Tag: Intel

Advanced Yet Cheap Chips? Intel and UMC Developing a 3nm Node

News, Technology | | Jan Olšan

As is well known, Intel is trying to pivot to a foundry business fabbing chips for external customers like TSMC or Samsung. Compared to those, however, it currently lacks a portfolio of older, lower-cost technologies. For those, Intel has paired up with Taiwan’s UMC some time ago, aiming to develop an inexpensive easy-to-use 12nm process. But it now appears that this collaboration could later also produce an affordable 3nm process. Read more “Advanced Yet Cheap Chips? Intel and UMC Developing a 3nm Node” »

ATX12VO v3: Better ATX PSU successor, but with melting cable risk?

Motherboards, News, PSUs | | Jan Olšan

It’s been six years since Intel came up with ATX12VO PSUs as and alternative to ATX power supplies, replacing PC’s multiple voltage rails with a single 12V rail (hence the name: “12V Only”) to improve energy efficiency. So far, it hasn’t gained much traction. Intel is now introducing a new “v3” version, which brings deeper changes. They’re quite interesting and could justify a transition, but there’s also one big caveat. Read more “ATX12VO v3: Better ATX PSU successor, but with melting cable risk?” »

Intel Titan Lake, Hammer Lake CPUs detailed: Unified Core and HT

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

We previously covered information about Intel’s future Razor Lake processors, expected to launch as the Core Ultra 500 generation likely at the end of 2027 (that is, after the upcoming Nova Lake generation). Moore’s Law is Dead, who leaked those details, also revealed information about the following generations—Titan Lake and Hammer Lake. These are even further out, but they will introduce a long‑awaited, radical architectural shift. Read more “Intel Titan Lake, Hammer Lake CPUs detailed: Unified Core and HT” »

Intel confirms work underway on 1.0nm and 0.7nm process nodes

News, Technology | | Jan Olšan

Intel’s new CEO Lip-Bu Tan initially seemed to doubt efforts to turn around the company’s own fabs and warned that Intel’s 1.4nm process could be the last one, but the company’s stock is now ironically rising thanks to hopes placed in the fabs rather than the products, in part due to investor hopes for contracts with Elon Musk and Apple. And it now appears that Intel’s manufacturing process technology once again have a future. Read more “Intel confirms work underway on 1.0nm and 0.7nm process nodes” »

Future Apple Silicon processors will be fabbed by Intel Foundry

News, Processors, Technology | | Jan Olšan

For a while, we’ve been seeing reports that Apple could become one of the key major customers Intel signed up for chip production in its Foundry fabs—a critical factor in Intel’s long-term effort to turn the fab division around. At first, this may have been little more than Intel shareholder’s wishful thinking, but it appears the contract may indeed happen, with Intel set to manufacture Apple chips—for laptops as well as mobile phones. Read more “Future Apple Silicon processors will be fabbed by Intel Foundry” »

x86 ACE Instructions: AMD Zen 7 core’s AI acceleration detailed

Analysis, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Longtime rivals AMD and Intel have established a joint consortium seeking to make their x86 processors and their future extensions more compatible instead of using the differences and exclusive features as (anti)competitive advantages. In autumn they settled on several extensions to be made standard: AVX10/AVX-512, APX, ChkTag, FRED, and also the ACE matrix extension for AI compute, about which very little had been known until now. Read more “x86 ACE Instructions: AMD Zen 7 core’s AI acceleration detailed” »

Overclocking for all? Intel will unlock cheaper boards and CPUs

Chipsets, Motherboards, News | | Jan Olšan

Recently we wrote about how Intel plans to step back from frequent socket changes for desktop CPUs, giving motherboards a longer useful “life” in the sense that they could be upgraded with newer processors. But this is not the only area where Intel, feeling pressure, is moving closer to AMD’s approach. Intel will also allow overclocking on cheaper boards and CPUs—something they have blocked until now, making it a “premium” privilege. Read more “Overclocking for all? Intel will unlock cheaper boards and CPUs” »

Intel Core Ultra 300 Panther Lake pro notebooky (Autor: Intel)

Performance boost for Intel CPUs: Impact of FRED measured

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

While little is known about AMD’s Zen 6 CPUs, quite a lot has been leaking about Intel’s competing Nova Lake CPUs. Nova Lake could be an interesting and innovative generation thanks to new cores bringing back AVX‑512 and introducing APX for the first time. And they will be boosted by another new technology: FRED, which is already present in Panther Lake CPUs, and as it turns out, it brings notable benefits in certain applications. Read more “Performance boost for Intel CPUs: Impact of FRED measured” »

Nova Lake to feature new 2L-ILM socket to prevent CPU bending

CPU coolers, Motherboards, News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Since Alder Lake (12th‑gen Core), Intel has been using a rectangular desktop CPU socket—first LGA 1700, now LGA 1851, and at the turn of the year the LGA 1954 platform for Nova Lake is expected. These sockets, however, have been associated with complaints about CPU bending caused by the mounting mechanism and cooler pressure. With Nova Lake, Intel is preparing a solution, though it may not be available on all motherboards. Read more “Nova Lake to feature new 2L-ILM socket to prevent CPU bending” »

Arrow Lake Refresh CPU pricing considerably higher than announced

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Last year’s Nvidia GeForce RTX 5000 and AMD Radeon RX 9000 GPU launches were widely criticised for “fake MSRP.” That refers to situations where companies announce an attractive price that creates a good first impression and earns praise in reviews, only for the cards to immediately become more expensive or never actually appear at the advertised price. It now looks like something similar may be happening with Intel’s new processors. Read more “Arrow Lake Refresh CPU pricing considerably higher than announced” »

Intel and AMD to increase CPU prices by 10–15 %

Processors, News | | Jan Olšan

Although memory and SSD prices are currently very high, the it wasn’t nearly as bad in the CPU market—Intel just released the new “Plus” refresh CPUs at surprisingly low pricing, and AMD responded with discounts. Unfortunately, rising manufacturing costs driven by demand for AI hardware will likely hit this segment as well. Both Intel and AMD are reportedly preparing CPU price increases, which will make PCs even more expensive. Read more “Intel and AMD to increase CPU prices by 10–15 %” »

Core Ultra 270K Plus beats existing high-end. No KF version, though

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Intel is launching new CPUs for the LGA 1954 socket, refreshed “Plus” models of the Core Ultra 200S “Arrow Lake” lineup. These focus on offering great bang for buck, adding more cores. As a result, Intel abandoned the pricier Core Ultra 9 flagship and gave full core count to the lower-tier Core Ultra 7 270K Plus. In the end, it will even be faster than the previous Core Ultra 9 285K—in practice, ironically running at higher clock speeds. Read more “Core Ultra 270K Plus beats existing high-end. No KF version, though” »

Arrow Lake Refresh Intel desktop CPUs launched: SKUs and pricing

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Intel has officially released the so-called Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs for the LGA 1851 desktop socket. This platform won’t receive a new generation like laptops did in the 1.8 nm Core Ultra 300 Panther Lake CPUs. Instead, new models of the 3 nm Arrow Lake generationare coming. And although they do not have a new architecture, they should be very interesting when it comes to the bang-for-buck ratio. Read more “Arrow Lake Refresh Intel desktop CPUs launched: SKUs and pricing” »

Intel to unveil new Core Ultra 200 desktop processors next week

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Originally, Intel was expected to launch the Core Ultra 200 (Arrow Lake) desktop CPU refresh right at the beginning of the year in January. That did not happen, but Intel is still preparing these new models for its lineup, and they should reach stores very soon. The dates when customers can expect them have now leaked. Earlier reports indicated March or April, but Intel will apparently manage to launch them within the first quarter after all. Read more “Intel to unveil new Core Ultra 200 desktop processors next week” »

Unified Core: Breakthrough Change Is Coming To Intel CPUs

Processors, News | | Jan Olšan

Since 2021 Intel has been using a hybrid CPU architecture with big and little cores (starting with 12th-gen Core CPUs, though it had already been tried a year and a half earlier in the Lakefield SoC). However, the little “E-Cores” derived from former Atom SoC are quite unpopular among some. Now, a radical change is emerging on the horizon—instead of maintaining two completely different core architectures, Intel is moving to a single one. Read more “Unified Core: Breakthrough Change Is Coming To Intel CPUs” »

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