Intel Meteor Lake mobile processor highlights leaked
Intel Meteor Lake processor family is supposed to succeed the 13th generation Raptor Lake chips itself coming after the current 12th generation Alder lake processors. It is scheduled to launch next...
View ArticleLinux 5.19 Release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V and MIPS architectures
Linus Torvalds has just announced the release of Linux 5.19. It should be the last 5.xx version, with Linux 6.0 coming for the next cycle: So here we are, one week late, and 5.19 is tagged and pushed...
View ArticleIntel Loihi 2 high-efficiency neuromorphic chip works with the Lava...
Neuromorphic AI accelerator chips relying on spiking neural networks (SNN), which we’ve seen from companies such as Innatera or Brainchip, will be used more and more in the future as they provide much...
View ArticleHow to check TDP (PL1 and PL2 power limits) in Windows and Linux
A TDP (Thermal Design Power) value in Watts will usually be provided for Intel and AMD processors to help manufacturers design an appropriate thermal solution for a given processor, and it’s often...
View ArticleMaxLinear AnyWAN URX850, URX851, and MxL25641 Intel Atom SoCs target...
MaxLinear has just announced the availability of the first three AnyWAN broadband SoCs featuring Intel Atom cores with the MxL25641, URX850, and URX851 processors designed for 5Gbps and 10 Gbps...
View ArticleIntel N100 & N200 Alder Lake-N SKUs could be the first “Intel Processor”...
Intel recently announced they would kill the Celeron and Pentium brands for entry-level PCs, and replace these with the “Intel Processor” brand for notebooks from 2023 onwards, meaning we would get...
View ArticleIntel Horse Creek platform showcased with SiFive P550 RISC-V CPU, 8GB DDR5,...
When SiFive introduced its Performance P550 64-bit RISC-V processor in 2021, we were told that Intel would use it in the Horse Creek platform with “leading-edge interface IP such as DDR and PCIe” and...
View ArticleYear 2022 in review – Top 10 posts and statistics
It’s the last day of the year and the time to look at some of the highlights of 2022, some traffic statistics from CNX Software website, and speculate on what 2023 may bring us. The semiconductors...
View ArticleMeet Intel Processor and Core-i3 N-series “Alder Lake N-series” processors
Pentium and Celeron brands are officially dead with Intel introducing the Alder Lake-N family comprised of “Intel Processor” and Core-i3 N-series processors based on the Gracemont “Efficiency” cores...
View ArticleQuiet, ultrathin AirJet solid state active cooling chips could replace fans
Frore Systems Airjet Mini and Airjet Pro are active cooling chips that are just 2.8mm thick and quietly suck cool air in from the top of the chip before pushing it out the sides with the aim to...
View ArticleHiFive Pro P550 “Horse Creek” RISC-V motherboard with 16GB RAM to launch this...
SiFive HiFive Pro P550 RISC-V motherboard based on Intel “Horse Creek” quad-core SiFive Performance P550 processor will launch this summer with 16GB DDR5 memory, two PCIe expansion slots, Gigabit...
View ArticleIntel kills PathFinder IDE for RISC-V processors
Intel has just discontinued PathFinder Eclipse-based development environment for RISC-V processors with the website now reading: We regret to inform you that Intel is discontinuing the Intel...
View ArticleMIPI CSI camera works with Intel Atom x7000, Processor, and Core i3 Alder...
Most Intel processors do not come with a MIPI CSI camera, but some Alder Lake-N processors do, and Leopard Imaging has designed the LI-ADL-ADP-IMX415-MIPI-081H MIPI CSI camera module that is...
View ArticleIntel NUC 13 Rugged “Bravo Canyon” fanless Alder Lake-N mini PC is designed...
The Intel NUC 13 Rugged, codenamed “Bravo Canyon, is an upcoming fanless and dust-resistant mini PC powered by an Alder Lake-N processor and designed for 24/7 operation suitable for business and...
View ArticleIntel kills its NUC business
Intel has just decided to shut down its Next Unit of Compute (NUC) business selling mini PC, PC, boards, and modules directly to customers, as the company told partners they will stop direct...
View ArticleIntel AVX10.2 ISA to enable AVX-512 capabilities on E-cores
Intel AVX10 SIMD instructions will succeed AVX-512 instructions with AVX10.2 adding support for Intel E-cores to bring multimedia and AI acceleration to low-power cores, while the earlier AVX10.1 will...
View ArticleIntel Downfall (Gather Data Sampling) vulnerability impacts AVX2/AVX-512...
After vulnerabilities like Spectre and Meltdown were discovered in 2018, Intel processors have more vulnerabilities with the Downfall attacks that target the Gather instruction part of AVX2/AVX-512...
View ArticleThunderbolt 5 to deliver up to 120 Gbps bandwidth, support multiple 8K monitors
Intel has just announced Thunderbolt 5 and demonstrated it with a prototype laptop and dock (see the video embedded at the end of this post) with up to 120 Gbps bandwidth when using “Bandwidth Boost”....
View ArticleLinux 6.6 LTS release – Highlights, Arm, RISC-V and MIPS architectures
The Linux 6.6 release has just been announced by Linus Torvalds on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML): So this last week has been pretty calm, and I have absolutely no excuses to delay the v6.6...
View ArticleIntel Lunar Lake hybrid mobile processors to integrate on-chip LPDDR5X memory...
While Intel Meteor Lake mobile processors are yet to become available, we already have a leak that provides quite a lot of details about the next-generation Lunar Lake hybrid mobile processor family...
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