According to the FAD 2020 at AMD on march 6th,
it seems as if AMD has big strategies for the future.
One of them being the next step in CPU production
using 5nm technology and chiplet stacking.

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It seems as if Intel still is in need of 14nm fab capacity
and thus has reopened it’s 14nm chip fab in Costa Rica
where also the Pentium III had been fabbed years ago.
However it’s unclear why Intel doesen’t focus on 7nm.

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It seems as if Intel’s domain is crumbling as well.
Cloudflare is replacing their servers with AMD-based
systems that have EPYC 7642 processors inside. These
are 48-core server processors clocked at 2.3GHz base.

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It seems as if Intel has finally noticed that keeping
the prices for their processors artificially high for
more profit is cotraproductive especially with AMD
being in pole position even with server CPUs!

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No good times for Intel at the moment. AMD still going
to take the lead in desktop processors while the 3990X
is going to invade Intel’s server and workstation market.
And now there’s a production shortage just ahead.

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As AMD has already announced the Ryzen
Threadripper 3990X, a 64core beast that has
a lot of power inside and will definitely change
the CPU market, Intel has a counterattack.

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USB4 is on the road and has just been presented at
the CES. While USB3.1 Gen2 is limited to 10Gbps,
USB4 starts at 20Gbps and will also have 40Gbps.
Thunderbolt 4 will be USB4 but with all features.

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Intel seems to fear the next-gen Ryzen series so
that they bring a new CPU lineup with higher
clock speeds. Also the TDP has been raised for some
types in order to achieve new top clock speeds.

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Well… when the sum is 60.000 Euros
(or 52.000 US$ in the USA), one would
think of an either exclusive PC with an
even more exclusive case.

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Intel has recently shown a close-shot of their EMIB,
a part of processor-interconnection between multiple
dies. A tiny little pice of circuit plate, but important!
Hence EMIB = Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge

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The fight between AMD and Intel is still ongoing
and it seems as if Intel can’t reach AMD with it’s
newest Ryzen processors. This time it’s the 3950X
against Intels flagship, the i9 10980XE Cascade lake.

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AMD Ryzen strikes again! The 3950X with it’s 749US$ price tag
has no problem beating the Core i9 9980X with it’s 2000US$ price
tag. Although the 9980X has 2 cores more, it seems as if the AMD
processor is more efficient when it comes to performance.

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Just a few days when ASUS has presented their new
Zenbook lineup, intel has shown also a very interesting
concept of a dual-display notebook. Some videos show
how a Gaming notebook could look like!

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And NO we’re not talking about an Apple product
today eventhough Apple had some updates on their
MacBook Pro lineup (which relates to the newest
intel CPU). Today this is all about ASUS!

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AMD and it’s Ryzen 3000 processors are highly
anticipated. The main reason is Intel’s high price
policy. The first benchmarks of the Ryzen 3000
processor family have leaked and they look good!

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Intel has no luck when it comes to security issues
with it’s processors. Zombieload is another security
issue that allows reading data from inside the processor
memory (L2/L3) and even the execution pipe.

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When it comes to LTE Advanced, so called 5G, Samsung
already has released their first smartphone to do so. 5G
is already launched in some countries already for usage.
But what phone should you buy now? Hard to say…

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Well just few days ago, one would have thought, it’s the final
showdown between Apple and Qualcomm especially with
Apple having four more chip manufacturers at hand who also
stated that Qualcomm’s practices about license fees aren’t ok!

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Intel has revealed a new NIC that might open 100GbE network
speed to end users. Although it’s doubtable that one would
pay 1500 US$ and more for a NIC just to have 100GbE in his
machine, it’s obvious where network speeds head to.

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It seems as if Qualcomm tries to squeeze out
money from Apple wherever possible. Their
newest lawsuit case is about 31 million US$
for three patent infringements.

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The fight “Qualcomm vs. Apple” goes to the next round.
As FTC yesterday stated, the evidence against Qualcomm
is overwhelming yet hasty conclusions are not to be made!
The case to be fully analyzed will definitely take some time!

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The CES has opened it’s gates and all major brands are
presenting their newest products. So have Lenovo, LG
and MSI shown their newest 17-inch-notebooks that
are also capable of high-quality gaming.

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Spectre strikes again! It seems as if Intel has no time to
rest. Has Spectre V1 been digested halfway, there’s some
new competitor hitting the floor: SplitSpectre! While the
decessor requires time-critical timing for attacks, the new…

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When we wrote about AMD releasing it’s EPYC Rome Multicore
processor for High-End servers, it is also known that AMD will fab
them at 7nm. What about Intel? There are rumors that a new 10C
processor for mobiles will hit the stores (Comet Lake).

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AMD’s next-gen EPYC processors have been revealed in
SiSoft Sandra’s benchmark tool and what is show is quite
promising: 64 cores on 8 dies with each 1.4GHz speed and
a total of 16MB L3 cache are a real number.

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With AMD having shown the Threadripper 32core
monster Intel has now released information about
it’s next-generation Advanced Performance server
CPUs. Designed for dual-socket motherboards…

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For quite some time the i9-7960XE with a
whopping price tag of 1500 US$ was the king for
High-End gaming rigs. AMD has the Ryzen family
as counterpart. So what’s the new CPU about?

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Well, it seems as if Intel faces new challenges. As of yesterday
Apple has announced that it won’t use Intel’s 5G modems in
it’s Apple product portfolio in 2020. So Intel is now reducing
production capacity significantly as other brands do not…

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Just few days after AMD has announced the release of
the new Threadripper beast, Intel seems to answer that
by unveiling first specs of the new upcoming i9 flagship.
With 8 cores/16 threads it is said to be as fast as the…

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AMD and Intel are on the racetrack again. Who will
offer the fastest CPU for the fairest price out there?
It seems as if AMD is tackling Intel once more by
releasing a new beast to the public in near future…

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The times of cheap RAM seem to be over, as memory manufacturers have set
their priorities to manufacture memory products for mobile devices.
Therefore, manufacturers of otebooks like ASUS and Acer are already
complaining about higher memory prices.

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When it comes to hardware for computers, the first questions are: How
much dough to spend and what will I get for it. Now it is true that there are
many hardware testing magazines online which take time to analyze the new
hardware parts for you upon suitability for your project.

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