GPUs
Alongside today’s CES-centric announcement of their new GeForce RTX 30 series parts for laptops, NVIDIA also offered an in-depth reveal of their next desktop graphics card, the GeForce RTX 3060. Reflected the continued progression of the Ampere architecture into smaller and cheaper video cards as NVIDIA continues its product stack rollout, the RTX 3060 marks the introduction of Ampere into their popular mainstream-enthusiast 60-series video card tier. Long the backbone of NVIDIA’s desktop sales in North America and elsewhere, the 60-tier cards typically strike a solid balance between price and performance. And with prices set to start at $329, at launch the RTX 3060 will become the cheapest RTX card that NVIDIA has ever offered.
NVIDIA Announces the GeForce RTX 30 Series: Ampere For Gaming, Starting With RTX 3080 & RTX 3090
With much anticipation and more than a few leaks, NVIDIA this morning is announcing the next generation of video cards, the GeForce RTX 30 series. Based upon the gaming...
409 by Ryan Smith on 9/1/2020
The NVIDIA GeForce Special Event 2020 Live Blog (Starts at 9:00 PT/16:00 UTC)
With much anticipation and more than a few leaks, today is NVIDIA's 2020 GeForce Special event. We're expecting the announcement of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 30 series of cards, based...
51 by Ryan Smith on 9/1/2020
TSMC: We have 50% of All EUV Installations, 60% Wafer Capacity
One of the overriding central messages to TSMC’s Technology Symposium this week is that the company is a world leader in semiconductor manufacturing, especially at the leading edge process...
32 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/27/2020
Where are my GAA-FETs? TSMC to Stay with FinFET for 3nm
As we passed that 22nm to 16nm barrier, almost all the major semiconductor fabrication companies on the leading edge transitioned from planar transistors to FinFET transistors. The benefits of...
37 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/26/2020
NVIDIA Confirms 12-pin GPU Power Connector
Today as part of a video showcasing NVIDIA’s mechanical and industrial design of its GPUs, and how it gets a large GPU to dissipate heat, the company went into...
80 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/26/2020
TSMC Expects 5nm to be 11% of 2020 Wafer Production (sub 16nm)
One of the measures of how quickly a new process node gains traction is by comparing how many wafers are in production, especially as that new process node goes...
13 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/25/2020
TSMC Teases 12-High 3D Stacked Silicon: SoIC Goes Extreme
I’ve maintained for a couple of years now that the future battleground when it comes to next-generation silicon is going to be in the interconnect – implicitly this relies...
16 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/25/2020
TSMC Updates on Node Availability Beyond Logic: Analog, HV, Sensors, RF
Most of the time when we speak about semiconductor processes, we are focused on the leading edge of what is possible. Almost exclusively that leading edge is designed for...
3 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/25/2020
‘Better Yield on 5nm than 7nm’: TSMC Update on Defect Rates for N5
One of the key metrics on how well a semiconductor process is developing is looking at its quantitative chip yield – or rather, its defect density. A manufacturing process...
107 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/25/2020
Intel Moving to Chiplets: ‘Client 2.0’ for 7nm
One of the more esoteric elements of Intel’s Architecture Day 2020 came very near the end, where Intel spent a few minutes discussing what it believes is the future...
67 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/21/2020
Intel Xe-HP Graphics: Early Samples Offer 42+ TFLOPs of FP32 Performance
One of the promises that Intel has made with its new Xe GPU family is that in its various forms it will cater to uses ranging from integrated graphics...
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Intel’s SG1 is 4x DG1: Xe-LP Graphics for Server Video Acceleration and Streaming
For the last few years, Intel has had a product line known as the Visual Computing Accelerator (VCA). With the VCA2 product being put on EOL earlier this year...
9 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/21/2020
Micron Spills on GDDR6X: PAM4 Signaling For Higher Rates, Coming to NVIDIA’s RTX 3090
It would seem that Micron this morning has accidentally spilled the beans on the future of graphics card memory technologies – and outed one of NVIDIA’s next-generation RTX video...
66 by Ryan Smith on 8/20/2020
NVIDIA Reports Q2 FY2021 Earnings: Datacenter Revenue Surpasses Gaming for the First Time
This afternoon NVIDIA announced their results for the second quarter of their 2021 fiscal year, closing out on an exceptional quarter for the company that set numerous revenue records...
35 by Ryan Smith on 8/19/2020
Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Microsoft Xbox Series X System Architecture (6:00pm PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
59 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/17/2020
Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Intel's Xe GPU Architecture (5:30pm PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
29 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/17/2020
Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: NVIDIA A100 Performance (5:00pm PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
9 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/17/2020
Spotted At Hot Chips: Quad Tile Intel Xe-HP GPU
At last week’s Intel Architecture Day, Intel’s chief architect, Raja Koduri, briefly held up the smallest member of the company’s forthcoming Xe-HP series of server CPUs, the one tile...
28 by Ryan Smith on 8/17/2020
Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Intel's Raja Koduri Keynote (2:00pm PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
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Intel Next-Gen 10-micron Stacking: Going 3D Beyond Foveros
One of the issues facing next-generation 3D stacking of chips is how to increase the density of the die-to-die interface. More connections means better data throughput, reducing latency and...
32 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/14/2020
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