Threadripper 9000 CPUs spotted with 16 to 96 Zen 5 cores — Shimada Peak expected to max out at 350W
The upcoming Threadripper 9000 series, codenamed Shimada Peak, has leaked yet again through shipping manifest data (via @Olrak29_ on X). A different shipping manifest outed the Zen 5-powered high-end desktop CPUs in significant detail back in August. The latest manifest reveals a couple of previously unknown points about the soon-to-be-released CPUs.
Intel announces Arrow Lake fix coming within a month — Robert Hallock confirms poor gaming performance is due to optimization issues
Intel's Robert Hallock has confirmed that Intel's Core Ultra 200S series launch did not go as planned. In a live stream with HotHardware on YouTube, Hallock revealed that optimization issues with the Arrow Lake platform were the primary cause of degradation in gaming (versus Intel's previous-gen Raptor Lake chips).
CUDIMMs overclocked to DDR5-12108 to set new RAM OC world record — Intel’s new Arrow Lake CPUs catapult CUDIMMs past the DDR5-12000 barrier
Kovan Yang, an extreme overclocker, has just achieved the world record for fastest RAM with the Kingston Fury Renegade DDR5 CUDIMM and an MSI MEG Z890 Unify-X motherboard running an Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF processor. According to a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Kingston, the record achieved transfer speeds for DDR5-12,108.
AMD’s dense Zen 4c cores go embedded — new EPYC Embedded 8004 series CPUs for compact and efficiency focused servers
AMD has officially launched a new wave of EPYC processors aimed at embedded systems. The EPYC Embedded 8004 series features AMD's density-optimized Zen 4c cores, with core counts ranging from 12 to 64 cores. The 8004 series is available in 1P configurations, with support for up to 1.152TB of DDR5 memory via six memory channels, and TDP's ranging from 70W to 225W.
Intel’s entire turnaround plan hinges on this one new chip family – Clearwater Forest pictured, Intel’s first 18A chip slated for high-volume manufacturing
Forget Lunar Lake; If there's one chip family that serves as the lynchpin for Intel’s entire turnaround plan, it's this – the company’s coming Clearwater Forest Xeon that it revealed for the first time at a recent event. The chip family is exceedingly important because this is the first high-volume chip to be fabbed on the Intel 18A process node, a node so critical that Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has said he has bet the entire company on it.
Rambus announces HBM4 memory controller for AI GPUs — controller enables up to of 2.56 TB/s per HBM4 memory stack across a 2048-bit memory bus
Although JEDEC still needs to finalize the HBM4 specification, the industry seems to need the new memory technology as soon as possible, as demand for high-performance GPUs for AI is insatiable. To enable chip designers to build next-generation GPUs, Rambus has unveiled the industry's HBM4 memory controller IP, which surpasses the capabilities of HBM4 announced to date.
AMD Threadripper 9000 “Shimada Peak” CPU surfaces in shipping manifest — next-gen Zen 5 HEDT chip sports 96 cores and 192 threads
NBD shipping manifests for AMD's Zen 5 Threadripper CPUs, codenamed "Shimada Peak" and most likely corresponding to a Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series, have been spotted as of the earliest hours of this morning/latest hours of last night.
Intel 18A Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest CPUs are booting — steady progress toward the next-gen lithography node
On Tuesday, Intel provided an update on the progress of its 18A (1.8nm-class) fabrication process, a crucial technology for its foundry initiative. By now, the company has a process design kit (PDK) version 1.0 ready, so its third-party customers can start (or even finalize) the development of chips in this manufacturing process. Furthermore, two essential Intel products using this production node have powered on, which is a good sign.
Gigabyte twists its RAM slots to fit 24TB of DDR5 sticks into a standard server — AMD EPYC sports an impossible 48 DIMMs in new configs
Computex 2024 was a massive expo, and as such, it had some hidden delights that we didn't manage to spot for ourselves. For example, the Gigabyte R283-ZK0: This server motherboard has done the seemingly impossible and fits 48 DDR5 memory slots inside a standard 2U server form factor.
Ryzen AI 7 Pro 160 bests previous-gen Ryzen 9 — chip hits Geekbench with three Zen 5 and five Zen 5c cores
AMD's two new Ryzen AI 9 HX 300 processors are the only Zen 5-based mobile chips on the market so far. But that could change soon; Benchleaks on X (Twitter) has discovered the first non-Ryzen 9 AI-series CPU from AMD in the Geekbench browser, featuring the Ryzen AI 7 Pro 160 with just eight Zen 5/Zen5c cores.
