Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “AMD is putting pressure on Intel…”.
Yeah all right, let’s talk about some tech AMD, announced their ryzen 7000 non-x and ryzen 7000 X 3D chips at CES. That made a lot of noise about these uh and they’re pretty exciting. Okay, so last gen, the 5800 X 3D was kind of worse than the regular 5800x overclocking was locked. It was clear that AMD had some some challenges. They had to get the voltages dialed. In perfectly for this thing, um, if I recall correctly, the clock, speeds weren’t.
Even quite as high as the regular 5800x, don’t quote me on that one uh. The point is this time around: the x3ds are pretty darn aggressive bass. Frequencies are lower, but turbo frequencies look like they are pretty equivalent to their non-x3d counterparts.
That’S exciting because they have double the level three cash, so we should see that same kind of gaming uplift, we hope, but they not only um – are going to have the extra cash but they’re actually coming in at lower tdps 120 watts versus 170 Watts. I’M pretty excited about these, but I’m also really liking the look of the regular non-x 7000 series chips, and here it’s less about the specs and more about the difference in price. The 7900 is over a hundred dollars less than the X is theoretically anyway, closer to a third of the power consumption than to half of it same cash, nearly the same turbo frequency and much lower base frequencies. We see that on the 77 and the 7600s as well, but man these things could be gaming monsters for a much lower price and much lower power consumption, which is a big deal.
These days, meanwhile, Intel launched T-Series and regular non-k series chips that um completely slipped under our radar they’re supposedly launched. I can’t see anywhere, you can buy them and I didn’t see a single review. We didn’t even get so much as a heads up that these things were coming, let alone review samples which leads me to believe that um.
This could be bad uh. Here’S the info on these. They are mistakenly labeled as unlocked.
Apparently they are in fact not unlocked. Uh, where is that I don’t? I don’t actually see that here, but it’s in my oh yeah there. It is.
Oh it’s up at the top. Sorry, it’s right here at the top core unlocked desktop processors. Note they are apparently not unlocked um, and so not only are they not unlocked for overclocking, but they also have more limited performance.
Their tdps are 65 or 35 Watts, but Turbo Power can go as high as 219 Watts on a core I9 13900, and but it won’t do that forever. K-Series chips will boost forever as of 12th gen, but non-k chips have power limits and will down clock to base clock after boosting for long enough. The core, i5 13600 and Below also have some interesting characteristics.
Level 2 cache drops to 11.5 versus 20 megabytes for the K variant. Remember. I was just talking about amd’s x3d chips and how adding more cash can be really great for gaming. Well, you can probably extrapolate what taking cash away is likely to do. Um leaked slides, showing this led to speculation that these chips are actually derived from Alder Lake. Oh instead of raptor Lake interesting.
I I doubt that I doubt that there are some improvements over 12th gen, so the i5s have um more e-cores, apparently okay. So that’s cool um, yeah, no okay, Anthony wrote in here that they did not seed review samples at all. So, okay, but at least hey you get.
Oh Newegg has them now, let’s see, are they actually in stock? Can I buy one? Yes, I can, and you get a free Intel screwdriver with purchase what Intel’s competing with me. I was just gon na say: what’s going on here, where’s the screwdriver: what’s it look like, is it ratcheting okay? Well there they are so we’re gon na have to get on this. Neither Intel’s gon na have to send us some samples or we’re just gon na have to buy them, because I want to know what the crap is going on. Oh yeah, here’s something you won’t find that Intel also quietly did on any promotional slides, but they quietly increased the price of most 12th gen chips by 10 percent, so this actually makes 12th gen more expensive than 13th gen um. Okay, our discussion question is what is Intel trying to hide with these quiet launches and price adjustments, maybe that its name competes with one of the biggest media companies in the world? T-Series thanks thanks for that, and how is Intel expecting these to keep up with amd’s? Also just announced ryzen 7000 non-x processor either not, which is why they Shadow launched it yeah. I guess so it’s a little weird. I yeah. I good luck, Intel yeah! Speaking of good luck.
Dell apparently wants to phase out chips made in China by 2024.. Yeah Dell plans to stop using chinese-made semiconductors in all its Products Inc, including chips produced by Foreign suppliers inside China, they’re also telling suppliers to reduce the amount of other made in China components in products. Dell is reportedly concerned about U.S China tensions after the U.S added Chinese memory, chip maker, ytmc and 21. Other major companies in China, uh in China’s AI sector to a trade Blacklist in December block list in December Dell also expects to move 50 percent of production and assembly capacity outside of China by 2025..
Most major brands are now sourcing, most components from Taiwan and South Korea. Apple has moved its a tiny fraction of their production to Vietnam, but the Vietnamese labor force is less than seven percent the size of China’s, with only 12 percent of those being classed as highly skilled. Interesting moves.
This might challenge creating a lot of their own problems. Right now, but they’re also, I also kind of feel for the companies there um. A lot of this has nothing to do with them like this is a tough situation all around speaking of China by the way uh. I did get some details wrong on the situation with the Michaels um the whole thing where they uh, where they arrested the Huawei CFO um, I’m not gon na, say she did nothing wrong because Huawei is a shady Shady company um, but that particular thing was a Little more complicated than just she did something illegal and it was bad and should have been arrested. So there was a lot of political uh political 4D chess going on is all i’ll really say about it. At this point, the main takeaway from last week, though, was not the details. The point was: I’m not traveling somewhere that arbitrarily detains Canadians, that’s it yeah uh! It’S it’s interesting, though, because if okay, sorry, no, no, I’m going to jump in with this sue for AWS and float plane chat.
Why feel sorry for Chinese companies they’re owned and controlled by the Chinese Communist party at the end of the day? Not all of them? That’S why well and that that that’s my whole point they did. You answered your own question: okay, yeah uh. What I’m saying is this might be an interesting like business move for Dell uh, I mean they. They sort of directly called it out, but if one of the companies that they work with gets put on a block list, that could be extremely disruptive if it happened suddenly. But if they try to get ahead of the curve on this and work with companies that aren’t going to be put on a block list, because those companies are are outside of their say in in Taiwan or elsewhere or Vietnam, or whatever um yeah less disruption. In the supply chain is good when you have a supply chain, it’s going to be hard to have less disruption in the supply chain.
I forget what the numbers are, but it’s like a like. A an incredible percentage of Earth’s rare earth. Metals are mined in China like there is no semiconductor industry, as we know it in places where China runs the mining yeah, that’s a whole other thing: yeah yeah, .