AMD’s Epyc has lots of connections
If you want bandwidth, your CPU has arrived
One of the most interesting aspects of AMD’s Epyc architecture is the interconnect network.
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AMD’s Epyc is a major advance in security
One BIOS switch to encrypted memory
AMD’s Zen core has been revealed in detail but with Epyc the company added a few juicy details.
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AMD Launches its Radeon Instinct Server Accelerators
Black and yellow make a comeback…
Starting in Q3 AMD’s Radeon Instinct line of server accelerators will be available to AMD’s OEM partners.
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A Look at AMD’s EPYC Line-up
Interesting SKUs on the top and bottom…
In this article we’ll be looking at the different SKUs in this product stack and thinking about how they fit into server market.
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AMD Details EPYC’s Power Efficiency
The TDPs aren’t the whole story…
The outcome of all these different power management capabilities and tactics is an EPYC chip that AMD believes can offer between 50 percent and 75 better performance per watt than similarly performing parts from Intel.
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Intel’s Skylake-X and Kabylake-X Meet Our Scale
Was it worth the weight?
SemiAccurate stands tall at the forefront of reviewing innovation in the never ending quest to bring our subscribers content that they can’t get anywhere else.
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MIPS for Self-Driving Cars with the I6500-F CPU
Imagine MIPS cores in robot cars…
Built on a 7nm FinFET process the I6500-F CPU IP will be at the core of Mobileye’s next-generation EyeQ5 system-on-chip aimed at self-driving applications.
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Intel talks about Skylake’s mesh interconnect
After rings come meshes and then, well, good question
Intel’s ring bus had a good eight year run but it all comes to an end with Skylake-EP’s mesh interconnect.
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AMD’s Ryzen ThreadRipper brings in Socket TR4 and the X399 Chipset
Computex 2017: AMD out maneuvers Intel in the HEDT space…
Once again Intel’s mindless up-selling strategy has given AMD a very valuable window of opportunity to exploit.
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Intel announces X-Series and more without details
Computex 2017: Marketing over everything esle
Intel took the information-free presentation to new lows at Computex with a long but empty keynote.
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AMD talks Threadripper, Ryzen Mobile, and Ryzen Pro
FAD 2017: No details but a lot of headlines
Not content to talk datacenter, AMD announced a bunch of new client offerings during Analyst Day.
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AMD calls Naples Epyc during Analyst Day
Lets look at the datacenter for the moment
AMD launched a bunch of code names, Epyc, Threadripper, Vega, and more with scant details.
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AMD’s Details its EPYC Server Ambitions
Making Zen into an epic server chip…
Yesterday at AMD’s 2017 Financial Analyst Day the company outlined its plan to reenter the high-performance x86 server market. AMD’s first “Zen”-based server chip codenamed “Naples” will be coming to market branded as AMD Epyc.
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Intel’s new Scalable Xeon branding is just a price increase
How to publicly justify jacking your biggest customers
Intel’s new Xeon branding is nothing more than an unprecedented price hike on large customers.
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Are consumer PCs safe from the Intel ME/AMT exploit?
Analysis: Here are SemiAccurate’s thoughts
Yesterday SemiAccurate brought you news of a critical remote exploit in all 2008+ Intel CPU’s.
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