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5 days ago
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AMD Transforms Into Fierce Competition for Intel in Data Centers
AMD is heavily pressuring Intel in the server CPU market, thanks to the guidance of AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. As Wccftech notes, the company has gone from having no server CPU market share in 2017 to approaching 40% this year. AMD could be on track to hit 50% market share in fewer than 10 years from entering the space. That's a shocking success on AMD's part, and although there are many reasons for its success, a few stand out. The most obvious source of AMD's success in challenging Intel for data center CPU share is Su. As the company's chair and CEO, Su oversaw multiple successes for AMD, including the rise of its Epyc CPUs, which challenged Intel's Xeon processors. Writing for ExtremeTech in 2019, Joel Hruska noted that Epyc processors were better-positioned to gain market share than AMD's previous major challenge to Intel in this segment. Credit: AMD 'In 2005, AMD's dual cores matched Intel on core count, outperformed Intel clock-for-clock and core-for-core, and were quite expensive,' Hruska wrote. In 2019, AMD went for the trifecta, with higher performance, more cores, and lower per-core pricing. It's the most serious assault on Intel's high-end Xeon market that the company has ever launched.' As AMD continued to produce successful Epyc processors and related products (such as its Instinct GPUs), its market share surged. According to DigiTimes Asia, AMD snagged 25% of the server processor segment by 2023. Now, with its segment market share at 39.4%, the chance to break even with Intel—and possibly overtake it—is in sight. Obviously, AMD's success in the server CPU segment is resulting in massive revenue. In the first quarter of 2025 alone, AMD's data center segment brought in $3.7 billion, which marked a 57% year-over-year increase. In its quarterly report, AMD attributed that growth to its Epyc and Instinct sales. Credit: Intel Intel has struggled during this time. Its former CEO, Pat Gelsinger, focused heavily on rebuilding the company's chip manufacturing capabilities, but his tenure came to an end in late 2024. Still, Intel is addressing AMD's gains. Early this year, it dropped the prices on its Xeon 6 CPUs by as much as 30%. The move kept many Xeons priced above AMD's CPUs, but made them more competitive. And the arrival of Intel's new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, could mark a turning point for the chipmaker. But with AMD's sustained momentum in the CPU server segment, Intel will need to move quickly.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
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Asus 610Hz Super TN Gaming Monitor Is Probably As Fast As It Gets
Asus continues to push the boundaries of gaming display performance with a new record-breaker in refresh rate. The new Asus ROG Strix Ace XG248Q5G uses a Super TN panel technology to deliver a 610Hz refresh rate. Although competing with the likes of Samsung's 500 Hz OLED Odyssey monitors, Asus calls this display the "World's fastest Esports monitor," and with less than 1ms of input lag, it may well be right, as Wccftech reports. In the world of high-pressure eSports gaming, milliseconds can be everything. That's why Asus is pushing this monitor as the fastest display out there. Its 610Hz refresh rate cuts the potential input lag from the monitor to just 0.8ms. Admittedly, a 500 Hz gaming monitor's input lag is only around 2ms, so it's not making much of a difference, but that difference is there for those looking for a display that's as fast as possible. Credit: WCCFTech/Asus While TN displays have traditionally been very fast and popular among eSports gamers, they aren't known for their visual quality. They typically don't get particularly bright and have poor contrast. To counter that, Asus' new display uses what it calls Super TN technology, which gives it up to 90% support of the professional-grade DCI-P3 color gamut. Asus also claims this monitor can get three times brighter than most TN panels. There are also AI enhancements in the form of dynamic shadow boosting, which makes it easier to spot enemies hiding in the dark. That feels a little more akin to cheating than just using a fast display, but the option is there nonetheless. As an eSports-focused display, the XG248Q5G is a mere 24 inches diagonally, far from the larger, immersive displays that most gaming monitor companies sell today. It is also limited to 1080p resolution, but that is equally a common eSports standard, so it is not unsurprising. No word yet on pricing or release date for this display, expect it to be widely available before the end of the year, according to the report. Here are the best gaming monitor deals right now.
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15-03-2025
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Panther Lake launch timeline looks clearer after first public showcase
Intel's Panther Lake chip has now been showcased in public, with the tech brand putting it on display at the Embedded World 2025 conference in Nuremberg, Germany. The Dutch publication, PC Games Hardware shared images of the chip on display, noting that this is the first time the Panther Lake SoC has been seen publicly, not being held up by Intel's former CEO Pat Gelsinger. With the company discussing more of its plans and timelines for the Panther Lake rollout in 2025 and beyond at the conference, more of the component's release strategy has become a lot clearer. Also referred to as the 'Core Ultra 300' mobile platform, Intel is banking on the Panther Lake being a powerful chip as it will be manufactured on the company's custom 18A process. Panther Lake follows the Core Ultra 100 'Meteor Lake' chip, which was released in 2023, and the Core Ultra 200 'Lunar Lake' chip, which is Intel's current flagship. Wccftech noted that Intel's Foundry business is counting on a successful rollout of the Panther Lake to propel its future in the market. The company has already detailed plans to introduce the Panther Lake-H lineup as its premiere offering, then Panther Lake-HX, and others. The coming chip will likely feature the Cougar Cove P-Cores and Skymont E-Cores architectures, as per current reports. Additionally, it is set to include the third-generation Xe3, onboard iGPU, codenamed 'Celestial.' The component follows the second-generation Xe 2 GPU 'Battlemage'. The Xe3 is expected to support at least 16 cores, powering up to 180 TOPS of AI power among its specifications, Wccftech noted. While the Core Ultra 300 is set to be manufactured under the 18A process, PC Games Hardware noted that Intel has split its production between its own Foundry and TSMC, with the latter manufacturer taking charge of the Xe3 graphics portion of the chip. Overall, Intel is still set to announce Panther Lake during the mid-2025 timeframe. This should put hardware partners on schedule to have products ready by January, in time for the coming CES 2026. The industry will surely be excited to see how the SoC will perform alongside similar next-generation chips from competitors.
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13-03-2025
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The M4 MacBook Air is displaying some odd behavior we don't understand yet
People are getting their hands on the new M4 MacBook Air this week, which means they're posting lots of discoveries about its performance (and the blueness of the new Sky Blue color). While editing photos in Lightroom Classic, YouTuber Vadim Yuryev noticed that the CPU workload was being handled almost completely by the laptop's six efficiency cores. Spotted by Wccftech, this behavior is interesting because the image editing software is so CPU-intensive that anyone would assume it needed the performance cores to run. This was certainly the case for the M3 MacBook Air, which Yuryev shows using all four performance and all four efficiency cores to get the work done. We don't know why this behavior has changed, how purposeful it is, or if it's specific to Lightroom Classic — but the benefits could be significant. Keeping the efficiency cores busy and limiting the activity on the performance cores could improve battery life and keep temperatures down. That said, we don't know from Yuryev's post how well the software is running while in this state — we can assume he's pointing it out because it's running fine but we don't know for sure. It's also not entirely impossible that this is a bug of some kind — the performance cores are there to be used, after all, or else they'd be pointless. So the sheer amount of activity on the efficiency cores while the performance cores sit almost unused does seem quite odd. With outlets like Wccftech and tech influencers everywhere experimenting with this new model, we'll likely find out soon whether this was a fluke or an intended feature of the new MacBook Air.
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12-03-2025
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New Nintendo patent teases a big upgrade for Switch 2 — here's what we know
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct presentation is still several weeks away (it's scheduled for April 2). This has led to a sparsity of concrete Switch 2 information as the gaming giant is seemingly saving up its official announcements for that date. Fortunately, the rumor mill hasn't stopped churning, and the latest morsel is one of our most intriguing yet. A recent patent filing (spotted by Wccftech) suggests that Nintendo Switch 2 may fix one of its predecessor's major issues: Its highly restrictive voice chat. According to the patent, Switch 2 could offer proximity chat and the functionality would be accessible from the console's operating system. On the surface, this may not seem like a big deal. After all, being able to easily communicate with players online has been a staple of Xbox and PlayStation hardware for three console generations. However, the current Nintendo Switch does not make talking to other players easy. If you want to talk to your fellow players in the likes of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe or Splatoon 3 on Nintendo Switch, you'll need to make use of the Nintendo Switch Online App. This requires a compatible smartphone and a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. And if those restrictions weren't enough of a headache, the feature is also highly cumbersome and often unreliable. A switch to voice chat that can accessed directly on the Switch 2 console would be hugely welcome and would massively upgrade the online experience on Switch. This is an area that Nintendo does need to improve quickly if it wants to keep pace with Sony and Microsoft's hardware. It's important to note, that this patent only talks about the feature in relation to first-party games (aka games published directly by Nintendo), and it's also proximity chat rather than party chat. The former is the ability to speak to other players when close to them in-game, rather than being able to set up a 'party,' allowing you to talk even across different games. Nevertheless, it could be a major improvement for Switch 2 over its predecessor. There's also been some speculation online that the current mystery button (usually referred to as the 'C' button) could be a dedicated 'chat' button. Allowing Switch 2 owners to speak to other players online at literally the press of a button. Though, for now, this is all just speculation. We expect to learn a whole lot more about the Nintendo Switch 2 in just a matter of weeks during the dedicated Direct event. A release date is also expected at this showcase. In the meantime, we have a Nintendo Switch 2 hub that collects together everything we know about the upcoming handheld/home hybrids and also recaps the biggest rumors right now. Nintendo Switch 2 — everything we know so far Epic Nintendo Switch sale is live from $4 Nintendo Switch 2 price rumors and predictions
