New physical layer with PAM4 (pulse amplitude modulation) signaling replacing NRZ (non-return to zero) www.techpowerup.com/298027/tsmc-not-intel-makes-the-vast-majority-of-logic-tiles-on-intel-meteor-lake-mcm

Mounting pressure almost doubled. which should help with heat transfer, but might require a new mounting kit # 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 Mar 15th: Updated AMD Zen 4 APUs, Updated Intel Meteor Lake, Updated Intel Rialto Bridge, Added Intel Falcon Shores, Added Intel Panther Lake, Updated NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, Updated GDDR7 Graphics Memory, Added Samsung 4 nm Process, Updated Intel 20A Process, Updated Intel 18A Process, Removed launched products: AMD Zen 4 7000X3D 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 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/300225/rambus-delivers-pcie-6-0-interface-subsystem-for-high-performance-data-center-and-ai-socs

Granite Rapids AP supports up to 2 CPUs, 12 channels DDR5 per CPU, DDR5 6400 MT/s 1 DPC / 5200 MT/s 2 DPC, 24 DIMMs per CPU #

www.techpowerup.com/282692/amd-ryzen-8000-series-processors-based-on-zen-5-architecture-reportedly-codenamed-granite-ridge AI/ML enhancements, possibly Xilinx IP-based fixed function hardware, called AIE (AI inference accelerator) 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 Jul 22nd: Updated AMD Zen 4 / Ryzen 7000, Updated Intel Raptor Lake, Updated Intel Meteor Lake, Updated NVIDIA Ada / GeForce 40 www.techpowerup.com/298397/intel-meteor-lake-can-play-videos-without-a-gpu-thanks-to-the-new-standalone-media-unit

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/284210/samsung-5-nm-node-struggles-with-yields-reports-indicate-less-than-50-yielding Used in Ryzen 5 7540U, Ryzen 3 7440U and possibly various Ryzen 3 and Ryzen 5 desktop APUs for AM5 #www.techpowerup.com/281550/amd-zen-5-strix-point-processors-rumored-to-feature-big-little-core-design