Month: July 2023
Intel Arrow Lake CPUs are on track – and that’s crucial due to AMD’s big Ryzen 8000 threat
Next year is going to be a major clash of the CPU titans, and Intel can’t afford to be arriving late to the battlefield.
Intel’s upcoming processor ranges are all on track for launch – or even ahead of their planned schedule – the chip giant has assured us.
That’s according to what we were told in Intel’s earnings call for its Q2 2023 results, as Wccftech spotted.
Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger let us know: “I am pleased to report that all our programs are on or ahead of schedule. We remain on track for 5 nodes in 5 years and to regain transistor performance and power performance leadership by 2025.”
Intel’s next-gen chips, Meteor Lake (and we’ll also have Raptor Lake Refresh on the desktop) are on track for a second half of 2023 launch.
Gelsinger also said that Arrow Lake, the processors that’ll follow after those next-gen products, are entering the first stages of production (“running its first stepping in the fab,” so the initial samples are being made as we type).
Arrow Lake is on track for a 2024 launch, then, but exactly when the range of CPUs will turn up next year is pretty crucial (we’ll discuss why in a moment).
The other part of Intel’s processor plans for this year and next, Lunar Lake, is also mentioned as being on track for 2024. These will be power-efficient chips targeted at laptops, and from what we can gather on the grapevine, will be equivalent to something like Ice Lake (as discussed in a recent video from YouTube leaker Moore’s Law is Dead).
Analysis: Arrow Lake timing is key for Intel
It’s good for Intel that Arrow Lake is on track, because Team Blue really can’t afford slippage with this one – certainly not in the desktop arena. Previous chatter on the grapevine floated the idea that Intel may have been running into delays with these 15th-gen chips, but apparently this isn’t the case.
Why is Arrow Lake so important on desktop? Mainly because Raptor Lake Refresh this year (in October, most likely) is a pretty modest uplift – it’s a simple refresh, after all, notching clock speeds up a bit mainly (the 14700K may also get some extra efficiency cores).
And AMD’s Ryzen 8000 (Zen 5) processors are rumored to be possibly ready in Q3 of 2024, maybe even as soon as around the middle of the year. So, if Arrow Lake doesn’t come out until very late next year, that’ll leave Raptor Lake Refresh looking pretty shaky against Zen 5 desktop CPUs that speculation contends will be a pretty big leap forward.
True, Arrow Lake is also looking like a major leap for Intel – an even bigger jump than Ryzen 7000 to 8000, if the rumor mill is right – so both these ranges could do very well in our best processors ranking. However, if Ryzen 8000 comes out much earlier than Intel’s 15th-gen, then Team Blue could be looking at the erosion of some of the hard-won gains it’s made on desktop turf since Alder Lake (and hybrid technology) debuted.
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Bill Gates Launches New Podcast, Tells Seth Rogen About Smoking Pot
Thursday Bill Gates launched a new podcast called “Unconfuse Me.” (“What do you do when you can’t solve a problem? I like to talk to smart people who can help me understand the subject better…”)
Join me on my learning journey as I talk to brilliant guests about Alzheimer’s, artificial intelligence, the future of education, plant-based meat, the evolution of language, marijuana, and more.
The first words of the first episode are a clip of Seth Rogen saying “Edibles? I don’t mess with that. Snoop Dogg doesn’t eat edibles. Like, that’s how wild the variation on edibles is, and I do not recommend this.”
Then Bill Gates’ voice says “I love learning, even if a topic’s complex, I like to see if I can figure it out…” People reports that the 67-year-old Microsoft co-founder and former CEO also spoke to Rogen and his wife Lauren Miller about the future of Alzheimer’s research:
With studies showing that “40% of cases” are preventable, according to Rogen, the “five brain healthy habits” in their framework are important: sleep, exercise, nutrition, mental fitness and emotional well-being.
He even confessed that his being a celebrity encourages people to better care for themselves. “I taught this coursework of brain health, and we’ve also had a neurologist teach the coursework, and we scientifically proved that people retain information better from celebrities than doctors, which is it’s a heavy burden,” he joked, adding that this information “was published…”
Miller also shared that she goes to a neurologist and the pair are both “open” with their doctors about their habits, and “no one” in the medical world has told them that smoking weed is bad for their brain health. They even believe its benefits of boosting hunger and relieving stress might be good for preventing Alzheimer’s. “It’s not federally legal, so there isn’t money to fund research,” Miller said.
Gates later concluded the podcast with his own funny anecdote, laughing about his first time he ever smoked weed — back when it was a “rebellious” thing to do. “In school out of the, say 105 people in my class I think, there were three or four who didn’t smoke,” he said. “Because it was kind of a, ‘Hey, I’m an adult! Hey I can break the rules!’ But I will say, sometimes it’s like, I guess I’m doing this to be cool. It wasn’t so much smoking for pot’s sake.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Thursday Bill Gates launched a new podcast called “Unconfuse Me.” (“What do you do when you can’t solve a problem? I like to talk to smart people who can help me understand the subject better…”)
Join me on my learning journey as I talk to brilliant guests about Alzheimer’s, artificial intelligence, the future of education, plant-based meat, the evolution of language, marijuana, and more.
The first words of the first episode are a clip of Seth Rogen saying “Edibles? I don’t mess with that. Snoop Dogg doesn’t eat edibles. Like, that’s how wild the variation on edibles is, and I do not recommend this.”
Then Bill Gates’ voice says “I love learning, even if a topic’s complex, I like to see if I can figure it out…” People reports that the 67-year-old Microsoft co-founder and former CEO also spoke to Rogen and his wife Lauren Miller about the future of Alzheimer’s research:
With studies showing that “40% of cases” are preventable, according to Rogen, the “five brain healthy habits” in their framework are important: sleep, exercise, nutrition, mental fitness and emotional well-being.
He even confessed that his being a celebrity encourages people to better care for themselves. “I taught this coursework of brain health, and we’ve also had a neurologist teach the coursework, and we scientifically proved that people retain information better from celebrities than doctors, which is it’s a heavy burden,” he joked, adding that this information “was published…”
Miller also shared that she goes to a neurologist and the pair are both “open” with their doctors about their habits, and “no one” in the medical world has told them that smoking weed is bad for their brain health. They even believe its benefits of boosting hunger and relieving stress might be good for preventing Alzheimer’s. “It’s not federally legal, so there isn’t money to fund research,” Miller said.
Gates later concluded the podcast with his own funny anecdote, laughing about his first time he ever smoked weed — back when it was a “rebellious” thing to do. “In school out of the, say 105 people in my class I think, there were three or four who didn’t smoke,” he said. “Because it was kind of a, ‘Hey, I’m an adult! Hey I can break the rules!’ But I will say, sometimes it’s like, I guess I’m doing this to be cool. It wasn’t so much smoking for pot’s sake.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.