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Intel is splitting its high-end Tiger Lake mobile chip lineup to meet two TDP targets: 35 Watts and 45 Watts. Tiger Lake-H35 chips have been launched, with 4 cores, 8 threads, and 96 graphics "Xe" (Gen12) execution units. Later in Q1, Intel will launch 45 Watt TDP Tiger Lake with up to 8 cores, 16 threads.
Intel has also launched new "Jasper Lake" Celeron/Pentium chips on a "10nm" process node. Jasper Lake uses the Tremont Atom core previously used in Lakefield. TDPs range from 6-10 Watts. 16 GB of memory is explicity supported, up from 8 GB of Gemini Lake Refresh (although boards like the ODROID-H2+ supported 32 GB, go figure). Graphics performance of the Pentium Silver N6005 should be substantially higher than its predecessor due to the use of Gen11 graphics and an increase to 32 execution units.
See also: Intel says the Iris Xe Max isn't really for gaming. They're not wrong
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Also at Ars Technica, The Verge, Notebookcheck, and Wccftech.
Related: Intel Details Tremont Microarchitecture; x86 Atom Could be Used in Tablets Again
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday January 15 2021, @04:16PM (1 child)
What's happened is that Intel hasn't hit a homerun recently. Whereas AMD has been knocking it out of the park for the last couple of releases. AMD seems to be cranking them out like hot cakes while Intel's offerings are just kind of sitting there. Nvidia is pushing AMD as well, but you can still generally put your hands on newer Nvidia GPUs for reasonable prices. Which seems to indicate that they also don't have as pressing of a supply/demand issue.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday January 15 2021, @04:34PM
AMD is the one pushing Nvidia to put 12 GB of VRAM in the RTX 3060.
BOM costs of some of the RTX 30-series (RTX 3080 in particular) are high due to components needed for power management. Which is why Nvidia sold off many cards to cryptominers. MSRP pricing is a fantasy.
Prices are kind of ludicrous. There are supply/demand "issues", they just aren't a bad thing for AMD or Nvidia. All cards will be sold, all costs will be passed on to the consumer. One hidden cost: air shipping is more expensive during a pandemic because less people are flying.
AMD and NVIDIA confirm that GPU stock levels will remain non-existent for the foreseeable future [notebookcheck.net]
NVIDIA Allegedly Sold $175 Million Worth of Ampere GeForce RTX 30 GPUs To Crypto Miners, Could Be A Contributing Factor Behind Immense Shortages [wccftech.com]
Nvidia’s Ultimate Play [mooreslawisdead.com]
Nvidia Mulls Restarting Cryptomining GPU Production [tomshardware.com] - This is new. I wonder if the bubble will burst again.
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