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Yesterday, Intel expanded its Fab in Oregon, is going to build a fab in New Albany in Ohio in the USA (3.5 football fields of clean room area) to start operation in 2025, also is going to build 17 billion € Intel Halbleiterfabrik in Magdeburg in Germany (to be opened in 2027, 7000 construction jobs and 3000 permanent jobs + suppliers, 2 football fields of clean room area) and in France plans to build its new European research hub, creating 1000 new high-tech jobs.

Intel wants to do 5 process nodes in 4 years (!). The U.S. share of chip-making business has dropped from 37% in 1990 to 12% in early 2022, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. Taiwanese TSMC plans to spend 40-44 billion $ on new fabs in 2022 alone. So a lot is happening, but remember that building fabs is a multi-year giant undertaking. Current supply issues are going to be gradually resolved, unless demand grows faster. 🙂 GPU, CPU and DDR5 prices are slowly dropping.
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Ryzen 5800X3D reviews are out. It looks to be 20% faster in games than 5800X, but can't be overclocked and core voltage is limited to 1.35v. L2+L3 cache add up to 100 MB. $800 12900KS uses much more energy and is barely faster in games (also motherboards for it and DDR5 RAM are more expensive). Exact results vary depending on reviewers. More cache doesn't improve productivity according to Linus Tech Tips. 5800X3D is an upgrade for people on AM4 platform. This year, AM5 platform will be released along with Zen 4. Upgrading $400 1700X to $450 5800X3D will mean over double the framerate in video games after 5 years. For most people, $300 5700X will be sufficient.
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Intel’s Next-Gen Raptor Lake Flagship CPU Rumored to Run at 5.8GHz


By Josh Norem on April 15, 2022 at 10:52 am
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/3 ... -at-5-8ghz
Now that Intel’s Alder Lake CPU lineup is complete with the addition of the Core i9-12900KS, it’s time to look to the future. Its upcoming CPUs will be called Raptor Lake, and they’ll be a refinement of Alder Lake made on the same Intel 7 process. It’s similar to how Intel used to follow a Tick-Tock strategy, way back when. Although the 12900KS is the highest clocked CPU available currently at 5.5GHz for two cores, rumors indicate Intel will be going even further with Raptor Lake.

According to a tweet from CPU rumor monger OneRaichu flagged by Wccftech, Intel will push towards 6GHz with its next-gen. Though it already holds a large clock advantage over AMD, Intel may attempt to extend its lead and push Raptor Lake has high as 5.8GHz.

That would apply to the flagship CPU only though, the Core i9-13900K (or maybe even the KS version). For this chip Intel will replace Alder Lake’s performance cores (P-cores), dubbed Golden Cove, with updated cores named Raptor Cove. In a recent demo of Raptor Lake, it showed it running eight performance cores (hyper-threaded), and 16 efficiency cores. This makes it a 24-core, 32-thread CPU. It’s expected that the efficiency cores (E-Cores) will remain unchanged as far as clock speeds are concerned.
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10 GT/s or 10 GHz system memory (DDR5) is now a fact:
https://twitter.com/msigaming/status/15 ... 7510465536
Of course it's overclocked memory for now, not default clocks from the store, but that's still an achievement.
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Mid-range graphics cards prices have risen from $199 in 2016 (RX 480) to $549 in 2022 (RX 6750 XT) or 175% in MSRP. $199 GPU today is as low-end as $79 GPU in 2016.
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Intel 4 will bring 20% improvement in performance per watt through EUV technology compared to Intel 7 production process. That's not a lot, but still slightly significant. It could theoretically mean 12 hours of battery life instead of 10 or 24 instead of 20, but in practice it will be less than that, because a computer is not only a CPU or a GPU.

Future Zen CPUs will receive AI inference FPGAs, thanks to Xilinx.
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AMD Releases New Details on Zen 4-Powered Ryzen 7000 Family, Upcoming AM5 Chipsets

By Joel Hruska on May 23, 2022 at 2:30 am
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/336 ... 5-chipsets
It’s Computex this week, which means companies like AMD, Nvidia, and Intel will be demoing some of the systems and improvements they’ve got planned for the year. AMD’s Lisa Su is giving the keynote at Computex again this year, and the company is kicking things off by giving us a bit more detail on Zen 4 and its upcoming platform, Socket AM5.

First, to quickly recap what we know: Zen 4 is built on a 5nm process. It will arrive later this year along with Socket AM5. As befits the name, AM5 will introduce AMD’s support for PCI Express 5.0 and DDR5. Both of these technologies debuted on Intel’s Alder Lake last year, though compatible hardware has been nonexistent. That’s not unusual — PCIe 4.0 drives were in short supply for months after AMD debuted support for that platform — but it means both companies should have added support by the time that PCIe 5.0 hardware is practically in market.
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Zen 4 CPU Blender rendering seems to be 45% faster (31% shorter time) than Alder Lake, according to AMD Computex Keynote. We don't know the clockspeeds, but that looks to be substantial. Hopefully the CPUs come out in September, along with Raptor Lake. Progress in the 2020s might be better than in the 2010s.
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Datacenter becomes Nvidia's largest business:
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but their gaming hardware revenue is also growing.
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