2018

In 2018:

January 3: A new series of side-channel attacks were disclosed which had industry-wide implications (Meltdown and Spectre).
January 3: Samsung announces their next flagship microprocessor, the Exynos 9810
January 7-12: CES 2018
- January 7: Intel launches 8th Gen Intel Core with Radeon RX Vega M, formerly Kaby Lake G.
- January 8: NVIDIA launches the Drive Xavier autonomous car SoC.
January 10: SPEC CPU2006 has been retired.
January 24: Imagination Technologies launches the PowerVR Series8XT GT8540, a new high-performance GPU based on Furian.
February 5: Ampere Computing announces their first ARM processor, the A1.
February 7: Intel launches Xeon D processors based on the Skylake microarchitecture (formerly Skylake DE)
February 11-15: ISSCC 2018
February 12: AMD launched Ryzen desktop APUs based on Zen and Vega
February 13: ARM announces two new neural processors IPs - the ML processor for inference processing and the OD processor for real-time object detection.
February 21: AMD launches EPYC Embedded processors (formerly Snowy Owl) and Ryzen Embedded (formerly Great Horned Owl)
February 26: Intel started shipping its Stratix 10 TX FPGAs with up to 58 Gbps PAM4 transmission capabilities.
February 26: GreenWaves launches their first product, the GAP8, an ultra-low power RISC-V microprocessor for intelligence IoT
February 27: Qualcomm launches the Snapdragon 700 family intended to bridge the gap between the 600 and 800 series by offering a mix of premium features and mid-range pricing.