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AMD’s massive SP7 socket for EPYC Venice and Intel’s gargantuan 9,324-pin socket for Diamond Rapids appear at Computex
By Anton Shilov Published
Premium Next-generation data center processors from AMD and Intel with 16 DDR5 memory channels are even bigger than today’s designs.

AMD takes over MEXT for memory tiering tech that enables flash to appear as DRAM to applications
By Anton Shilov Published
AMD acquires MEXT to get Predictive Memory Engine that offloads infrequently accessed data from DRAM to NAND storage.

Intel's upcoming Raptor Lake Next will reportedly top out at 20 cores and retain Core 200 branding
By Hassam Nasir Published
Intel's Raptor Lake family might be coming back for a third time and sit alongside Nova Lake on shelves as the budget-oriented offering from the company.

Intel reportedly preparing surprise return to DDR4 systems with 'Raptor Lake Next'
By Jake Roach Published
The name came up a few times during our conversations at Computex. Intel has declined to comment on it.

Nvidia preps to sell its Vera CPUs into China as its GPU sales stay frozen
By Luke James Published
Nvidia has told Chinese clients that its Arm-based Vera server CPUs could be available as soon as August.

AMD fires back at Nvidia, claiming 256-core Zen 6 'Venice' CPU beats Vera by 3.3x in rack-level performance
By Jake Roach Published
AMD has shared the first official results for its 256-core EPYC Venice CPU, saying it beats Nvidia's Vera by 3.3x in a rack-level deployment.

Intel expands new game-boosting iBOT software with seven more games, up to a 27% improvement
By Jake Roach Published
Intel is expanding its performance-boosting iBOT feature with seven new games.

Intel introduced ‘the first processor in the x86 series and the first 8086 microprocessor’ on this day in 1978
By Mark Tyson Published
June 8, 1978, marked the birth of the x86 architecture with the arrival of the 16-bit Intel 8086 CPU.

Ludicrous overclock slams 1.7 volts into 6700K in an attempt to stop CPU from bottlenecking an RTX 3080 — 5.2 GHz on aging four-core pushes GPU utilization from 60% to 74%
By Aaron Klotz Published
YouTuber challenges himself to alleviate a CPU bottleneck with a Core i7-6700K paired with an RTX 3080 through overclocking.
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