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Intel is experiencing some major miscommunications within its walls, with the GPU division in serious trouble that pushed rumors that Intel could totally cancel their Arc desktop GPUs... and now there's news that the GPU tile on its upcoming 14th Gen Core "Meteor Lake" is causing havoc.

Intel is reportedly canceling orders for the 3nm node tile of its Meteor Lake GPU, something that Intel refers to as "External N3" which is TSMC's 3nm node. Intel 'powered on' its new 14th Gen Core "Meteor Lake" back in late April this year, where at the time Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said: "Intel 4 Meteor Lake has now successfully booted Windows, Chrome, and Linux. The speed at which the team was able to achieve this milestone is a significant sign of the health of both Meteor Lake and our Intel 4 process technology".

We were meant to see Intel launch Meteor Lake sometime in Q2 2023, but with massive delays in their GPU, server hardware like Intel's next-gen Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" CPUs, and Optane being pushed off a cliff... it shouldn't come as a surprise. Still, the 14th Gen Core "Meteor Lake" delay itself isn't that bad... I'm questioning WTF is happening with the GPU that's so bad that they're scaling back orders to TSMC for the 3nm-based GPU tile.

AMD is penciling in its Ryzen 7000 series CPU launch, with a tease that the Zen 4 launch will take place on August 29, while the CPUs themselves (and motherboards) will launch on September 15.

According to Wccftech, here's how the AMD Ryzen 7000 series "Zen 4" CPUs will launch: August 29 announcement, September 13 for review NDAs to be lifted, and then two days later on August 15 we'll see the Ryzen 7000 series CPUs officially launched and onto shelves, and inside of gaming PCs across the world.

AMD is currently meeting with partners for its "Meet The Experts" event, where we should see new details on AMD's upcoming enthusiast-grade X670E + X670 motherboards will be detailed by the likes of ASUS, MSI, GIGABYTE, and others. Zen 4 processors will float out on September 15, with what should be the flagship Ryzen 9 7950X with 16 cores and 32 threads at up to 5.5GHz+ and 170W (and more when overclocking) TDP.

AMD has now confirmed its next-gen Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 series desktop CPUs wil lbe launching this quarter, which ends in September.

During their recent Q2 2022 earnings call, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su confirmed herself that the Zen 4 processors were launching soon, where said explained: "Looking ahead, we're on track to launch our all-new 5nm Ryzen 7000 desktop processors and AM5 platforms later this quarter with leadership performance in gaming and content creation".

We should expect to see many more details on AMD's upcoming X670E motherboard designs, where AIB partners should be showing off their designs in the coming days. AMD is also hosting its upcoming "Meet the Experts" event for enthusiasts and professionals from all of the major AIB partners, where they'll talk about their new X670E and X670 motherboard families of the future.

Intel's next-gen 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" CPUs are very close to being in our hands now, but a new video is teasing a huge 6.0GHz overclock across all of the Raptor Cove CPU cores.

The new Intel Core i7-13700K "Raptor Lake" CPU was overclocked to 6.0GHz on an MSI MEG Z690I Unify motherboard, with only the 8 Raptor Cove P-Cores enabled, no E-Cores were enabled, with voltage pumping in at 1.421V. CPU temps were hitting 25C to 37C which means we're looking at temperatures that were captured before, or after the testing was completed.

Another screenshot has all of the 16 cores enabled, with the Performance cores at 5.8GHz while the Efficient cores were clocked at 3.7GHz -- resulting in 947 points in the single-threaded test, 12896 in the multi-threaded test. The new Intel Core i7-13700K processor was placed into an ASUS ROG Strix Z690-A Gaming motherboard, which will use DDR4 memory.

Intel has multiple products that are fooked right now, with the upcoming Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" CPU family originally slated for Q1 2022 but now delayed until Q1 2023 according to the latest rumors.

We're now hearing from Igor's Lab with access gained to internal NDA-Sights documents that talk about issues with Sapphire Rapids, where documents had 500+ entries. This is the largest list of bugs for a CPU in the history of Intel, explaining why Sapphire Rapids is up shit creek without a paddle, pun intended. Igor reports that Sapphire Rapids has had 12 different steppings already, but it gets worse.

Igor explained: "The problems and errors are collected under NDA in internal documents ("so-called NDA sights") and currently amount to almost 500 (!) entries, with the trend continuing to rise. [...] This started with A0 and A1, then proceeded via B0, C0, C1, C2, D0, E0, E2, E3 and E4 until currently stepping E5! The market launch was planned about 1.5 years ago and the plan was recently updated again".

AMD's next-gen Zen 4 hype train is really choo-choo-chooing right now, after teases from AMD of 5.5GHz+ on an upcoming Zen 4 processor, and now with leaker "Kepler_L2" teasing that 4.95GHz is "bottom of the barren Zen4 silicon".

In a new tweet, he referenced that the "Userbenchmark meltdown continues! Now they are calling the 7600X ES a 'golden sample'. Little do they know 4.95GHz is bottom of the barrel Zen4 silicon". He was referencing a post on Userbenchmark, which stated: "literally within minutes of this golden sample appearing on Userbenchmark, AMD's marketing machinery was actively promoting Zen 4 whilst simultaneously slandering Userbenchmark via hundreds of "news" outlets and thousands of Twitter, Reddit, forum and YouTube accounts".

"If AMD were actually about to release a class leading CPU (or GPU) they would have no incentive to take this approach. As it stands, buying new AMD products is similar to buying used cars. It's difficult for consumers to make rational choices while AMD completely dominate "news" and social media channels".

Intel will be unleashing its next-gen 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" desktop CPUs later this year, but the company has now confirmed that it will be launching mobile Raptor Lake CPUs by the end of the year.

During their recent Q2 earnings call, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said that when it comes to their next-gen CPU: "Raptor Lake - starting with our desktop SKUs this fall, followed by our mobile family by end of year". If we look at the current-gen 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake" CPU launch, Intel launched its Alder Lake-K series CPU in late October 2021, with Alder Lake mobile CPUs launched in February 2022, Alder Lake-HX mobile CPUs launched just a couple of months ago in May.

Intel does have its current "Innovation" event for September 27, where we're expecting to see the company roll out its new 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" CPUs in desktop form. But now we have Gelsinger himself confirming Raptor Lake mobile CPUs for this year... but how close to the end of the year will Intel do that? CES 2023 is in the first weeks of January 2023, but it seems Intel is confident on Raptor Lake mobile dropping before the end of the year.

AMD's new mid-range Ryzen 5 7600X processor isn't too far away, with an engineering sample of the Zen 4 CPU with an AMD OPN code of "100-000000593-20_Y" has started appearing on the Userbenchmark website.

The new AMD Ryzen 5 7600X processor was tested inside of ASRock's new N7-B65XT motherboard, which looks like a new B650-based motherboard being co-designed by NZXT as ASRock. The new AMD Ryzen 5 7600X processor was rocking a 4.4GHz base CPU clock and turbo clock of up to 4.95GHz, which is damn good.

AMD's current mid-range Zen 3-based Ryzen 5 5600X has a 3.7GHz base CPU clock and 4.65GHz turbo clock, so the Zen 4-based Ryzen 5 7600X has some much higher CPU clocks up its sleeve.

Intel is definitely adding a VPU chip to its new 14th Gen Core "Meteor Lake" CPUs that will debut in Q3 2023, a year from now: with the VPU confirmed as the Versatile Processing Unit.

The new Intel VPU was teased close to a year ago by leaker Moore's Law is Dead, yet another leak of his confirmed... MLID explained back in September 2021: "Meteor Lake will get an integrated VPU Accelerator. It's similar to the Neural in the Apple M1 for speech recognition, language models, and conceivably tons of apps by the time Meteor Lake launches".

Intel confirmed the Versatile Processing Unit (VPU) in a new commit to Linux VPU driver. The new VPU driver was baked into the Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) in the same fashion that graphics drivers get integrated.

Samsung isn't exactly burying its in-house Exynos chipset but rather, we already know that the South Korean giant formed a new "Joint Task Force" to beat Apple... but now the company has confirmed it is NOT shutting its Exynos business.

The news is coming directly from its Q2 2022 conference call, where Samsung said that the rumors that it would be shutting its Exynos business down "is not true at all" reports Korean Maeil Economic Daily. Samsung reportedly explained: "Currently, we are reorganizing our system-on-chip (SoC) business model, and are pursuing a plan to strengthen our competitiveness in the mid- to long-term".

Samsung continued: "In particular, we are focusing on strengthening the competitiveness of the next-generation mobile Exynos, and we are trying to maximize the market share of major customers by strengthening cooperation with leading IP companies and starting early development. Efforts are underway to improve the soundness of the mobile-oriented business structure by expanding applications such as wearables other than smartphones, and to secure a multilateral cooperation model".

AMD's higher-end Ryzen 9 SKUs of their next-gen Zen 4-based CPU family that includes the Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 9 7900X, will use 170W of power by default.

The new AMD Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 9 7900X processors will have a 170W TDP when running normal voltages, but they'll chew more power when overclocked. We already know that AMD's higher-end Ryzen 7000 series SKUs would have a 170W TDP and 230W PPT, confirmed by Robert Hallock.

We know that AMD's new Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 series CPUs will be hitting 5.5GHz pretty easily, 5.8GHz without a problem and I'm sure we're going to see 6.0GHz+ breached by overclockers. "HerbieHSSO" tweeted that the GIGABYTE leak confirmed the TDP and PPT of the Ryzen 7000 series CPUs, with leaker "kopite7kimi" tweeted: that all "R9 SKUs with a normal voltage are base on 170W TDP".

AMD has officially confirmed its next-gen Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 series CPUs coming to the desktop in the coming months.

The company has confirmed the next-gen Ryzen 9 7950X, Ryzen 9 7900X, Ryzen 7 7700X, Ryzen 5 7600X processors on the official AMD website, inside of the public AMD resource library spotted by VideoCardz. There isn't any news on the Ryzen 7 7800X and lower-end Ryzen 3 7000 series CPUs, but I'm sure they won't be too far away.

AMD's current and now kinda confirmed Zen 4 processor launch lineup was rumored over a month ago now, which was said to include the Ryzen 9 7950X, Ryzen 9 7900X, Ryzen 7 7800X, Ryzen 5 7600X. But it seems the 7800X was switched out, replaced with the 7700X. AMD does love the number 7, where it launched the Zen 3-based Ryzen 3000 series CPUs on 7/7/2019 on 7nm.

AMD will be talking to its partners on August 5 about its next-gen Ryzen 7000 series CPUs and new enthusiast-grade X670E motherboards.

The company teased its upcoming "Exclusive Look at Partner Products: A Showcase of The New AM5 Motherboards" for business partners and customers who are eager to learn more about AMD's next-gen products, taking place on August 5 at 12:00 AM Taiwan time (9 AM PT). We should expect the Zen 4 + X670E launch shortly after.

It seems that there are a lot of... let's just say convenient leaks about AMD's new Zen 4 products (including the next-gen 600-series motherboards) over the last few months. This is another one of those leaks, but it doesn't matter... we know it's coming, and it's coming real soon.

Intel's next-gen 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" CPUs will be coming out in the next few months, but the next-next-gen 14th Gen Core "Meteor Lake" CPUs are getting some more details in fresh leaks.

We heard about the new Redwood Cove microarchitecture from Tom at Moore's Law is Dead all the way back in November 2020, with some new confirmation provided through leaked Microsoft Perfmon logs. Some new data was shared by @InstLatX64 that the new 14th Gen Core "Meteor Lake" CPUs will have two architectures.

The new Intel 14th Gen Core "Meteor Lake" CPUs will mark a big departure for Intel, where it will be using a new tiled architecture, based on the upcoming Intel 4 process node. We should expect Redwood Cove P-Cores, and Crestmont E-Cores on the new Meteor Lake CPUs.

AMD is ramping up very quickly into its next-gen Zen 4 CPU architecture launch, with the latest rumors teasing AMD is sending out NDAs for Zen 4 CPUs, and that they're wanting to "carpet bomb" reviews for multiple Ryzen 7000 series CPUs in their lineup at launch.

In his latest video, Tom at Moore's Law is Dead explains: "For day one, they want to CARPET BOMB reviews for multiple SKUs in the lineup and they will be launching these with X670E and X670, but they're launching B650E and B650 later. That's why you're not hearing as many details the 650 motherboards yet, they are going to launch later, their premium ones are launching first".

"AMD is ready, they want to launch a full month before Intel and that's because neither of them are sure who will win what crowns besides efficiency, which of course they're both expecting to go to AMD".

AMD's next-gen EPYC 9000 "Genoa" CPU family will be powered by the next-gen Zen 4 core architecture, with details arriving on the flagship EPYC 9664 CPU.

The next-gen AMD EPYC 9664 processor will have up to 96 cores and 192 threads of CPU power, 12-channel DDR5-5200 memory support, 128 PCIe 5.0 lanes per CPU, and up to 700W of TDP with its new LGA 6096 "SP5" socket. AMD will be using 12 CCDs in its 96-core, 192-thread beast CPU with each of the CCDs featuring 8 CPU cores based on the Zen 4 architecture.

As for the cache, the AMD EPYC 9664 "Genoa" CPU will have 32MB of L3 cache per CCD, which is also shared across all of its Zen 4 cores within the CCD. AMD has 384MB of L3 cache + 96MB of L2 cache which when combined, add up to a monster 480MB of pooled cache on the EPYC 9664 chip.

Intel's new 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" CPUs have been getting more and more details over the last couple of months, but now the next-gen mid-range Core i5-13600K has appeared.

The new Intel Core i5-13600K "ES3" processor is a 14-core, 20-thread CPU that has been benched in "Engineering Sample 3" form, which has been simulated to run at the same CPU clock speeds as the "QS" (Qualification Sample).

The Core i5-13600K processor has 5.1GHz + 4.9GHz CPU clocks on the P-cores, while the E-cores have their clock speeds at up to 4.0GHz. Power consumption is reportedly sitting at around 173W with 1.31V, with "ECSM_Official" adding that "there is still a lot of room for optimization". The official Core i5-13600K processor might be "optimized at about 160W".

Intel has just announced its new Intel Innovation event for September 27-28, 2022 where we'll se the company hosting tech sessions, demos, workshops, and I'm sure... some new product announcements.

The new 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" CPUs are expected to be unveiled and possibly launched at the event, but Intel will be highlighting AI (artificial intelligence), client, cloud, accelerated computing, IoT, 5G networks, security, and so much more.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger will be there in person, as well as Intel CTO Greg Lavender: each with their own keynotes at the Intel Innovation event. Intel will be livestreaming the keynote, so if you want to check out Intel Innovation when it kicks off... at least you won't need to be there. The last time Intel did this was their Intel Innovation event in October 2021, where we were introduced to the Intel 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake" CPUs.

Intel's new 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" CPUs seem to be out like candy in some parts of the world, although we're still many months away from their release... we have a full review on the Intel Core i9-13900K processor.

The new Intel Core i9-13900K processor is the new flagship Raptor Lake CPU from the company, a new 24-core, 32-thread that in its pre-production sample state, has 125W and 250W (MTB) power limits and is ready for the world of overclocking.

The review is coming from Chinese reviewer Extreme Player, with the new Intel Core i9-13900K "Raptor Lake" CPU installed into an ASUS ROG Z690 Extreme motherboard and DDR5 memory at DDR5-6400. The CPU was cooled by a Thermalright AIO Frozen Magic 360 cooler, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, and a 1500W PSU.

AMD's next-gen EPYC "Genoa" CPUs are coming soon, with the monster new Zen 4-based EPYC "Genoa" CPU spotted in the flesh with its new SP5 package, and huge LGA-6096 socket.

The new pictures of AMD's upcoming EPYC "Genoa" CPU are from "YuuKi_AnS" and were posted on Reddit, showing the 96-core, 192-thread CPU in all its glory. Not only that, but the new SP5 package and huge LGA-6096 socket are delicious to see as a tech nerd, but man... that heat sink.

AMD's new SP5 heat sink is absolutely mammoth, bloody huge... with 8 torx screws holding down the beast. The new 96-core EPYC "Genoa" CPU has a 360W TDP, so AMD is providing the cooling chops to keep its Zen 4-based processor as cool as possible. The new EPYC "Genoa" CPU has a 50% increase in CPU cores, and 28% boost in TDP compared to the Zen 3-based EPYC "Milan" CPU.