Intel issued yet another security advisory this week, this time saying that its NUC mini PCs are vulnerable to escalation of privilege attacks. The company also released firmware patches for the mini PCs in order to mitigate the potential attacks. Researchers have found multiple vulnerabilities in NUC PCs this year. NUC owners are strongly advised to download […]
Category Archives: Hardware
Intel’s Manufacturing Roadmap from 2019 to 2029: Back Porting, 7nm, 5nm, 3nm, 2nm, and 1.4 nm
After some emailing back and forth, we can confirm that the slide that Intel’s partner ASML presented at the IEDM conference is actually an altered version of what Intel presented for the September 2019 source. ASML added animations to the slide such that the bottom row of dates correspond to specific nodes, however at the […]
Are the Radeon RX 5700 and 5700 XT ideal GPUs for your gaming PC?
In the battle of graphics cards, AMD and NVIDIA have been duking it out for space in your custom-built gaming tower. With the release of the Radeon RX 5700 and 5700 XT, AMD threw down two solid mid-range offerings showcasing its Navi architecture (now known as Radeon DNA or RDNA). Both 7-nanometer cards feature a […]
Qualcomm Snapdragon 865: Top 4 best things
Like clockwork, Qualcomm is updating its flagship chip, the one that most high-end phones will use in 2020. It’s called the Snapdragon 865, and it’s got a lot going for it, including a renewed focus on graphical performance and an enormous boost in AI processing capabilities that could (should?) make it much easier for developers to […]
AMD may be spicing up the graphics card game with the Radeon RX 5500 XT
AMD may not keep us waiting much longer for the anticipated Radeon RX 5500, which the company unveiled back in October. The new graphics card, particularly the rumored Radeon RX 5500 XT could be coming next week, according to VideoCardz. There’s still little detail on the Radeon RX 5500 XT. We know the 5500-series graphics cards will […]
AWS Designing a 32-Core Arm Neoverse N1 CPU for Cloud Servers
Amazon Web Services’s CPU design unit is working on a new multi-core processor for AWS servers. The new CPU is said to use Arm’s new Neoverse N1 architecture and would feature a considerably higher core-count when compared to AWS’s first-generation Graviton processor, which should result in a significant performance increase. The yet-to-be-named AWS CPU will […]
Weird MCM Based Intel Xeon SoMa Processors Spotted Online, House 4 Dies Per CPU
Okay, time for something spicey that has just come down the grapevine. One of our favorite twitter accounts, Momomo_US, initially posted a weird-looking processor that was hosting 4 MCM-dies. The IHS of the processor looks distinctly like that of Intel and I decided to do a bit of digging around and boy did I find a […]
Intel Tiger Lake CPU Architecture – Potential HEDT-Like 10nm Cache Rebalance Incoming
Back when Intel unveiled the Skylake microarchitecture, Intel proceeded to rebalance the cache structure of its CPUs within the HEDT lineup. According to Geekbench, a similar cache rebalancing may be coming to the upcoming 10nm Tiger Lake mobile CPUs. Intel’s Tiger Lake CPU Cache Structure Optimization – HEDT-Like 10nm Cache Rebalance Incoming Assuming Intel follows […]
T-Force Dark-Z 16GB DDR4-3600 Review: Fast, Cheap and Stable
Most of us have seen Venn diagrams where the circles don’t meet in the middle, with statement such as “Fast, Cheap, Stable” filling those circles. But what if you could have DDR4-3600 for only $15 more than competing mainstream DDR4-3200 kits? That’s what Team Group’s aims to deliver with its T-Force Dark-Z kit (model TDZGD416G3600HC18JDC01), […]
The Intel-AMD Showdown
It’s beginning to look like a really interesting market. After years of essentially one player taking all the spoils, we now have a significant second that has the technology to make a difference. The incumbent is of course Intel INTC, which just apologized to customers for continued supply constraints, despite double-digit growth in supply from […]