Intel Core Ultra Processors Debut for AI-powered PCs (venturebeat.com) 27
Intel launched its Intel Core Ultra processors for AI-powered PCs at its AI Everywhere event today. From a report: The big chip maker said these processors spearhead a new era in computing, offering unparalleled power efficiency, superior compute and graphics performance, and an unprecedented AI PC experience to mobile platforms and edge devices. Available immediately, these processors will be used in over 230 AI PCs coming from renowned partners like Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, and more.
The Intel Core Ultra processors represent an architectural shift for Intel, marking its largest design change in 40 years. These processors harness the Intel 4 process technology and Foveros 3D advanced packaging, leveraging leading-edge processes for optimal performance and capabilities. The processors boast a performance-core (P-core) architecture enhancing instructions per cycle (IPC). Efficient-cores (E-cores) and low-power Efficient-cores (LP E-cores). They deliver up to 11% more compute power compared to competitors, ensuring superior CPU performance for ultrathin PCs.
Features of Intel Core Ultra
Intel Arc GPU: Featuring up to eight Xe-cores, this GPU incorporates AI-based Xe Super Sampling, offering double the graphics performance compared to prior generations. It includes support for modern graphics features like ray tracing, mesh shading, AV1 encode and decode, HDMI 2.1, and DisplayPort 2.1 20G.
AI Boost NPU: Intel's latest NPU, Intel AI Boost, focuses on low-power, long-running AI tasks, augmenting AI processing on the CPU and GPU, offering 2.5x better power efficiency compared to its predecessors.
Advanced Performance Capabilities: With up to 16 cores, 22 threads, and Intel Thread Director for optimized workload scheduling, these processors boast a maximum turbo frequency of 5.1 GHz and support for up to 96 GB DDR5 memory capacity.
Cutting-edge Connectivity: Integrated Intel Wi-Fi 6E and support for discrete Intel Wi-Fi 7 deliver blazing wireless speeds, while Thunderbolt 4 ensures connectivity to multiple 4K monitors and fast storage with speeds of 40 Gbps.
Enhanced AI Performance: OpenVINO toolkits, ONNX, and ONNX Runtime offer streamlined workflow, automatic device detection, and enhanced AI performance.
The Intel Core Ultra processors represent an architectural shift for Intel, marking its largest design change in 40 years. These processors harness the Intel 4 process technology and Foveros 3D advanced packaging, leveraging leading-edge processes for optimal performance and capabilities. The processors boast a performance-core (P-core) architecture enhancing instructions per cycle (IPC). Efficient-cores (E-cores) and low-power Efficient-cores (LP E-cores). They deliver up to 11% more compute power compared to competitors, ensuring superior CPU performance for ultrathin PCs.
Features of Intel Core Ultra
Intel Arc GPU: Featuring up to eight Xe-cores, this GPU incorporates AI-based Xe Super Sampling, offering double the graphics performance compared to prior generations. It includes support for modern graphics features like ray tracing, mesh shading, AV1 encode and decode, HDMI 2.1, and DisplayPort 2.1 20G.
AI Boost NPU: Intel's latest NPU, Intel AI Boost, focuses on low-power, long-running AI tasks, augmenting AI processing on the CPU and GPU, offering 2.5x better power efficiency compared to its predecessors.
Advanced Performance Capabilities: With up to 16 cores, 22 threads, and Intel Thread Director for optimized workload scheduling, these processors boast a maximum turbo frequency of 5.1 GHz and support for up to 96 GB DDR5 memory capacity.
Cutting-edge Connectivity: Integrated Intel Wi-Fi 6E and support for discrete Intel Wi-Fi 7 deliver blazing wireless speeds, while Thunderbolt 4 ensures connectivity to multiple 4K monitors and fast storage with speeds of 40 Gbps.
Enhanced AI Performance: OpenVINO toolkits, ONNX, and ONNX Runtime offer streamlined workflow, automatic device detection, and enhanced AI performance.
That's what Intel said (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:That's what Intel said (Score:5, Funny)
It can do 1.7 Gigaguesses a minute.
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But are they educated guesses, or just plain old brute force guesses?
Re:That's what Intel said (Score:5, Funny)
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Yeah. It's an "AI processor", but they didn't even mention how much VRAM it has? Like, the single most important stat for AI work? Actually, I'd put one thing even higher on the list, which is "how much effort they plan to put into adapting common AI software stacks to supporting their hardware and keeping support current", because if their plan is the same as AMD's "just rely on those projects' devs to do it", it'll go as well as AMD's AI strategy has gone thusfar.
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Looks like theyre going to put a good bit of effort into it.
https://www.tomshardware.com/t... [tomshardware.com]
Re: That's what Intel said (Score:2)
FTFS: "support for up to 96 GB DDR5 memory capacity."
HTH HAND
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1) I had to have ChatGPT translate your acronyms for me.
2) DDR5 is not VRAM.
HTH HAND.
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The point is, that's what the memory is, and it's in TFS. Intel swings and misses again.
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No:
There is a GPU, not just a CPU. Therefore, there is VRAM. But the amount of VRAM is not listed.
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There are no benchmarks since independent reviewers either a). are still under embargo or b). don't have review units in hand.
There are some canned benchmarks from Intel as a part of their presentation which you can see by examining their marketing materials.
Hyperbole (Score:2)
renowned partners
AI-Powered PCs (Score:2)
So now I don't need to plug it in if it's powered by the AI? Cool!
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It is the other way around, you have to also power the AI to get the rest of it do the same work that pre-AI PCs used to do alone.
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integrated wifi (Score:2)
How about integrating LTE and UWB to enable "Find My"? Too many laptops are stolen or "lost".
Problems (Score:5, Insightful)
And this is why nVidia is the leader in AI hardware.
nVidia's strategy: CUDA and, recently, CUDA + Tensor cores
AMD's strategy: CTM, then Stream, then OpenCL/GPUOpen, now ROCM/DirectML
Intel's Strategy: Phi, then some FPGA thing, now ARC+AVX512+VINO+Xeons with a hundred cores..
I don't think that's by choice (Score:2)
Intel is obviously playing catch up in this space because they're new to it, but they've got the money to compete on salary with Nvidia. AMD is always a basket case because they had close to a decade of some of the worst CPUs in history until Ryzen. I think that and the crypto cash they g
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Most of AMD's revenue is from their datacentre sales. Are you even paying attention?
The higher end graphics seem kind of useless (Score:2)
If they show up in sub $600 notebooks and desktops it would be a huge boom to PC gaming since it would mean a lot of family computers that are basically useless for gaming suddenly can at least play Fortnite, Street Fighter 6, GG Strive and Counter Strike.
Gotta keep the hype train on track (Score:2)
Use the hot tech buzzterm of the day, AI, like magic fairy dust to make any sales presentation fresh and exciting
NPU is the new TPM (Score:2)
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Lots of cheap gear to be had!
Linux runs fine on computers incompatible with Windows 11 and will run even better on newer hardware incompatible with Windows 12.
Powered by how many exa-buzzwords? (Score:1)
Seriously.
"AI Powered"
It's just more buzzword bullshit.
It's going to be applicable for maybe 6 TOTAL users, and even then it'll give a TINY boost in performance.
Meh.