Poor Intel. Last year was pretty rough for the 55-year-old semiconductor firm, as it accrued just $54.2 billion in revenue, 14% less than the year before. After paying… Continue reading
Tag: Chip
As if it didn’t dominate the AI market already, Nvidia is gearing up to go after the custom AI chip market
Just in case you weren’t already aware, AI is big business. Nvidia dominates the red hot AI market, with the company now valued at over 1.7 trillion dollars,… Continue reading
An old AMD Athlon K7 Easter egg has a revolver and map of Texas etched onto the chip. They don’t make em like that anymore, eh?
When AMD’s Athlon K7 CPU was launched way back in 1999, it turned out to be something of an Intel-killer, smashing the heavyweight’s Pentium III CPU. Now it… Continue reading
Google says per-transistor chip costs stopped getting cheaper 10 years ago, but how is that right?
GPU prices remain painful. On that we can all agree. But can it really be correct that the per-transitor cost of chips hasn’t budged in a decade? So… Continue reading
China’s AI chip industry shows signs of strain as two key players look like they might be in trouble
As US chip export sanctions continue to be enforced, there are signs that the Chinese AI chip industry may be feeling the strain. Two of the country’s leading… Continue reading
Intel CEO bullish about chip roadmap and confirms Arrow Lake CPUs for this year as share price plummets 12%
As we write these words, Intel’s share price has dipped by over 12% today following the company’s latest financial results. However, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is conspicuously bullish… Continue reading
TSMC’s upcoming 2nm chip tech could make for incredibly fast but painfully pricey graphics cards
Good news. TSMC has a pair of 2nm fabs under construction and expects to start banging out chips made on the new node in volume next year. That’s… Continue reading
‘I think this is a 10-year gap’ – Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says China is majorly behind in chip manufacturing thanks to export restrictions and looks to stay that way for the foreseeable future
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sat down for a conversation with the founder of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab at the 2024 WEF annual meeting in Switzerland on… Continue reading
AMD has kicked off 2024 for its Radeon line-up of graphics cards with the RX 7600 XT, sporting 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM and minor boosts to the GPU’s… Continue reading
Intel’s new Core UItra laptops are here and beating my favourite AMD chip, in its own official benchmarks
Intel has taken the wraps off its new Meteor Lake-based Core Ultra laptop CPUs, and it’s aiming these low-power chips squarely at my favourite AMD chip of all… Continue reading