Intel

Core i7-8086K Overclockability Silicon Lottery Stats

David SchorDesktop ProcessorsJune 17, 2018 Tagged Coffee Lake, Core i7, Intel, Silicon Lottery, x86, Yield

Silicon Lottery has published new statistics regarding the overclockability of Intel’s hexa-core commemorative Core i7-8086K processor.

A Look at Intel’s 10nm Std Cell as TechInsights Reports on the i3-8121U, finds Ruthenium

David SchorCircuit Design, Process TechnologiesJune 15, 2018 Tagged 10nm, cobalt, Intel, Intel Custom Foundry, metallization stack, ruthenium, TechInsights

WikiChip takes another look at Intel’s 10-nanometer standard cell design and discusses TechInsights findings of the first 10nm-based chip, the i3-8121U.

Intel Announces a 5 GHz Core i7-8086K, Launches on the 40th Anniversary of the 8086

David SchorDesktop ProcessorsJune 5, 2018 Tagged 14nm, 8086, Coffee Lake, Intel, x86

Intel has announced a new limited edition 5 GHz Core i7-8086K processor special celebratory chip in honor of the 40th anniversary of Intel’s x86 architecture.

Intel Silently Launches Cannon Lake

David SchorMobile ProcessorsMay 15, 2018 Tagged 10nm, Cannon Lake, Intel, x86

Intel has silently launched the first 10nm-based Cannon Lake SKU.

Intel discloses Tremont, a Goldmont Plus successor

David SchorArchitecturesApril 4, 2018 Tagged 10nm, Atom, Intel, Tremont, x86

Intel has disclosed a new “Tremont” microarchitecture along with the release of their latest architecture ISA programming reference.

Intel unleashes 8th Gen Core Coffee Lake lineup

David SchorDesktop Processors, Mobile ProcessorsApril 3, 2018 Tagged 14nm, Coffee Lake, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Intel, x86, Xeon E

Intel unveils the full 8th Generation Core desktop and mobile microprocessors lineup based on their latest Coffee Lake microarchitecture.

ISSCC 2018: Intel’s Self-Powered Intelligent IoT Edge Mote

David SchorArchitectures, Embedded Processors, ISSCC 2018April 2, 2018 Tagged 14nm, AI, edge computing, energy harvesting, Intel, Intel Labs, IoT, near-threshold voltage, SoC, solar power, x86

A look at Intel’s tiny intelligent IoT edge mote operating at near-threshold voltage and harvesting solar energy for charging. Equipped with sensors and an SoC with hardware to accelerate convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the chip collects environmental sensory data and captures images which are classified on-chip and sent to a data center in order to improve and optimize agricultural fields.

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ISSCC 2018: Intel’s Skylake-SP Mesh and Floorplan

David SchorArchitectures, Circuit Design, Floorplanning, ISSCC 2018March 9, 2018 Tagged 14nm, floorplan, Intel, ISSCC, ISSCC 2018, Skylake, Skylake-SP, x86, Xeon Scalable

At ISSCC 2018 Intel gave us some more interesting architectural details of their latest Skylake server microprocessors which brought a new mesh interconnect, a new cache hierarchy, and wider vector operations among a large array of other enhancements.

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IEDM 2017 + ISSCC 2018: Intel’s 10nm, switching to cobalt interconnects

David SchorIEDM 2017, ISSCC 2018, Process TechnologiesFebruary 17, 2018 Tagged 10nm, FinFET, IEDM, IEDM 2017, Intel, ISSCC, ISSCC 2018, process technology

At IEDM 2017 and ISSCC 2018 Intel detailed their upcoming 10nm node, an aggressively scaled 7nm-class process technology that features new scaling accelerators as well as cobalt interconnect for the first time in high-volume manufacturing.

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Intel launches the Xeon D-2100 series of low-power edge processors

David SchorEmbedded Processors, Server ProcessorsFebruary 7, 2018 Tagged 14nm, edge computing, Intel, Skylake, Skylake-DE, x86, Xeon Scalable

Intel has launched the Xeon D-2100 series of microprocessors based on the Skylake server microarchitecture for networking, storage, IoT, and cloud edge servers.