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Charlie Demerjian
May 27, 2022

What is the current Sapphire Rapids stepping?

Another useless tidbit that geeks love

What is the state of Sapphire Rapids steppings at the moment?
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Charlie Demerjian
May 27, 2022
1

AMD scales back Genoa a tiny bit

Not a big deal, really, just worth noting

It looks like AMD is scaling back a little on Genoa’s specs for the moment.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 26, 2022
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Intel delays a major product again

They are doing the right thing but it sill hurts

SemiAccurate has just gotten word of a large delay in an important Intel product.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 23, 2022

AMD underwhelms at Computex

Computex 2022: Looks good until you really look

AMD’s Computex 2022 keynote had potential to be good but if you look at the numbers, it disappoints.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 20, 2022

Intel shows off future wafers at Vision

Vision 2022: 10+++, 7, 5, and 5+ all on display

Last week at Vision 2022, Intel showed off a bunch of wafers from unreleased processes.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 16, 2022

Intel shows off advanced silicon at Vision

Vision 2022: We finally get to see the silicon in person

Intel was showing off their best silicon at Vision 2022 and they were quite impressive.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 6, 2022

When will Sapphire Rapids launch?

Exact dates finally set

SemiAccurate told you about the latest update to the timetable in December, now we can be much more specific.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 5, 2022

AMD releases Ryzen 5000 C-Series for Chromebooks

Serious implications for a forgettable chip

5000 C-Series for Chromebooks while signaling something significant.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 14, 2022
15

AMD’s Ryzen 5800X3D is too flawed for consumer use

What works in server doesn’t for consumer

Today AMD releases their long awaited consumer 3D V-Cache CPU called the Ryzen 5800X3D and it is not as good as expected.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 21, 2022

AMD launches Milan-X with 3D V-Cache

Milan plus 512MB L3 and advanced packaging

Today AMD finally releases their Milan-X CPUs with 3D V-Cache.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 8, 2022

AMD finally launches Threadripper Pro 5000

Solid hardware, questionable software, sad messaging

Today AMD finally releases their Milan/Zen 3 based Threadripper Pro 5000 line of workstation CPUs.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 17, 2022

Intel updates their Xeon Roadmap

Analyst Day 2022: They are catching up to SemiAccurate fast!

Intel’s 2022 Analyst Day included a big new server roadmap update which almost catches them up to SemiAccurate.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 17, 2022
1

How well does AMD’s Bergamo CPU perform?

Lets just say the initial numbers impressed us

A lot of people don’t understand AMD’s upcoming Bergamo CPU.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 15, 2022

Here is a list of the new Sapphire Rapids XCC SKUs

No MCCs since the SKU changes

There is a lot of talk about Intel’s Sapphire Rapids CPU but very little hard data.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 10, 2022
1

Intel makes changes to Sapphire Rapids MCC

Nothing bad, just interesting tech choices

Intel is making an interesting change to Sapphire Rapids MCC, something we didn’t expect to see.
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