AMD Announces Zen 2 CPUs at Computex
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| AMD Announces Zen 2 CPUs at Computex | |
| Number | 848 |
| Broadcast Date | MAY 27, 2019 |
| Episode Length | 6:09 |
| Hosts | Rich Stroffolino |
AMD, Nvidia, and Arm all have big announcements from Computex, Huawei leaves standards bodies, and Microsoft gives more details about xCloud.
Headlines
- At Computex, AMD announced new processors using its Zen 2 chiplet-based microarchitecture, all built on a 7nm process. The flagship is the Ryzen 9 3900x, offering 12-cores and 24-threads at a base clock of 3.8GHz, with Turbo speeds up to 4.6GHz. The processors will all support PCIe 4.0, use the existing AM4 socket for backwards motherboard compatibility, and features a TDP of 105W. The new processors launch July 7th, and the 3900X will retail for $499. AMD also provided details of the first GPU to use its new Navi architecture. The Radeon RX 5700 will also be built on 7nm process and feature GDDR6 memory, delivering 25% better performance per clock per core and 50% better power efficiency than existing Vega-based cards. The RX 5700 will be released sometime in July.
- Nvidia announced Turning-based Quadro RTX professional cards are coming to laptops, led by the Quadro RTX 5000. This offers 3,072 CUDA cores, 384 Tensor cores, and 48 RT cores paired with 16GB GDDR6 RAM. At launch, 17 laptops from ASUS, Dell, HP, MSI, Razer, Gigabyte and Acer will carry the new cards with the branding RTX Studio. Aside from the cards, the laptops will also feature the "NVIDIA Studio Stack" a software SDK and APIs designed to speed up video editing, rendering and vector animation. According to Nvidia, RTX Studio laptops will start at $1600.
- Chip designer ARM announced new CPU and GPU architectures, the Cortex-A77 CPU and the Mali-G77 GPU. Arm claims the Cortex-A77 improves performance b 20% per clock over previous A76, with 25% better machine learning performance. The Mali-G77 GPU uses the Valhall GPU design, with 40% overall better performance and 30% more power efficiency than its predecessor. It also runs machine learning inference and neural net workloads 60% faster.
- Qualcom and Lenovo revealed Project Limitless, a ARM-based PC with built in 5G. The device runs the Snapdragon 8cx Compute Platform, which offers an 8-core Qualcomm Kryo 495 CPU and Adreno 680 graphics. It uses the Snapdragon X55 5G modem with download speeds of up to 2.5 Gbps, as well as providing 4G connectivity. Pricing and release date were not announced.
- Intel showed off the Core i9-9900KS, a 8-core, 16-thread processor capable of running all cores at a turbo frequency of 5GHz. Technically the CPU has a stock frequency of 4GHz, but will only run at that frequency if a motherboard uses default Intel BIOS, which generally isn't the case. Intel confirmed this isn't new silicon, rather Core i9-9900K chips specifically binned to run at the higher frequency all the time. Pricing, release and power consumption were not announced.
- Microsoft released more details about its upcoing xCloud game streaming service. Microsoft claims it now has the "technical capability" to stream over 3500 games without needing any code changes. Custom blades have now been installed across 13 Azure regions with an initial emphasis on North America, Asia and Europe. Developers Capcom and Paradox are among those testing the service, with public trials expected later this year.
- Huawei found itself out of several standards bodies following being placed on the US Department of Commerce Entity list. The Wi-Fi Alliance announced Huawei was temporarily restricted from the standards body, while the SD Association, which created standards for SD Cards, removed Huawei from its members list. Meanwhile Huawei announced it had volunarily withdrawn from JEDEC, which creates standards for the semi-conductor industry. These standards are all open and Huawei can continue to develop for them, but the company will no longer have a say in new standards being developed.
- Poland has submitted a complaint to the European Court of Justice against copyright rules adopted in April. These are the rules that would require large companies to show good faith efforts to prevent the upload of copyright-infringing works and payments for using news snippets. Poland argues the filtering requirement would lay the foundation for preventive censorship which it says is forbidden by the Polish Constitution and EU treaties.
- Yandex, Russia’s largest tech company, is launching a delivery service in Moscow and St. Petersberg called Yandex NV that lets customer tell a restaurant what they want cooked, even if it's not on the menu. NV, which the company calls "a cloud restaurant" will prepare meal kits from a customer's chosen ingredients from hundreds of dishes, then send it to a nearby restaurant to cook. A Yandex courier will then deliver the finished dish. In 2017 Yandex merged with Uber's Russian arm. Yandex Eats works like Uber Eats delivering cooked food from restaurants, and Yandex.Chef supplies meal kits for home cooking.
- iFixit published the results of its teardown of the new MacBook pro keyboards. iFixit found the material that covers the key switch is nylon rather than the previous complex polymer. Also the metal dome switch underneath each key shows evidence of being made of a different alloy or possibly getting a different heat treatment or both.
- The Financial Times reports that, according to source, ByteDance is working on a smartphone. The report claims that the phone would come preloaded with ByteDance apps like TikTok, the news aggregator Jinri Toutiao, and a rumored music streaming service. Earlier this year, ByteDance acquired patents and employees from phone maker Smartisan. The report did not have details as to the phone's design, specifications, or target market.
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