Week's HW News: 10nm Intel Chips, Record nVidia Revenue, & AMD News

Last week primarily featured initial Vulkan benchmarks – a stepping stone toward full integration of the new API within games – and major silicon manufacturer news. Intel declared plans to ship 10nm chips by 2H17, nVidia boasted record revenue of $1.4B for its fiscal quarter, and AMD pushed improved Linux drivers to the public. The Intel push is the most interesting, with the company definitively indicating that it will not delay 10nm chip manufacturing past 2017. As the silicon manufacturers near the lower limit of current technology and processes, each of these iterative jaunts toward (what we'd expect to be) something like 1nm carbon nanotubes gets increasingly difficult. Seeing single-digit percentage point increases in overall performance (gaming, production) isn't quite as impressive as the reduction in power and significantly increased transistor count.

Learn about each of these items in more depth here:

• NVidia's record revenue (source: NVIDIA News / investor relations)

• Vulkan 1.0 Released & Benchmarked (source: GamersNexus tests)

• Intel confirms 10nm CPUs in 2H17 (source: the Inquirer)

• Gigabyte ships last foray of AM3+ motherboards (source: Anandtech)

• AMD FreeSync support comes to Linux (source: 144hzmonitors)

Video recap of the week above.

Host: Steve “Lelldorianx” Burke
Video Editing: Andrew “ColossalCake” Coleman
News Curated by Michael Kerns