conference HOT CHIPS #32 ~ Xbox Series X, Google TPUs, Alibaba's RISC-V SoC, and more

[Results45]

HOT CHIPS #32 is happening right now (live and online!) and I happily paid the student fee of $40 to see products announced and detailed.

 

Below are repositories of slide sets on Google Drive and a YouTube playlist of recordings as they are posted online. Feel free to mine them, post screenshots, and discuss!

• DAY 1 SLIDES: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=17m9oU_OQqSSdmoP1c24pUdLQXG927Lib
• DAY 2 SLIDES: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1AAgY1XLn2A8Pm9WsfCogGEBgR5ri7ELn
• Hot Chips website: https://www.hotchips.org/program/
• Schedule: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15806/hot-chips-32-2020-schedule-tiger-lake-xe-power10-xbox-series-x-tpuv3-jim-keller

 

PRESENTATION RECORDINGS (will be updated as Hot Chips posts them):

 

Slide sets detailing Ryzen 4000 APUs, Xbox Series X, IBM Power10, and ten other products are already posted on Google Docs. Stay tuned for presentation footage and Day 2 content.

[PlayStation 2]

We know damn near everything about the Xbox Series X except price at this point.

It's gotta be fucking expensive.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, handymanshandle said:

We know damn near everything about the Xbox Series X except price at this point.

It's gotta be fucking expensive.

500 is suspected, but not confirmed. The Series S will be about half the total price, so someware between 200-300usd.

[porina]

Official schedule: https://www.hotchips.org/program/

 

[porina]

I quickly skimmed through the slides for Tiger Lake and Xe. Doesn't look like anything new in there, since they already revealed a lot of it at Intel Architecture Day recently. Maybe there will be some new stuff in the talks not present on the slides.

[Results45]

40 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

you might want to post individual videos in a quote box, unless you don't mind your playlist library being public

I'm okay with all the stuff in the OP being public. Clicking on the video title will take you to the complete playlist. Feel free to re-post individual videos & slides.

[Results45]

Here's the Intel stuff:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stuff to like:

• Xe-HPG at least 20 teraflops for us gamers (at 1300Mhz if based off of the clock speeds of the original announcement)
• GTX 1050TI iGPU performance for everyone?
• Support for DDR4 3200Mhz and DDR5 5400Mhz
• Thunderbolt 4 & USB 4.0 support right out of the box

 

The not so great stuff:

• Likely to be clobbered by Apple SoCs this Christmas and Ryzen 5000 laptop APUs next spring.

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[porina]

11 hours ago, Results45 said:

GTX 1050TI iGPU performance for everyone?

Source for that? I still need to catch up on the details of the presentation as I've only had a chance to look at the slides so far.

 

11 hours ago, Results45 said:

• Likely to be clobbered by Apple SoCs this Christmas and Ryzen 5000 laptop APUs next spring..

If you're not buying a Mac the performance of Apple is irrelevant. Given the Zen 2 mobile CPUs were only released this year in May, Intel may still have best part of a year before Zen 3 versions come along unless AMD shorten the release schedule. Feels like we're going back to the old days of back and forth between red and blue, with Alder Lake mobile expected 2H next year.

[Zodiark1593]

19 hours ago, TheTechWizardThatNeedsHelp said:

500 is suspected, but not confirmed. The Series S will be about half the total price, so someware between 200-300usd.

Que Kuturagi going “$200” as the sole announcement. 

[Doobeedoo]

So many chips, a ton was announced. 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

2 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

 

Apparently, it might actually be 600 based on a report from a few days ago.  Which is what the PS3 launched at in NA.

Well, that sucks.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, valdyrgramr said:

It's not official, but that's what the current speculation based on a leak is.  https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/xbox-series-x-potential-price/

yeah, but as someone who was planning to get a series s, that would mean a 300$ series s, and that makes me sad, because I want to save more for a ITX build.

[Results45]

13 hours ago, porina said:

Source for that? I still need to catch up on the details of the presentation as I've only had a chance to look at the slides so far.

 

 

P.S. seems like Hot Chips will post the product talks on YouTube in the coming week AFTER the conference ends.

 

Here's Hot Chips 31 from last year: https://www.hotchips.org/archives/2010s/hc31/

[Results45]

Day 2 repository is up.

[Orangeator]

People suggesting that this console, the Series X, will be priced under $599 are delusional. The cost of the hardware justifies the price, nevertheless the R&D, marketing... Etc. That said, I am sure there will eventually be a more budget friendly option. Likely to be released after Christmas if Microsoft is smart. 

[Results45]

SIGGRAPH 2020 is happening this week. Nvidia is offering free "Basic" admission with a $50-off code: NVIDIA20

 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/events/siggraph/

https://register.rcsreg.com/r2/siggv2020/?invite_code=NVIDIA20

 

Here is today's schedule: