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Intel is looking to ramp up its manufacturing abilities with a massive new 110,000m2 manufacturing plant planned in Co Kildare, Ireland. This new plant will expand an already huge 90,000m2 manufacturing plant.

The huge new facility has a budget of $8 billion, will take 4 years to complete with the help of 3000 construction workers and once its finished it'll hire 1600 people. Intel's new planned facility will be an add-on to its Leixlip campus which houses 4500 employees. Intel's new manufacturing plant will have 8 massive water tanks that will be up to 63m tall, there'll be other facilities that will include backup generators, wastewater treatment plants, and more.

The reasoning behind the wastewater treatment plants is that the new manufacturing facility will use a crazy 37 million liters (or 9.7 million gallons) of water every day.

Intel unleashed its new unlocked 28C/56T monster of a processor last week in the form of the Xeon W-3175X which was only being bundled with systems in the US, but has now turned up in retail form in Japan.

The new Xeon W-3175X has arrived in the Tokyo Tech Plaza in Japan, at a converted $3880 - above its $2999 retail price. The only motherboard that supports Intel's new Xeon W-3175X is the ASUS Dominus Extreme, so you'll need to buy one of those after you've just dropped this wad of cash on the unlocked 28C/56T chip. ASUS has said that its new Dominus Extreme motherbaord is only available through system integrators.

But then there are some retailers listing the new ASUS Dominus Extreme motherboard as an OEM-only part with a gigantic $1728-$1799 depending on the listing at ShopBLT and CompSource.

Intel has made its crazy enthusiast Xeon W-3175W processor available to the public, kinda, with the new 28C/56T processor needing some serious cooling. Well, Asetek has stepped up in the first 24 hours offering at the time of writing, the only certified CPU cooler for Intel's new Xeon W-3175X processor.

The new $2999 processor can be cooled with the new $399 cooler from Asetek that is called the 690LX-PN which is a new closed loop liquid cooler that the company worked with Intel on. Asetek's new cooler is rated up to a huge 500W TDP with its massive triple 120mm radiator with pre-installed fans. The company is using its latest Gen6-s pump with an integrated copper cold plate.

It has a very industrial look on the CPU but I really dig the style, a huge 28C/56T beast of a Xeon W-3175X deserves this awesomely-styled cooling.

Intel is rumored to be tooling up a new manufacturing plant in Israel later this year, with a reported $11 billion investment into the country that will see the Israeli government selling up with a $1 billion grant that would make this the "largest single investment ever made in Israel".

The new manufacturing plant will reportedly be built in the southern city of Kiryat Gat, Israel where Intel will create 1000 jobs, a number that will add onto the current 13,000 employees in Israel. Intel has previously asked the Israeli government to chip in 10-15% of the expected cost of the facility, but Israel instead offered a 5% grant with a further 5% tax credit for a promise of jobs and operation of the plant for at least 12 years.

Israeli Finance Minister, Moshe Kahlon, said on Tuesday that Intel h ad applied for a grant from the Israeli government to the tune of around $1 billion, for a new fab that would cost $11 billion. Kahlon said: "The moment the company comes to Israel and invests $10 billion, and it receives a grant of 9%, that means 91% of it stays here. There are always such discounts, there are always incentives".

CES 2019 - AMD has just shown off its new Zen 2-based Ryzen 3000 series processors, something the company will be shipping to consumers in mid-2019. The new CPUs are made with the new Zen 2 architecture that has improvements of its own, as well as a node shrink down to 7nm.

The company was benchmarking an unknown new Zen 2-based 7nm Ryzen 3000 series processor against the Intel Core i9-9900K, but even AMD CEO Lisa Su herself mentioned there will be a flagship 8C/16T solution when the Ryzen 3000 series launches but wasn't specific on what exact clock speeds and specs the 8C/16T processor she showed off.

AMD used the Cinebench R15 demo to show that its new 7nm-based Ryzen 3000 prototype could keep up with the Core i9-9900K, but the new AMD system was super power efficient in comparison. The prototype 7nm CPU and its entire system consumed 133W during the benchmark compared to the 9900K system that was using 179W. This is a big difference, so I want to see what we can expect from AMD and its new Ryzen 3000 series on 7nm when their CPUs are clocked at 5GHz or more, and in larger core counts like 16C/32T and beyond.

CES 2019 - Intel has just announced a bunch of new 9th-generation CPUs at its CES 2019 press conference, with the new CPUs entering the Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, and Core i9 processors that don't have integrated graphics.

In October 2018 the company released three 9th-gen Core processors in the flagship Core i9-9900K, Core i7-9700K, and Core i5-9600K. Today, the company announced plans to extend this with another six processors, where integrated graphics seems to been ditched for the most part. The three fastest new additions to the product line up all don't feature iGPUs, with the new Core i9-9900KF, Core i7-9700KF, and Core i5-9600KF all shipping without integrated graphics.

Here's the full list of Intel 9th-Gen CPUs:

CES 2019 - Normally these types of rumors are kept away for other sites, but Anandtech is reporting that according to "one of the boutique system integrators" on the ground at CES 2019 that Intel's upcoming Xeon W-3175X processor will cost "around $8K" at retail.

The last time we heard about Intel's upcoming 28C/56T processor was a few months ago when the price was meant to be closer to $4000, but now at double that it's a big difference between its competitor. AMD's new Ryzen Threadripper 2990X is a 32C/64T behemoth that only costs $1700, where you could buy not one or two, but four Threadripper 2990WX processors and have change compared to the rumored $8000 cost of Intel's flagship and still unreleased Xeon W-3175X.

AMD is heading into CES 2019 with some pretty big rumors of the upcoming Zen 2-based processors, a family of CPUs that will be led by the flagship Ryzen 9 3800X as a huge 16C/32T beast of a processor.

The new rumors are coming from a leak by a Russian retailer that suggests the Ryzen 9 3800X rocks 16 cores and 32 threads of CPU performance with a base clock of 3.9GHz and turbo clock of 4.7GHz, all achieved at just 125W. There will be two 12C/24T processors on the new 3000-series processors with the Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 7 3700, with the Ryzen 7 3700X rocking 5GHz turbo clocks for 105W.

I think the Ryzen 7 3700X is going to be one of the more important CPUs in the Zen 2 processor line up, with 12C/24T rollout out at 5GHz we should see some good overclocks at up to 5.2GHz and 5.3GHz, or even more with better cooling. All of this for 105W is going to be great, while dragging the base clocks down 400MHz to 3.8GHz and the turbo clocks down 400MHz to 4.6GHz from 5GHz, the TDP savings are 10W down to 95W from 105W on the 3700X.

AMD made its next-gen EPYC 'Rome' CPU official during the huge Next Horizon event in San Francisco, and when I was on the ground the energy there was nothing but a buzz. The new 64C/128T processor was announced, the world's first CPU to be made on the exciting new 7nm node, and it crushes anything Intel has in its Core and Xeon lines of CPUs.

The new EPYC 'Rome' CPUs will be used in new supercomputers, with Atos announcing its new BullSeqyuana XH2000 supercomputer that will be using a huge 3125 of the new EPYC processors. 3125 of these new 64C/128T processor means Atos will have a total of (and wait for this) 200,000 cores with 400,000 threads of CPU performance at its disposal.

Atos' new supercomputer will be joined by another machine that will use Intel Cascade Lake CPUs while the GPUs will be NVIDIA Tesla cards in a new supercomputer called BullSequana X400 and will be made next year. The AMD EPYC 'Rome' powered BullSequana XH2000 will be delivered in 2020, as AMD's new 7nm CPUs will be made available in 2019.

Intel is preparing its new flagship Xeon W-3175X processor to compete with AMD's continued Ryzen Threadripper threat, with the new CPU from Intel coming in as a 28C/56T chip in a world where Threadripper 2990WX chimes in as a 32C/64T beast.

But now we have list prices on the Xeon W-3175W with the 28C/56T chip costing up to $4000 which is a considerable price for the super-enthusiast workstation monster from Intel. The new Intel Xeon W-3175X boasts 28 cores and 56 threads with a base CPU clock of 3.1GHz and boost CPU clock of 4.3GHz, packing 38.5MB of L3 cache, support for 6-channel DDR4 memory (512GB total), and a huge 68 PCIe 3.0 lanes (44 on the CPU, 24 from the PCH).

Some of the listed prices for the Intel Xeon W-3175X range from $3900 through to just under $7000... all the while AMD is selling the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX processor for $1700, and it packs more threads than the Xeon CPU, for less than half the purported price of Intel's new flagship Xeon.

During Intel's Architecture Day briefing they teased a new interconnect technology, which aims to replace EMIB as their go to for linking and even stacking devices on a package.

The new technology allows Intel to put an IO hub, power management, and say cache on a bottom layer, then put of 10nm x86 CPU with iGPU on top of that layer, and then put some DRAM on top of that, and take all those stacks and put them on a package.

Intel has made great improvement since EMIB. They reduced bump pitch to 36um from 45um, increased density from 560/mm2 to 828/mm, and cut power consumption in half. FOVEROS is awesome in that it allows for 3D face-to-face stacking for integration of many different types of devices on an active TSV interposer, which then sits on the package.

Intel recently detailed their vision for the future of their Core strategy during their 2018 Architecture day.

They are looking forward and looking at three points to really put them ahead; they are going to go deeper, wider, and smarter, and we will explain what those mean in a second. For now, Intel is aiming at their advantages including single core performance, their ISA, and software improvements.

Intel also wanted us to know how they define performance. IPC times frequency divided by the number of instructions seems like a good equation for us. Now, to improve IPC, which would be the first large increase since Skylake launch, Intel is going to do a few things. For starters they will go deeper; meaning they will increases parallelism. Then they will go wider, which means they will try and execute more instructions in parallel, to provide more unit capabilities (increase ports). The last thing is to go smarter, which means reducing latency and improving things such as branch prediction.

AMD has been in the rumor mill the last few days, with Navi GPU leaks teasing GeForce RTX 2080 performance for $249 thanks to the magic of 7nm, and now we're hearing about the Ryzen 3000 series which sounds even crazier than the Navi rumors.

AdoredTV is behind the leaks for the next-gen Ryzen 3000 series, where he has said that it will all start with the Ryzen 3 3300 which will be a 6C/12T processor with 4GHz Turbo clocks with a 50W TDP for just $99. Scaling up from there we have the Ryzen 5 3600X which will reportedly be an 8C/16T processor with a crazy Turbo clock of 4.8GHz, 95W TDP and a price of $229.

But things get a little insane with the first mention of a new Ryzen 9 family of Zen 2-based CPUs, with the Ryzen 9 3800X and Ryzen 9 3850X. Both of these processors will reportedly be 16C/32T designs, with the Ryzen 9 3800X having a Turbo clock of 4.7Ghz and 125W TDP, while the Ryzen 9 3850X will offer a huge 5.1GHz with 135W. As for pricing, we're looking at $449 and $499 respectively.

AMD has a massive year ahead of them in 2019 already with the announcements of the world's first 7nm GPU and world's first 7nm CPU, but then there's EPYC 'Rome' and its insane 64C/128T of power that will be unleashing in 2019 as well as the new Zen 2 CPU architecture and Ryzen 3000 seires processors and Ryzen Threadripper 3000 series chips. Phew. That's a lot... except, AMD isn't finished yet.

It's no surprise that PCIe 4.0 technology is right around the corner, but a new rumor is that AMD will be unleashing it on a new X570 chipset that will reportedly be launching during Computex 2019. The new info is courtesy of some leaked slides of a purported internal GIGABYTE presentation.

The new X570 chipset will reportedly be backwards compatible with all previous-gen Ryzen CPUs, while PCIe 4.0 technology doubles the bandwidth from PCIe 3.0 from 8 GT/s to 16 GT/s. This won't mean much to most people, as everyone will think 'ZOMG it'll make graphics cards twice as fast' but what it will allow is many more devices running over PCIe lanes.

Intel has started teasing its upcoming 'Intel Architecture Day' that will be hosted on December 11, with the focus of the event to be split into two sessions. The first is the morning session with the 'Intel Architecture Strategy', which should cover what the next generation of CPUs and architectures we can expect from Intel in 2019 and beyond.

The second session will be held in the afternoon and is titled 'Breakouts on Advanced Client and Data Centric Architectures and Technologies' which is then followed by a cocktail networking event in the evening. This is the usual affair for events like this, it's a full on day of having a bunch of information crammed into your brain, and a few drinks to wash it down with at night.

Intel teases in the invite it has sent out to tech press "Join us as we take a look at how Intel's innovation will bring breakthroughs in new products and experiences".

Intel has had a hard enough time this year keeping up with the unstoppable force of AMD and its newly energized Ryzen CPU line up with the second-gen Ryzen launch topping out at 8C/16T, the second-gen Ryzen Threadripper with up to 32C/64T, and the new 7nm EPYC 'Rome' unveiling with 64C/128T of processing power.

In all of this time AMD has used 14nm and now 7nm for its second-gen EPYC and third-gen Ryzen 3000 series (using the Zen 2 architecture) which are both being released in 2019, while Intel is stuck on 14nm and will continue to be even with the next-gen Comet Lake-S processors. Intel is still using its 14nm++ process while it has all but abandoned its 10nm node since it will most likely jump to 7nm and probably call it 10nm to not be embarrassed for losing the node lead against AMD.

The new Comet Lake-S processors will be reportedly led by a flagship 10C/20T part model that will still be based on the 14nm node, pushing the limits of Intel CPU architectures to their limits on the node. We should expect lower clock speeds than the 8C/16T part in the just-released Core i9-9900K processor, which hits 5GHz and beyond but consumes power easier than NVIDIA's sucky Fermi GPU architecture did without even trying.

If there's a time to buy PC hardware it would be right now before the new tariffs come into play, and Black Friday sales are getting out of control in a really good way with AMD processors on the cheap.

AMD's Ryzen 5 2600X is normally $229 and thanks to Black Friday sales that are nearly here, the 6C/12T unlocked CPU can be had for just $190 on Amazon. Considering the Ryzen 5 2600X includes the Wraith Spire cooler and overclocks 4.2GHz, you're getting a damn bargain for such a thread-heavy CPU that includes a cooler.

AMD only just announced its next-gen EPYC 'Rome' CPU last week in San Francisco during its Next Horizon event, with the new EPYC Rome CPU packing a huge 64C/128T of processor performance on the next-gen 7nm process node.

But during the Supercomputing 2018 event, the US Department of Energy announced it was working with Cray on their new Shasta Computer Blade server which will be inside of the US DoE's upcoming new supercomputer.

This new supercomputer will pack 8 of AMD's next-gen EPYC Milan CPUs on the even newer 7nm+ node, with the system broken into dual-section design with one feature copper water blocks on the EPYC Milan CPUs, while the other four EPYC Milan CPUs are on an inverted PCB, which is also water cooled. The new supercomputer will feature 64 DIMMs that can be watercooled, too.

AMD unveiled its new EPYC 'Rome' CPU last week during its Next Horizon event in San Francisco, but was silent on its CPU clock speeds at the time. But now more details have surfaced through a new presentation on the next-gen 'Hawk' supercomputer that is being co-developed between HLRS and HPE.

The new Hawk supercomputer will be one of the first to market powered by the next-gen AMD EPYC 'Rome' CPUs on 7nm, offering a huge 64C/128T at a purported base clock of 2.35GHz. If this is true, it's a decent bump from the 2.2GHz base CPU clock of the first-gen EPYC 'Naples' CPU which offered 'just' 32C/64T in comparison. The EPYC 7601 has a base CPU clock of 2.2GHz across all CPU cores, 2.7GHz boost on all CPU cores and up to 3.2GHz on single-core loads.

We could expect CPU base clocks of higher than 2.35GHz on other designs, with AMD having wiggle room moving down to the 7nm node for the second-gen EPYC 'Rome' CPUs compared to the 14nm node on the first-gen EPYC 'Naples' CPUs. The new EPYC 'Rome' CPU is also using the new Zen 2 architecture, which has its own room for improvements in IPC performance, and more over the previous-gen Zen+ architecture.

AMD has just started providing details on its next-gen EPYC processor codenamed 'Rome', which will be the industry's first server processor on the new 7nm node.

The new EPYC 'Rome' processor will be one of the first to use Zen 2 CPU cores with up to 64C/128T of CPU power at its disposal. It'll also be the first server CPU with PCIe 4.0 connectivity, which is a big deal when it can be matched with the new 7nm-based Radeon Instinct MI60.

EPYC 'Rome' will work on the existing Naples platform, meaning EPYC customers can swap out their 32C/64T first-gen EPYC and throw in a next-gen EPYC 'Rome' processor with up to 64C/128T.