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Intel reportedly slashing budget to 'Intel Inside' marketing

Anthony Garreffa | Dec 12, 2017 11:34 PM CST

We all remember those 'Intel Inside' stickers on our PCs and the massive marketing campaign that chipzilla pushed behind it, but now reports are surfacing that say Intel will be cutting the budget to its "co-operative marketing program".

Intel reportedly slashing budget to 'Intel Inside' marketing

According to CRN, Intel will be reducing the funding that the Intel Inside marketing program receives, in the vicinity of 40-60%. CRN cites unidentified sources, saying that the cuts are being made so that the company can increase budgets to "other groups within Intel that aren't channel-specific or PC-centric".

Intel would reportedly use the freed up funds to dominating the datacenter market, but have reportedly not added anything else to that list. With the growing list of competitors at Intel's doorstep with AMD in various markets with Ryzen, Threadripper, EPYC, and Radeon Instinct... while Qualcomm just put their marker down with the new Always-On, Always-Connected PC world with Snapdragon and Windows... I don't see how Intel is making a good move here.

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AMD confirms next-gen Ryzen CPUs for Q1 2018

Anthony Garreffa | Dec 11, 2017 5:36 PM CST

There has been a stream of fake news regarding AMD's next-gen Ryzen and new Ryzen 10 processors, but something that has been confirmed is that AMD is planning to launch their second-gen Ryzen CPUs in Q1 2018.

AMD confirms next-gen Ryzen CPUs for Q1 2018

According to the latest roadmap from AMD we should expect Raven Ridge (Ryzen 3 mobile APU) in Q1 2018, a new chip that will be unveiled at an event before CES 2018 in the first week of January. AMD will also release their business-oriented Ryzen PRO mobile APUs in early 2018, while we'll see the second-gen Ryzen CPUs released somewhere in the March timeframe.

AMD can't name their new Ryzen processors 'Ryzen 2' as it would be beyond confusing with the current nomenclature of Ryzen 3/5/7, so we should expect the Ryzen 2000 series. This would allow AMD to push the Ryzen 7 2800X for example, something that would succeed the Ryzen 7 1800X that is currently the flagship Ryzen 7 processor.

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AMD Ryzen 10 3970X: 24C/48T at 5.5GHz teased

Anthony Garreffa | Dec 10, 2017 7:24 PM CST

The news of AMD's next-gen Ryzen 2 processors has the internet in a tailspin, with a tease of the new Ryzen 7 2800X with 12C/24T at a blistering 5.1GHz blowing everyone away. It is being claimed a fake, and while it probably is, we're still going to report it to just talk about it.

AMD Ryzen 10 3970X: 24C/48T at 5.5GHz teased

But there is another fake slide that teases the purported Ryzen 10 range of CPUs that would succeed the Ryzen Threadripper range, starting with the Ryzen 10 3920X for $599. From there, we have the Ryzen 10 3950X at $749 and the flagship Ryzen 10 3970X for $899.

AMD's purported Ryzen 10 3920X packs 16C/32T of CPU power at 4.7/5.3GHz for base and boost, respectively, while the Ryzen 10 3950X packs 20C/40T with 4.8/5.3GHz and is 84% faster than the Threadripper 1950X. The flagship Ryzen 10 3970X packs an insane 24C/48T of CPU power at a huge 5.0/5.5GHz and is a whopping 106% faster than Threadripper 1950X.

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AMD's new Ryzen 7 2800X teased: 12C/24T at up to 5.1GHz

Anthony Garreffa | Dec 9, 2017 2:43 PM CST

AMD is preparing for a big CPU launch in early 2018 with an event being held before CES 2018 in the first week of January where we'll see the company detail Ryzen Mobile (which has already launched). But it looks like we might see the tease of the company's next-gen Ryzen 2 family of CPUs.

AMD's new Ryzen 7 2800X teased: 12C/24T at up to 5.1GHz

During a recent video on KitGuru, an AMD slide was teased in the background with 'Ryzen 2' which said "raising the bar for desktop performance" and teasing three new Ryzen 7 processors. We have:

Better yet, the pricing on these new Ryzen 2 processors is damn good with the Ryzen 7 2700 starting at $329, the Ryzen 7 2800 priced at $399 while the flagship Ryzen 7 2800X will be priced at $449.

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TSMC to spend $20 billion on world's first 3nm chip facility

Derek Strickland | Dec 7, 2017 6:31 PM CST

TSMC, the leading chip-maker in the world, plans to invest tens of billions to make a new high-end chip facility, reports Nikkei Asian Review.

TSMC to spend $20 billion on world's first 3nm chip facility

Senior sources say TSMC will invest $20 billion to make the world's first and most advanced chip-making facility in Taiwan, with a rollout date planned for early 2020s. The facility will be aimed at producing ultra-efficient chips on the 3nm node in an effort to keep ahead of the constantly-evolving world of technology, whether mobile devices or new machines.

"This past September, we announced our plan for the world's first 3-nanometer fab located in the Tainan science park [in southern Taiwan]. This fab could cost upwards of $20 billion and represents TSMC's commitment to drive technology forward," TSMC executive Mark Liu told Nikkei Asian Review.

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Hacked: Intel Coffee Lake 8350K running on Z170 motherboard

Steven Bassiri | Dec 4, 2017 3:58 PM CST

A user recently posted on Baidu that they were able to hack their MSI Z170A XPower Titanium BIOS, allowing it to support the Intel Core i3-8350K Coffee Lake CPU. Although Intel's 6th, 7th, and 8th Generation CPUs all use the same LGA1151 socket, motherboard vendors and Intel only allow 6th and 7th Generation processors to run on the Z170 and Z270 chipsets.

Hacked: Intel Coffee Lake 8350K running on Z170 motherboard

The 8th Generation processors, which offer more cores per dollar, can only run on the new and more expensive Z370 motherboards. When news of the incompatibility between 8th Generation Core processors and Z170 and Z270 motherboards broke, people were upset about the reasons given for locking the new CPUs out of the more affordable motherboards.

Power delivery concerns were the main reason we were given as to why Intel would not support 8th Generation CPUs on previous Z170 and Z270 chipsets. It seems that nature, or rather one very smart thinking hacker, found a way to make it work. They were able to trick the motherboard into accepting the unsupported CPU. The voltage regulator module on the Z170A XPower Titanium is a very robust one, and should not pose a problem with the newer CPUs.

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Intel Core i9-9700K rumored to have 8C/16T of CPU power

Anthony Garreffa | Nov 27, 2017 8:30 PM CST

It was barely a year ago that the Core i7-7700K was the gaming CPU king, and then the rumors of its successor in the Core i7-8700K began earlier this year. Well, before we wrap up 2017 the rumors are now starting on the next-gen Core i9-9700K, Intel's next-gen mainstream CPU king.

Intel Core i9-9700K rumored to have 8C/16T of CPU power

Intel's upcoming Core i9-9700K will reportedly feature 8C/16T of CPU power and will be made on the impressively-small 10nm Cannon Lake CPU architecture. We shouldn't expect the new 9700K to beat the 8700K in brute CPU clock speeds, but it will beat it when it comes to multi-tasking because of its 8C/16T versus the 8700K and its 6C/12T.

If the rumors of the Core i9-9700K are true, we can see AMD has directly impacted Intel with its push into the world of mega-tasking with a heap of CPU threads. The previous-gen Core i7-7700K was a 4C/8T chip, the 8700K was a 6C/12T, and now the 9700K is reportedly an 8C/16T chip. Bring it on.

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Intel Core i9 mobile CPU teased as Core i9-8950HK

Anthony Garreffa | Nov 26, 2017 7:00 PM CST

It looks like Intel is preparing to announce a new mobile variant of its Core i9 processor, with AIDA64 - the popular system information, diagnostics and auditing software, included a tease of Intel's unannounced processors in the latest beta of AIDA64.

Intel Core i9 mobile CPU teased as Core i9-8950HK

We have now been teased with mobile and desktop Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, and Core i9 processors. The Core i9-8950HK is the most exciting, as it's the first Coffee Lake/Core i9 CPU for notebooks. Better yet, the 8950HK is an overclockable chip that rocks 6C/12T for freaking notebooks.

As for the other unannounced CPUs from Intel, we can expect new Coffee Lake-H processors in the form of a new Core i3 quad-core chip, Core i5 six-core chip, and Core i7 with 6C/12T of power. The full list of 8th and 9th generation processors is long, thanks to AIDA64:

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Intel CPUs have serious bug: vulnerable to remote attacks

Anthony Garreffa | Nov 22, 2017 3:34 AM CST

Intel has found itself in seriously hot water, issuing a new security alert that management firmware on a bunch of new PC, server, and Internet-of-Things processor platforms are vulnerable to a remote attack.

Intel CPUs have serious bug: vulnerable to remote attacks

Mark Ermolov and Maxim Goryachy of Positive Technologies Research found the new vulnerabilities, which could see attackers remotely launching commands on Intel-based computers. We're talking about most desktop and laptop CPUs launched under the Core brand since 2015, and even Xeon and Atom lines of processors.

Intel CPUs Affected By Remote Attack Bugs:

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Qualcomm ships Centriq 2400 chips, aims at Intel's new Xeon

Anthony Garreffa | Nov 8, 2017 9:48 PM CST

Qualcomm has announced that commercial shipments of their new Centriq 2400 family of server CPUs, which are made on Samsung's fresh 10nm FinFET process and pack a huge 18 billion transistors into an area of 398 mm².

Qualcomm ships Centriq 2400 chips, aims at Intel's new Xeon

Inside, Qualcomm's new Centriq CPUs have up to 48 single-thread 64-bit ARM v8-compliant cores, a custom design that Qualcomm has dubbed Falkor. These cores have a base clock of 2.2GHz while the peak clocks ramp up to 2.6GHz on the Centriq 2460.

Each and every Falkor core has 64GB of L1 instruction alongside something Qualcomm calls "24KB single-cycle L0 cache" that is made for low-power operation, bringing it up to a total of 88KB of l-cache per core. In total, the Centriq 2460 has 48 cores, 60MB of cache, 2.2/2.6GHz base/peak frequency, and 120W TDP.

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