Year: 2024
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Stopgap Intel Lunar Lake Boosts CPU, GPU, and NPU (AI) Performance
Intel’s Lunar Lake delivers NPU gains and a new CPU architecture for select laptops. Faster AI performance and TSMC fabrication mitigates competitive and manufacturing risk, but expensive packaging risks profitability amid rising competition.
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AMD Announces Zen 5 Products and an MI300 Upgrade at Computex 2024
AMD advances AI performance in data centers and laptops, while the company discloses new Epyc and Ryzen server, desktop, and laptop processors employing the Zen 5 CPU as it races to stay ahead of competitors Intel and Qualcomm.
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Arm Cortex-X925 Boosts Vectors, Cortex-A725 Raises Efficiency
A few big microarchitecture changes and a lot of small ones lie behind Arm’s performance and efficiency claims for the Cortex-X925 and Cortex-A725 CPUs.
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Hard Macros Are Back in Town Thanks to the Arm Client CSS
Alongside the new Cortex-X925 and Cortex-A725 CPUs and Immortalis-G925 GPU, Arm has unveiled client CSS, predesigned chip blocks for peak performance, power and area. However, Arm must clarify the CSS’s target market and the CPUs’ and GPU’s performance gains.
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AmpereOne Adds Cores as Ampere Toys with Two-Edged Swords
Ampere has announced a new 256-core, 3 nm AmpereOne processor and an AI collaboration with Qualcomm. Ampere’s efficiency focus may not be enough against competitors and for cloud giants building their own chips. Arm’s ascendancy in computing suggests Ampere consider a niche beyond data centers.
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1Q24 Processor Market: Four Billion is Not Enough
On the back of rising Epyc sales and a strengthening MI300 outlook, AMD is gaining data-center share on Intel. The PC-market recovery continues, while the embedded-market recovery should be underway in Q3.