Hong Kong Customs recently made a significant seizure of 596 Intel Xeon CPUs valued at around $1.5 million from a private car. The 51-year-old driver was arrested in connection with the smuggling attempt. The CPUs were found hidden on both sides of the rear of the car and in secret compartments in the trunk. Although … Read more
At Computex 2024, Gigabyte unveiled its new Intel Xeon 6 motherboard, the Gigabyte MS04-CE0. This motherboard is designed for the LGA4710-SP parts of the Xeon 6 line of processors, offering compact integration despite its advanced features. The single-socket design with one DIMM per channel allows the motherboard to fit into a standard ATX form factor, … Read more
Hong Kong Customs foiled a significant smuggling attempt involving 596 Intel Xeon CPUs valued at over $1 million, thwarting an attempt to evade approximately $380,000 in taxes. The incident took place at Shenzhen Bay, where a vehicle carrying the contraband was intercepted. The culprit managed to escape with the CPUs hidden in a car dashboard. … Read more
Generative artificial intelligence has brought hardware back into focus, with Nvidia Corp. becoming the world’s most valuable publicly traded company and Intel Corp. unveiling its 6th generation Xeon E-core processors. Code-named “Sierra Forest,” these processors offer potential benefits for businesses in sustainability. At HPE Discover, Intel’s Ryan Tabrah discussed the importance of power density over … Read more
The AMD EPYC 4004 series, released in May, has been benchmarked to showcase the performance of the entire stack. This includes models ranging from 4-core to 16-core with 3D V-Cache, offering significant advantages over the Intel Xeon E-2400 series. The EPYC 4004 CPUs support DDR5-4800 and DDR5-5200 memory speeds, allowing for better performance comparisons. The … Read more
Intel has made the decision to remove support for Xeon Phi in the upcoming LLVM/Clang 19 compiler release, following the deprecation of support in LLVM/Clang 18 earlier this year. This move mirrors GCC’s decision to deprecate and then remove Xeon Phi support in their recent releases as well. The removal of support for Xeon Phi … Read more
The latest version of the GNU Compiler Collection, GCC 15, has removed support for older platforms such as Xeon Phi and Oracle Solaris 11.3. The decision to drop Itanium support was followed by Intel’s engineer Hao Chen Jiang’s patch, signaling the end for the Xeon Phi architecture that was once expected to compete with Nvidia … Read more
AMD has introduced its EPYC 4004 CPUs for the AM5 platform, providing significant improvements in performance and efficiency compared to previous EPYC and Intel Xeon chips. The EPYC 4004 series comes in various options ranging from 4 to 16 cores with up to 128 MB of L3 cache. These CPUs aim to offer value, performance, … Read more
AMD has launched the new EPYC 4004 series for entry-level servers, based on the AMD Ryzen 7000 series architecture. These CPUs feature up to 16 cores, 3D V-cache models, and aim to revolutionize the entry-level server market. With the release of the EPYC 4004 series, Intel’s Xeon E series is now facing competition and may … Read more
AMD has introduced the AMD EPYC 4004 Series processors to meet the evolving needs of small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) and hosted IT service providers. These processors, based on the “Zen 4” architecture, offer enterprise-grade performance, scalability, and modern security features while being cost-optimized for price-conscious buyers. The AMD EPYC 4004 Series CPUs outperform Intel … Read more