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Intel says integrating RAM into Lunar Lake SoC was a mistake, might abandon desktop GPUs again (www.techspot.com)

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Panther Lake and Nova Lake laptops will return to traditional RAM sticks

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does he think that the demand for AI-accelerating hardware is just going to go away? That the requirement of fast, dedicated memory attached to a parallel processing/matrix multiplying unit (aka a discreet GPU) is just going to disappear in the next five years‽

Maybe the idea is to put it on the CPU/NPU instead? Hence them going so hard on AI processors in the CPU, even though basically nothing uses it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But if he wants npu then why not buff igpu too? I mean, igpu exclusive on CPU memory is good boost, look up intel i7 8709g they put AMD Radeon vega igpu and exclusive to igpu 4gb of hbm memory, it did wonders, now when AMD is winning in apu sector, they could utilise same ideas they did in the past

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Seriously putting a couple gigs of on-package graphics memory would completely change the game, especially if it does some intelligent caching and uses RAM for additional memory as needed.

I want to see what happens if Intel or AMD seriously let a generation rip with on package graphics memory for the iGPU. The only real drawback I could see is if the power/thermal budget just isn't sufficient and it ends up with wonky performance (which I have seen on an overly thin and light laptop I have in my personal fleet. It's got a Ryzen 2600 by memory that's horribly thermally limited and because of that it leaves so much performance on the table)