Zen 2023 Wall Calendar

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AI/ML enhancements, possibly Xilinx IP-based fixed function hardware, called AIE (AI inference accelerator) www.techpowerup.com/295983/amd-ryzen-7000-zen-4-launch-date-and-lineup-revealed-spectacular-am4-rumor-surfaces www.techpowerup.com/253534/intel-releases-compute-express-link-cxl-1-0-new-interconnect-protocol-that-enables-pcie-gen-5-0 Nov 7th: Added AMD Ryzen 7 7700 (non-X), Added AMD Ryzen 7 7000X3D, Updated AMD Zen 4 APUs, Added Intel Core i9-13900KS, Added Intel lower-end 13th Gen CPUs, Updated Intel Sapphire Rapids, Updated Intel Meteor Lake, Updated Intel Arrow Lake, Added NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, Added NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, Added NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Ti, Updated TSMC 1 nanometer, Added Samsung 1.4 nanometer, Updated PCI-Express 5.0 SSDs, Updated Toshiba & WD 162-layer NAND, Added Samsung 236-layer NAND Flash, Updated PCI-Express 6.0, Updated USB 4.0, Updated Thunderbolt 5, Removed launched or canceled products: AMD Zen 4 / Ryzen 7000, Intel Raptor Lake, Elkhart Lake, GeForce RTX 3060 Ultra, Ampere Refresh, GeForce RTX 40 Series, AMD Navi 3x, AMD RDNA3, Intel Arc A770 / A750, Intel 700-Series chipsets, AMD 600 Series chipsets, TSMC 5 / 5+ / 4 nm www.techpowerup.com/298027/tsmc-not-intel-makes-the-vast-majority-of-logic-tiles-on-intel-meteor-lake-mcm

New physical layer with PAM4 (pulse amplitude modulation) signaling replacing NRZ (non-return to zero) Feb 24th: Updated AMD Zen 4 7000X3D, Updated AMD Zen 4 APUs, Added Intel Raptor Lake Refresh, Updated Intel Meteor Lake, Updated Intel Arrow Lake, Added Intel Emerald Rapids, Updated Intel Granite Rapids, Added Intel Sierra Forest, Added Intel Lunar Lake, Added NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti, Updated NVIDIA RTX 4070, Updated NVIDIA RTX 4090 Ti, Updated AMD RDNA4, Added Intel Alchemist+ Architecture, Updated Intel Battlemage Architecture, Added AMD A620 Chipset, Updated PCI-Express 5.0 SSDs, Removed launched products: AMD Ryzen 7000 non-X, Intel Core i9-13900KS, Raptor Lake non-K CPUs, Intel Sapphire Rapids / HEDT, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, Intel Ponte Vecchio, Intel W790, Micron 232-layer 3D NAND Flash, USB 4.0 www.techpowerup.com/297327/intel-driver-update-confirms-vpu-integration-in-meteor-lake-for-ai-workload-acceleration

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Mounting pressure almost doubled. which should help with heat transfer, but might require a new mounting kit # www.techpowerup.com/284210/samsung-5-nm-node-struggles-with-yields-reports-indicate-less-than-50-yielding

Dec 9th: Updated AMD Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 non-X CPUs, Updated AMD Zen 4 Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs, Added Zen 4 Threadripper, Added Intel Raptor Lake non-K 13th Gen CPUs, Updated Intel Core i9-13900KS, Updated Sapphire Rapids HEDT, Updated Intel Meteor Lake, Updated Intel Ponte Vecchio, Updated GeForce RTX 4060, Updated GeForce RTX 4070, Added GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, Updated Radeon RX 7600 XT and Radeon RX 7700 XT, Updated Micron 232-Layer NAND, Updated GDDR7 graphics memory, Added GDDR6W Graphics Memory www.techpowerup.com/287564/samsung-introduces-industrys-first-open-source-software-solution-for-cxl-memory-platform Aug 25th: Updated AMD Zen 4 / Ryzen 7000, Updated Intel Raptor Lake, Updated Intel Meteor Lake, Updated NVIDIA Ada / Lovelace, Updated AMD Navi 31 / 32 / 33, Updated AMD CDNA 3, Updated Intel Arc A580, A750 & A770, Updated Intel Ponte Vecchio, Updated TSMC 3 nanometer, Updated PCIe 5.0 SSDs, Added Hynix 238-layer NAND, Updated Micron 232-layer NAND, Removed launched products: Intel DG2 discrete GPU / Arch Alchemist, Intel Arc Pro Removed launched products: Ryzen 5 7500F, Ryzen 5 5100, Zen 4 Threadripper, Raptor Lake Refresh, RX 7700 XT, RX 7800 XT, HBM 3 Graphics Memory, Thunderbolt 5Leaked low-power configuration: 17 W, 4+4, 20c 3.91 GHz + 2.61 GHz, 5M, 3.3 GHz IMC, 4x 2.5 MB + 4 MB L2, 2x 8 MB L3 # FinFlex," offers standard cells with a 3-2 fin configuration for performance, 2-1 for power, 2-2 for balanced New instructions for AI, AVX VNNI with INT8/INT16, AVX-IFMA and AVX-NE Convert. SHA512, SM3 and SM4 (same as Arrow Lake) # New instructions for AI, AVX VNNI with INT8/INT16, AVX-IFMA and AVX-NE Convert. SHA512, SM3 and SM4 #

Integrated graphics use Xe-LPG architecture, "Adaptix power sharing," ray tracing support, but no XeSS www.techpowerup.com/266368/samsung-to-commence-5nm-euv-mass-production-in-q2-2020-develop-3nm-gaafet-node www.techpowerup.com/301057/zen-4-x3d-limited-to-8-core-and-6-core-no-meteor-lake-in-2023-frosty-year-expected-for-cpu-market www.techpowerup.com/293875/tsmcs-n3e-node-said-to-have-good-yields-volume-production-expected-q2-2023www.techpowerup.com/279472/intel-lunar-lake-microarchitecture-hits-the-radar-possible-meteor-lake-successor Granite Rapids itself is just the compute die without memory controller for applications like Ethernet. Memory controller dies get added for the HCC (high-core-count) and XCC (extreme core count) variants. HCC has 1 MC with 4 channels, XCC has 2 MC with 8 channels # www.techpowerup.com/282692/amd-ryzen-8000-series-processors-based-on-zen-5-architecture-reportedly-codenamed-granite-ridge www.techpowerup.com/305238/intel-to-go-ahead-with-meteor-lake-6p-16e-processor-on-the-desktop-platform Jun 10th: Updated AMD Zen 4, Added AMD Zen 4 APUs, Updated AMD Zen 5, Updated Intel Raptor Lake, Updated Intel Meteor Lake, Updated Intel Arrow Lake, Updated Intel Sapphire Rapids, Added Intel Rialto Bridge, Updated NVIDIA Ada Architecture, Added NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630, Updated AMD RDNA3 Architecture, Added AMD RDNA4 Architecture, Added AMD CDNA3 Architecture, Updated Intel DG2 / Arc Alchemist, Updated Zen 4 Chipsets, Updated HBM3 Memory, Added Micron 232-layer NAND flash, Updated Toshiba / WD 162-layer NAND flash, Updated PCIe 5.0 SSDs, Updated USB 4.0, Removed launched products: Radeon RX 6x50 XT Series