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This new CPU will be part of the 8th Gen Intel Core family, the Core H-series to be exact. It will be primarily aimed at the mobile sector, so your next laptop could be a very interesting device. Intel say this will be the first "mobile PC to use HBM2" which is a pretty big milestone.
The new product, which will be part of our 8th Gen Intel Core family, brings together our high-performing Intel Core H-series processor, second generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) and a custom-to-Intel third-party discrete graphics chip from AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group* – all in a single processor package.
Here's the video Intel shared:
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A very interesting partnership, which I imagine NVIDIA isn't too pleased about. This could be a huge win for future laptop gaming, if this partnership continues and more mobile chips end up coming out with much better graphics options. Intel's graphics have lagged behind for some time, with them being pretty weak, so a move like this isn't exactly unexpected. It's been rumoured for a while too.
For Linux gamers it's especially interesting, as I would hope Mesa would eventually get good support for it enabling great open-source driver gaming. I've had NVIDIA Optimus in the past and it was pretty messy, so a good Intel chip paired up with AMD graphics sounds rather enticing for a future laptop purchase.
They say to look forward to the first quarter of 2018, as major OEMs seem to have plans to make use of it already. You can find the official post here, which contains more information.
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Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
MasterSleort Nov 7, 2017
Quoting: IvancilloI want Ryzen with nVidia GPU just to troll.
What about Tegra CPU with Intel HD Graphics? Worst of both worlds.
Quoting: IvancilloI want Ryzen with nVidia GPU just to troll.
I want Ryzen with nVidia GPU just to support AMD and still have very good performance and drivers.
MintedGamer Nov 7, 2017
Quoting: subQuoting: 14AMD has been winning the nice "package" setup for a while. Think about consoles. I think all of them are AMD this generation and most of last gen were AMD as well.
Nintendo Switch?
Yes the Switch uses a Nvidia Tegra X1 chip. Damn fine console it is too.
At first I thought hell had frozen over with this deal, but I suppose it makes sense. Intel drops its rubbish inbuilt graphics, and Nvidia loses sales, win-win for AMD.
TheRiddick Nov 8, 2017
Quoting: subI forgot the Switch existed.Quoting: 14AMD has been winning the nice "package" setup for a while. Think about consoles. I think all of them are AMD this generation and most of last gen were AMD as well.
Nintendo Switch?
It's good for us, as AMD does help opensource, and the bigger the foothold of AMD in the gaming world, the less problems we have with "only works with nvidia because nvidia allows/encourages bugs in our code which every sane driver would not accept".
Of course, there is a world of difference between AMD drivers for windows and opensource drivers for linux. Would be interesting if someone started backporting the vulkan opensource drivers to windows.
I also hope this means intel will help writing the open source drivers.
And what I mostly hope is that this will be in the gpd win 3.
As I just finished a task in saints row 3 with 5..10 frames per second on my gpd win running almost stock ubuntu 17.10 (using some gpd pocket .debs and the gpd pocket kernel).
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