• Ryzen 5 4300U – 4-cores/4-threads with 2.7 GHz base/3.7 GHz boost speeds and Radeon Vega 5 graphics
• Ryzen 5 4500U – 6-cores/6-threads with 2.3 GHz base and 4 GHz boost speeds and Radeon Vega 6 graphics
• Ryzen 5 4600U – 6-cores/12-threads with 2.1 GHz base and 4 GHz boost speeds and Radeon Vega6 graphics
• Ryzen 7 4700U – 8-cores/8-threads with 2 GHz base and 4.1 GHz boost speeds and Radeon Vega 7 graphics
• Ryzen 8 4800U – 8-cores/16 threads with 1.8 GHz base and 4/2 GHz boost speeds and Radeon Vega 8 graphics
• Ryzen 5 4600H – 6-cores/12-threads with 3 GHz base/4 GHz boost speeds and Radeon 6 graphics
• Ryzen 7 4800H – 8-cores/16-threads with 2.9 GHz base/4.2 GHz boost speeds and Radeon 7 graphics

Rumored specs

• 16,1" screen with calibrated 100% sRGB coverage, screen takes 90% area
• Ryzen 4000 series CPUs (6 core Ryzen 5 4500U or 8 core Ryzen 7 4700U)
• up to 16Gb high speed DDR4L ram
• NVMe SSDs up to 2TB (512GB standard)
• Price is planned at 40-45% of same performance and same specced MacBook
• 13 and 14" also are present
• 46Wh battery (small and it is serious issue, as Apple battery is 99Wh for 16"!)
• USB-C fast charging
• 65 watt charger included
• 1,8kg for 16" model

Jingjia Microelectronics will be making most advanced Chinese GPU chip soon.

The move to 7nm allowed AMD to make lot of advances with its Rome-based EPYC processor core microarchitecture:

• 2X Performance per Socket
• 4X Floating Point performance per socket
• Previous gen socket compatible
• Forward compatible with next gen Milan platform that supports PCI Express 4 connectivity
• Improved branch prediction 
• Better instructions prefetch 
• Re-optimized micro-op instruction cache
• Increased the size of the micro-op cache  
• Doubled floating point width to 256-bit 
• Doubled load store bandwidth 
• Increased dispatch and retire bandwidth 
• Results in maintained high throughput for all modes

Nice thing

Apart from the extraordinary Mini LED display, MSI's snazzy, slim, yet powerful Creator 17 delivers the latest in CPU and GPU processing power while providing full laptop ports which include the first Type-C port to support outputting 8K image to an external display. The Creator 17 is also outfitted with the world's fastest UHS-III SD card reader with a speed of up to 624 MB per second. Moreover, the Thunderbolt port can support up to 27W(9V/3A) current output for mobile charging for on-the-go users. All these features will provide a smooth workflow for professional creators and enable them to create and share splendid moments. The cutting-edge and pioneering innovations of the Creator 17 will make a grand debut at this year's CES for MSI to demonstrate the ability to be always one step ahead of the industry.

Mini LED is a game-changing technology that has the potential to be used on all electronic displays. It has a simpler structure with better performance, combining all the strengths of other display technologies. Until now, Mini LED has only been used in some TVs, but with leading global display manufacturers shifting production focus to Mini LED, its estimated market value has reached a staggering $1 billion USD, and it's expected to be adopted by a variety of industries within the next few years, from laptops to smartphones. For creators who want outstanding image quality with great 4K HDR performance and terrific brightness, Mini LED is the logical choice for their next laptop. Foreseeing the demand from professionals and future trends, MSI has once again taken a lead role in the laptop industry by choosing Mini LED as their display for content creators.

The Creator 17's 17-inch display boasts a peak brightness of 1,000 nits and Mini LED backlighting. This technology enables 240 zones of local dimming control, delivering the vibrant visuals with the brightest whites and deepest blacks with sharper, more detailed imagery. Critically, the Mini LED is also immune to burn-in problems.

Only changes that will happen:

• New LGA socket, of course - LGA 1200
• Improved Wi-Fi (but it still requires proper additional board as it is only made to throw away competition)
• Names of chipsets - Q470, H470 and H410

Specs

• Super slow 1.1GHz dual-core i3 chip ($250 for 4 core i7, but also 1.2Ghz)
• 256GB soldered NVMe SSD (and same exorbitant price to push it up to 2TB - $800, around 5x of market prices)
• T2 chip for lack of repairability
• $999 for base (edu price is $899)

Idea is to move to 10 cores using same 14nm process, making it even larger die.

VRM requirements and heat output will also increase.

And, as usual, for each generation we will see new socket.

https://www.amazon.com/GIGABYTE-GC-Titan-Ridge-Thunderbolt-Component/dp/B07GBZL93X/

https://egpu.io/forums/builds/thunderbolt-3-amd-ryzen-5-2400g-gtx-108032gbps-tb3-aorus-gaming-box-win10-1803-theitsage/

https://egpu.io/forums/builds/thunderbolt-3-on-amd-x399-threadripper-rtx-208032gbps-tb3-razer-core-x-win10-1803-theitsage/

Entry model updates

• New keyboard (old pre butterfly one rewamped)
• Larger storage options

Mid and higher models updates

• Intel Ice Lake processors
• 6K (6016 x 3384) display support
• LPDDR4X-3733 memory
• New keyboard (old pre butterfly one rewamped)
• Larger storage options

Configs:

• all have 2560 x 1600 pixel display with 500-nits of brightness
• 8th-gen Core i5/8GB/256GB for $1299
• 8th-gen Core i5/8GB/512GB for $1499
• 10th-gen Core i5/16GB/512GB for $1799
• 10th-gen Core i5/16GB/1TB for $1999
• https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/13-inch

Navi21

• Up to 80 compute units/5120 GPU cores
• A die size of around 505mm²
• 50% better performance per watt (very doubtful!)

Affordable gaming LSIs

Pro market cards

Apple only

Also much simpler LSi exist - Navi10 Refresh

General topic - http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/21414/amd-x570-b550-a520-chipsets-and-motherboards-on-them#Item_104

Updates

• Tremont microarchitecture supports many of the same features as those found on the Ice Lake Client microarchitecture."
• Tremont will be the first Intel Atom processors to support Intel Speed Shift technology.
• Support for parallel out-of-order instruction decode
• An increase in the size of reorder buffer, load buffer, store buffer, and reservation stations for deeper out-of-order execution and higher cache bandwidth
• 33-percent increase in the size of L1 data cache (from 24KB to 32KB)
• 100-percent increase in the load bandwidth and store bandwidth
• L2 cache sizes ranging from 1MB to 4.5MB depending on the SoC design
• Support for new instructions for encryption, power management, cache, and more

More info at https://software.intel.com/content/dam/develop/public/us/en/documents/64-ia-32-architectures-optimization-manual.pdf

Rumored specs

• Apple first Mini LED backlight LCD screen
• Color space will stay at DCI-P3, next Apple move closer to Rec 2020 will happen in 2022-2023
• At least some models will be using Intel chips (4 core and more)
• We can see top models using AMD 8 core chips, special Apple edition
• Bottom model can use new Apple ARM chip as release pushed to 2021
• Can be first in Apple notebooks that will become thicker
• We can have back some ports and top model can have 6 Thunderbolt ports
• Price increased around 25%
• 2021 release, availability can be also different for different models in lineup

• RedmiBook 13
• RedmiBook 14S
• RedmiBook 16

Specs rumored

• Ryzen 5 4500U
• 16GB DDR4 ram
• 256GB-2TB SSDs
• Nice IPS bright screens

According to the specification, the PSU only puts out +12 V and 12 Vsb voltage domains, and does away with the 5 V, 5 Vsb, and 3.3 V domains. This greatly simplifies the design of PSUs, as PCs of today don't use too many power-hungry 5 V or 3.3 V devices (such as half-a-dozen mechanical hard drives). The PC will still need 5 V for interfaces such as USB, but VRM on the motherboard will be responsible for DC-to-DC switching of 12 V to those lower-voltage domains. It's also likely that the motherboard will now put out a handful SATA power connectors.

It is total bullshit about "great simplification", as all good PSUs already make 3.3V and 5V using DC-DC small boards. 5Vsb is also being made by specialized tiny controllers.

Before implementation of DC-DC converters inside PSUs 5V and 3.3V failures had been very rare, usually all devices survived. Now serious failure put 12V on this rails, so say bye-bye to your SSDs and HDDs, as well as almost all devices on MB. But at least this DC-DC boards in good PSUs are monitored using separate controller (so switched off instantly in case of issue) and good cooled. Placing them directly on MB will lead to making things much worse.

Idea of both PSU and MB manufacturers is to cheapen construction and go away from protection schemes (to further increase profits).

MB manufacturers are especially hoping that such designs will allow them to make product that will kill itself in 3-6 years time (usual life of cheap polymer caps they'll use).

https://ethernettechnologyconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/800G-Specification_r1.0.pdf

Atomos, the creator of the award-winning Apple ProRes Ninja and Samurai camera-mounted recorders, and the pocket-sized Connect converters, will show the brand new 4K "Shogun 7” IPS monitor/recorder alongside the new Sony A7S at NAB 2014. The Shogun is currently the only 4K HDMI recording solution that can take full advantage of the new A7S’s full 35mm ultra-sensitive 12 mega pixel video sensor, clean HDMI out, 120 fps HD and custom HDMI timecode and start/stop trigger.

”Finally the camera the world has been waiting for, Sony has pulled out all the stops to deliver the world’s first Full Frame Video sensor in a camera for the masses.” said Jeromy Young, CEO and Founder of Atomos. “We are very proud to give 4K recording capability to the Sony A7S with our brand new 4K ProRes Shogun which sports a 1920×1200 7” killer monitor and unparalleled affordable 4K recording”. The Atomos Shogun is the world’s first 4K HDMI and 12G SDI monitor recorder and deck. With clean HDMI out direct to 4K ProRes onto single SSDs or RAIDed HDDs – 4K is now a mainstream reality at the equivalent of $40 per hour for storage media. With Sony’s pedigree and reliability coupled with Atomos’ revolutionary feature set and price points, this combination at under $5K is the most compelling video solution on the market today. Like the Samurai and Ninja Blade, Shogun allows the recording of pristine, 422 10-bit images straight from thecamera sensor captured using 4K/HD ProRes, Uncompressed RAW Cinema DNG or Avid DNxHD codecs.Waveform and monitor assist tools such as luma parade, vectorscope and tri-level focus peaking offer a very comprehensive test and shot setup tool kit. Launch presentation and Q&A on day one of the show to be held at 12.30pm on the Atomos booth C9532.

Pricing and Availability
The Atomos Shogun is slated for shipping end of Q3 beginning Q4 2014 for under $2000 USD and will be available through the Atomos Worldwide reseller network.

https://ikancorp.com/shop/production-accessories/post-production/tourbox-photo-and-video-editing-controller-tourbox/

Memory is most blatant ripoff among all products related to computers.

All, 100% of so called "gamers" or "overclockers" memory is based on same 2133Mhz or 2400Mhz chips as cheap DIMMS.
Higher frequency chips are just selected among specific manufacturing batches aka dies. And sometimes not even tested properly (to save funds).
For manufacturer main expenses for such kits lies in the bigger competition for select chips (can be up to $10 extra for 8GB DIMM), around $1-3 they spend on fancy alu heatsinks and $1-5 they spend on more colorful packaging. All else goes to pure profits, marketing expenses (can be large for small manufacturer), distribution and retail parts.

Yet for many modern CPUs memory speed and timings greatly affect overall performance. And with each year such dependency increases due to lack of real progress in DRAM technologies. You can thank big patent troll named Rambus for lot of today issues.

Male sure to check https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/19652/short-ddr4-memory-guide-for-video-guys

I was dubious about the memory bandwidth and CUDA cores, but, in fact, no worries, the newer design more than compensates. Playback and export in Premiere only uses 60-70 percent of the card, even with 4K clips with a ton of filters, so this card is fine for most people. You can step up to the 20 series but it is an incremental gain. Normally I buy these cards on eBay because gamers upgrade so often, but I had to plunk down $270 for a new one and overnight shipping to keep working.

Using Neat Video, interestingly, the optimum frame rate uses only the GPU! That frees up the CPU. Getting over 6fps render in Neat video with 4K clips using GPU only. Not great, but slightly better than what I had before. The 6GB ram seems OK for 4K, I doubt it will handle 8k but whatever. Has display ports and HDMI 2.0

MSI terminology for the flavors of these cards is confusing, and Ventus sounds like a coffee term, and you may have to install the USB C driver even if there is no port. There's a "super" version of the 1660 which has a few less CUDA cores that is also a bit cheaper. Knowing nothing, I went for the higher CUDA core model. Overall, a solid card.

Proper way to deal with mess, but keep compatibility.

Nothing much new, but small upgrades of speed.

Specs

• 15.6 4K IPS panel with 100% sRGB color gamut
• Intel i5 6287U processor (quite old, but intel does not give access to latest CPUs to Chinese firms)
• Iris550 graphics card
• Only 8GB DDR4 (dual channel)
• 256GB SATA-based SSD
• M.2 NVME slot
• 1530g
• CNC machined metal case
• $599

https://promotion.chuwi.com/chuwi-aerobook-pro/?l=for

• Intel Gemini Lake N4100 Quad Core 1.1GHz, up to 2.4GHz
• Intel UHD Graphics 600 GPU
• 14.0 inch 1920 x 1080 Resolution IPS Screen
• 8GB RAM
• 128GB SSD Storage Capacity
• HDMI Output
• $329 at https://www.gearbest.com/laptops/pp_009828463866.html

Starting price is $5,999 for:

• Cheap DDR4 32GB of memory
• Only octa-core Intel Xeon CPU
• Cheap Radeon Pro 580X 8GB graphics
• 256GB SSD
• Total specs typical for around $800-999 PC