Intel taped out, booted discrete GPU
Codename DG1 is alive CEO confirms
Intel’s CEO Bob Swan has provided the financial community an update on its good Q3 2019 financial performance and mentioned a few recent milestones. In this quarter, Q3 19, Intel achieved power on exit for the first discrete GPU.
Core i9-9900KS Special Edition is out
$513 shipping October 30
Intel announced that Core i9 9900KS would ship at the end of the month, and today, week 44 and the last days of October, has revealed all new cores to 5GHz CPU. The CPU will be available on October 30 and sell for $513. The new 9900KS CPU should be an ultimate gaming powerhouse as all eight cores work at 5GHz and base clock of 4 GHz. Europeans will have to count out 550 Euro for the KS.
Micron takes on Intel’s hard drives for data centre business
Stab your former-partner in the back time
Micron has released a new line of hard drives aimed at data centres which will make its former partner Intel cry.
Intel does better than expected
Predicts shedloads of cash due to data centres
Intel beat the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street’s predictions for third-quarter revenue and profit and raised its full-year revenue forecast, powered by sales to data centres and easing concerns about slowing demand during the US-China trade war.
Intel reveals Tremont 10nm microarchitecture
Chief architect: Expect 30 to 40 percent uplift
Intel has shared a few more details about the Intel Tremont low power Microarchitecture at the Linley Fall Processor Conference in Santa Clara and we had the chance to chat with Stephen Robinson, Senior Principal Engineer and Intel Tremont Chief Architect.
Intel serious about multi-GPU
Portents found within the Linux kernel
Changes made by Intel in the Linux 5.5 kernel seem to indicate that Chipzilla is serious about implementing multi-GPU with its incoming graphics cards.
Intel takes on SoftBank
Anti-trust
Intel has filed an antitrust lawsuit against a SoftBank investment company alleging the firm stockpiled patents to hold up technology companies with numerous lawsuits.
Chipzilla has not given up on 5G
Spends $27 million on it
Chipzilla has just bought shedloads of 5G software, despite closing down its own 5G modem business.
Chipzilla says desktop 10nm is still a thing
Denies rumours it is walking straight to 7nm
Chipzilla has growled at rumours that it is planning to ditch the 10nm production process for its desktop CPUs and was instead set to jump straight from the 14nm+++ lineup into 7nm desktop processors.
AMD server win squeezes ARM
Ampere on life support?
The recent success of AMD’s 7nm 64 core Rome powerhouse is very bad news for ARM's server efforts. Over time, Calxeda and many others failed, and Cavium by Marvell and Ampere don’t seem to be better either. AMD is just jeopardizing last chances for all existing ARM players to make any meaningful footprint on the data center and server market.