Yesterday morning Intel released a press release, Intel will create a mobile processor using INTEL CPU + AMD GPU, is undoubtedly all the previous rumors of deeper cooperation with AMD rumors. Sure enough, it is rumored that the more people deny it, the more likely it is to finally make a success. So this brought together Intel, AMD two crystal processors in the end where strong? What is different?



Looking back at the rumor of the birth of two A / I "Friendship" processors, you will find that the whole year has passed. As early as the end of last year, Kyle Bennett, the owner of the HardOCP foreign hardware forum, personally broke the news.

Intel and AMD In nuclear not only on the depth of technology licensing cooperation, but directly by the AMD mid-range GPU chip for Intel to "glue" in the form of integrated into the CPU, when we all feel some fantasy, after all, there is a competitive relationship between the two, Who and who will create their own products out of disadvantage.



But then Intel jumped out saying that this was not the case. AMD CEO Su Tzu-feng also said that he would not support the tiger. The two quickly responded to the previous "no comment" convention, and everyone felt the relationship between the two began to be ambiguous. Later, there are good people found that AMD RTG boss and chief architect Raja Koduri before working at Apple, Intel has a very close relationship, it may be to promote the key figures of cooperation between the two sides.

Second Intel Technology and Mandufacturing Day appeared a heterogeneous CPU, GPU and so on kernel integration technology, Intel's CPU core and AMD GPU core can be integrated into the same substrate through the MCM multi-core package, and different modules can also be used Different manufacturing techniques, both convenient and lower cost, are clearly newer generations of more advanced "glue" technologies.

According to the limited information in the Intel press release, we now know that the CPU is partly from Intel's eighth-generation core processors, and the GPU is partly provided by AMD, but the CPU and GPU core architecture codes are not mentioned in detail. The GPU in order to save a limited area, energy, using HBM2 memory, and Intel designed EMIB (Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge) technology, the so-called EMIB is the high glue technology.

Intel uses EMIB embedded multi-chip interconnect technology for the simple reason that the conflict between processor performance and price can be reconciled, allowing the core of different processes to be pieced together for better cost performance. Using EMIB technology does not result in a reduction in the overall performance of the processor. Rather, it improves the transmission efficiency between parts by up to hundreds of Gbps and delays by a factor of four, giving full play to the performance of each core. Click here for details.

Intel said today's notebooks have dropped from 26mm to 16mm, or even 11mm, and can no longer plug into discrete graphics, so they want a single processor that combines powerful CPU and GPU performance with a thinner, Lighter, more powerful mobile platform experience.

The processor is scheduled for high-performance mobile platform, as soon as the early 2018 to meet with consumers, then we will see a series of notebook products.

What is yet to come

This processor marks a new era of cooperation between the two, although it is Intel's dominant position, provided by AMD GPU graphics technology program that allows Intel processors to quickly enhance their GPU performance in a short time, while Intel To give up before the Iris Pro Series set can be seen as a precursor to the cooperation with AMD.

Then we certainly have a lot of attention to AMD in the end gave Intel what kind of GPU core? From the perspective of using HBM2, Vega architecture is really possible, after all, Vega is born to HBM2 optimization, only it is more perfect use. As for the performance to the extent not say, after all, there is no specific stream processor number, the number of stream processors is largely determines the ultimate performance. AMD Rui Long 7 2700U and Rui Long 5 2500U two Rui Long Mobile APU respectively 10,8 NCU unit, but the performance is slightly better than the NVIDIA MX150.

However, prior to revealing SiSoftware Sandra's database, this processor may have an astonishing 24 sets of NCU units, converted there are 1536 SP units, ranging between RX 560 and RX 570, the performance is quite worth the wait!