Hacker News with Generative AI: Processors

SysBumps: Exploiting Speculative Execution in Apple Silicon (dl.acm.org)
Apple silicon is the proprietary ARM-based processor that powers the mainstream of Apple devices.

Security, Apple, Hardware, Processors

10 points by latexr 7 days ago | 0 comments

TSMC Arizona allegedly now producing AMD's Ryzen 9000 and Apple's S9 processors (tomshardware.com)

TSMC, AMD, Apple, Processors, Semiconductors

19 points by rbanffy 9 days ago | 2 comments

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D claims 20% faster gaming performance vs. Intel (tomshardware.com)

AMD, Gaming, Performance, Processors, Intel

9 points by speckx 11 days ago | 0 comments

The Alder Lake SHLX Anomaly (tavianator.com)

Hardware, Processors, Anomaly

234 points by panic 15 days ago | 74 comments

XiangShan – Open-source high performance RISC-V processor (github.com/OpenXiangShan)
XiangShan (香山) is an open-source high-performance RISC-V processor project.

RISC-V, Open Source, Processors, Hardware

270 points by gjvc 16 days ago | 98 comments

AMD Continued Ramping Up Their Linux and Open-Source Investments in 2024 (phoronix.com)
AMD's new products this year have not only been supported well on the server side with their new EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors but also on the consumer side with the Ryzen AI 300 series laptop and Ryzen 9000 series desktop Zen 5 processors.

AMD, Linux, Open Source, Processors, Hardware

29 points by freedomben 20 days ago | 1 comments

VPR: Nordic's First RISC-V Processor (danielmangum.com)
VPR (pronounced “Viper”) is Nordic Semiconductor’s first RISC-V processor, landing in the new nRF54H and nRF54L lines of SoCs after their initial announcements in April and October of 2023 respectively.

RISC-V, Hardware, Processors, Semiconductors

165 points by hasheddan 25 days ago | 40 comments

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance (phoronix.com)
One of the areas for benchmarking exploration that I had been meaning to dive into since the launch of the Intel Arrow Lake processors back in October was checking out the Microsoft Windows 11 vs. Linux performance for the new Core Ultra 9 285K flagship processor.

Performance, Linux, Intel, Processors, Operating Systems

33 points by rbanffy 29 days ago | 67 comments

Intel Abandons "X86S" Plans to Focus on the Regular x86-64 ISA Advisory Group (techpowerup.com)
Intel has announced it will not proceed with X86S, an experimental instruction set architecture that aims to simplify its processor design by removing legacy support for older 32-bit and 16-bit operating modes.

Intel, Processors, Architecture, Hardware, Industry News

4 points by ksec 29 days ago | 0 comments

Intel Terminates X86S Initiative (tomshardware.com)

Intel, Processors, Technology, Business

29 points by jamesy0ung 29 days ago | 18 comments

Intel terminates x86S initiative – x86 de-bloat quest ends (tomshardware.com)

Intel, Processors, Technology, Hardware

10 points by pella 29 days ago | 2 comments

Radxa Orion O6 Mini-ITX Arm Motherboard with Cix P1 12-Core ARMv9 SoC and UEFI (cnx-software.com)
Radxa Orion O6 is an Arm mini-ITX motherboard with performance similar to Apple M1 and Qualcomm 8cs Gen3 platform thanks to the Cix P1 12-core Armv9 processor with four Cortex-A720 cores clocked at 2.8 GHz, four Cortex-A720 cores at 2.4GHz, and four low-power Cortex-A520 cores clocked at 1.8 GHz.

Hardware, ARM, Mini-ITX, Motherboard, Processors

17 points by geerlingguy 30 days ago | 5 comments

Fujitsu 144-core Arm chip: 2nm and 5nm chiplet, 3D-stacked CPU cores over memory (tomshardware.com)

Computer Hardware, ARM, Chipsets, Processors, Memory

7 points by ksec 36 days ago | 0 comments

Fujitsu Monaka CPU Target Added to GCC 15 Compiler (phoronix.com)
Fujitsu has upstreamed support for their next-gen "Monaka" Armv9 processor into the GNU Compiler Collection codebase in time for the GCC 15 release coming out early next year.

GCC, Compilers, Processors, Arm, Open Source

6 points by rbanffy 37 days ago | 2 comments

M4 chips: Matrix processing and Power Modes (eclecticlight.co)
For much of the last four years, CPU and GPU core performance have been of primary importance to those using Apple silicon Macs.

Apple Silicon, Processors, Performance, Technology, Matrix Processing

7 points by ingve 52 days ago | 0 comments

Ubitium is developing 'universal' processor combining CPU, GPU, DSP, and FPGA (tomshardware.com)

Processors, Hardware, Computing, Technology, FPGA

34 points by LorenDB 54 days ago | 16 comments

AMD crafts custom EPYC CPU with HBM3 for Azure: 88 Zen 4 cores and 450GB of HBM3 (tomshardware.com)

AMD, Processors, Hardware, Cloud Computing, Azure

44 points by rbanffy 59 days ago | 6 comments

M4 chips: E and P cores (eclecticlight.co)
In the two previous articles (links at the end), I explored some of the features and properties of Performance (P) cores in Apple’s latest M4 chips. This article looks at their Efficiency (E) cores by comparison.

Apple, Processors, Hardware, Computer Architecture, Performance

76 points by ingve 61 days ago | 17 comments

AMD's CPU sales are miles better than Intel (pcguide.com)
AMD’s latest gaming processor launched on November 7th and the results are in for the new Ryzen 7 9800X3D. While we witnessed Intel’s Core Ultra launch performing worse than we imagined, the new X3D chip from its rivals has been a smash hit.

AMD, Intel, Processors, Gaming, Hardware

95 points by doener 66 days ago | 92 comments

UserBenchmark suggests you buy the i5-13600K over the Ryzen 7 9800X3D (tomshardware.com)

Computer Hardware, Processors, Benchmarking, Performance

3 points by LorenDB 68 days ago | 1 comments

Inside M4 chips: P cores (eclecticlight.co)
This is the first in a series diving deeper into Apple’s new M4 family of chips. This starts with details of its Performance (P) cores. Comparisons of their performance against cores in earlier M-series chips will follow separately when I have completed them.

Hardware, Apple, Processors, Performance, Technology

35 points by ingve 68 days ago | 9 comments

M4 Pro Mac Mini Review: Pro Performance in a Tiny, Affordable Package (petapixel.com)
The latest-generation Mac mini sports a fresh and improved design and Apple’s newest M4-series processors.

Mac Mini, Apple, Reviews, Processors, Technology

14 points by tosh 72 days ago | 0 comments

Intel sued over Raptor Lake voltage instability (theregister.com)
Intel was sued in a federal court in San Jose, California, on Tuesday, based on claims that the chipmaker's 13th and 14th generation desktop processors from 2022 and 2023 are defective.

Intel, Processors, Lawsuits, Technology, Hardware

5 points by mfiguiere 72 days ago | 0 comments

AMD's 9800X3D: 2nd Generation V-Cache (chipsandcheese.com)
Following the first generation of V-Cache found in the Zen 3 and Zen 4 X3D SKUs, AMD is now following up with the second generation of V-Cache which is a major change for AMD in terms of packaging.

AMD, Processors, Hardware, Technology, V-Cache

16 points by rbanffy 73 days ago | 0 comments

AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter space (tomshardware.com)

AMD, Intel, Data Centers, Hardware, Processors

499 points by baal80spam 73 days ago | 161 comments

A Brief History of Cyrix (abortretry.fail)
Tom Brightman and Jerry Rogers were working for Texas Instruments in the second half of the 1980s.

History, Processors, Computer Hardware

98 points by zdw 75 days ago | 18 comments

Apple's M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max compared to past generations, and to each other (arstechnica.com)
Apple's week of Mac announcements has wrapped up this morning with the launch of the new M4 MacBook Pros, and we now have a full picture of the M4 chip lineup that will drive the Mac for the next year or so (excepting the M4 Ultra, if we end up getting one).

Apple, Processors, Hardware, Comparisons, Technology

42 points by mpweiher 76 days ago | 22 comments

Broadwell's EDRAM: VCache Before VCache Was Cool (chipsandcheese.com)
Up to Haswell’s 2013 release, Intel’s “tick-tock” strategy seemed unstoppable. Broadwell sought to continue Intel’s juggernaut by porting Haswell to a new 14 nm node.

Hardware, Intel, Computer Architecture, Processors

72 points by klelatti 78 days ago | 16 comments

Nvidia is working on Arm processors for Windows, according to report (pcworld.com)
You might not know it, but Nvidia builds a lot of Arm processors. In addition to its self-branded and much-loved SHIELD set-top boxes, it makes the Tegra heart of every Nintendo Switch, now over 140 million of them as its generation winds down.

Nvidia, Arm, Windows, Processors, Hardware

7 points by doublepg23 78 days ago | 1 comments

Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing (twitter.com)

Apple, Processors, Performance, Computing, Hardware

363 points by retskrad 78 days ago | 529 comments