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Reportedly, by the 10% price increase of the 12th generation Core, some models are already higher than the 13th generation Raptor Lake processors. However, foreign media expects that the 13-generation Core Raptor Lake models will also soon increase in price.

In July last year, after Intel’s second-quarter earnings report for 2022, officials confirmed that they would raise the pricing of all major products, including CPUs, and would start raising prices from Q4 2022.

In addition, according to the BoBoard Hall news, in September last year, Intel issued the latest notice: from the 2022 Q4 quarter for all products plan to implement a price increase policy, the range of 10-20%, and will involve the motherboard chipset products.

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Microsoft can further enhance the security of Win11 22H2 by deploying Intel’s Total Memory Encryption – Multi-Key (TME-MK) technology, according to a new blog post written by Jin Lin, PM Manager for Azure and Windows OS Platform at Microsoft.

TME-MK technology is only supported on Intel’s third-generation Xeon scalable Ice Lake processors and subsequent models for server CPUs and on Intel’s 12th-generation Alder Lake processors and subsequent models for desktop CPUs.

TME-MK is already available on Intel 3rd generation Xeon server processors and Intel 12th generation Core client processors. azure, Azure Stack HCI and now the Windows 11 22H2 operating system also take advantage of this next-generation hardware capability. tme-mk is compatible with 2nd generation VM version 10 and subsequent versions.

To start a new virtual machine with TME-MK protection (assigning it a unique encryption key different from other partitions), use the following PowerShell cmdlet.

Set-VMMemory -VMName -MemoryEncryptionPolicy EnabledIfSupported

To verify that the running virtual machine is enabled and using TME-MK for memory encryption, you can use the following Powershell cmdlet.

Get-VmMemory -VmName | fl *

If the virtual machine is protected by TME-MK, the following values are returned.

MemoryEncryptionPolicy : EnabledIfSupported
MemoryEncryptionEnabled : True

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The simulation will run on the Microsoft “D3D9On12” open source conversion layer. The conversion is performed by sending 3D DirectX 9 graphics commands to the D3D9On12 layer instead of directly to the D3D9 graphics driver. Once the D3D9On12 layer receives the commands from the D3D9 API, it converts all commands to D3D12 API calls. So basically, D3D9On12 will act entirely as a GPU driver and not as Intel’s actual GPU driver.

Microsoft says that this emulation process has become a relatively high-performance implementation of DirectX 9. As a result, the performance can be comparable to native DirectX 9 hardware support.

Therefore, this change to DX9 by Intel seems to be a very good move. Intel can now shift driver development resources to DirectX 11 optimization (which is currently terrible). In addition, Intel will not be affected by the performance impact, DX9 optimization is completely “outsourced” to Microsoft.

According to Microsoft, it will be possible to observe how D3D9On12 performs and see if Nvidia and AMD follow the same path as Intel. Nvidia and AMD also have nearly 20 years of experience with DirectX 9 drivers, and there may be a performance loss in the DX12 emulation layer by comparison.

Previously, Intel only had a DirectX 9 experience on integrated graphics cards, and it did not translate to a higher-performance, solo experience. As such, there are real benefits to Intel moving to emulation on Arc graphics cards worldwide.

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