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Captain_Yuri said:

Exclusive: Intel 12th Gen Core “Alder Lake-S” platform detailed

https://videocardz.com/newz/exclusive-intel-12th-gen-core-alder-lake-s-platform-detailed

"Intel claims up to 20% single-thread performance uplift" Up from where: Comet Lake, Rocket Lake, Tiger Lake?
"Alder Lake processors will be twice as fast in multi-threaded workloads" Again, compared to what?
"The slide also confirms that Alder Lake will support PCI Express Gen5 and Gen4. There is also a confirmation on DDR5 and DDR4 support, the platform will actually support both memory technologies at the same time. For mobile Alder Lake, Intel also confirms LPDDR4 and LPDDR4 support. We have recently revealed that Raptor Lake, a successor to Alder Lake will extend the memory support to LPDDR5X."

Interesting, That means if you were to buy Alder Lake, you may not need to buy new RAM modules so at least there's some cost savings!


AMD overtakes Apple as TSMC's main 7nm customer

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-overtakes-Apple-as-TSMC-s-main-7nm-customer.528532.0.html

"AMD has apparently increased its 7nm orders by 80% for this year compared to last year"

It's mainly due to Apple moving to 5nm but this should be some good news.


DDR4 Memory Prices to increase 18% in Q2021 due to increase in demand

https://dramexchange.com/WeeklyResearch/Post/2/10891.html

Along with Nand prices to increase shortly as well, PC gaming continues to get more expensive!

Interesting about Alder Lake - it just doesn't say what the base is. If it's 20% uplift from Comet Lake, it won't be enough to beat Zen 3, and twice as much in multithread compared to Rocket Lake would still be behind the 5950X. And while Alder Lake will be able to use both DDR4 and DDR5, I doubt that the boards will have slots for both standards, so you'll need to choose wisely here.

As for AMD increasing the orders by 80%, the big question is how it's split up between CPU and GPU dies. I fear the bulk will be CPU dies for EPYC, but even if just 10-20% of that increase goes to GPU, it would mean a sizeable increase in volume. With GPU mining slowly starting to reduce (like with the GPU mining craze before, specialized chips are starting to get produced that are cheaper and/or more powerful), we could actually get some GPUs by summer if all goes well.

The fact that DDR4 and Nand prices will go up was to be expected considering how low they dropped. It sucks, but unlike the price hike in the GPU department this one at least is understandable.