Intel plans to spin off its programmable chip business
Published in PC Hardware


Intel will retain a majority stake

Intel said it will treat its programmable chip unit as a standalone business and wants to spin it off through an IPO in two to three years.

Intel starts high-volume EUV Intel 4 production in Ireland
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Big win for Europe

A moment ago, Intel´s CEO Pat Gelsinger announced the start of high-volume manufacturing on the Intel 4 process technology at Fab 34 in Leixlip, Ireland.

Sierra Forest with 288 cores hits the stage
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Thursday, 28 September 2023 20:24

Sierra Forest with 288 cores hits the stage


Dual socket 576 E-cores

Intel surprised the audience at the Innovation 2023 event, showing a new Sierra Forest data center processor with a twist. Intel has previously announced that the Sierra Forest has up to 144 Efficiency cores. Still, Gelsinger surprised the audience by showing the two tiles on the same package, resulting in a 288-core CPU.

Ryan Shrout says goodbye to Intel
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Wednesday, 27 September 2023 21:50

Ryan Shrout says goodbye to Intel


Ex PC Perspective leaves after almost five years

Ryan Shrout, ex. PC Perspective hack has announced its departure from Intel, where he has changed quite a few roles since 2018.

Intel confirms Meteor Lake desktop CPUs for next year
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Kills those Meteor Lake-S cancellation rumors

While earlier rumors suggested that Intel might have canceled its Meteor Lake-S, it appears these CPUs will indeed launch, but sometime next year.

Lunar Lake on Intel 20A shown on the stage
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Tuesday, 19 September 2023 19:52

Lunar Lake on Intel 20A shown on the stage


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Lunar Lake Intel 20A consumer processor, expected to launch next year, made a surprise appearance as a part of Pat Gelsinger´s keynote. The demo showed silicon in good shape running the Windows operating system and the AI application.

Meteor Lake secret sauce are the island cores
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Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:42

Meteor Lake secret sauce are the island cores


Game-changing battery life

Intel’s CEO Pat Galsinger just announced Meteor Lake, and the company believes that this is a disruptive product. One specific feature made me a believer, as at Intel Technology Tour Malaysia, Tim Wilson, vice president of Intel’s Design Engineering Group and general manager of SoC Design, detailed the architecture behind Meteor Lake mobile processors, which will deliver game-changing performance and power efficiency for the PC industry when launched later this year.

Chipzilla flogs a slice of IMS Nanofabrication business to TSMC
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Keeps control

Intel has agreed to sell a stake of about ten per cent in the IMS Nanofabrication business to TSMC.

FinalWire releases AIDA64 v6.92 diagnostic and benchmarking tool
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Brings improved support for AMD Zen 5 CPUs, among other things

FinalWire has released its latest version of AIDA64 diagnostic and benchmarking software, the AIDA64 v6.92. The new version brings improved support for current and upcoming CPUs and GPUs as well as fixes and optimizes some other things.

Intel's Arc can't handle Starfield
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Tuesday, 12 September 2023 10:22

Intel's Arc can't handle Starfield


Might manage Chrysalis

Bethesda's customer service has been told that Intel's Arc A770 GPU does not satisfy the minimum specifications for Starfield, which call for an AMD Radeon RX 5700 or pr Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti.