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Intel starts mass production on Intel 4 node using EUV in Irish fab First Euro facility to use the next-gen lithography tech for commercial production Systems28 Sep 2023 | 13
Intel facing worker shortage for German chip plant Chip giant says it's still in the 'planning and design phase' Systems27 Sep 2023 | 8
Intel aims to patch semiconductor skills gap with one-year cert program New fabs won't achieve much without specialized staff to fill them Systems25 Sep 2023 | 4
European Commission hits Intel with new fine over antitrust findings Updated What a difference a year makes: in June '22 it was asking for half a billion in interest back after a successful appeal Systems22 Sep 2023 | 4
Intel CTO suggests using AI to port CUDA code to – surprise! – Intel chips This is about ending Nvidia's vendor lock-in, insists Greg Lavender AI + ML21 Sep 2023 | 6
Core blimey, Intel's answer to AMD and Ampere's cloudy chips has 288 of them And they're all tailored for efficiency Systems20 Sep 2023 | 11
Intel slaps forehead, says I got it: AI PCs. Sell them AI PCs People try to put us down, talkin' 'bout ML generation AI + ML19 Sep 2023 | 29
Desktop AI isn’t happening, says AMD, and might not for quite a while Chip designer has extended support for modest desktop CPUs, citing Intel setting expectations for cheap and not-so-speedy silicon Personal Tech19 Sep 2023 | 9
Intel thinks glass substrates are a clear winner in multi-die packaging Don't get too excited, tech won't be ready until the end of the decade Systems18 Sep 2023 | 11
Intel spices up its FPGA game with open source and RISC-V freebies Tech buffet of updates dished out ahead of IFTD event Systems15 Sep 2023 | 6
TSMC gobbles up $430M slice of Intel's IMS Nanofab unit Taiwanese also plot $100M investment in Arm IPO, x86 giant gets real about Thunderbolt 5 Systems12 Sep 2023 |
Intel NUCs find fresh life in Asus, but rights are 'non-exclusive' As Asrock adds an AMD-powered 4"x4" not-NUC to its industrial lineup Personal Tech06 Sep 2023 | 14
After failed takeover, Intel and Tower Semi aren't giving up on the relationship Meanwhile, Arm suffers IPO financial muscle loss with low valuation On-Prem05 Sep 2023 | 1
Intel shows off 8-core, 528-thread processor with 1TB/s of co-packaged optics Hot Chips 'Embarrassingly parallel' protoype baked for DARPA to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon at massive scale Networks01 Sep 2023 | 16
US and China to keep talking about chip bans, just not when they'll end Intel and Micron made the agenda, but action to ease their woes did not Legal29 Aug 2023 | 2
Intel promises next year's Xeons will challenge AMD on memory, IO channels Hot Chips Plus more insights on x86 titan's all E-core datacenter chips Systems28 Aug 2023 | 17
Linus Torvalds couldn't find an excuse to hold back Linux 6.5, so here it is Summer push proved less disruptive than feared OSes28 Aug 2023 | 7
Microsoft whips out probe after Windows 11 users suffer the blue-screen blues Updated Pay particular attention if you're MSI and Intel powered OSes24 Aug 2023 | 8
Intel seems to think Wi-Fi 7 is too cool for old-school Windows 10 What do you mean, you 'haven't updated yet'? Systems24 Aug 2023 | 52
Intel's Tower bid has shuffled off this mortal coil – so what about foundry plans? Analysis Maybe Pat dodged a bullet – mature process nodes aren't the kind of thing shareholders get excited about Systems18 Aug 2023 | 2
Beijing's silent treatment topples Tower Semiconductor merger with Intel Termination fee of $353 million wipes out Intel Foundry Services' revenue for last quarter Systems16 Aug 2023 | 9
AVX10: The benefits of AVX-512 without all the baggage Turns out bigger isn't always better Systems15 Aug 2023 | 14
Gelsinger: Intel should get more CHIPS Act funding than rivals And cool it on the export bans, pleads CEO – we want to sell fish, not fishing rods, to China Systems15 Aug 2023 | 7
Get 'em while you can: Intel begins purging NUCs from inventory Is that a firesale we smell? Personal Tech14 Aug 2023 | 11
Chinese web giants go on $5B Nvidia shopping spree to fuel AI ambitions In the ML arms race, GPUs are the ammunition AI + ML11 Aug 2023 | 4
Say hello to Downfall, another data-leaking security hole in several years of Intel chips Black Hat It is with a heavy heart that we must announce that the boffins are at it again Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 10
Apple, Samsung, and Intel to invest in Arm IPO, and emerge with some control: report SoftBank CFO says news of float is imminent, suggests firm will keep a solid chunk On-Prem09 Aug 2023 | 19
Micron joins the CXL 2.0 party with a 256GB memory expander RAM disguised as an SSD? What will they come up with next? Storage08 Aug 2023 | 7
China's great CPU hope – Loongson – may be only four years behind Intel Mission not accomplished Systems08 Aug 2023 | 45
AWS is running a 96-core, 192-thread, custom Xeon server Updated Amid all the Graviton chat, cloud colossus still has a soft spot for Chipzilla PaaS + IaaS03 Aug 2023 | 15
Intel opens chip innovation hub in Nanshan, China Interesting move against backdrop of US sanctions Systems02 Aug 2023 | 3
Bad news: Another data-leaking CPU flaw. Good news: It's utterly impractical Collide+Power vulnerability leaks secrets bit by bit - but could take months or years to learn a useful secret Research01 Aug 2023 | 4
School for semiconductors? Arm tries to address chip talent shortages US, Europe and China all rushing to create next gen of experts and upskill existing workforce Systems28 Jul 2023 | 35
Meltdown avoided: Intel rediscovers profitability Pat on the back for Pat who's back in the black after getting costs whacked and demand stacked On-Prem28 Jul 2023 | 2
Wafer shipments still down, but chipmakers are looking up AI runs on chips, remember Systems27 Jul 2023 | 2
Intel adds fresh x86 and vector instructions for future chips Some big changes are afoot Systems26 Jul 2023 | 47
One problem with America's chip ambitions: Not quite enough staff Semi industry fears US will be short 70K engineers, technicians, computer scientists by end of decade On-Prem26 Jul 2023 | 40
GlobalFoundries claims German chip subsidies will 'distort competition' US semiconductor manufacturer unhappy rival TSMC is bagging billions Systems25 Jul 2023 | 15
Intel: Here, have some AI reference kits ... now please buy our silicon With 34 designs to pick from, you can choose your own ML adventure AI + ML25 Jul 2023 | 4
Germany raids climate piggy bank for €20B to bankroll chip fabs Less than a quarter will go to locals though On-Prem25 Jul 2023 | 23
TSMC says Arizona fab behind schedule, blames chip geek shortage Output of 4nm parts stalled until at least 2025 On-Prem20 Jul 2023 | 17
Opportunity NUCs for Asus to continue Intel's mini PC line Though chip giant is only referring to deal as a 'proposed agreement' for now Personal Tech19 Jul 2023 | 13
Samsung 'closing the gap' with TSMC on 3nm, 4nm The race to 2nm is getting crowded as Intel, Japan's Rapidus enter the fray Systems18 Jul 2023 | 2
Chips ahoy! US and China locked in self-destructive battle of trade restrictions Why are you hitting yourselves? semiconductor CEOs ask Systems17 Jul 2023 | 14
Intel woos China with nerfed Habana Gaudi2 AI chips Not even Uncle Sam can stand between x86 titan and its profits AI + ML13 Jul 2023 | 4
Intel pulls plug on mini-PC NUCs How much NUC would a Pat G chuck if a Pat G could chuck NUC? Personal Tech11 Jul 2023 | 42
Intel patches buggy Sapphire Rapids Xeons, resumes shipments Relax, says chip giant, it's an easy fix Systems10 Jul 2023 | 3
A mix-and-match chiplet marketplace for processor makers is still a long way off Analysis Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express is on the rails On-Prem01 Jul 2023 | 6
Mystery Intel bug halts shipments of some Sapphire Rapids Xeons Chipzilla's not saying much other than 'commercial software' not affected Systems30 Jun 2023 | 15
UK's dream of fusion power by 2040s will need GPUs Boffins plan 'digital twin' to help hit deadline, recruit heavy-hitting partners Science29 Jun 2023 | 21
Samsung to start mass producing 2nm silicon in 2025, first for mobile devices Forms a packaging posse to do the chiplet thing On-Prem29 Jun 2023 | 8
Iceotope cooks plan for liquid-cooled servers at the edge Self-contained immersion-cooled chassis aimed at telcos, 5G RAN deployments with HPE, Intel help Systems26 Jun 2023 |
Intel parts with 20% slice of semiconductor biz crucial to chip production future IMS Nanofabrication's expertise will only be more important – so why sell? Systems21 Jun 2023 | 2
Germany to subsidize Intel €10B for 'Silicon Junction' fab Plus: Taiwan dangles investment in semiconductor production in EU – but there's a catch Systems19 Jun 2023 | 14
Intel to invest another $25 billion In Israel Plans expanded fabs in boost to beleaguered PM and blow to protestors On-Prem19 Jun 2023 | 15
Intel to build $4.6B assembly, testing site in Poland Germany negotiations reportedly back on track for Magdeburg fab too On-Prem16 Jun 2023 |
Intel sprinkles 12-qubit quantum test chips into the hands of researchers When they're done, there might be a commercially viable system sometime after 2030... maybe HPC15 Jun 2023 | 4
Intel details coral-shaped immersion cooler that bubbles like Mentos in Coke In the future, you may boil your servers to keep them happy Systems15 Jun 2023 | 15
Intel approached to take on key investor role in Arm IPO Talks at an early stage but the companies already work together Systems14 Jun 2023 | 6
German finance minister says nein to more Intel subsidy cash Int...hell no: Country's not looking to expand its chip fab budget Systems13 Jun 2023 | 17
Chinese chipmaker insists it has Intel on-side, not inside Home-grown CPU looks suspiciously like a Core i3, but local firm insists it's a collab not a copy Personal Tech09 Jun 2023 | 16