processors
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Looks Like Facebook Is Getting Serious About Making Its Own Chips
It’s been rumoured for months that Facebook might be interested in building its own, in-house processing chips. Now it appears the social network company is really going for it. Bloomberg reported today that Facebook managed to snag one of Google’s top silicon engineering directors to head up its own efforts in the field.
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Inside AMD’s Quest to Build Chips That Can Beat Intel
Six years ago, AMD dramatically restructured itself in a mad bid to escape a disaster of its own making. Now, we’ve seen the results and instead of dying, AMD has a savvy new CPU microarchitecture, Zen, that’s the foundation of the shockingly good Ryzen processors. They’re so good, in fact, they could pose a real…
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Intel ‘Ice Lake’ CPU Shows Up Online, iGPU To Have 2x Performance Of Kaby Lake
Intel would love just about anything to take the heat away from all that speculative execution stuff. I’m not sure if leaked specs for “Ice Lake”, its next line of processors, is the sort of news it was looking for, but it’ll do… for a few days, at least.
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What We Know So Far About Meltdown And Spectre, The Devastating Vulnerabilities In Modern CPUs
This week, news of massive security vulnerabilities afflicting every modern model of Intel processor went public, even as developers for practically every major platform frantically rushed to roll out fixes. Much more information has now become available about Meltdown and Spectre, a group of attack methods malicious parties could use to break into some of…