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AMD targets Nvidia with first official benchmarks for EPYC 'Venice' CPUs — company claims 256-core chip is more than twice as fast as Nvidia Vera, 96-core model 20% faster per-core (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-18 | by Jake Roach | tags: amd epyc venice, nvidia vera, spec cpu 2026

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AMD shares first official benchmarks for EPYC 'Venice' CPUs, targets Nvidia — company claims 256-core chip is more than twice as fast as Nvidia Vera, 96-core model 20% faster per-core (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-18 | by Jake Roach | tags: amd epyc venice, nvidia vera, spec cpu 2026

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Subnormal floating-point numbers are expensive on Intel processors (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | by Https | tags: subnormal numbers, ieee floating-point, intel xeon

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Hot Chips 2026: Intel Xeon 7 'Diamond Rapids' comes with up to 256 P-cores, 1.28 GB of last-level cache — next-gen 18A-P CPU also brings AVX 10.2 and uses UCIe-S instead of EMIB (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-24 | by Jake Roach | get Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach Hennessy Patterson → | tags: intel xeon, diamond rapids, ucie

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Intel Xeon 7 'Diamond Rapids' comes with up to 256 P-cores, 1.28 GB of last-level cache — next-gen 18A-P CPU also brings AVX 10.2 and uses UCIe-S instead of EMIB (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-24 | by Jake Roach | get Intel Xeon Silver 4410Y processor → | tags: intel, xeon, diamond rapids

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Unlock Tom's Hardware Premium's Hot Chips 2026 coverage for free — sign up for an account to read technical breakdowns from the show (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-21 | by Sayem Ahmed | tags: hot chips, amd, intel

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Apple revealed the first Mac Pro 20 years ago today — its Intel Xeon-powered flagship desktop took the reins from the Power Mac G5 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Mark Tyson | tags: apple, core, intel

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Intel is reversing course and bringing hyper-threading back to its server chips (techspot.com)

2026-07-26 | by Kishalaya Kundu | tags: intel, hyper-threading, xeon coral rapids

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AMD’s 256-core Epyc 9996 ‘Venice’ claims up to a 3.4x jump over Intel Xeon competition, 20% over Nvidia Vera – Zen 6 comes with up to 1024MB of L3, 16-channel memory, and 5GHz+ clock speeds (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-23 | by Jake Roach | tags: amd, epyc 9996, zen 6

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Intel and AMD sign long-term server CPU deals with Chinese customers as prices jump over 40%, report claims — agreements purportedly guarantee purchase volumes for about a year without fixing prices (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-23 | by Luke James | tags: intel, amd, xeon

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Intel invests $5.7 billion in Ireland fab — aims to boost output of Xeon 6, next-gen Xeon products built on Intel 3 process (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-14 | by Anton Shilov | tags: billion, intel, production

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Intel’s performance-enhanced 18A-P process enters risk production — drop-in 18A upgrade promises 9% performance improvement at iso-power, cuts thermal resistance by 40% (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-16 | by Jake Roach | get Intel 18A Processors → | tags: intel, 18a-p, vlsi 2026

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An Interview with Intel's Kira Boyko: Xeon 6's Product Director (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-13 | by George Cozma | get Intel Xeon Processor → | tags: intel xeon 6+, intel, computex 2026

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Intel launches Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest with 288 E-cores on 18A node, teases Diamond Rapids for 2027 (techspot.com)

2026-06-02 | get Intel Xeon Processor Bundle → | tags: intel, xeon 6+ clearwater forest, darkmont cores

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Intel Xeon 6+ Computex roundtable interview transcript — Kira Boyko and Tim Wilson on 18A wafer allocation, Clearwater Forest, and dropping hyper-threading (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-02 | by Jake Roach | get Intel Xeon Processor → | tags: xeon, clearwater forest, intel

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Watch Intel's Computex 2026 keynote here — CEO Lip-Bu Tan takes the stage in Taipei at 10:30pm PT on June 1 (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-02 | by Jake Roach | get Intel Core i9 Processor → | tags: intel, arc g3, xeon 7

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A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-01 | get Intel Xeon E5 Processor → | tags: xeon e5-2620, gemma 4, ollama

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A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Drafters without GPU) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-01 | get Intel Xeon E5-2670 → | tags: xeon e5-2620 v4, gemma 4, ollama

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Intel Xeon 7 ‘Diamond Rapids’ CPUs officially launching in 2027 on Intel 18A-P — next-gen P-core Xeon features PCIe 6.0, 50% higher core counts, and twice the memory bandwidth (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-01 | by Jake Roach | get Intel Xeon Processor 2027 → | tags: intel, xeon, diamond rapids

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Intel Xeon 6+ ‘Clearwater Forest’ puts 18A in the data center with up to 288 cores, 576 MB of L3 cache — new Xeon 6990E+ is 30% faster per thread than 192-core AMD Epyc 9965, says Intel (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-01 | by Jake Roach | get Intel Xeon 6990E Processor → | tags: intel xeon, clearwater forest, intel 18a

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Nvidia offers restricted access to Vera CPU in first round of Linux benchmarks - 88-core monster competes with or beats Epyc and Xeon in selected tests (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-27 | by Zak Killian | get Nvidia Vera CPU Kit → | tags: nvidia vera, amd epyc, intel xeon

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768GB of cheap Intel Optane DIMM memory sticks used to run 1-trillion-parameter LLM on a system with a single GPU — local Kimi K2.5 install achieved roughly 4 tokens per second (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-23 | by Mark Tyson | get Intel Optane Memory Module → | tags: intel optane, xeon gold 6246, asus dual geforce rtx 3060

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Intel tells PC makers to adopt 18A CPUs or lose their supply, report claims — Intel 7 supply dries up, pressuring notebook and PC manufacturers in the US, China, and Taiwan (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-19 | by Luke James | get Intel 18A Processor → | tags: intel, 18a, tiger lake

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Intel announces McLaren F1 partnership, will battle AMD-powered Mercedes — deal includes chips for aerodynamic analysis, vehicle-dynamics simulation, race strategy analytics, and more (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-14 | by Mark Tyson | get Intel Core i9 Processor → | tags: intel, mclaren f1, amd

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Tech teardown specialist delids a Xeon with a blowtorch and hunting knife — wood chopping block makes a worthy stage for the sacrifice (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-02 | by Mark Tyson | get Delidding Kit for CPUs → | tags: intel xeon, delid process, silicon die

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Intel's upcoming Xeon 7 'Diamond Rapids' server CPUs reportedly delayed to 2027 — Next-gen Coral Rapids lineup lands 2028 but can be accelerated, according to new leak (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-25 | by Hassam Nasir | get Intel Xeon Processor Cooler → | tags: intel, xeon, diamond rapids

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Intel's upcoming Xeon 7 "Diamond Rapids" server CPUs reportedly delayed to 2027 — Next-gen Coral Rapids lineup lands 2028 but can be accelerated, according to new leak (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-25 | by Hassam Nasir | get Intel Xeon Processor Cooler → | tags: xeon 7, diamond rapids, coral rapids

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CPU requirements for AI workloads are multiplying, driving intensifying shortages and price hikes — Intel already shifting production from consumer chips to Xeon as inference workloads drive server CPU ratios back toward parity with GPUs (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-24 | by Luke James | get Intel Xeon Processor → | tags: intel, xeon, ai workloads

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TSMC warns of Intel Foundry's growing prowess during the company's latest earnings call — 'We view Intel as our formidable competitor and do not underestimate them' (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-17 | by Anton Shilov | get Intel Core i7 Processor → | tags: tsmc, intel foundry, amd epyc

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Intel's stock on historic 9-day winning streak, up 58% over that run (cnbc.com)

2026-04-13 | by Lola Murti | get Intel Core i5 Processor → | tags: intel, xeon, google