14nm
Samsung outlined its foundry business roadmap for the next five years at its Foundry Forum event last week. The company plans to introduce its next generation fabrication technologies in a timely manner and intends to make chips on its 1.4 nm (14 angstroms) manufacturing process by 2027. Also, the company will keep investing in new manufacturing capacity going forward as it strives to strengthen its position in the foundry market. New Nodes Incoming Samsung has been introducing new production nodes and/or variants on production nodes every 12 – 18 months for several years now, and plans to keep its rather aggressive pace going forward. Though the company’s roadmap illustrates, fanfare aside, that it is now taking longer to develop new fabrication processes. The company’s second-generation 3...
Intel Launches New Pentium Silver and Celeron Atom Processors: Gemini Lake is Here
Intel on Monday introduced its next-generation Pentium Silver and Celeron platform and processors. These processors are under the codename 'Gemini Lake' and are focused on low-power platforms for inexpensive...
57 by Anton Shilov on 12/12/2017Intel to Use Additional Assembly & Test Factory to Improve Supply of Coffee Lake CPUs
In a mildly interesting bit of news for a Friday, Intel has notified its customers that it will use an additional assembly and test facility in a bid to...
32 by Anton Shilov on 11/17/2017The AnandTech Coffee Lake Review: Initial Numbers on the Core i7-8700K and Core i5-8400
It has been ten years since Intel introduced quad-core processors into its mainstream product range. It was expected that six-core parts would hit the segment a few years after...
222 by Ian Cutress on 10/5/2017Samsung Details 11LPP Process Technology: 10 nm BEOL Meets 14 nm Elements
Samsung has added a new manufacturing technology into its roadmap. The 11LPP fabrication process is designed for mainstream and higher-end smartphone SoCs. The technology will come online next year...
23 by Anton Shilov on 9/29/2017Intel Provides Partners Preliminary 8th Gen Desktop Details: Core i7-8700K to Core i3-8100
At a closed-session partner in China, Intel revealed a number of preliminary details about its upcoming 8th generation Core processors for desktops. As expected, Intel is telling its business...
56 by Anton Shilov on 8/18/2017Spreadtrum SC9861G-IA: An Intel Atom Octocore Smartphone SoC on 14nm with LTE
Last year Intel decided to cease development of its smartphone SoCs and focus instead on microprocessors for other devices, as well as LTE, 5G modems, as well as various...
47 by Anton Shilov on 3/15/2017Desktop Kaby Lake-S i7/i5 Lineup and 200-Series Chipsets Leaked
Intel has already started to sell low-power dual-core Core i5/i7 Kaby Lake microprocessors for notebooks, but desktop parts with four cores and high frequencies are due in early 2017...
72 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 10/31/2016NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 1050 Ti & GTX 1050: Entry-Level Cards Launching October 25th
After a break of a couple of months in their Pascal launch schedule, NVIDIA is back again to launch a new Pascal desktop product. Following their near-perfect top-down launch...
93 by Ryan Smith on 10/18/2016Intel Announces 7th Gen Kaby Lake: 14nm PLUS, Six Notebook SKUs, Desktop coming in January
When Intel first announced the shift from the dual-stage ‘Tick-Tock’ methodology that had driven their core CPU design teams for over a decade into the three-way ‘Process, Architecture, Optimization&rsquo...
131 by Ganesh T S & Ian Cutress on 8/30/2016More Details on Broxton: Quad Core, ECC, Up to 18 EUs of Gen9
An interesting talk regarding the IoT aspects of Intel’s Next Generation Atom Core, Goldmont, and the Broxton SoCs for the market offered a good chunk of information regarding the...
21 by Ian Cutress on 8/18/2016Spot The Denverton: Atom C3000 Silicon On Display
There are a few news items from Computex we didn’t cover at the time that I want to visit. The first is Denverton, and how one manufacturer had a...
25 by Ian Cutress on 7/15/2016AMD Teases Radeon RX 480: Launching June 29th For $199
Kicking off at this moment is AMD’s Computex 2016 keynote. The company has multiple announcements scheduled this evening, but we’re going to jump right into an area that has...
377 by Ryan Smith on 5/31/2016The Intel Broadwell-E Review: Core i7-6950X, i7-6900K, i7-6850K and i7-6800K Tested
What would you do with more CPU cores? This is a question I see posted from an Intel employee on a yearly basis, and it actually is a difficult...
207 by Ian Cutress on 5/31/2016Price Check May 2016: The Intel Core i7-6700K Is Finally Available at Its MSRP
Nine months. This is how long it has taken the retail price of Intel’s Core i7-6700K processor to drop to the level recommended by Intel. Despite slow sales of...
37 by Anton Shilov on 5/20/2016Intel Adds Crystal Well-based Skylake-R Processors: 65W with 128MB eDRAM
Intel has added three new microprocessors for embedded and highly-integrated applications into its lineup. The new CPUs are based on the Skylake microarchitecture and feature high-performance integrated graphics cores...
67 by Anton Shilov on 5/2/2016Intel's Changing Future: Smartphone SoCs Broxton & SoFIA Officially Cancelled
The past two weeks have been a busy – if not tumultuous – period for Intel. After announcing a new company strategy focusing on high growth markets, and company-wide...
157 by Ryan Smith & Ian Cutress on 4/29/2016Samsung Foundry Updates: 7nm EUV, 10LPP, and 14LPC
Earlier this week, Samsung announced a number of updates on the foundry side of their business. While process technology might not be necessarily as interesting as the actual end...
54 by Joshua Ho on 4/22/2016Price Check: Prices of Unlocked Intel Core i7-6700K, i5-6600K Continue to Drop
When Intel first introduced its high-end Skylake-S CPUs with unlocked multiplier about half a year ago, it was not easy to get them and for a long time the...
49 by Anton Shilov on 3/29/2016Intel Quietly Speeds Up Skylake-U: i7-6660U now in Price List
Intel has quietly added a new Skylake-U processor into its price list. The new Intel Core i7-6660U system-on-chip is designed for low-power notebook systems and provides higher performance than...
27 by Anton Shilov on 3/24/2016Intel’s ‘Tick-Tock’ Seemingly Dead, Becomes ‘Process-Architecture-Optimization’
As reported at The Motley Fool, Intel’s latest 10-K / annual report filing would seem to suggest that the ‘Tick-Tock’ strategy of introducing a new lithographic process note in...
98 by Ian Cutress on 3/22/2016