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Intel Might Give up on Dedicated Arc GPUs
Intel has released one single generation of Arc GPUs, and we’ve been left wondering about what’s next. Sadly, Intel might just give up on the idea. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, during the company’s Q3 2024 earnings call, talked about many of the company’s future products. He discussed Intel’s future chips, and the complexities and low margins associated with the recently…
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Apple’s New M4 Chips Give Intel and AMD a Run for Their Money
Apple just revealed its new high-end processors, the M4 Pro and M4 Max, with “the world’s fastest CPU core” and many other improvements. They will ship first in the new MacBook Pro laptops. The M-series of chips use two types of CPU cores—performance cores for heavy-duty workloads and efficiency cores for everyday tasks. Activating these CPU cores as needed delivers…
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Billion-dollar fine against Intel annulled, says EU Court of Justice – Computerworld
In 2017, the Court of Justice tossed out the Commission’s judgement, saying that the General Court did not examine all of Intel’s arguments as it was required to do. “The Court therefore sets aside the judgment of the General Court as a result of that failure in its analysis,” it concluded, referring the case back to the General Court “to…
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Intel just won a 15-year legal battle against EU
Intel has won a long-running legal battle against the EU after successfully overturning an antitrust fine imposed in 2009. The European Commission had found the company abused its dominant position in the chip market and fined it €1.06 billion, marking a record at the time. According to the European Commission, the company had been giving rebates, some disguised, to major…
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Intel, AMD CPUs on Linux impacted by newly disclosed Spectre bypass
The latest generations of Intel processors, including Xeon chips, and AMD’s older microarchitectures on Linux are vulnerable to new speculative execution attacks that bypass existing ‘Spectre’ mitigations. The vulnerabilities impact Intel’s 12th, 13th, and 14th chip generations for consumers and the 5th and 6th generation of Xeon processors for servers, along with AMD’s Zen 1, Zen 1+, and Zen 2 processors.…
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Chinese cybersecurity association urges review of Intel products – Computerworld
“The sanctions will definitely have repercussions and a short-term impact on Intel,” said Pareekh Jain, CEO of Pareekh Consulting. “But although rivals like AMD might see some initial benefit, eventually they will likely be targeted as well. The medium-term goal seems to be to bolster China’s domestic chip industry.” Speculations on Chinese companies China has been pushing for self-sufficiency in…
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Intel, AMD unite in new x86 alliance to tackle AI, other challenges
Semiconductor rivals Intel and AMD announced the formation of an x86-processor advisory group that will try to address ever-increasing AI workloads, custom chiplets, and advances in 3D packaging and system architectures. Members of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group include Broadcom, Dell, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP, Lenovo, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat. Notably missing: TSMC — the world’s largest chipmaker.…
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The Best Intel Lunar Lake Laptops in 2024
Intel has finally launched its Core Ultra 200V processors aka Lunar Lake chips. The new Core Ultra (Series 2) chipsets look very promising as they bring massive efficiency improvements without compromising performance. The new integrated Xe2 GPU is particularly powerful, and battery life matches even ARM-based Snapdragon X Elite laptops. So if you are interested, check out our list of…
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Intel says its Raptor Lake crashing chip nightmare is over
Vmin Shift Instability Root Cause Intel® has localized the Vmin Shift Instability issue to a clock tree circuit within the IA core which is particularly vulnerable to reliability aging under elevated voltage and temperature. Intel has observed these conditions can lead to a duty cycle shift of the clocks and observed system instability. Intel® has identified four (4) operating scenarios…
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Arm, Intel, and the vengeance of Newton – Computerworld
You could argue that all of this illustrates how ahead of its time the Apple Newton was, and the huge influence it still wields today. Because today we have fully networked, high-performing devices in a myriad of different forms (Mac, smartphone, tablet, watch, glasses, more) boosted by AI with user interfaces to match. Arguably, many of these devices were made possible by design…
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