Recent content by Joshua Thornton

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    News Chinese CPUs are closing the gap on AMD — next-gen Zhaoxin chips feature 96 cores, 12-channel DDR5 memory, and 128 PCIe 5.0 Lanes

    Even though it's all using stolen technology and IP, their progress is impressive.
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    News AMD Locked Radeon RX 7000 Series Power Play Tables, Limiting Overclocking

    Some misconceptions here. Firstly, SPPT customization and modifying was never supported to begin with, nor officially "condoned" by AMD. So saying that they haven't ruled out further overclocking in the future means absolutely nothing since it was, technically, a "hack". When nvidia locked down...
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    News 48-Core Sapphire Rapids Xeons Match AMD's Zen 3 Flagships in New Benchmarks

    Well Genoa can support up to 128 cores per cpu, but will most likely max out at 96. So 96 cores with lower tdp. Yeah, good for intel? Not to mention Genoa is reported to feature much higher clocks thanks to the same zen 4 arch. It's going to be a bloodbath.
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    News Intel Purportedly Planning to Hike Prices — Report

    Intel would be stupid to raise the prices of their server chips. With genoa coming with a purported 96 cores and bergamo less than a year later with 128 cores, intel is going to dig themselves into a whole they won't be able to get out of. They can do whatever they want in the DIY, prebuilt...