Intel announced its upcoming Snapdragon X Elite SoC in late 2023, and it’s promising to shake up the Windows processor landscape in 2024 by being a serious competitor to mobile chips from both AMD and Intel. The Qualcomm SoC will be targeting the ultra-thin laptop market when it debuts later …
Read More »Intel to Receive $3.5 Billion to Make Chips for the Military
When the $52 billion CHIPS Act passed in 2022, it was assumed Intel would be getting a sizable chunk of those funds to assist with its US-based expansion plans. It was recently reported that the company would receive up to $10 billion as part of that deal. New reporting states …
Read More »Rumor: Intel to Use TSMC for Some Arrow Lake Compute Tiles
Intel is expected to make a sizable node jump later this year when it launches its next-generation desktop platform, Arrow Lake. Its existing Raptor Lake CPUs use Intel 7 (formerly 10nm). Arrow Lake will use Intel 20A, which is a whole different kettle of fish, as it’s the company’s first …
Read More »Intel CEO Says He's Betting the Entire Company's Future on its 18A Process
Intel’s upcoming 18A process, short for 18 Angstroms, is the pinnacle of the company’s “five nodes in four years” strategy outlined in 2021. It will be the culmination of many years of engineering work by Intel and billions of dollars of R&D. It is theoretically the process node that will …
Read More »Intel Nova Lake CPUs to Use TSMC 2nm: Report
A mini bombshell was dropped on the semiconductor industry a few months ago: Intel would use TSMC to make CPU tiles for its next-generation Lunar Lake mobile platform. A new report from Taiwan says Intel will continue that strategy with Nova Lake, which will be Lunar Lake’s successor, somewhere around …
Read More »Intel's Aurora Fails to Topple AMD in Latest Supercomputer Rankings
In 2019, Intel and the Department of Energy announced plans for Aurora, the world’s first exascale computer. It was expected to be operational by 2021. Now, Aurora is finally online—but only at half-scale. Despite its many setbacks, it debuted on the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers in …
Read More »Intel 14900K and 14700K Raptor Lake
Intel’s upcoming Raptor Lake refresh is due in October, so we’ve officially entered the “pre-launch leaking” season now that it’s August. Today we have our first actual benchmarks of the top two SKUs, the Core i9-14900K and the Core i7-14700K. Though the results are underwhelming, their poor performance is likely …
Read More »Intel’s Raptor Lake
This week we learned that Intel planned to add a few more efficiency cores to the Core i7 variant of its upcoming Raptor Lake refresh. We pondered whether Intel would be juicing any other CPUs or if this was just a one-off deal. Now there’s a new report stating Intel …
Read More »Intel and AMD CPU Sales
The PC market has been experiencing an economic hangover after the COVID-19 pandemic. Sales are down for all involved, and both Intel and AMD have been especially hard hit. Gamers and creators have held off on upgrading their PCs, and companies have had second thoughts on expanding due to various …
Read More »Intel Xeon W CPU Sneak Peek
Intel recently announced its lineup of Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs for workstations. They’re still a month or two away, but in the lead-up to the on-sale date, Intel invited German overclocker de8auer to its labs for a quick overclocking test. That some Sapphire Rapids workstation CPUs are overclockable is both …
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