All Zen4 to have iGPU by design

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All AMD Zen4 processors to feature iGPUs by design - CPU - News - HEXUS.net

Our headline suns up the story, as it should. According to the leaked documents, AMD's next family of processors, based on the Zen4 architecture, will all feature iGPUs as part of the design. Currently, you would have to buy an AMD desktop APU to get an iGPU ('G' or 'GE' suffixed Ryzen processor), though I think all the current gen mobile Ryzen and Athlon processors have iGPUs.

 

[Harlequin]

Ian Cutress was talking about single stick systems in the future as well, as 32GB become the norm

 

[Harlequin]

Seems like a backward step to.

Just because DDR5 splits the normal 64-bits per DIMM into channels does not mean that a single DIMM system won't be slow.

I`ll find the video, but theres a lot more to it than that, especially with the 7200GB/S 512 sticks from samsung

 

[Harlequin]

asrock 939a785gmh

Thats socket 939 , using a 12 year old onboard (not ondie) dGPU. The last official and optimised driver was catalyst 13.1 in January of 2013. The only windows 10 drivers are renamed vga compliant ones to output a display only.

 

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Intel themselves only really `got going` with ondie iGPU with Sandy Bridge in 2011, AMD then launch Llano on AM2 as its own `APU`. The last AMD aolution with onboard dGPU was the 890GX chipset for AM3, which used a slightly faster version of the HD4200 you listed (that Asrock board was from 2009)

 

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Apologies for not realising that a random low end motherboard was made for socket 939 ~5 years after the socket had been superseded by AM2

Sadly AMD carried on with the dgpu part up till the 980G chipset for AM3 (it was only a rebadged 880G anyway), but the grahics core was the same HD4200; a serious critique at the time!

 

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If true then this will make me go to Intel *spit* for my next upgrade.

I absolutely do not want an IGPU on my cpu.

You do know that Intel has done this for the last decade?

 

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The US goverment asked TSMC to move it's advanced node production facilities to the US to get away from China.

The Taiwan government refused to let TSMC go because they want TSMC as leverage.

So the US government instead will pump money into Intel to ensure that if China invades Taiwan, the US still has access to advanced process nodes

The biggest concern for the US in that region is that TSMC is either bombed and destroyed by China or not destroyed, China takes over production and immediately refuses to sell chips to the West

TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant - Nikkei Asia

The powerplay heats up