CPU, APU & Chipsets News - Page 2

AMD's just-launched Ryzen 7 8700G "Hawk Point" APU has fallen into the hands of overclockers across the world, with professional overclockers pushing the integrated GPU inside of the Hawk Point APU up to a blistering 3300MHz (3.3GHz).

The integrated Radeon 780M GPU inside of the Hawk Point APU was pushed to 3300MHz, with the SoC temperature (the whole chip, it's an APU, so there's a CPU, GPU, and NPU for AI tasks) running at just 44C and consuming 82W of power through heavy benchmarking.

The GPU maxed out at 47C under these loads at 3300MHz GPU clock, averaging 36C while the CPU core maxed out at 81.8C, averaging 40C under load.

Intel's future CPUs span a number of ranges, and we've just caught a leak around a processor which bristles with 12 performance cores.

However, this isn't an incoming chip for the next-gen desktop range, Arrow Lake, but rather it's a processor that'll be part of the Intel Bartlett Lake-S line-up.

At least in theory - if it's anything at all, given that this is just a leak from Chinese site Benchlife (via Wccftech) at this point. So, it may be entirely off the mark.

CPU shipments from AMD and Intel reached 66 million units in Q4 2023, up 7% quarter-to-quarter and 22% year-over-year, according to the latest JPR report.

Jon Peddie Research's new report also states that integrated GPU shipments (CPUs with integrated graphics or APUs with integrated graphics) increased to 60 million units, an increase of 7% over the quarter, while year-over-year, the increase of iGPU shipments was increased by 18%. Over the next 5 years, JPR estimates the penetration of iGPUs in the PC segment will grow to 98%, up from 84% in Q4 2023.

Jon Peddie, president of JPR, said in the report: "Q4's increase in client CPU shipments from last quarter is positive news in what has been depressing news in general. The increase in upsetting news in the Middle East, combined with the ongoing war in Ukraine, the trade war with China, and the layoffs at many organizations, has been a torrent of bad news in spite of decreased inflation and increased GDP in the U.S. CPU shipments are showing continued gains and are a leading indicator".

Faraday Technology is a company you might not have heard of, but they're a leader in the ASIC design services and IP solutions space, announcing a new collaboration with Arm and Intel on a 64-core SOC on Intel 18A technology.

The innovative new 64-core SOC will be seamlessly integrated into Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS), which will provide unparalleled performance and power efficiency that's made for the construction of capable hyperscale data centers, infrastructure edge, and advanced 5G networks.

Faraday's new Arm-based SoC is designed to be a fundamental component of its upcoming SoC evaluation platform, which will help customers accelerate the development of data center servers, high-performance computing (HPC)-related ASICs, and custom SoCs. It will feature interface IPs from the Arm Total Design ecosystem, while baked on Intel 18A technology. Faraday is expecting its new SoC to be released in the first half of 2025.

Building a functioning 16-bit processor or CPU inside Microsoft Excel, with its own memory, output, and custom assembly language, is an impressive - if not entirely useful - feat. This is because you're looking at a 16-bit CPU with a clock speed of just 3 Hz, 128KB of RAM, and a 16-color output display.

But this isn't Intel's iconic 8086 CPU recreated in Excel, as it features its own custom architecture and instruction set. YouTube channel Inkbox breaks down how they created a functioning CPU inside Excel in a fascinating and informative 15+ minute video above.

The Microsoft Excel CPU was made possible due to how a spreadsheet app works - where, with each cell, you've got a powerful calculator that can take in data and output a result. Stack them together, and they can mimic a CPU's input and output functionality, albeit from the era when MS-DOS was the height of cutting-edge technology.

If you want to upgrade your gaming PC and step into a cheaper AM4 motherboard, AMD's new Ryzen 5 5700X3D processor is now available. A cheaper X3D-based AM4 processor that costs $249.

AMD's new Ryzen 7 5700X3D processor features 8 cores and 16 threads based on the Zen 4 CPU architecture, the same as the higher-end Ryzen 7 5800X3D, but with lower boost CPU clock speeds. The new Ryzen 7 5700X3D processor -- on paper -- should offer around 7% to 9% less performance over the 5800X3D with its 400MHz slower CPU boost clocks.

There are no launch reviews of the Ryzen 7 5700X3D because the company didn't send out review CPU samples. But, on Chinese platforms like Bilibili, we're getting our first look at 5700X3D performance.

Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake-S processor has been spotted again, with news that it will not support Hyper-Threading.

Intel first introduced Hyper-Threading (HT) technology with is Xeon CPU architecture back in 2002, over 20 years ago now, with simultaneous multithreading technology allowing physical cores inside of Intel CPUs to perform two tasks at the same time, effectively acting as two logical cores.

As the years went on, the first consumer-focused Core and Core 2 processors didn't support Hyper-Threading, with HT being introduced with its Core i7 "Nehalem" processors in 2008. There are changes coming for Intel's consumer and gaming-focused processors anyway, with the introduction of Performance Cores (P-Cores) and Efficient Cores (E-Cores) that we have in the 12th Gen Core, 13th Gen Core, and just-launched 14th Gen Core CPUs.

AMD's current desktop motherboards are being offered with mobile processors, at least by a Chinese company, and this first motherboard... supports a Ryzen 7 8845HS chip with 65W TDP and even 4 x 2.5GbE ethernet ports.

Intel has Mobile on Desktop (MoDT) right now, but now we've got AMD's new Ryzen 7 8845HS processor, offering 8 cores and 16 threads of Zen 4 processing power with a low 65W TDP (which also doesn't require a crazy cooler to keep chill). High-end CPUs at lower price points than regular desktop processors and motherboards are the point here.

Changwang's new AMD MoDT Mini-ITX motherboard is aimed at NAS and storage use, with support for 4 x 2.5GbE ethernet ports (important for NAS and storage) as well as up to 9 x SATA drives for huge amounts of fast storage.

AMD's Zen 5 processors, the next-gen silicon for the desktop, are on track for release in the second half of 2024, we've been told.

Paul Alcorn (Managing Editor at Tom's Hardware) tweeted to tell us that an AMD representative had "confirmed that Zen 5 is on track" for a consumer release in H2 2024.

Earlier this week, YouTuber and regular leaker Moore's Law is Dead (MLID) suggested that AMD's Zen 5 chips won't likely be out until after the summer, so again, into the second half of the year - but that they were originally intended to come out in the first half of 2024.

Intel recently launched its 14th Gen Core "Raptor Lake Refresh" processors in desktop and mobile form, but we're hearing Bartlett Lake-S processors will be offered as budget-focused desktop CPUs that will find themselves below the performance and gaming-focused Arrow Lake-S processors.

The current LGA 1700 platform will work with Intel's next-gen Battle Lake-S processors, so users on previous-gen LGA 1700 processors could see this as a cheaper upgrade if they didn't need all the cores, threads, and higher performance that Intel will deliver with Arrow Lake-S.

We should expect some IPC improvements as well as higher cache totals with Bartlett Lake, with clock speeds surely to be tweaked under Arrow Lake-S, and its surely much higher base and boost CPU clocks. If you've purchased an LGA 1700 motherboard in the last few years and had something like a 12th Gen Core CPU, the new Bartlett Lake-S family of processors would be a fantastic upgrade that won't break the bank.