Hacker News with Generative AI: CPUs

Ten best selling CPUs on Amazon are all AMD chips (pcgamer.com)
AMD's desktop market share skyrockets amid Intel's Raptor Lake crashing scandal (tomshardware.com)
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache (phoronix.com)
Ahead of tomorrow's availability of the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor as the first Zen 5 CPU released with 3D V-Cache, today the review embargo lifts. Here is a look at how this 8-core / 16-thread Zen 5 CPU with 64MB of 3D V-Cache is performing under Ubuntu Linux compared to a variety of other Intel Core and AMD Ryzen desktop processors.
Apple's M4 Max is the single-core performance king in Geekbench 6 (tomshardware.com)
Fujitsu, AMD Plan to Pair Monaka CPUs with Instinct GPUs (theregister.com)
Fujitsu and AMD announced plans on Friday to develop a new, more energy-efficient AI and HPC compute platform that will pair the Japanese tech vendor's next-gen CPUs with the House of Zen's Instinct accelerators.
MikroTik and Ampere co-developing a product line with server-class CPUs (mikrotik.com)
Riga, Latvia & Santa Clara, CA, USA – MikroTik, a leading European IT manufacturer, and Ampere®️, an innovative US-based leader in Cloud Native Processors, are proud to announce a collaboration to develop a new line of products featuring state-of-the-art server-class CPUs that will push the boundaries of cost-effective, efficient, and powerful networking.
Chinese chipmaker's new 7nm CPUs reportedly outperform Intel's Raptor Lake (tomshardware.com)
RISC-V SiFive P550 CPU Demoed with AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPU in Debian Linux (tomshardware.com)
Cyrix 6x86 (wikipedia.org)
The Cyrix 6x86 is a line of sixth-generation, 32-bit x86 microprocessors designed and released by Cyrix in 1995.
Chinese chipmaker's new 7nm CPUs reportedly outperform Intel's Raptor Lake (tomshardware.com)
Chinese chipmaker's new 7nm CPUs reportedly outperform Intel's Raptor Lake (tomshardware.com)
A closer look at Intel and AMD's different approaches to gluing together CPUs (theregister.com)
Shortly after the launch of AMD's first-gen Epyc processors codenamed Naples in 2017, Intel quipped that its competitor had been reduced to gluing a bunch of desktop dies together in order to stay relevant.
RISC-V is currently slow compared to modern CPUs (benhouston3d.com)
After watching the rise of ARM displace Intel from most of my personal and server computing, I've been following the RISC-V architecture with intense interest. It's an exciting open-source ISA that has the potential to reshape the CPU landscape, but there's an important caveat: RISC-V is currently quite slow compared to modern CPUs in 2024. It is even slow compared to Raspberry PI boards.
U.S. retailers list AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs – prices range from $484 to $525 (tomshardware.com)
Former Intel engineer says Intel x86-64 was suppressed before AMD's success (tomshardware.com)
Intel, AMD CPUs on Linux impacted by newly disclosed Spectre bypass (bleepingcomputer.com)
The latest generations of Intel processors, including Xeon chips, and AMD's older microarchitectures on Linux are vulnerable to new speculative execution attacks that bypass existing ‘Spectre’ mitigations.
AMD's Turin: 5th Gen EPYC Launched (chipsandcheese.com)
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AMD pumps Epyc core count to 192, clocks up to 5 GHz with Turin debut (theregister.com)
Intel's 128-core Granite Rapids Xeons are barely two weeks old and AMD has already fired back with a family of fifth-gen Epycs that boast double-digit IPC gains with up to 192 cores or clock speeds as high as 5 GHz.
AMD EPYC Turin delivers better performance/power efficiency than AmpereOne (phoronix.com)
The AMD EPYC 9965 Turin Dense processor was delivering dominating performance in most of the HPC benchmarks tested compared to the AmpereOne A192-32X flagship ARM server processor.
AMD EPYC 9755 / 9575F / 9965 Benchmarks Show Dominating Performance Review (phoronix.com)
Last month Intel introduced their Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" processors with up to 128 P cores, MRDIMM support, and other improvements as a big step-up in performance and power efficiency for their server processors.
Who are AMD, Intel's new manycore monster CPUs for? (theregister.com)
Intel recently teased a 128-core Granite Rapids Xeon 6 processor, and your humble vulture thinks you can ignore them – indeed, ignoring them might be your safest course of action.
AMD Zen 5 Series Dominates Intel Lunar Lake for Linux Developers and Creators (phoronix.com)
Earlier this week I delivered initial Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics benchmarks on Linux while today the focus is on Lunar Lake's CPU performance.
Intel's latest flagship 128-core Xeon CPU costs $17,800 (tomshardware.com)
Intel Core 13th and 14th Gen Desktop Instability Root Cause Update (intel.com)
Following extensive investigation of the Intel® Core™ 13th and 14th Gen desktop processor Vmin Shift Instability issue, Intel can now confirm the root cause diagnosis for the issue. This post will cover Intel’s understanding of the root cause, as well as additional mitigations and next steps for Intel® Core™ 13th and 14th Gen desktop users.
Ryzen 9 9950x 16-core CPU hits 7.54 GHz (tomshardware.com)
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D to Feature 3D V-Cache on Both CCD Chiplets (techpowerup.com)
A new report by Benchlife.info claims that the higher core-count 9950X3D and 9900X3D will implement 3D V-cache on both CCD chiplets, giving these processors an impressive 192 MB of L3 cache (96 MB per CCD), and 208 MB or 204 MB of "total cache" (L2+L3).
Flow Computing aims to boost CPUs with ‘parallel processing units’ (ieee.org)
Flow Computing aims to boost central processing units with their ‘parallel processing units’
Intel preps Royal Core and Cobra Core microarchitectures for next-gen CPUs (tomshardware.com)
Microarchitectural comparison and in-core modeling of state-of-the-art CPUs (arxiv.org)
With Nvidia's release of the Grace Superchip, all three big semiconductor companies in HPC (AMD, Intel, Nvidia) are currently competing in the race for the best CPU.
AMD Plans for Open-Source Firmware OpenSIL replacing AGESA blobs for Zen 6 (phoronix.com)
Last year to much excitement in our community was the new AMD project announcement of openSIL as an open-source CPU silicon initialization project that is an advancement for open-source firmware and to eventually replace AMD's AGESA across both client and server processors.