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I'm a bit surprised that there's no mention of Krzanich being ousted from his spot as CEO at Intel 2 weeks ago. Doesn't look like Intel will get ahead again anytime soon as they have no idea as to whom gonna succeed him. Intel had always chosen someone from inside the company, and that someone had to be in the company for many years to be eligible. However, there's no one left in the higher echelons who had been with Intel for longer than just a couple of years, so for the first time ever, Intel might be forced to recruit it's next CEO from outside the company.

On another hardware news, AMD is about to release it's Ryzen H chips. Ryzen H are the high-power mobile chips with a TDP of 45W compared to the 15W of the U line of Ryzen chips. Some samples (final, not engineering samples) have been seen with the names 2600H and 2800H, and being more or less on par with the 2400G in desktop PCs, just a slightly lower clock. The 2600H which appeared on SiSoft Sandra's Benchmark for instance has it's CPU clocks decoded (from it's chip part number) to be of 3.3 Ghz base and 3.6Ghz Turbo, with potentially XFR on top of that. The TDP is configurable between 25-45W btw to fit into existing designs with Intel chips with a minimum of adaptation. As the part number also includes the code for Vega 11, the only real unknown is the GPU clock of the 2600H - and the clock rates of the 2800H.

If the latter would be close to the 2400G (3.6 base, 3.9 Turbo, 1250 Mhz Vega 11), it could grab quite some marketshare in (entry level-) gaming laptops and workstation laptops, as it would blow right past models with an MX 130 or 150 and coming close to a 1050 (non Ti), but at a much lower power consumption than with a high power Intel CPU plus a separate GPU, meaning much better battery life.

caffeinade said:

Pemalite said:

Geforce 1060 is killing it.

Edit: Radeon RX 680 rumors are starting to trickle out. Based on polaris, but at the "12nm" advertised node with an expected gain of 15% over the RX 580, which in turn had hardly anything over the RX 480 anyway. Way to stagnate AMD.
https://wccftech.com/amd-gpu-rumors-12nm-polaris-30-7nm-navi-7nm-vega-20-radeon-rx-gaming/

15%, that hurts.
It better be very cheap if they want to sell their cards at that level of performance.

I'd like to see how 7nm Vega performs in games though.
That'd probably be a pretty decent product.
With a 4096-bit memory bus and a new process node, it should be able to overcome the problems its predecessors faced.

Well the RX 680 would be a refresh of a refresh, as such 15% ain't that bad.

However, really wish Navi would come soon. Probably struggling to get the PC version running as expected. After all, PC games need a monolithic GPU, as they consider a setup like Epyc or Threadripper a Multi-GPU setup. So they possibly had to reconsider late into development and create multiple mask sets instead of just one