Intel Confirms Ponte Vecchio As 7nm General Purpose GPU

[numacross]

So Intel is confident that they can build this on their own 7nm? I assume they won't be using TSMC.

There were rumors that it's going to be made by Samsung.

[Slartifartblast]

Perhaps calling it Intel Venice would be more appropriate given their woes.

[schmidtbag]

Perhaps calling it Intel Venice would be more appropriate given their woes.

What about Pompeii?

[milkylainen]

Perhaps calling it Intel Venice would be more appropriate given their woes.

Since Venice literally is under water nowdays.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...hreatens-again

Calling it Venice would certainly be jinxing it.
I've got a sinking feeling already.

[nomadewolf]

MindMelt. A Meltdown variant that's triggered by Vulkan calls and the mitigation will cause a 10% loss of performance for any Vulkan activity.

Which will soon be followed by:

Glutton. A new bug that causes any OpenGL process to dump the system's memory to the first partition it can find, usually /dev/sda1 until it's full or the system crashes.

And

Crai Crai. Unfortunately, that's the one where an AI running ray tracing experiments triggers a new root exploit while simultaneously becoming self-aware and addicted to Twitter. After reading 500 of Donald Trump's tweets it commits suicide with a nuclear warhead and inadvertently starts WWIII.

I vote this for best comment of the Year Award!
ROFLOL

[nomadewolf]

There were rumors that it's going to be made by Samsung.

Doesn't make much sense because Samsung's nodes tend to be low power, which means less performance.
Unless this one is different...

[cynical]

I used to be excited about the rumors of a discrete Intel GPU. Now I'm not even slightly interested. Sad times.

[coder]

Doesn't make much sense because Samsung's nodes tend to be low power, which means less performance.

Nvidia already announced their plans to use Samsung's 7 nm.

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/294441-nvidia-will-team-up-with-samsung-for-7nm-gpu-technology

[numacross]

Doesn't make much sense because Samsung's nodes tend to be low power, which means less performance.
Unless this one is different...

It probably will be different since Samsung is going deeper into the partnership with IBM in order to boost their manufacturing know-how.

[mikkl]

There were rumors that it's going to be made by Samsung.

Samsung has nothing to do with it. Intel confirmed more than once that their first 7nm is a HPC Xe variant and is scheduled for H2 2021. Ponte Vecchio is their lead 7nm product, it's based on Intels 7nm.