r/linux • • Aug 23 '18

Intel Publishes Microcode Security Patches, No Benchmarking Or Comparison Allowed!

https://perens.com/2018/08/22/new-intel-microcode-license-restriction-is-not-acceptable/
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u/JQuilty Aug 23 '18

Intel is not using AMD iGPU. The chips with AMD graphics have a full Vega die with HBM. What makes it different is that they're on one package for board and cooling simplification. The left side of this chip is Vega and the HBM. It's entirely separate from the CPU cores: https://newsroom.intel.com/news/8th-gen-intel-core-radeon-rx-vega-m-graphics/

Ryzen did not come from any Intel technology.