Comments on: Intel Lunar Lake for AI PCs at Hot Chips 2024

By: Jeffrey W. Baker

Jeffrey W. Baker — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 22:21:20 +0000

Skymont is giving off “why don’t they make the entire plane out of black boxes” vibe. If they shipped a 32-core Skymont processor for workstations I would buy it.

By: goose

goose — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 05:30:16 +0000

VVC (Versatile Video Encoding) is H.266, which is the latest and greatest video compression codec with gains that are higher than AV1, although at even greater complexity.

Given the hostility of the H.265/H.266 Licensing Alliance, it’s doubtful, IMO, that we’ll ever see hardware encode in consumer devices. Decode is useful though as content publishers may adopt it, although the biggest ones seem to be keen on AV1 given the royalty free nature of it.

AV1 may appear on consumer hardware encoders, but for home use H.265 is pretty good and doesn’t have crazy requirements, so you may as well use.

IIRC both Nvidia and Intel have AV1 encoders that are pretty good, but Intel’s implementation basically matches their H.265 encoder in terms of quality at the same bitrate, so there’s not much point in using it.

By: Stephen Beets

Stephen Beets — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 21:34:42 +0000

What the heck is VVC? I see it mentioned, but absolutely no explanation of what that is appears to have been given. Or, maybe I’m going blind and it’s there but I can’t, or don’t, see it.

By: DavidC1

DavidC1 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 18:12:50 +0000

“The Lion Cove P-Core is a major change. This feels like one of, if not the, biggest change for Intel in a long time.”

What? And the E core just gets this?

“Here we also have the Skymont E-core, designed to take over more workloads.”

The P core gets a mere 14% gain and the E core is a huge gain. I barely read about Lion Cove considering the low gains.