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It is true that Intel has not lived up to market demands in recent years. The company still does not take out 10nm processors and that is costing sales. It is true that AMD has needed to make the leap at 7nm and increase cores to match 14nm processors. It seems that Intel is working to correct these problems and is already thinking about 7nm. It is estimated that Intel 10nm will be equivalent to 5nm, because the density has been improved by 2.7x compared to 14nm. Intel 7nm will be much better than TSMC 5nm or so at least they aspire. intel already works on Xeon Scalable @ 7nm We saw this weekend as Intel suppressed the Omni-Path technology of the Xeon Scalable. These processors will continue to be the cornerstone of the company for the industrial sector. For the next generation they have developed the LGA4677 socket. This socket will replace the LGA3647 and compete against the EPYC processors. A solution that will not reach the market until 2021. The new Xeon Scalable will be based on the company's 7nm EUV node. These will already integrate PCIe 5.0 and will therefore be compatible with Intel CXL, interconnection and scaling technology. These processors will also have DDR5 DIMM support, although the latter has been fully confirmed. During TE Connectivity, an event for the professional sector, the company has also shown a new socket. It is the LGA4189, of which we do not have more data. Possibly a socket for the e normal ’Xeons. The increase in pins for the LGA4677 socket is due to the use of PCIe 5.0 and CLX. It is also increased because the PCIe lines will be significantly expanded and connectivity will be improved. The number of memory channels may also be expanded.

We are seeing how Intel is modifying its commercial strategy with respect to its processors. The new Core-X will arrive at half the price of its predecessors due to the AMD Threadripper. They have also recently reduced the price of Core-F by up to 25%. Intel's next step will not be to jump at 10nm, it will be to introduce HyperThreading technology into the Core i3 Comet Lake. To date, the company reserved the system of processing threads for some processors. Especially it can be seen in the Core i5 and the Core i9, staying out of the Core i7. It seems that the company wants to bring HyperThreading to the Core i3-10100 and thus boost its sales. Intel will bring HyperThreading to the Core i3 We know this thanks to a filtered benchmark of the Core i3-101000 processor, a natural replacement for the Core i3-9100. To date, the Core i3-9100 had 4 cores and 4 threads. This new Core i3-10100 processor will have 4 cores and 8 threads. It will allow this new processor to obtain between 30-50% more performance and would be equivalent to the Core i7-7700K. The test that has been leaked indicates that this processor works at 3.6GHz, which, if confirmed, would make it an ideal processor for gaming. The Core i3-9100 is around € 100, if it came out at the same price (or even up to 25% more expensive) it would be an excellent processor. In addition, it would not generate a bottleneck with the majority of market graphics. Comet Lake from Intel, as we know, will have a 10-core, 20-wire stop. Possibly this processor will be the most advanced and we will need a refrigerator to cool it. The Core i9-9900K with 8 cores and 16 threads already generate problems for cooling. A 10-core 20-core 10-core Core i9-10900K theoretician will require bestial heatsinks.

There is a lot of expectation around the new Intel graphics cards. During the IDC 2019 (Intel Developer Conference) held in Tokyo, benchmarks of these graphics have been shown. The table compares the current UHD 620 integrated in the 9th Generation Core with the Iris Plus that are integrated in the Ice Lake. The performance jump between Gen 9.5 (UHD 620) and Gen11 (Iris Plus) is important. Although the performance jump is notorious, it would still be far from the AMD RX Vega integrated in the Ryzen APUs. It is true that Intel graphics have always been characterized for being good for video and nothing else. With these new graphics you can play modestly, but you can. Major performance leap of Intel iGPUs Most games that did not reach 30FPS before in 1080p resolution now pass that frame rate. Who jumps the most is the CS: GO, that if around 45-50FPS would now go to 75-80FPS. And it is that the integrated graphics have always been characterized for being optimal for eSports games, which are quite light graphically. Kenichiro Yasu, Intel Director commented that Gen12 graphics double the performance of Gen11. We talked about a brutal performance jump, since according to the image, for example, the CS: GO could go to 150FPS quietly. Moving any game at 1080p resolution> 60FPS would be a luxury. But of course, for this to happen we must wait for the Intel Tiger Lake that will arrive, possibly, at the end of 2020. Another interesting fact is that the Intel Xe will have support for RayTracing in 2020. AMD currently has no plans to support this technology. Although it is said that the PlayStation 5 and Project Scarlett will allow 4K @ 60FPS gaming with RayTracing, as we have learned, they will be based on an RX 5500.

It is a problem as serious as it is limited, but the reality is that Intel is again current due to problems in its processors, which added to the shortage of many of these are getting close a week not too good. The discovery has been a joint work of Google and Mozilla, since it has affected first of all the two most po[CENSORED]r browsers in the world: Chrome and Firefox. The Google team has been working intensely on a problem that they detected months ago with Intel Gemini Lake processors, where they state verbatim, they have been observing "impossible" bugs on that Swan platform. Specifically, they detail that the failures occur in the processors within the family 6 model 122 and Stepping 1, where for the moment such blockages only occur in the 64-bit version of Chrome and in the prologue of two functions. According to Google, given that blocking involves reading bytes of incorrect instructions when crossing a 16-byte limit and since blocking seems to happen only with particular 16-byte alignments, it seems reasonable to force the function's alignments to a multiple of 32 to See if this safely prevents blockages. This would prevent, at least in theory, that your Chrome browser crashes, which basically forces you to align the functions to 32 bytes, that is, if we get the 32-bit version of the browser the processor should not be seen in this position, avoiding Possible blockages It should be remembered that Gemini Lake is the successor of Apollo Lake, so they are low-power processors aimed at laptops and low-power equipment. They are manufactured in the 14 nm lithographic process and are based on the Goldmont Plus architecture, so it includes the Celeron J4005, J4105, N4000, N4100 and Pentium Silver J5005 and N5000. Mozilla through Firefox is reporting the same problems that Google has had with Gemini Lake, but it goes further, as they claim the whole problem seems to have been introduced through a microcode update for the CPU. Given these criticisms and problems, Intel has offered an answer, where they have affirmed that the reliability of their products is a priority. They ensure that under a complex set of micro architectural conditions, users may experience failures in applications and systems based on Intel Pentium Silver and Intel Celeron processors under the Gemini Lake architecture. Therefore, Intel has released a microcode update to its customers and partners that mitigates this problem, so they are working with them to make it available as quickly as possible to end users. This is certainly hopeful, but it must be confirmed that, in effect, said microcode solves the problem of blockages, since we are talking about the two most used browsers currently in the world, so the number of users that may be affected should be very large. Until such a microcode update arrives in the form of UEFI or BIOS, it is recommended that if the crashes are suffered, opt for the 32-bit version of any of the browsers described.

SI today announced two new X299 motherboards, the Creator X299 and X299 Pro10G, for Intel’s upcoming 18-core LGA 2066 CPUs. As the names imply, Creator X299 focuses on creative types with Thunderbolt 3, while the X299 Pro10G focuses on its 10GbE interface. Specs MSI Creator X299 MSI X299 Pro10G Supports Intel Core X-series processors 10000/9000/78xx (above) series for LGA2066 socket Supports Intel Core X-series processors 10000/9000/78xx (above) series for LGA2066 socket Supports DDR4 memory, 8 DIMMs, quad-channel max frequency DDR4-4266+(OC) Supports DDR4 memory, up to 4,200+ MHz (OC) Dedicated 12 phases 90A digital power to CPU, with all aluminum design Lightning USB 20G: Powered by ASMedia ASM3242 USB 3.2 Gen2x2 controller 10G LAN + Intel Gigabit LAN with Intel WIFI 6 and bandwidth management Twin Turbo M.2 7x Turbo M.2 with M.2 XPANDER-AERO, 1x Turbo U.2 M.2 XPANDER-Z: Offers two extra M.2 slots to increase storage capacity at max speed Full fan control with 8 PWM fan headers and 1 dedicated thermal sensor Set Core Power Free: Core Boost, 2x 8-pin CPU power connector, Core Boost, DDR4 Boos Lightning USB 20G: Powered by ASMedia ASM3242 USB 3.2 Gen2x2 controller Extended Heatsink design: MSI extended PWM and enhanced circuit design M.2 Shield Frozr: Strengthened built-in M.2 thermal solution Dual LAN onboard: Premium network solution included 1x 2.5G LAN for professional and multimedia use Core Boost: With premium layout and full digital power design 10G Super LAN card Triple 8-pin power supply Audio Boost 4: Studio-grade sound quality. Mystic Light: 16.8 million colors / 29 effects controlled in one click. Mystic Light Extension supports RGB, Rainbow and Corsair LED strip Multi-GPU: With Steel armor PCIe slots. Supports 3-Way SLI / Crossfire Audio Boost 4 with Nahimic DDR4 Boost with Steel Armor Steel Armor PCIe slots. Supports up to 4-Way Nvidia SLI & 4-way AMD Crossfire Thunderbolt 3: Exclusive expansion card offering dual DisplayPort and dual Thunderbolt 3 4K video The Creator X299 gets the longer list, and perhaps the most interesting of these features is its triple EPS12V (8-pin CPU 12V power) connectors that are tied to a 90A voltage regulator. Notice that the Creator gets onboard 10GbE in addition to its four x16-length PCIe slots and Thunderbolt 3 expansion card. Space for this integration comes via an expansion from the standard ATX depth. MSI calls this EATX, but there are a bunch of ATX PC cases with an extra 1.1 inch of clearance at the motherboard’s front edge. The X299 Pro10G gets its namesake feature via a PCIe x4 expansion card while retaining the classic ATX dimensions. Unfortunately, installing that card could dictate the number of graphics cards that a PC builder can install and/or their placement. Both boards also feature a PCIe x8 to dual M.2 expansion card, the use of which places further restrictions on the number of graphics cards installed and their placement. Here’s how MSI addresses the extra eight lanes available from the new 18-core processors: MSI Creator X299 MSI X299 Pro10G 4 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots 4x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots Support x8/ x8/ x16/ x8 and x16/ x0/ x16/ x8 modes with the 48-lane CPU. Support x16/x8/x16/x8 mode with the 48-lane CPU* Support x8/ x8/ x16/ x8 and x16/ x0/ x16/ x8 modes with the 44-lane CPU.* Support x16/x4/x16/x8 mode with the 44-lane CPU* Support x8/ x8/ x8/ x0 and x16/ x0/ x8/ x0 modes with the 28-lane CPU.** Support x16/x4/x8/x0 mode with the 28-lane CPU* *The PCI_E4 slot will run 3.0 x4 speed with 44-lane CPU when installing M.2 PCIe device into M2_3 slot. *Please refer to user manual for PCIe 3.0 bandwidth table **The PCIe 4 slot is unavailable with 28-lane CPU. The Creator X299 sacrifices four lanes for an installed M.2 device when using a 44-lane (rather than the new 48-lane) CPU, but users of the X299 Pro10G are told to look up a table for presumably more complicated sharing schemes under similar circumstances.

Almost 3 months ago the news of the price cut by Intel in its processors jumped, where there was talk of up to -15% of the price according to which models. Months went by and this reduction was not considered effective, but now and interestingly after the launch of Cascade Lake-X and the new Xeon 2000, Intel announces a price reduction in some processors of its ninth generation. Intel leaves Cascade Lake-X, Xeon 2000 at almost half Intel-Cascade-Lake-X-intro At the end of last week we already announced the great price cut of Swan's in relation to its range of Cascade Lake-X and Xeon 2000 processors, where the cost had been reduced by its highest average to almost -50%. The funny thing about all this is that the 9th generation of its desktop gaming processors had not touched on this aspect, especially considering that Zen 2 is already on the market and is literally devouring the 9000 series in sales. Today's announcement releases doubts about what Intel is going to take to counter AMD and stop, at least in part, the sales bleeding they are taking. But to understand the reason for this measure, we have to understand what the real substance of this matter is. As sure that we have seen all in the main stores, Intel launched several variants of its processors, where we could find models K, KF and F. The last two have the peculiarity that the processor that includes said tag in its name will not carry a graphics card iGPU inside, being disabled, but physically if it remained in the die. This was done to take better advantage of the wafers, where as we said, the most complicated part of manufacturing for Swan was precisely the iGPU, which was lowering the success rate of chips in the company. Therefore and partly following the trend of AMD in gaming processors, Intel decided to sell these processors without iGPU, obtaining greater profitability per wafer.

Intel has stopped its plans for the second-generation Omni-Path Architecture fabric for high-performance computing (HPC), known as the OPA200 series, which the company announced last year. The company will continue to support OPA100, although its availability has reportedly changed to build-to-order, but the future of Omni-Path looks bleak. Intel told this to CRN on Wednesday after CRN received comments from two solution providers that Intel had informed some partners of its cancellation. Jennifer Huffstetler, vice president of data center product management and storage, confirmed the news to CRN with the following statement: “We see connectivity as a critical pillar in delivering the performance and scalability for a modern data center. We're continuing our investment there while we will no longer support the Omni-Path 200 series. We are continuing to see uptake in the HPC portfolio for OPA100.” If you wanna read more, please visit : click ! Article created by „tomshardware”.

Core i9-9900KF marks a shift in Intel's strategy as the company begins selling processors with disabled graphics engines for the first time. The -9900KF isn't really new at all, though. Rather, it features the same 8C/16T configuration as Intel's celebrated Core i9-9900K. Aside from the lack of on-die graphics, both chips should be otherwise identical. That's good news for the -9900KF because Core i9-9900K is a winner. It barreled onto the scene last year to become Intel's highest core count model for mainstream platforms. Armed with eight cores and 16 threads, Core i9-9900K established itself as the fastest desktop processor we've ever tested. But despite impressive performance, Intel can't keep its most po[CENSORED]r CPUs on store shelves. The company is grappling with a production shortage of 14nm parts due to record demand and painful setbacks delaying its 10nm process. As a result, many models are marked up severely or simply unavailable. Surprisingly, Intel decided to boost output by selling new F-series processors with disabled on-die graphics engines. These CPUs suffered defects during manufacturing that would have rendered their graphics subsystems unusable. In the face of a severe shortage, however, Intel figured out how to boost production by resurrecting chips that would have otherwise been considered defective. Now, you'd expect to pay less for a CPU with fewer features. But Intel assigns its F-series models the same MSRP as existing processors with functional graphics. This gives vendors the green light to charge premium prices for handicapped chips, which is exactly what's going on. The Core i9-9900KF isn't widely available on Newegg or Amazon. However, when you do find it available for preorder on sites like B&H Photo, the processor oddly commands a ~$55 premium over Intel's standard -9900K. Intel isn't sampling the Core i9-9900KF to press. Fortunately, we were able to borrow one from extreme overclocker Allen "Splave" Golibersuch for review. Splave lapped the chip, meaning he thinned the integrated heat spreader by sanding it down, to improve thermal transfer efficiency. Otherwise, as you can see in the picture above, both models are physically identical. As far as we can tell, the only reason to buy a -9900KF is immediate availability when you see it in stock. Otherwise, the chip offers nearly the same performance as Intel's graphics-equipped Core i9-9900K, meaning it serves up the best performance you can get on a mainstream desktop. Just be ready to pay an exorbitant price tag for the CPU, a beefy motherboard, high-end cooling, and a capable PSU. If you wanna read more please visit the following link : click. Article created by „tomshardware”.

Reuters, via financial news outlet Calcalist, reports that Nvidia has outbid Intel in an attempt to buy the networking behemoth Mellanox. Previous unconfirmed reports claimed that Intel had offered $6 billion for Mellanox, but Nvidia has reportedly outbid the company by more than 10 percent. These offers come after Mellanox essentially offered itself for sale in October 2018, which reportedly also garnered attention from Microsoft and Xilinx. Mellanox specializes in Ethernet and InfiniBand networking products for the data center. The company currently has a market cap of $5.93 billion and a commanding market presence, but Intel's purported acquisition attempt could run afoul of regulators. Intel already has a heavy presence in the InfiniBand market through its line of products that come as the fruit of its $125 million acquisition of QLogic's IP back in 2012, while Mellanox is the only large-scale InfiniBand competitor. Nvidia's play at Mellanox would help the company diversify into networking, thus reducing its heavy reliance upon graphics cards sales that has seen the company suffer at the whims of the cryptocurrency market. The Mellanox IP could also tie in well with Nvidia's strategy to increase its penetration into the data center, and Reuters predicts the company wouldn't face the same regulatory concerns as Intel. Mellanox would also fold into Intel's portfolio nicely. Intel has spent several years transitioning away from being a PC-centric business to other profitable climes, such as data storage, memory, IoT, and 5G. Intel's overall goal is to leverage its commanding presence in the data center, estimated at ~95% of the worlds server sockets, to expand into these new adjacencies quickly. Networking is the glue that ties many of these critical components together, making the Mellanox portfolio a natural fit. InfinBand networking is a critical component in the high performance computing (HPC) space that could afford Intel an advantage with tightly-integrated systems-level products as it fends off the rising po[CENSORED]rity of AMD's Zen-based data center processors. Only time will tell if Intel will dig into its significantly deeper pockets to push Nvidia out of the running, or if another large player, like Microsoft, can steal the networking show. As expected, Nvidia, Intel, and Mellanox have not commented on the bids. Article created by „tomshardware”.

IC Insights has published a report, stating their findings where they believe Intel to regain the #1 spot in Semi-Supplier companies. Intel held the no. 1 spot for almost 23 years (1883 through 2016) and lost it in 2017, but it looks like that is about to change again this year. The source in question is a very reliable market research firm with a long history of accurate and precise findings. Intel will regain its position as top dog in semiconductor supply in 2019 as competitors take hits due to the DRAM lull. Intel have been facing increased pressure in the last couple of years to improve power by watt consumption in their processor line. With ARM chips expected in Apple laptops in 2020, there has been pressure for Intel to regain their footing. IC Insights is a company that deals in market research, and on Thursday they brought out the ‘2019 McClean Report’, dealing in the market trends of the semiconductor industry. In this report, they stated that Intel is ‘the company that is poised to regain the number 1 semiconductor supplier ranking this year’. The last few years of the report have had the company wrestling for the top spot with Samsung, and now, gaining an expected seventy billion in sales, they have trounced Samsung’s expected sixty-three billion in sales to take the top spot this year. The report mentions that a 24% drop in the memory market will pull the overall semiconductor market down by about 7% but Intel will be able to handle this drop better than its competitors and use this to regain the no.1 spot. Samsung is going to take the brunt of this drop with its sales down 20% this year. The company expects Intel to have $70.6 billion in sales and Samsung to have $63.1 billion in sales. In fact, IC Insights expects more than 20% sales decline for major memory suppliers like SK Hynix, Micron and Toshiba. Intel, on the other hand, will actually be in the positive at 1%. You can read the full report over here. This would be a slight relief to investors of Intel, where small whispers have slowly evolved into concern in the last couple of years, where ARM chips are slated to replace Intel’s processors in Apple’s Mac line in 2020. Alongside this, Microsoft is expected to bring out a new ‘Surface’ product where ARM processors will be taking advantage of a new Windows 10 release, where x86 applications will be able to be run in an ARM environment. So with the semiconductor part of the company, this report will hopefully subside some of the processor worries for the first half of this year. The report also stated that ‘volatile IC industry cycles are alive and well in the memory market’, with prices expected to be as competitive as they were in 2017. Time will tell whether Intel’s ranking will stay at #1 towards the end of the year, but with Intel about to have its quarterly meeting, questions will be asked as to whether they have a definite plan to hold onto the top spot for 2019. Article made by „wccftech”.

Intel has always enjoyed the performance crown when it comes to processors and last year, it temporarily lost that medal of honor to AMD’s Threadripper platform. The Intel Core i9-7980XE ‘Extreme’ processor is the answer to that challenge and is the highest core count mainstream consumer processor to date. Featuring 18 cores and a price tag of $2000 (that’s MSRP by the way), this isn’t a processor for the average Joe, but it is perhaps a superb choice (once overclocked) for the amateur workstation or rendering rig.