The Hot Take: ARM seems to be coming along as a server chip. This one is on the Top500 list too.
Fujitsu will start selling its Monaka processors, and servers packing them, in November. The Japanese giant started talking about Monaka way back in 2023, when it teased the processor as being derived from the silicon it designed for the Fugaku supercomputer, but adapted for datacenter use. Fugaku was the worldâs most powerful supercomputer from 2020 to 2022, and remains in ninth place on the Top 500 list six years after its debut. Who wouldnât want the tech that powered that behemoth in their datacenter? Yet as The Register reported earlierâŚ
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The Hot Take: Hopefully positioning it for better competition with AMD.
Intel has reportedly changed its plans for the 12 Xe3P iGPU for its desktop lineup, moving it from Nova Lake-S to Razor Lake-S. Intel Nova Lake-S Is No Longer Getting the 12 Xe3P iGPU Treatment, Plans Shift to Razor Lake-S The Intel Nova Lake-S family will be the first to feature the next-generation Xe3P GPU architecture, which is expected to deliver some solid gains over the existing Xe3 GPUs. The integrated graphics will be an integral part of the mobile lineup, but while earlier reports hinted that we would see 12 Xe3P iGPU cores on desktopâŚ
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The Hot Take: Are we going to have a third player in the x86 market? Reminds me of the days Cyrix 686's back in the day if so. Would help push competition and Intel with an injection of licensing cash.
The mystery deepens around an x86 implementation from a corporate entity other than AMD and Intel and has been making some very intriguing changes for coming from a seeming start-up. Beyond 16 tile and 32 tile AMX implementations that already surpass Intel's current Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) capabilities in shipping Xeon CPUs, new disclosures were made today concerning Advanced Performance Extensions (APX), Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED), and even x86S as the effort that Intel previously stopped for cleaning up the x86âŚ
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The Hot Take: Will there be any DDR5 available at this speed? Because if you go to NewEgg you only see speeds up to 6400MT/s....
Intel has confirmed that its next-generation Nova Lake 12Xe mobile processor with integrated graphics supports DDR5 memory modules up to 8000MT/s CSO-DIMM speeds, according to a September 3 Weibo report from user @éçŞĺ级ĺ
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The Hot Take: Let's see if Intel comes back swinging.
The refrain in the DIY PC community has been clear for a few years now: if you're doing PC gaming, you need an AMD 3D V-Cache CPU. The degree of necessity is exaggeratedâat normal resolutions and settings, you're generally GPU-bound anywayâbut it is true that for high-framerate eSports and poorly-optimized game engines, a big last-level cache
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The Hot Take: Nice!
Intel processors have returned to Amazonâs ten best-selling desktop CPU positions after months of AMD dominance. The Core Ultra 7 270K Plus reportedly reached sixth place at around $290, while the Core i7-14700K occupied ninth.
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The Hot Take: Lets hope Intel can fully recover and start chewing back that x86 market or I fear with get pushed into ARM SoC mediocrity.
Intel seems to have staged a decisive turnaround in the second quarter of the ongoing year, with its data center revenue up a very healthy 59 percent year-over-year. Yet, Intel's inertia is still working against it, as clearly demonstrated within a new report from Mercury Research, which has tallied that Intel's share of the CPU market has fallen to levels last seen in 1995 even as AMD remains perched on an ascendant trajectory. After accounting for the fact that AMD does not count embedded CPUs it ships for networking and storage applicationsâŚ
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The Hot Take: Long enough to finish OH I'm sure of. As long as it doesn't get in the way of defense manufacturing of course.
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that Intelâs next two CPU generations could make life nastier for AMD by hogging more of TSMCâs tight 2nm capacity.
According to Jukan, Chipzilla is reportedly planning to use TSMC for parts of its Nova Lake and Razor Lake processor families. That will not cheer AMD, which already has to fight for space inside TSMCâs increasingly rammed fabs.
Intel is expected to start mass production of Nova Lake around January 2027. The chips were once expected to rely onâŚ
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The Hot Take: Bring it Intel! We need x86 competition and an eco system that isn't just SoC mid-range....
According to the latest leak, Intel's 28-core Nova Lake CPU could reach a staggering 296W at its PL2 power limit. Intel's 8+16+4 bLLC Chip Rumored to be one of the Nova Lake's Highest-End Single-Tile Designs Intel's upcoming Nova Lake-S desktop lineup appears to be one of the most aggressive ones, with power limits higher than previously expected. According to the user "Golden Pig Upgrade" (via Weibo), the Nova Lake-S CPU with a configuration of 8+16+4 will reportedly feature a PL2 (Power Limit 2) limit of 296W. This makes it potentially oneâŚ
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The Hot Take: I'm thinking in a bid to win back all the people that moved to AMD because of the issues.
Intel will launch its new core with Nova Lake on desktop first, not in the data center. Tomâs Hardware Premium recently sat down with Intel VP and general manager of the enthusiast channel business Robert Hallock and asked about his reaction to AMD launching Zen 6 first in the data center with new EPYC Venice CPUs â breaking with over a decade of AMD leading with a client release for its new architectures. Hallock opened up about Intelâs enthusiast roadmap and said the company is âvery seriousâ about executing that roadmap. Go deeper with THâŚ
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