Scientists hack AMD processor security with $5 microcomputer
The security mechanism AMD uses to protect virtual machine memory can be bypassed using a $5 Raspberry Pi Pico single board computer. This was discovered by a group of scientists…
Engineer finds transistors in Pentium processor that cost Intel $475 million 30 years ago
Electronics history and reverse engineering specialist Ken Shirriff said he was able to discover transistors in the first generation Intel Pentium processors that caused the “FDIV error” that cost the…
Riding the AI hype, TSMC’s revenue jumped 34% in November
Taiwanese contract chip manufacturer TSMC has already reported its November results in monetary terms. The company’s revenue increased year-on-year by 34% to $8.5 billion, although it declined 12.2% sequentially. In…
Intel will soon fix the gaming performance of Core Ultra 200S processors
Intel has acknowledged problems with gaming performance of Arrow Lake processors and promised to fix them. The microcode update, codenamed 0x114, may be the first step in this direction, but…
Chip developer Marvell Technology has become more expensive than Intel thanks to the AI boom
The American company Marvell Technology for the first time overtook Intel in market capitalization, which for the first time exceeded $100 billion, while Intel’s figure fell to $90 billion. This…
China has accelerated the localization of semiconductors and spent more on it in six months than the United States, Korea and Taiwan together
The localization of the semiconductor industry in China is rapidly gaining momentum, becoming one of the country’s most important strategic goals. In the first six months of 2024, China spent…
News about the high defect rate of Intel 18A turned out to be fake: the ex-head of the company explained why
In the middle of last week, the Korean publication The Chosun Daily casually stated that the yield level of usable chips using the Intel 18A process supposedly does not exceed…
Pat Gelsinger urged everyone to pray and fast for Intel
Exactly a week has passed since Pat Gelsinger was asked to leave Intel, which he headed for the past almost four years. Retaining the ability to speak out through social…
Samsung is losing profits due to the low popularity of its mobile processors
As Canalys statistics showed, in the global market for smartphones costing more than $600, Samsung still holds second place with 21%, but the leader is Apple with 63% of the…
AMD promised to increase availability of Ryzen 7 9800X3D, but it’s not about price
Released over a month ago, the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming processor has proven so popular that many retailers have sold out of stock, but demand remains high. Against this…