Intel continues to turn the clock and technology wheel as if electricity were free and complexity a feature. Nova Lake-S heralds a platform change which, in the best Blue Team tradition, presents itself as a wild jumble of lanes, standards, formats and – yes – big numbers. The most important number first: Native DDR5-8000 support [...]
On June 12, 2025, AMD presented its current technology roadmap for professional computing platforms at an international trade event. The focus was on new solutions for high-end workstations, AI infrastructure and the further development of the open software platform ROCm. The company presented its next generation of EPYC processors, Radeon [...]
Some of you may have already noticed that several motherboard manufacturers have recently released a new BIOS update for their AM5 motherboards. This is called AGESA 1.2.0.3e. The update apparently adds support for a new AMD CPU, which may be of interest to some users. This is the Ryzen 7 9700F. Technically, this processor should hardly differ [...]
Since the market launch of the Core Ultra platform, I have consistently kept my entire test system in the then frozen configuration and also created a bit-identical SSD image to ensure later comparisons under identical starting conditions. For this retest, it was therefore sufficient to simply update the mainboard UEFI to the latest revision [...]
Sometimes you don’t need a new architecture, you just need common sense – or as AMD calls it: a “balanced platform”. Sounds like yoga for servers, but in reality it’s the bitter realization that a high-end GPU like the MI300X runs as efficiently in a weak CPU setup as a Formula 1 engine in a shopping cart. Welcome to [...]
While Intel continues to desperately try to reinvent itself and AMD loses itself in Zen fever, a new player is on the horizon – with a sledgehammer of ARM cores. NVIDIA, known for its GPU power and recently also as an AI evangelist, is entering the race with the N1X, a processor that has not been officially unveiled but has already left its [...]
When Intel speaks out, people in Santa Clara have been listening a little more quietly recently – but this time the echo is louder than usual. With the announcement that Diamond Rapids and Clearwater Forest will be launched in 2026, the company wants to return to the data center throne. A pious wish? Perhaps. A serious attack? Probably. A [...]
When a name like “Medusa Ridge” sneaks into software like AIDA64, it’s not a typo or a marketing test balloon, but a harbinger. Beta version 7.99.7801 of the popular monitoring tool has included AMD’s upcoming Zen 6 processors. This is more than just an update – it’s an unofficial confirmation that AMD’s [...]
Sometimes a step backwards is the first step on the offensive – this is how Intel’s latest move in the CPU roadmap can be described. While Bartlett Lake-S still looks like a relic from the pre-Alpine P-Core era, Nova Lake reveals a completely new ambition: Intel not only wants to reclaim the high-performance terrain, but also to shake [...]
While Intel remains conspicuously silent on the future of its dedicated graphics card division, there are the first concrete indications of the company’s next GPU generation in the Linux environment. As can be seen from a recent commit in the Mesa graphics library, Intel has added four new entries with the code name “Battlemage” [...]
With the introduction of the new Xeon 6 P-Core processors from the “Granite Rapids” family for the NVIDIA DGX B300 platform, Intel is attempting to provide the right CPU support for the increasingly GPU-centric AI systems. The focus here is less on traditional computing and more on the task of efficiently feeding data-hungry [...]
While Intel continues to struggle with its own structural and product-related challenges, AMD presents solid figures for the first quarter of 2025. The server segment in particular is developing into a mainstay: with a 39.4% share of sales, AMD has reached its highest level to date according to the latest figures from Mercury Research. At the same [...]
A new report by YouTuber “Tech Yes City” is causing unrest in the AMD community. The focus is on the SoC voltage of Ryzen 9000 processors on ASRock mainboards. This is said to fluctuate unusually strongly during operation – a phenomenon that, in the worst case, apparently has a negative physical impact on the service life of the [...]
The rumor mill is churning, and this time the focus is on AMD. According to several leaks – including from well-known hardware informant Jukanlosreve – the previously purely x86-based manufacturer is working on a new SoC project called “Sound Wave”. The special feature: These are ARM-based APUs that are to be used in [...]
While the first Turin processors with Zen 5 cores are still finding their way into server rooms, reliable details about the next EPYC generation “Venice” are already emerging – and they are quite something. AMD does not seem to be satisfied with a mere evolution: Zen 6 and Zen 6C are waiting in the wings, bringing massive [...]
Signs and wonders are still happening – at least at Intel, where they have actually managed to win Microsoft as an anchor customer for the 18A process. Whether this is the much-cited “iPhone moment” for the foundry division or simply the least of the evils for a fully utilized market remains to be seen. One thing is certain: If [...]
The chapter “Samsung Foundry as a beacon of hope for AMD” seems to have closed faster than expected. According to the latest leaks from AMD, the 4 nm process (SF4X) of all things, which was seen as the Korean company’s technological beacon of hope in the high-performance segment, is apparently being abandoned – in favor of [...]
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) seems to have struck a nerve in the industry once again with its upcoming 2 nm production line. Even before mass production of the so-called N2 processes has taken off, demand is apparently exceeding that of previous generations – including the much-praised 3 nm node (N3), which currently [...]
AMD is obviously not bored at the moment, as the leaks of the last few days cast a thick shadow over the roadmap for the coming six months. Apparently they are planning several CPU families – for notebooks, desktops, workstations and servers – based on Zen 5 and even the first Zen 6 offshoots. Names such as Gorgon Point, Soundwave [...]
When Intel launches a new mobile platform, people sit up and take notice – not because of the variety of products, but because of their absence. In the case of Panther Lake, Santa Clara seems to have opted for a particularly streamlined approach: a single SKU for the fourth quarter of 2025. Everything else will come sometime in 2026. Maybe [...]
