At the Linley Fall Processor Conference, Intel revealed the first architectural details related to Tremont. Intel's newest and most advanced low-power x86 CPU architecture, Tremont offers a significant performance boost over prior generations. Tremont next-generation low-power x86 microarchitecture delivers significant IPC (instructions per cycle) gains gen-over-gen compared with Intel's prior low-power x86 architectures, said the chip vendor. Designed for enhanced processing power in compact, low-power packages, Tremont-based processors will enable a new generation of innovative form factors for client devices, creative applications for the Internet of Things (IoT), and efficient data center products, said Intel.

AMD has announced the availability of its second-generation AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX with 32 cores and 64 threads. AMD's second-generation Ryzen Threadripper processors are built using 12nm Zen+ x86 processor architecture. Second-generation AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors support most I/O, and are compatible with existing AMD X399 chipset motherboards via a simple BIOS update, offering builders a broad choice for designing a high-end desktop or a workstation PC. AMD's WX series of processors offer the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX with 32-core/64-threads and Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX with 24-core/48-threads.

Interconnect solution supplier Mellanox Technologies has announced the ConnectX-4 single/dual-port 100Gb/s virtual protocol interconnect (VPI) adapter, an end-to-end 100Gb/s InfiniBand interconnect solution. Doubling the throughput of the previous generation, the ConnectX-4 adapter delivers the consistent, high-performance and low latency required for high performance computing (HPC), cloud, Web 2.0 and enterprise applications to process and fulfill requests in real-time, according to the vendor. Mellanox's ConnectX-4 VPI adapter delivers 10, 20, 25, 40, 50, 56 and 100Gb/s throughput supporting both the InfiniBand and the Ethernet standard protocols, and the flexibility to connect any CPU architecture - x86, GPU, POWER, ARM, FPGA and more. With performance at 150 million messages per second, latency of 0.7usec, and smart acceleration engines such as RDMA, GPUDirect and SR-IOV, the ConnectX-4 will enable efficient compute and storage platforms.