Intel’s new Ohio plant could be the world’s biggest
Total cost $100 billion
Intel’s $100 billion Ohio chip plant could be the world's largest.
NUVIA raises $240M Series B Funding
Enough to tape out the Orion chip
The future of NUVIA is now brighter as the company managed to secure $240M Series B Funding, money that will be enough tape out the Orion chip. In the light of Nvidia – ARM acquisition times for a custom server architecture could not be better, ensuring NUVIA's great timing and future prove roadmap is the right way forward.
Amazon comes up with data centre processor chip
Who needs Intel and AMD?
Amazon’s cloud computing unit has designed a second, more powerful generation of data centre processor chip.
Chunk of ARM sold to the Chinese
Chinese take control
British-founded chipmaker ARM Holdings,will cede control of its Chinese business to a group of local investors in a $775 million deal.
China looks to foreign companies to end chip dependence
Speed up development to cut US dependence
It looks like Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump's trade war is going to force the Chinese to speed up its chip development programme to end its dependence on US companies quicker.
THX and Qualcomm team up
Want to make some next-generation noise
THX - which is better known for movie and consumer electronics - has teamed up with Qualcomm to create an end-to-end THX Spatial Audio workflow using MPEG-H for the delivery of next-generation immersive audio experiences at NAB 2018.
Intel chips have new side channel bug
BranchScope similar to Meltdown and Spectre,
Insecurity experts have found that Intel chips are vulnerable to another side-channel attack similar to Meltdown and Spectre.
Intel octocore chip leaked
Hail Hydra
A slide of an octocore Intel chip benchmark has leaked onto the worldwide wibble.
MIT comes up with a new power saving neural chip
IBM declares it a "a huge step forward"
MIT boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a neural network chip that could reduce the power consumption of devices by 95 percent.
Intel has another go at patches
But is still working on more
Intel is still working on updates that close the hole in the bulk of its chips and has released microcode updates for Skylake-based chips to its industry partners.