April 5, 2024

AMD claims LLMs run up to 79% faster on Ryzen 8040 CPUs compared to Intel’s newest Core Ultra chips

AMD reports that its older Ryzen mobile 7040 Phoenix and Ryzen mobile 8040 series processors outperform Intel’s Core Ultra Meteor Lake CPUs by up to 79% in various large language models (LLMs). The CPU manufacturer unveiled a plethora of benchmarks against Intel’s Core Ultra 7 155H CPU compared to the Ryzen 7 8740U. Both chips sport hardware-based Neural Processing Units (NPUs).
March 22, 2024

Micron shows massive 256GB DDR5-8800 memory sticks — High-capacity double-height 20-watt MCRDIMM modules come in different flavors

Micron demonstrated its massive 256 GB MCR DIMM memory modules this week at the Nvidia-hosted GPU Technology Conference (GTC). These modules are designed for next-generation servers, including those running Intel's Xeon Scalable 'Granite Rapids' processors.
March 8, 2024

MSI details how to make your Intel CPU run cooler without losing performance — recommends disabling CEP

MSI has released new firmware for Intel 600- and 700-series motherboards, which allows you to turn off the CEP (Current Excursion Protection) function. According to the vendor's findings, disabling CEP can make your Intel 14th Generation Raptor Lake Refresh non-K processor run cooler without compromising performance.
February 22, 2024

Arm unveils next-gen Neoverse CPU cores and compute subsystems — hoping to entice more custom silicon customers

Arm on Wednesday announced its next-generation general-purpose CPU cores for datacenter processors. The new Neoverse V3, Neoverse N3, and Neoverse E3 CPU cores are aimed at high-performance computing (HPC), general-purpose CPU instances and infrastructure applications, and edge computing and low-power applications, respectively.