AMD unveils Threadripper 7000: up to 96 cores on a new platform
AMD has unveiled a new series of Threadripper chips. For the first time since the beginning 2020, the company is launching these giant workstation CPUs for consumers as well as professionals. Like the earlier Ryzen 7000 series, Threadripper has made the switch to DDR5 memory and PCI-Express 5.0. Th... Read more
Samsung aims to capitalize on AI hype with giant DDR5 modules
Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed 32-gigabit DDR5 memory on the 12 nanometer process for the first time. This will allow memory modules to house up to 1TB, which should make the chips ideal for AI workloads.
Developments are moving quite fast at Samsung Electronics' devel... Read more
Supermicro unveils Intel Sapphire Rapids-based X13 server portfolio
Supermicro unveiled a comprehensive portfolio of storage systems and servers based on 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, also known as Sapphire Rapids.
Supermicro presented an Intel Xeon Scalable-based portfolio of servers and storage systems. The portfolio was dubbed X13 and includes serve... Read more
Dell launches new version of XPS Desktop
Dell is launching a new version of its high-end desktop series XPS Desktop. Multiple versions of the updated design will become available sometime in the next few weeks.
The versions contain varying components. Intel CPUs (up to i9-12900K), Nvidia Geforce RTX GPUs (up to 3090) and AMD Radeon RX ... Read more
12th Gen Intel Core processors now available: DDR5, PCIe 5 and more
The first six processors of Intel Core's 12th generation are available. Here's what's changed.
Intel is kickstarting the 12th Gen -- which is eventually to include 60 processors -- with six new designs. For the first time, the processors distribute workloads simultaneously across a combination o... Read more
Samsung unveils an industry-first DRAM module based on the CXL interface
Samsung has unveiled a new DRAM module it made, based on the CXL (Compute Express Link) interface. The company is touting this as an industry-first. The CXL-based DDR5 memory module is presented in the EDSFF form factor and will be used in server systems to scale bandwidth and memory capacity by a ... Read more
Samsung builds 512GB DDR5 RAM stick
Samsung Electronics has announced that it has made a 512GB memory bank. It is the first memory bank the company has made based on the upcoming DDR5 standard.
To build the RAM stick, Samsung stacked eight layers of 16Gbit-DRAM on top of each other, the company says in a press release. In total, t... Read more