Safety is why Intel acquired MobileEye
27 million car market share helped too
A year ago, Intel acquired Mobile Eye for $15.3 billion and Intel's CEO has expained why it happened. Safety is in the company’s mind, but Brian Krzanich was honest enough to recognize that Mobile Eye solves a large gap that Intel had before the acquisition.
OpenBSD stops support for Intel CPU hyper-threading
Too many bugs
The OpenBSD project is killing off support for Intel CPU hyper-threading due to security concerns regarding the theoretical threat of more "Spectre-class bugs".
Intel Gaming offers @AMDRyzen an 8086K CPU
Twitter wars
Intel found its sense of humor and offered to send @AMDRyzen twitter account, a brand-new Core i7 8086K.
AMD takes another stab at Intel
Offers to exchange sweepstake Core i7-8086K for Threadripper 1950X
AMD is having a blast in taking stabs at Intel these days and in its latest one, it goes for the recently announces Intel sweepstake, offering to exchange the prized Core i7-8086K limited edition CPU for a brand new Threadripper 1950X CPU.
Dell and HP advertise Intel Optane as "memory"
Could cause confusion among customers
It appears that both Dell and HP have been caught advertising Intel's Optane SSD as "memory", or rather precisely, together with RAM, despite the fact that Optane SSDs clearly belong with storage as an addition to the HDD.
Intel warns of lazy FP state restoration
Living off the state
Chipzilla has warned of another side-channel attack against its Core family processors.
Possible 22-core HEDT as well
According to a report, Intel could launch its rumored 8th gen Coffee Lake refresh 8-core CPUs in September.
Qualcomm still going to make datacentre chips
Kills rumours
Qualcomm has no plans to abandon its efforts to create processors for data centres, despite rumours that it is giving up on the idea.
Intel discrete graphics to arrive in 2020
SVP Raja Koduri confirms
Intel’s chief architect, senior vice president of the newly formed Core and Visual Computing Group, ex. Radeon Technology guru Raja Koduri has confirmed on Twitter that its discrete graphics will come in 2020.
By Roman "Der8auer" Hartung
We already had a hunch that Intel's 40th anniversary Core i7-8086K could be an impressive overclocker and Roman "Der8auer" Hartung has already delidded it and overclocked it to an impressive 7,243MHz under LN2.