’s Greatest Mistake: Meltdown, Spectre and Why Your CPU Is In Danger

To start the New Year, two major new hardware exploits have been publicized. And people are going nuts. Since the news of these exploits has come out, AMD stock has skyrocketed while Intel’s has dipped significantly. PC hardware enthusiasts everywhere are running around screaming, and if you aren’t hyper-tuned into the world of hardware you may not understand why. Let us break it down for you. What’s happening? Two new hardware-based exploits have been publicized: Meltdown and Spectre. While both issues can be mitigated, it may be impossible to fix them outright without fundamental changes in hardware architecture from manufacturers. What is Meltdown? Meltdown is an attack

3D, AMD, Apple, ARM, Business, CPU, Exclusive, Graphics, Hardware, Intel, News, Nvidia, Qualcomm, startups

Two New X86 CPU Vendors coming to Market in 2018, 2020

One of everlasting legacies from former President of The United States (POTUS) Mr. Barrack Obama will be the creation of Chinese semiconductor industry. Following the ban on completion of Tianhe-2 supercomputer in 2014, Chinese government did not double down, but decided to put semiconductor industry as one of top 3 national priorities, and started to infuse over a quarter of trillion U.S. dollars, i.e. 2 trillion RMB (Yuan) into the domestic semiconductor industry, creating not a train, but a “Hyperloop Express” that is changing the semiconductor industry landscape. First, we’re starting to see the power of homegrown computers with ShenWei 260-core CPU processors powering the

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China Now Leads the Server Race: Meet the Phytium MARS Processor

Two decades ago, the US high end microprocessor industry was a lively, diverse market where about five various instruction set architectures battled it out across the workstation and server fields. You had choices like DEC’s Alpha – the speed leader; MIPS – the Silicon Graphics heart; SPARC from Sun Microsystems, IBM POWER, HP PA, the nascent X86, and a few custom architectures for MPP massive parallel processing, for instance. The rest of the world pretty much had nothing – British Transputer and German Hyperstone platforms died out due to lack of funding, while ARM was still keeping to the low end embedded arena after the end of the

Asia Pacific (APAC), Breaking, Business, China, Enterprise, Exclusive, Intel, News

100 PFLOPS: China’s Supercomputer Circumvents U.S. Sales Ban

A year ago, we revealed that the U.S. State Department blocked the further sales of Intel Xeon and Xeon Phi processors to Chinese institutions, most notably the Tianhe-2 supercomputer. The U.S. Administration also blocked the move in which a China-based investment fund would invest in AMD i.e. one of original reasons for Radeon Technologies Group – which is even without the said investment, performing above and beyond its financial capabilities. The reason to move against Tianhe-2 is complicated yet simple – ever since its debut in June 2013, the Tianhe-2 supercomputer from NUDT (National University for Defense Technologies) sits on top of the World’s 500 fastest computers list. From the looks of

Analysis, Breaking, CPU, Hardware

Next Gen Processor Performance Revealed

There is a trend of large companies snapping up smaller chip designers, all at the time when several next=generation processor designers are starting to exit stealth modes and gain traction. Over the last couple of months, companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Oracle – all have acquired at least one promising hardware designer or manufacturer. Soft Machines is one of the ‘new kids on the silicon block’, planning to do a ‘one up’ and build all-new processing architecture. Variable Instruction Set Computing or VISC is their brainchild, and on paper, we’re talking about a seriously efficient and flexible processor architecture which just may take sweep the rug

CPU, Hardware, Mobile, Mobile Computing, News, Qualcomm, Samsung, Smartphones

Samsung Galaxy S7 to Feature Gen2 14nm Exynos 8890, 5.1″ Display

As Mobile World Congress draws near, more information is coming out about all the new phones from key players in the industry. One such hotly expected family of smartphones will be 7th generation of Galaxy phones, more commonly known as the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. Samsung Galaxy S7, codenamed SM-G930F (the international version of S7) is expected to use a ‘Exynos 8890 version 7.0’ processor. From the information we managed to obtain, it will use Gen2 14nm FinFET process, designed and manufactured in Austin, TX. Given that 14nm is starting to look like a long node for Intel as well, as we reported yesterday

AMD, Breaking, Enterprise, Hardware, News, VR World

AMD finally Launches K12, ARM-based Opteron

AMD’s path to this moment was a difficult one. The company spent $334 million to acquire SeaMicro, an investment which was latter written off completely, and ultimately lead to shutting down the micro-server division. At the same time, 2012 saw the announcement of ARM-based Opteron and its arrival on the product roadmap (and a continuous push back), with ARM-based AMD product being available only as a single processor, 1U half-rack development kit from a third party vendor. This changes today, with the introduction of AMD Opteron A1100 Series processors, based on a silicon codenamed ‘Seattle’ – which may or may not have to do anything with two major customers from that area. In order to bring

Companies, Google, VR World

Google Takes On Surface And iPad Pro With 10.2-inch Android-Powered Pixel C

Since its introduction in 2012, Google’s reference Nexus tablet grew in (screen) size and features. 2012-2013 saw 7″ and 10″ models, Nexus 9 debuted in late 2014 and now, we are seeing Google reserving the ‘Nexus’ brand for smartphones only. The new reference tablet from Google is named Pixel C; a 10.2 inch, high-resolution (308 pixels-per-inch) tablet runs the Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system. Just like Microsoft and Apple before, Pixel C comes in a tablet + keyboard layout, which is the new industry standard for ‘productivity tablets’. This combination should makes typing and daily work easier, faster and more task oriented, but also enhance the

Hardware, Mobile Computing, VR World

ARM’s Cortex A72 To Rival Intel Core M CPU

The Cortex A72 will be able to hold its own against Intel’s Core M CPU, with several caveats in place.

ARM, Business, Companies, Mobile Computing, VR World

ARM Beats Q1 Expectations, But Servers Are Nowhere in Sight

ARM based servers are making no gains in the market.

Business, Companies, Intel, VR World

Altera Scraps Takeover Talks With Intel

The deal potential takeover deal grinded to a halt because Altera leadership raised disagreements about a price.

Internet of Things (IoT), VR World

Rockchip’s RK3288 Powers Sub-$150 Chromebooks and Chrome Stick

Super cheap chips from Rockchip allows low-end Chromebooks to hit $149.

AMD, Business, Companies, Graphics, Hardware, VR World

AMD Reveals Five-Year Roadmap For GPUs and CPUs

AMD will launch its next-generation GPU in 2016, with the SkyBridge platform set to debut later this year.

Apple, Business, Companies, VR World

Intel CFO: ‘Apple is a Great Partner of Ours’

Intel executives continue to hit back at rumors about an Apple-ARM partnership.

Hardware, Mobile Computing, VR World

ARM’s Cortex A72 Offers Double The Performance Of Cortex A57, Launches In 2016

ARM’s Cortex A72 is designed for next-generation mobile devices.

Apple, Companies, VR World

Apple is Not Going to Embrace ARM on Desktop

Intel boss dismisses claim by analyst that Apple would look to ARM for desktop chips in the future.

Analysis, Business, Enterprise, Hardware

Year-End Thoughts: Intel Goes High-End in 2015?

Intel is still the leader, but ARM is there the bottom, and Chinese IBM at the top…

Android, Breaking, Business, Hardware, Mobile Computing, Operating Systems, Software Programs, VR World

Marvell Announces Two Low-Cost Global LTE SoCs

Marvell has today announced its newest applications processors with integrated LTE modems squarely aimed at the low-cost smartphone market with 4G LTE

Business, Hardware, Mobile Computing, Software Programs, VR World

Qualcomm Misses Analyst Expectations, Weakens Outlook

Qualcomm reported their earnings for fiscal Q4 2014 as well as FY 2014 in the third quarter this year, missing analysts estimates and guiding FY 2015 down.

Business, Cloud Computing, Enterprise, Hardware, Software Programs, VR World

AMD Steals Forrest Norrod from Dell to Fill Lisa Su's Old Post

AMD has found a successor to Lisa Su’s vacant position after ascending to CEO in former Dell Server VP and GM Forrest Norrod