At the Ampere announcement stream NVidia CEO Jensen Huang made several bold claims regarding their new line of GPUs, the RTX 3000 series. Such claims include that the new microarchitecture, compared to Turing, “doubles ray triangle intersection throughput”, “Ampere’s RT…
The death of Dennard scaling and the rising of the phenomenon known as “dark silicon” have brought the IC industry to a crossroads: How to keep improving microprocessors with current power constraints without excessively increasing heat densities on the chip…
Reports from sources in Asia indicate AMD has started sharing details with partners about the upcoming RDNA2 based gaming GPUs. Unfortunately for us PC enthusiasts it seems the news aren’t great regarding the so-called “NVidia Killer”. The performance level of…
Fresh out of beating estimates for the Q2 earnings (likely thanks to Apple’s compensatory payment for lower than expected orders for iPhone and iPad displays), and to add to the confusion of Samsung’s rumored involvement in the production of at…
Last weekend we finally got the long-awaited launch of the new Nvidia Ampere GPU architecture which is meant to replace Volta in the segments of Cloud, AI and HPC applications, adding new features aimed at improving both energy efficiency and…
Today AMD completes the Ryzen 3000 series family with the launch of the budget friendly Ryzen 3 CPUs. AMD were kind enough to provide samples for this review but unfortunately due to current events shipping the samples took a while…
As I write this my youtube channel, Coreteks, just passed 100K subscribers. To celebrate this achievement I thought it would be interesting to share some advice for those who either already have a youtube channel but have struggled to grow…
For over a decade the industry has been preparing to reach a new level for modern computer systems: Exascale computing. However, getting a computer system to reach 1018 floating point operations per second in a scenario where it could no…
A few days ago at the IEDM, Intel disclosed their future process node technologies, showing on what will probably become an iconic slide how Intel expects to have a 2-year cadence for the development of its manufacturing process node technology…
Part 1: An Intro to Tom’s Build Hi! I am Tom, the creator of the “Moore’s Law Is Dead” YouTube channel and Broken Silicon Podcast (there’s a website too!). As is custom, I will start by introducing my dog build:…