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Intel Demos Kaby Lake 7th Gen Core Series Running Overwatch At IDF (hothardware.com)
Reader MojoKid writes: Intel unveiled a number of new product innovations out at IDF last week, but the company also stuck to its core product march by teasing its next gen Core series processor. Kaby Lake is the follow-up product to current, 6th Generation Skylake-based Core processors. With Kaby Lake, Intel is adding native support for USB 3.1 Gen 2, along with a more powerful graphics architecture for improved 3D performance and 4K video processing. Kaby Lake will also bring with it native HDCP 2.2 support and hardware acceleration for HEVC Main10/10-bit and VP9 10-bit video decoding. To drive some of those points home, Intel showed off Overwatch running on a next-gen Dell XPS 13 built around a 7th Gen ULV Core i5 processor, in addition to a HP notebook smoothly playing back 4K HDR video. Kaby Lake 7th Generation Core-based products should start arriving to market in the fall.
"HP notebook smoothly playing back 4K HDR video"
Is this not possible at the moment?
No sig today...
Unfortunately that is basically the case with Skylake as well. Welcome to forced upgrades for all!
The most pointless, short, useless and under-described "demo" I've ever seen.
I'm not familiar with Overwatch's spec but pretty much they show one short-range view of two static robots turn the corner to walk up some stairs with some skyboxes, then jump back and that's IT. Nothing there performance-related. And we know why. Compared to a real graphics card, it can't compete.
All the other stuff was pretty meh too. Oh look, it's faster than previous generations. Cool. I should hope so otherwise it's pointless trying to sell it.
We may be reaching the limits of current design, but there is a path forward to continue with performance leaps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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....the digital revolution is coming to and end.
So Intel's next processor will be 'Swan Lake'?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
And that is where Intel needs to step up and no 8-12 lines out the of PCH that is feed by an X4 DMI does not court.
I think one of the possible ways they will go is following that HBM memory idea.
The idea would be to manufacture the CPUs/GPUs etc into physically separate parts, and then assemble em into this "megazord" into a single package. This allows you to get around the yield problems of manufacturing "giant" chips, and even get more fine grained prices/performance setups.
Of course, this idea brings its own problems like coolling the thing, having precise machines to get a good yield on the chip aligning, the reduced overall number of connections per part etc etc etc..
To be more specific, as it didn't got very clear, those parts are not just "cores and GPUs", but caches, integer/FPU pipelines, branch predictors, instruction decoders etc..
Too bad, but it was nice while it lasted!
You mean we'll have to start work on optimising our software?
Shit.
The response to the end (or slowdown) of Moore's law vs the ever increasing processing needs, is to go back to the days of pre-bloatware. We need to start writing efficient code again.
OH THE HORROR! Please! Won't someone think of the Ask Toolbar?!?!?!
I think Intel has been dancing Swan Lake for quite a while now. There haven't been much in raw processor improvements for several years.
WTF is USB3.1 Gen2?
USB3.1 wasn't a colossal clusterfuck already, that they had to make it even *more* complicated?
I wish Apple would pull their thumbs out and just license their lightning connector. Simple, clean design, and none of this 50 Shades of USB nonsense.
A lot of people are depending on seemingly infinite processing power to get real AI.
Actually, pretty much everybody in the AI-world is convinced that running AI on general purpose computing hardware is very inefficient and that artificial neuron like-hardware is the future for fast AI.
Integrating a GPU is nice, but can somebody show me a benchmark that proves Kaby Lake is actually any faster than Skylake? Anybody that cares about gaming is going to disable the built-in GPU and run a GTX 1080 anyway, so what's the point? More cores? No current games use all the cores.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Maybe I missed something but the fx8300 says Copyright 2011 on it and besides the 220W joke they played on everyone, they haven't come out with anything since. What exactly are they doing over there at AMD? SOMEONE needs to put some pressure on intel to make them lower their utterly ridiculous prices.
Except that CPUs have not really needed minimum size transistors for a long time now. They're still needed - Moore's law really helps memory devices, but general random-logic devices like a CPU or GPU don't benefit as much, at least on the processing side.
In fact, the real bottleneck is wiring - there's so much wiring that it's actually what keeps the transistor density low. In fact, in the general logic area, tons of extra transistors are fabbed that aren't hooked up - these are for revisions to the metal layers only (the numerical revisions - e.g., A1, A2, A3, etc) so there's no need to redo masks for the diffusions and all that. There's just so much space between transistors available that you can fab lots of spares.
The vast majority of transistors in a traditional logic device are used for caches and onboard memory - where the wiring is regular and consistent and transistors can be made the absolute smallest and density the highest.
Woooo! that sounds like an awesome feature, will it definitely stop me doing what i want with the output of my graphics card, for realsies this time? And native, I'm so glad i can do away with the HDCP 2.2 add-on dongle i've had strapped to my PC to restrict me in the meantime.
1)if i've completely misunderstood the purpose of modern HDCP, oops, sorry, but who's going to RTFA or google for a spec?
Kaby Lake is Skylake Refresh. No new wafer, just slightly improved clocks, slightly lower prices and a new chipset.
It is possible to do optical connections at this scale yet?
Is that what they're saying? Doesn't that go on the Southbridge?