What’s New? No Windows 7 support & new AMD Ryzen Embedded CPUs

25.06.2018

A lot is happening on the IT market in the middle of the year. In this article, we look at the fact that Microsoft is no longer providing Windows 7 updates for Kabylake processors. Also: How AMD’s new embedded processors set new high performance benchmarks.

AMD processors for high performance in embedded computing

With the new embedded processors, which go by the name of Ryzen, AMD is presenting a new benchmark and thus opening fire against its competitor Intel. These CPUs are mainly used for embedded applications with high performance requirements. These include digital signage applications, which have to process high-resolution 4K content, as well as use in smart robotics and vehicle computing. AMD processors also feature integrated GPUs based on the latest AMD Radeon Vega architecture.

Source: elektronikpraxis.vogel.de

AMD's 7nm next-level GPUs

AMD dropped a bombshell at this year's Computex. The US chip developer has announced that professional Radeon Intel products based on the new Vega 20 GPU will be released this year. This is manufactured using the so-called 7 nm process and is aimed at the B2B market. It is not yet clear whether consumers will be able to enjoy Vega 20. However, it is clear that gamers will also be able to enjoy 7 nm products. In addition, AMD has not yet released any information about the technical specifications. It was only announced that there will be a memory expansion of 32 gigabytes of HBM 2, which also increases the memory bandwidth to 4,096 due to the four HBM2 stacks.

Source: computerbase.de

Windows 7 support discontinued

Last year, Microsoft and Intel announced that new CPUs would only be supported on the latest Windows - we are talking about Windows 10 here. Conversely, this means that there is no longer driver support for Kaby Lake processors under Windows 7 and 8.1. Windows 7 support for Skylake CPUs has been extended by Microsoft until 2020. However, Microsoft advises upgrading to Windows 10 as soon as CPUs that were launched on the market from August 2016 onwards are used. This currently applies to both the Kaby Lake generation already mentioned and the Coffee Lake generation presented in October 2017.
For this reason, spo-comm will only offer support for Windows 10 for new systems in future.

Source: heise.de

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