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Based on RISC-V cores The Chinese company SophGo is developing a processor based on the RISC-V architecture, using solutions from the American company SiFive. [caption id="attachment_82463" align="aligncenter" width="600"] 64-core processor[/caption] The processor, called the SG2380, has 16 SiFive P670 cores, each roughly equivalent in performance to a Cortex-A77, a SiFive X280 AI/ML accelerator, and an AXT-16-512 GPU from Imagination Technologies. The Chinese company SophGo is creating a 64-core processor based on American SiFive technologies In addition, SophGo has already announced the SG2044 SoC, which will be released next year. It will already offer 64 processor cores, support for PCIe 5.0 and LPDDR5x. Both solutions will be produced using the 12 nm process technology, apparently at the facilities of the Chinese SMIC, since initially the SiFive cores, which SophGo uses, are focused on much more modern technology processes. Thus, SophGo is not subject to the latest US sanctions, since they do not apply to the RISC-V architecture. The popularity of this architecture has been growing recently, and American sanctions may make RISC-V an even more popular solution specifically in China.

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As if the PC is already ready with them Ryzen 8000G processors, as we have already reported , may appear instead of the Ryzen 7000G at the end of this year or at the beginning of next year. Perhaps Ryzen 9000 is also on the way. [caption id="attachment_80751" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Ryzen 9000[/caption] A photo of a Dell advertising brochure has leaked online, showing an Alienware gaming PC allegedly equipped with a processor from the Ryzen 9000 line. Ryzen 9000 is closer than everyone thought? One of the buyers of the current Alienware PC received such an advertising brochure, but regular customers of the company also received similar advertising. It is likely that this is just a mistake, since next year we should be waiting for the Ryzen 8000 line in all its manifestations. However, given yesterday's news about the Ryzen 8000G, perhaps AMD for some reason decided to use names that we initially expected to see later. Moreover, in this case, the company will not be the first to skip generations. It is worth remembering that the Ryzen 6000 line is completely absent in the desktop segment.

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The division into Pro and regular models will return The Videocardz resource has published the first images of AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 processors. It's finally confirmed that AMD is going back to two lines for its monster CPUs. We are waiting for Threadripper Pro 7000 processors for workstations and regular Threadripper 7000 processors for enthusiasts. The latter should just be sold at retail. In addition, the latter will receive packaging with orange accents, while the former will have silver accents. [caption id="attachment_71237" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Ryzen Threadripper 7000 processors[/caption] The new processors will use the sTR5 socket and include from 8 to 12 chipsets, like the Epyc Genoa server ones. Technically these are very similar processors. The first images of Ryzen Threadripper 7000 processors have been published It is known that motherboards for the new CPUs will support DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0 cards. Probably, the difference in the number of channels in the RAM controller will also return. Let us remind you that the top models of the new line will be 96-core CPUs, which will allow for a giant leap in performance compared to the already very powerful Ryzen Threadripper 5000. The announcement of new processors will take place tomorrow.

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But this is hardly good for the CPU Alder Lake and Raptor Lake processors are characterized by very high power consumption and heating. Raptor Lake Refresh, due to increased frequencies and the absence of any changes in the architecture, will consume and heat up even more. And if desired, in some cases it will be possible to allow these CPUs to heat up to 115 degrees. [caption id="attachment_68854" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Intel Core processors[/caption] The new 14th-generation Intel Core processors can be allowed to operate at temperatures up to 115 degrees. MSI will make it possible to increase the processor throttling threshold for new Intel CPUs from the current 107 to 115 degrees. This feature will be available in the BIOS of motherboards based on 700 and 600 series chipsets. The setting will allow the processor to operate stably at temperatures up to 115 degrees. And this will only be possible with the new 14th-generation Intel Core. It's unclear whether these temperatures are acceptable for the new CPUs, but the setting is likely designed for overclocking enthusiasts rather than casual users.

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They will be released at the end of the year Intel has announced that Meteor Lake processors will be released at the end of December. At the same time, Intel nominally announced these CPUs. We have not yet been told about the parameters and models, but we have been given a more complete overview of the architectures, features, and technologies. [caption id="attachment_57388" align="aligncenter" width="701"] Intel Core processors[/caption] Intel says the release of Meteor Lake marks the start of a new era for the company as it moves away from the Intel 7 node and begins deploying its 3D EUV lithograph Foveros packaging for the client mobile platform. Meteor Lake is an extremely important product for Intel, and at the same time, it is new in literally everything. This is the new Intel 4 technical process, the chipset layout used by the company for the first time in this segment, and a disaggregated configuration, which means the use of chipsets created using different technical processes. Let us remember that the Intel 4 process technology will be used for the processor chipset, and the GPU is generally produced by TSMC. 15th generation Intel Core processors introduced. Meteor Lake, like the previous several generations of Intel CPUs, contains in the configuration large P-cores, in this case based on the Redwood Cove architecture, and small E-cores on the Crestmont architecture. An unusual feature is the two small cores integrated into the SoC chipset, which Intel calls a Low Power Island. These new LP E-cores are designed to allow light workloads and processes to be offloaded from a more power-hungry compute cluster and moved entirely to a more power-efficient cluster in the SoC. That is these two cores will be used only separately for non-resource-intensive tasks, although this remains to be verified. Other important additions include Intel's first Neural Processing Unit (NPU). Another interesting feature is that each chipset, or tile as Intel itself calls it, has its power controller, which should make the CPU more energy efficient. There are four tiles in total: CPU, GPU, SoC, and I/O tile. However, Intel only produces the CPU tile and the I/O tile. The GPU is manufactured at TSMC facilities using the N5 process technology, and the SoC tile is produced using the N6 process technology. The company also says that the new CPUs have better instructions executed per clock than the current line, but there are no details. Also, Intel has not yet said anything about cache memory sizes. Let's remember that Intel says that Meteor Lake processors will be released on December 14. But these are mobile CPUs, so it’s not very clear in what form they will hit the market that day. It may be possible to buy a laptop with such a processor only at the beginning of 2024.

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And so far only in one test Yesterday, the Chinese company Loongson finally released its 3A6000 processor to the market , which in a number of tests is actually not inferior to the Ryzen 3 3100 and Core i3-10100F . It turned out that it can even compete with the Core i5-14600K! True, only at the same frequency. [caption id="attachment_84905" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Core i5-14600K[/caption] Recent tests have shown that in the UnixBench test the new Chinese CPU performs at the level of the Core i3-10100, if the frequency of the latter is lowered to 2.5 GHz, like the 3A6000. And in the Spec CPU 2006 test, the same thing happens when comparing the Chinese new product with the Core i5-14600K! Moreover, in one of the modes the latter is even a little slower. The Chinese quad-core Loongson 3A6000 processor is capable of competing with the Core i5-14600K. This indicates the great potential of the Loongson architecture, but, of course, in practice the frequencies still differ by more than twice. In addition, these are separate tests and sometimes separate modes in these tests, so we still don’t have the full picture. But we can say for sure that buying a Loongson 3A6000 for a home PC in order to overclock it well and reach the performance of modern AMD and Intel CPUs is a bad idea. Apparently, the overclocking potential is either in general or is still quite weak. Regular overclocking allows you to increase the frequency from 2.5 to only 2.63 GHz, and liquid nitrogen allows you to achieve 3 GHz, but here the motherboard BIOS limitation comes into force. So perhaps extreme overclocking is possible to higher frequencies.

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There's more liquid nitrogen ahead The day before yesterday, overclocker Sampson managed to overclock the 96-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX to 4.8 GHz for all cores using air CO and setting many records, and yesterday he set new records by overclocking the same CPU using a liquid cooling system. [caption id="attachment_83316" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX[/caption] Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX overclocked using liquid CO The CO was created from a HeatKiller IV processor unit, a ThermalTake radiator and an Enermax pump. This allowed us to increase the frequency of all cores to 5.265 GHz! This was the maximum frequency without any load and with a consumption of about 600 W. In applications like Cinebench, the processor clocked at about 5 GHz, while consuming up to 1 kW of power! Of course, all this allowed us to set new records. For example, 167,309 points in Cinebench R23. But in the near future we should definitely expect new achievements when the Threadripper PRO 7995WX is overclocked using liquid nitrogen.

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6-seater cars will begin transporting passengers in central Tokyo in 2026 Honda Motor Company has announced that it plans to launch a self-driving taxi service in Japan along with Cruise and General Motors (GM). The joint venture will be created by the partners in 2024, and the driverless taxi service itself should start operating in 2026. First, driverless taxis will transport passengers in the center of Tokyo, and then beyond. [caption id="attachment_71932" align="aligncenter" width="612"] Self-driving taxis[/caption] To transport passengers, a Cruise Origin car will be used without a driver's seat and steering wheel; the interior of this vehicle can accommodate up to 6 people. At first, the service will be launched with several dozen cars, and then their number will increase to 500. Passengers will be able to order an unmanned taxi using a mobile application and pay for the service there. Honda and General Motors will launch self-driving taxis in Japan [caption id="attachment_71933" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Self-driving taxis[/caption] It is known that Cruise Origin cars have level 4 autonomy, that is, they can move without a driver if a number of conditions are met. According to international standards, there are 5 levels of car autonomy: the first involves only a little automatic assistance to the driver - this could be, for example, an autonomous emergency braking system; Level 5 is a fully self-driving car. In April of this year, a law came into force in Japan allowing the movement of driverless cars with Level 4 autonomy in some cases.

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New products are faster than their predecessors The first results of testing Core i5-14600 and Core i3-14100 processors have appeared on the Internet. The first includes six large cores and eight small ones, while the second has only four large ones. The frequencies in the same order are 2.7–5.2 GHz and 3.5–4.7 GHz.  [caption id="attachment_71920" align="aligncenter" width="780"] i5-14600[/caption] So far there are results only in Geekbench, but they allow you to understand the difference between the new products and the previous generation.   Core i3-14100 without small cores appeared in tests for the first time along with the Core i5-14600 Specifically, in Geekbench, the younger processor scored 2509 and 8881 points in single-threaded and multi-threaded modes, respectively, while the results of the older one were 2785 and 16,110 points.  [caption id="attachment_71921" align="aligncenter" width="686"] i5-14600[/caption] Since the results in multi-threaded mode are more important, we note that the result of the Core i5-14600 is higher than that of the Core i5-13600K and close to the Core i5-14600K. The result of the Core i3-14100 is significantly higher than that of the Core i3-13100, but still, the Core i5-13400 remains far ahead. 

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The rest of the CPUs will be shown at the beginning of 2024 Intel introduced the 14th generation Core processors (Raptor Lake Refresh). As expected, today only older models with an unlocked multiplier were announced. Intel Core i9-14900KKF There were a lot of leaks about these CPUs, so Intel didn’t reveal anything new except the price. The new generation differs minimally from the previous one, except for the Core i7 models, which have four smaller cores compared to their predecessors. Intel Core i9-14900KKF Intel Core i9-14900K/KF, Core i7-14700K/KF, and Core i5-14600K/KF processors are presented. But Intel did not raise prices, which is good, because there were such rumors. However, they were there last year too. So, the characteristics of the new products are as follows: Core i9-14900K/KF – 24 cores (8+16), frequencies 3.2–6.0 GHz, 36 MB L3 cache, TDP 125 W and price 590/565 dollars; Core i7-14700K/KF - 20 cores (8+12), frequencies 3.4–5.6+ GHz, 33 MB L3 cache, TDP 125 W and price $385/$410; Core i5-14600K/KF - 14 cores (6+8), frequencies 3.5–5.3+ GHz, 24 MB L3 cache, TDP 125 W and price 295/320 dollars. To demonstrate the performance gain from the transition to the new generation, Intel, as expected, took the Core i7-14700K because it can demonstrate this gain. The new CPUs will be available for purchase starting tomorrow.

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There is no gain at all in single-threaded mode The other day the Cinebench 2024 software package was presented, and today we can evaluate the performance of the unannounced Core i9-14900K in this software. [caption id="attachment_53504" align="aligncenter" width="517"] Intel Core i9-14900K[/caption] Intel's upcoming new product scores 128 and 2161 points in single-threaded and multi-threaded modes, respectively. For comparison, the Core i9-13900K scores 127 and 2044 points, while the Core i9-13900KS scores 128 and 2111 points. There is practically no difference between the Core i9-14900K, Core i9-13900K, and Core i9-13900KS. [caption id="attachment_53505" align="aligncenter" width="288"] Intel Core i9-14900K[/caption] That is, in the new software the difference between CPUs is minimal. In single-threaded mode, it is not there at all, but in multi-threaded mode, the new product is 6% faster than its predecessor. Technically the Core i9-14900K is a complete copy of the Core i9-13900KS, and the tiny difference in performance may indicate a slightly increased power limit or a slightly different operating algorithm. [caption id="attachment_53506" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Intel Core i9-14900K[/caption] In the same benchmark, the Ryzen 9 7950X scores 119 and 1952 points, while the Ryzen 9 7950X3D scores 121 and 2002 points.