#Silicon_Technology

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These are specialized solutions for network infrastructure In just a few weeks, Intel will release Meteor Lake processors, which, among other things, will be the company’s first-born, produced using the Intel 4 technical process. However, another company beat Intel itself and was the first to present its chips created using the same technical process. They were Ericsson RAN Compute. [caption id="attachment_84939" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Intel 4 process[/caption] Ericsson announced new RAN Compute These, of course, are not classic CPUs, but specialized solutions for network infrastructure, but the very fact that Ericsson has surpassed Intel is quite interesting. However, for Intel’s IDM 2.0 strategy, within which the processor giant also wants to become a semiconductor manufacturing giant, this is rather a plus. It doesn’t make much sense to say anything about RAN Compute chips from a technical point of view, but it’s still worth noting that, according to the company itself, the high-performance RAN Processor 6672 and Radio Processor 6372 processors provide four times greater performance compared to the previous generation and can support up to six 4G and 5G modes in one device. In addition, the new chips consume 30–60% less energy, which is likely due in large part to the new technical process.

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M3 and M3 Max transistor budget increased The new Apple M3 single-chip systems have switched to the 3 nm process technology, but not all have become better than the previous generation, judging solely by the characteristics. The same M3 Pro not only has fewer cores and lower memory bandwidth, it simply contains fewer transistors. [caption id="attachment_77946" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Apple M3 Pro SoC[/caption] The Apple M3 Pro SoC not only has fewer cores than the M2 Pro but also contains fewer transistors According to the latest data, the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max contain 25, 37, and 92 billion transistors respectively. For comparison, M2, M2 Pro, and M2 Max respectively have 20, 40, and 67 billion. That is, we see that in the case of M2 Pro the transistor budget was cut, apparently due to the removal of one graphics core, changes in the configuration of the CPU cores, and changes in the power subsystem. However in the M3 Max, the number of transistors has increased significantly relative to the M2 Max, but the new SoC has many more cores. As for the M3 Max, its 92 billion transistors are, of course, less than the M2 Ultra's incredible 134 billion, but it's still a huge number. For comparison, even the 96-core AMD Epyc Genoa contains 90 billion.

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In single-threaded mode, the Core i9-14900KF beat everyone The Core i9-14900KF processor appeared in the PassMark benchmark database and immediately became the leader in the single-threaded performance rating. [caption id="attachment_58562" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Intel CPU[/caption] Despite the fact that technically the Core i9-14900K/KF is a complete copy of the Core i9-13900KS, apparently, there are some settings related to power limits. As a result, the new model is still a little faster than its predecessor, although this is unlikely to be noticeable in practice. The results of the new Intel CPU have appeared in PassMark But in multi-threaded mode, which is much more important from a practical point of view, everything is more interesting: the new product differs vanishingly little in performance from the Core i9-13900K and is even inferior to the Core i9-13900KS. And all of them are noticeably behind the Ryzen 9 7950X3D.