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Good News from Intel: Panther Lake Processors Are Ready to Show Off

Morrissey Technology – Behind the various problems that have hit Intel, it turns out there is still good news from the company that makes the processor. The good news is regarding the next generation of processors codenamed Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest, which are made with the 18A process node. According to Intel SVP and GM Foundry Services Kevin O’Buckley, the Panther Lake processor has been successfully tested and booted into the operating system.

By successfully booting the operating system without additional configuration or modification, Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest clearly demonstrate the health of Intel 18A – Intel’s leading process technology, which is expected to return Intel to the ranks of leaders in process technologies by 2025.

Apart from that, Panther Lake DDR memory performance can operate at the targeted frequency. Meanwhile, Clearwater Forest, which is the archetype of future CPU and AI chips, combines RibbonFET, PowerVia, and Foveros Direct 3D for higher density and power handling.

Clearwater Forest is also a key product for Intel 3-T base-die technology. By leveraging Intel Foundry’s foundry system approach, these two products are expected to provide significant improvements in performance per watt, transistor density, and cell utilization.

“We are pioneering foundry system technologies for the AI ​​era and delivering a complete set of innovations that are important for the next generation of Intel products and our foundry customers. We are encouraged by our progress and working closely with customers to bring Intel 18A to market in 2025,” said O ‘Buckley.

In July, Intel released the 18A Process Design Kit (PDK) 1.0, a design tool that allows foundry customers to leverage the capabilities of the RibbonFET gate-all-around transistor architecture and PowerVia backside power delivery in their designs on the Intel 18A. Electronic design automation (EDA) and intellectual property (IP) partners update their offerings so customers can begin their final production designs.

This achievement shows that Intel Foundry is the first to successfully implement RibbonFET gate-all-around transistors and PowerVia backside power technology for foundry customers. Through the EDA ecosystem and IP tools and process flows, RibbonFET and PowerVia are innovative advances brought by Intel Foundry to all customers through Intel 18A.

Intel partners gained access to Intel 18A PDK 1.0 last month, EDA and IP partners updated their tools and design pipeline so external foundry customers can start designing their Intel 18A chips. This is an important milestone for Intel’s foundry business.

“Cadence’s strategic collaboration with Intel Foundry has helped accelerate our mutual customers’ innovation by providing access to industry-leading EDA solutions and IP optimized for Intel 18A,” said Tom Beckley, senior vice president and general manager, Custom IC & PCB Group at Cadence.

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Scary Facts about 13th and 14th Generation Intel Processor Problems

Morrissey Technology – Intel has actually confirmed that it will release a fix for problematic 13th and 14th gen Core processors. However, if this processor has already caused a crash then the patch is no longer useful. The new patch will be released in mid-August. Its function is to fix the problem of increasing voltage in the processor which causes the system to crash.

However, unfortunately, the damage to the processor that has continued to cause the crash is permanent, meaning it cannot be repaired by a patch. This was written by Tom’s Hardware citing anonymous sources. When confirmed, Intel did not deny the accusation. Intel believes that this patch will ensure that this crash will not occur. However, if the crash has occurred, the best option is to replace the CPU.

They also said that the increase in voltage was not the only cause of the system crashing. Intel spokesperson Thomas Hannaford confirmed it was the main cause, but Intel community manager Lex Hoyos revealed another cause, namely an oxidation problem during the CPU assembly, which also caused its instability.

Interestingly, Intel did not stop sales or withdraw its inventory at all. They also — for now — are not carrying out recalls or withdrawing processors that have been sold. In fact, so far Intel has not changed its warranty policy, or extended the warranty on the problematic processor.

They even believe that consumers don’t need to worry about this visible problem. According to them, if consumers of this problematic processor do not experience system crashes, according to Intel, the patch that will be released will be an effective solution.

Fortunately, Intel has confirmed which processors may be affected by this issue. Namely the 13th and 14th generation desktop processors which consume power ranging from 65W and above, so it’s not just high-end processors like the i9 that have the potential to have problems.

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This is the Fastest AI Super Computer in the World, Using 21 Thousand Intel Xeons

Morrissey Technology – Intel collaborated with HPE and Argonne National Laboratory belonging to the US Department of Energy to create a super computer called Aurora, whose speed has reached Exascale calculations. To date, only two computers have reached that level. The first is Frontier — which uses an AMD processor –, which is also the fastest super computer in the world, and now there is Aurora which has penetrated Exascale.

Aurora has actually been around since 2023, and in November 2023 it was named by the Top500 as the number 2 fastest computer in the world. However, at that time the system was not fully operational, and “only” had a computing capacity of 585 petaFLOPS. Currently, Aurora is not yet fully operational, even though the number of processors and GPU accelerators in operation is already very large. Aurora uses 21,248 Intel XEON CPU FOR4D Max processors and 63,744 Intel Data Center GPU Max accelerators. In the last test, performance reached 1,012 exaflops, even though the number of active nodes was only 9,234 from 10,624.

Aurora’s performance was higher when running the HPL-MxP mixed-precision benchmark, with a score of 10.6 exaflops for AI performance, even though only 89% of the system was active. This test is different from Linpack which uses FP64 Precision, HPL-MxP uses FP32 and FP16 FOR4D, which better reflects AI processing capabilities.

While FP64 is more widely used in traditional science computing, AI computing and many other applications use lower precision. This means that Linpack is actually not the only measure of the original capabilities of a supercomputer.

Aurora has not been able to fully operate due to a number of problems in its system, including cooling problems, operational problems and network instability. However, even if it is fully operational, it seems Aurora still won’t be able to overtake Frontier’s benchmark score FOR4D. For information, Frontier has a computing capacity of 1,206 exaflops, or around 19% higher than Aurora, from 87% of operating components.

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Chinese Government Begins to Abandon PCs with Intel and AMD Chips

Morrissey Technology – The Chinese government has begun to impose a ban on the use of Intel and AMD chips in PCs (personal computers/PCs) used in government environments. Not only that, the Chinese government also recommends using a locally made operating system as the main OS, rather than a foreign-made one like Microsoft’s Windows. The reason for the ban is related to privacy. Local governments want to ensure the systems they use are “safe and reliable”. The ban was imposed by the Chinese government after China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released a list of CPUs, operating systems and centralized databases that were deemed to meet the “safe and reliable” criteria. The three lists will be announced in December 2023.

The ministry did not specify the names of vendors including CPU vendors on the list. What is clear is that everything on the list comes from China, as reported by Reuters. It is possible that some of them are Huawei and Phytium. This ban marks a new round of competition between the United States and China, especially in the semiconductor market. The reason is, the US also banned a number of companies from its country from supporting chip development in China. For example, Huawei was prevented from using a number of semiconductor technologies from the US, so it had difficulty developing smartphones that support 5G networks. However, Huawei was finally able to develop its “own” chips, including the Kirin 9000s chip which is the brain of the flagship Mate 60 series cellphone. Because of this capability, the Chinese government’s policy of banning CPUs from Western brands is projected to increase local chip adoption. It is also estimated that this practice will trigger local vendors to innovate, conduct research and develop more sophisticated CPUs FOR4D.

On the other hand, Intel will likely suffer financial losses. The reason is, 27 percent of Intel’s annual sales (Year-on-Year) come from China, compiled by KompasTekno from Wccftech, Monday (25/3/2024). ASN are prohibited from using iPhones. In September 2023, the Chinese government will also prohibit all local State Civil Apparatus (ASN) from using iPhones or foreign-made technological devices while working. They are also prohibited from bringing the device to the office. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, this ban is an expansion of existing regulations in China. The regulation in question is a rule to reduce dependence on foreign technology, in the midst of increasing foreign cyber security threats. After being implemented in at least three Chinese government ministries and business entities in September 2023, the ban on iPhone use was then expanded to a number of local government agencies in December of the same year. Until the end of last year, several Chinese state-owned companies and government departments in eight provinces had instructed employees not to use iPhones. Some of them are Zhejiang Situs Toto, Shandong, Liaoning and Hebei provinces. In fact, Hebei is the location of the largest iPhone assembly factory in the world. Apart from that, staff are also prohibited from using foreign brand technology devices, not just iPhones. Instead, they are advised to use local brand technology devices.