AMD describes its future: 7nm GPUs with PCIe 4, Zen 2,...
Enlarge / AMD Radeon Instinct MI60. AMD today charted out its plans for the next few years of product development, with an array of new CPUs and GPUs in the development pipeline. On the GPU front are two new datacenter-oriented GPUs: the Radeon Instinct MI60 and MI50. Based on the Vega architecture and built on…
Apple revitalizes MacBook Pro with upgraded keyboard, 8-core 9th-gen Intel CPUs
Enlarge / The 2017 and 2018 15-inch MacBook Pros side by side. Each has a butterfly keyboard. Samuel Axon In the second update to the current crop of MacBook Pros since they were released in July 2018, Apple this week has expanded the available CPU options for both the 13-inch and 15-inch models. The 15-inch…
Intel’s SGX coughs up crypto keys when scientists tweak CPU voltage
To counter the growing sophistication of computer attacks, Intel and other chip makers have built digital vaults into CPUs to segregate sensitive computations and secrets from the main engine computers use. Now, scientists have devised an attack that causes the Software Guard Extensions—Intel's implementation of this secure CPU environment to divulge cryptographic keys and induce…
Intel desires back in the tablet area with its brand-new Tremont...
Microsoft Intel is unveiling its new "Tremont" line of ultra-low-power 10nm CPUs today at the Linley microprocessor conference in Santa Clara. Intel's presentation on the new line says that usage will "span client, IoT, and datacenter products." It's a little too early for a laundry list of the actual devices that will be powered by…
Intel’s 10th-generation H-series laptop CPUs break 5GHz
The immediate takeaway on 10th-gen Comet Lake H-series: 45W TDP, four/six/eight cores with hyperthreading, very high turbo clockrates. Intel Corporation You'll definitely want to pay attention to the asterisk at the end of "fastest mobile processor." It's referring to turbo clock speed, not necessarily overall performance. Intel Corporation Intel is leaning very heavily on the…
AMD: No delays for PS5, Xbox Series X, Zen 3 CPUs,...
Enlarge / This slide is a year old, but AMD CEO Lisa Su says it's still accurate—Zen 3, Big Navi, and next-gen console CPUs will all arrive on schedule later this year. During AMD's second-quarter earnings call, CEO Lisa Su said that all of the company's upcoming 2020 product launches are still on schedule—meaning Zen…
Intel’s 10th generation desktop CPUs have arrived—still on 14nm
Enlarge / What if Comet Lake, but longer? This wafer litho image gives us a bird's eye view of the layout of one of the Comet Lake S-series CPUs, featuring two more cores than prior generations.Intel Corporation So far, 2020 is a tough year for Intel CPU fans—in both senses of the word. The newest…
Plundering of crypto keys from ultrasecure SGX sends Intel scrambling again
For the past two years, modern CPUs—particularly those made by Intel—have been under siege by an unending series of attacks that make it possible for highly skilled attackers to pluck passwords, encryption keys, and other secrets out of silicon-resident memory. On Tuesday, two separate academic teams disclosed two new and distinctive exploits that pierce Intel’s…
Intel 11th-generation Rocket Lake-S gaming CPUs did not impress us
Enlarge / Our test rig is a little more unlovely than usual, due to Asus' decision to entomb the CPU socket in surrounding high-rise heatsinks, with the system's RAM closing in just as tightly from the bottom. (Note the empty pair of DIMM slots.)Jim Salter Today marks the start of retail availability for Intel's 2021…
Windows 10 machines running on ARM will be able to emulate...
The Surface Pro X with optional Slim Pen and keyboard. Storage for the pen lies within the keyboard, which charges the pen wirelessly. It's a slightly thinner device than the Surface Pro 7 by a little over a millimeter. The Surface Pro X keyboard and pen are sold separately. Windows laptops and convertibles running ARM…