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Intel Q1 2021 results
Q1 revenue $19.7 billion, down 1% YoY, $1.1 billion above expectations. First-quarter revenue exceeded Intel’s January guidance by $1.1 billion, ...
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SPECwpc releases SPECworkstation 3.1 benchmark
The SPEC Workstation Performance Characterization (SPECwpc) group has released an updated version of its SPECworkstation benchmark, SPECworkstation 3.1, which measures ...
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Intel brings Pat Gelsinger back, and this time as CEO
CES surprise sees CEO Bob Swan out and former CTO Gelsinger back in. Under some pressure from activist investment firm ...
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AMD Q3 2020 results
Revenue for the quarter was up 55.6% from last year to $2.8 billion, GAAP profit was $390 million, 225% from ...
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SPECapc for Solidworks 2020 benchmark adds new GUI; CPU and 2D drafting tests
By Bob Cramblitt SPEC’s Application Performance Characterization (SPECapc) project group has released new performance evaluation software for workstations running Solidworks ...
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Review: EVGA’s CLC CPU cooler
For a brief and fleeting moment, I was cool in high school, my 15 minutes of fame. As it turned ...
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A 5-year vision for workstation graphics performance
by Bob Cramblitt Views of SPEC/GWPG members. Every day in their engineering jobs with leading OEMs and graphics card ...
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Nebula benchmarks the ray tracing competitors
Knowing how you stand up to the competition is critical. Last December, we told you about ray tracing startup, Nebula, ...
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Benchmarking ray tracing
Ray tracing, as everyone knows, is a simple algorithm that can totally consume a processor. But how much a given ...
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AMD’s Next Horizon dawns with 7-nm Epyc Rome Zen 2 processor
Alex Herrera takes stock of AMD’s latest hardware introductions and notes the company has an edge on Intel and a ...
