(Original Headline: Intel Tries to Squash AMD Revival With New High-End Chips, Brand)
Netease Technology News May 31th According to Bloomberg News, Intel released the i9 chip, the new product has up to 18 processing cores, mainly for gamers and computer enthusiasts. Intel hopes to strengthen its advantage in the high-end personal computer processor market through new products and face competition from AMD.
AMD's previously launched Ryzen series is said to have performance beyond Intel's products. In the first quarter of this year, AMD attempted to snatch the PC market with several new products.
Intel estimates that game enthusiasts and other users who are willing to spend money to upgrade their maximum configuration represent a market that grows by 20% annually. Although the global PC market has been declining year after year since peaking in 2011, the high-end market is still profitable.
Higher performance means higher prices and profitability. The first i9-7980XE is priced at $1999, which is more expensive than many people's entire computers.
By offering processors that outperform competitors' products, Intel holds more than 80% of the market share and higher sales prices in the PC chip market. Intel’s monopolistic nature has left many competitors with AMD, and the latter has not been profitable for five years. (Sun Wenwen)
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Core i9 series debut: Intel can not "squeeze toothpaste"
In the Dragon Boat Festival, the chip "war" continues. On the first day of Computex 2017, Gregory Bryant, Intel’s vice president and general manager of the client computing division, delivered a speech, announcing the launch of a new Core X family of desktop processors to meet the highly acclaimed AMD Ryzen series.
On the other hand, Intel no longer regards itself as a PC chip company, but a data company, the goal is to drive the future of data flow.
Intel Vice President and General Manager of Client Computing Division Gregory Bryant
First, the new Core X family and i9 series processors, up to 18 cores
Intel's Core X is aimed at the highest-performing enthusiasts, such as gamers and high-end VR users who want to maximize their game performance. The new series starts from 4 to the highest i9 Extreme, which has 18 cores and 36 threads. Intel said it is the first 18-core consumer desktop PC processor.
The new Core X family starts with a 4-core, 4-thread, Core i5, which costs $242, and a Core i7 X series, which is a "middle-end". The parameters range from a $339 version with 4 cores and 8 threads to 10 cores and 20 threads. $599 version.
As for the latest Core i9 series, four versions will be offered first, ranging from a $999 12-core, 24-thread version to a $16,699 16-core, 32-thread version. The i9 XE is expected to sell for $1999, but it still needs to wait until it is available.
In terms of architecture, most of the Core X chips are based on Intel's 6th generation Skylake platform, officially known as Skylake X. The two low-end four-core versions, i5-7640X and i7-7740X, are based on the Kaby Lake X architecture.
All new Core X processors support Intel's new X299 motherboard chips, and motherboards equipped with these chips will be launched by Intel partners in the coming weeks.
According to Intel, the multi-threaded performance of the Core X series is up to 10% higher than the previous generation, and the single-core performance is improved by 15%.
In addition, for some high-end Core X processing products, Intel also upgraded its own Turbo Boost technology, the new version is named Turbo Boost Max 3.0. Intel said that more core Core X products can bring better multitasking performance, and Turbo Boost Max 3.0 can ensure that single core can achieve greater performance.
Since AMD launched the Ryzen series, which is the first product to compete with Intel Core processors, the industry is expecting Intel to respond instead of “squeezing toothpasteâ€. The new multi-core CPU released this time can be said to be Intel’s response to Ryzen. However, AMD is not to be outdone, and it plans to launch Ryzen product line for enthusiast users later this year, up to 16 cores and 32 threads, just in front of Intel's i9 XE.
Second, 8th generation Core i series will have a 30% performance increase
In addition to the new Core X family, Bryant also briefly mentioned Intel's mainstream Core i series 8th generation processor, previously known as Coffee Lake. Previously rumored that the new generation will have a 15% improvement in performance over the 7th generation, Bryant today announced that the 8th generation will have a 30% increase over Kaby Lake and is expected to be launched later this year.
Third, Intel cooperated with HTC Vive to provide wireless accessories for Vive, debuted in early 2018
In terms of VR, Intel announced that it will cooperate with HTC and use WiGig technology to provide wireless functional accessories for Vive Headset. The product will be launched in early 2018.
According to Lei Feng Network (public number: Lei Feng network) previously reported that Intel had demonstrated a prototype of Oculus DK2 based on WiGig technology at IDF. The head was wrapped in a 3D-printed enclosure with WiGig's dock for receiving signals. At the other end, Intel modified an alien host and installed a black extension box on top of it. According to engineers, the transmission distance between the two is about 5 meters.
WiGig is a technology that Intel and many other vendors have provided for many years. Its core technology is based on the IEEE 802.11ad wireless standard, operates at 60 GHz, and supports 7 Gbps data transfer rates. Since it operates at 60 GHz, its transmission distance is shorter than the radio frequency of 2.4 and 5 GHz, usually only about 9 meters, and the signal through-wall capability is also very poor, so the current application in the home is very narrow. However, due to its large bandwidth, it is used in various wireless extensions, including displays.
In the prototype shown by Intel, the channel that originally connected the monitor was used to transmit the VR image, and the back channel for keyboard and mouse commands was used for data such as the head position.
In addition to wireless VR, Intel also announced that it will cooperate with Oculus, Microsoft, Asustek and other companies to support the inaugural "The Unspoken VR Tournament"/em>VR e-sport campaign.
IV. Computing Cards and Fully Interconnected PCs
The Bryant speech also introduced Intel's two major PC development trends: modular computing and fully connected PCs.
For modular computing Intel introduced a computing card that features full computer functionality but only a credit card-sized PC product. The user can carry a computing card and insert it into different products, such as notebooks, smart teaching tools, living room game consoles, etc., to realize a card driving a variety of products.
Fully-interconnected PCs refer to the addition of 4G LTE mobile network connections (5G in the future) to PC products. At present, many partner companies have launched their products.
Summary: Hold the PC advantage to welcome the data flow
At the Intel 2017 Media Sharing Conference held on March 31 this year, Intel once stated that the company's next step will be to focus on "data flow."
"Data flood" is actually an extension of the previous concept of the "information explosion." The two are not at an order of magnitude. In the future, whether the development of artificial intelligence or the Internet of Things industry needs to rely on big data, Intel wants to become the driving force of the industry.
According to Lei Fengwang, the Computex event shows that for Intel, the future is only part of the same moment. So we have seen Croe X, i9 series, smart cards and other products. Because PC is still a major market despite the stagnation or even decline of growth, it is equally important to maintain the advantages of A. Intel also hopes that the PC market will be reborn. (Liu Fangping)
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