Comments on: Intel Core Ultra 200V Series Lunar Lake Launched

By: Klaus

Klaus — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 22:54:15 +0000

“Intel said that removing HT helped with the overall integration of the chip and, therefore, it was the right decision to remove it.”

Not to mention that hyperthreading is the source of most if not all of the Spectre-type exploits. No more performance sapping workarounds.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 09:20:37 +0000

This looks very interesting. Many AMD-based (thin and light) devices used soldered LPDDR5X to increase signal integrity and achieve higher memory clocks and this just brings that to the next level.

Funnily enough, AMD used to build embedded GPUs with the GDDR5 memory packages on the interposer, right next to the GPU, just like here, back in 2011. This was called the Radeon E6760. They could do something exciting with a 12-16-core part with a large integrated GPU and a 256-bit LPDDR5X memory bus with the chips on the interposer again.

By: AdditionalPylons

AdditionalPylons — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 06:23:33 +0000

Very interesting. Timing-wise Intel really needs this, but I can’t help but think that the market would fare better if more software developers were tempted/forced to consider ARM as an option. With Lunar Lake they can just continue business as usual and delay the switch and Intel/MS can cling to their majority market share for a while longer.

@MOSFET, Just wait until they learn about HVDC! =)

By: Radu

Radu — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 23:17:53 +0000

I’m assuming they will still offer expandable RAM in the form of SODIMMs or LPCAMM2 on Arrow Lake-class CPUs. That means desktops, mini PCs, or high performance mobile CPUs like the HX series.

By: MOSFET

MOSFET — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 22:38:40 +0000

200V gives them a lot more ceiling for degradation than 1.5V does.

By: emerth

emerth — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 20:49:25 +0000

Intel is moving on the right direction, esp. with on package memory and high clocked at that. AMD should be doing this as well. Most notebooks are soldered anyway and 32GB will cover almost all the market. Still the silly e-cores though. I suppose a 4 core CPU just would not sell, thus the marketing-cores are still present.