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CPU Rumor Mill: Intel Core i9, AMD Ryzen 9, and AMD "Starship"

posted by n1 on Tuesday May 16 2017, @12:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the intelundai-i10 dept.

takyon writes:

AMD is rumored to be releasing a line of Ryzen 9 "Threadripper" enthusiast CPUs that include 10, 12, 14, or 16 cores. This is in contrast to the Ryzen lines of AMD CPUs that topped out at the 8-core Ryzen 7 1800X with a base clock of 3.6 GHz.

Meanwhile, Intel is supposedly planning to release 6, 8, 10, and 12 core Skylake-X processors under an "Intel Core i9" designation. Two Kaby Lake-X, a quad-core and another quad-core with hyper-threading disabled, are also mentioned.

Finally, AMD's 32-core "Naples" server chips could be succeeded in late 2018 or 2019 by a 48-core 7nm part nicknamed "Starship". GlobalFoundries plans to skip the 10nm node, and where GF goes, AMD follows. Of course, according to Intel, what really matters are transistors per square millimeter.

All of the processors mentioned could be officially announced at Computex 2017, running from May 30 to June 3. Expect the high end desktop (HEDT) CPUs to be in excess of $500 and as high as $1,500. Intel may also announce Coffee Lake CPUs later this year including a "mainstream" priced 6-core chip.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Tuesday May 16 2017, @06:38PM

    by Arik (4543) on Tuesday May 16 2017, @06:38PM (#510664) Journal
    "And when they discover a security bug and you whinge like hell about it, with microcode they can update your CPU for you."

    The problem is not that it uses microcode per se, it's that the microcode is a hidden blob which the customer cannot update. This is effectively the machine code level of programming on a modern cpu, and it's deliberately obscured from the customer. I don't want to be at the mercy of the manufacturer to fix bugs, or to decide which bugs need to be fixed, or to be introduced, and without open access to that microcode that's exactly what you are buying.

    "not allowing your products to be fixed in the field"

    And that's exactly what happens here. Sure, you can fix bugs in the field with their blobs, when they decide they want to fix them, but they've completely stripped the purchaser, the owner of the machine, of the ability to do this despite the fact that it would be easier, technically, to open this up than to close it. That justifies the adjectives used.
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