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May Use External Foundries For Future CPUs “Building semiconductors is like playing Russian roulette. You put a gun to your head, pull the trigger, and find out four years later if you blew your brains out.” — Former Digital CEO Robert Palmer During its Q2 conference call last night, Intel …

Intel Discontinues Skylake-X HEDT CPUs, With Cascade Lake Barely Available Intel has published a new set of Product Change Notifications (PCNs) for the Skylake-X platform as well as a number of Xeon processors. The boxed and unboxed versions of the Core i9-9980XE, i9-9960X, i9-9940X, 9-9920X, i9-9900X, i9-9820X, and i7-9800X are …

Nvidia Overtakes Intel as World’s Most Valuable Chip Maker Nvidia has overtaken Intel as the world’s most valuable chip maker, at least briefly. Increases in the GPU manufacturers’ market capitalization pushed its stock price to $404 on Wednesday, giving it a market capitalization at $248B, just about Intel’s $246B. Nvidia …

Does Intel’s Lakefield SoC Measure Up? You could be forgiven for being a touch confused about the performance Intel’s Lakefield SoC offers, if you’ve kept an eye on headlines the past few days. After the first review data popped up online, different publications have either praised the results or indicated …

Intel Forced to Suspend Sales to Inspur, China’s Largest AI and Server Vendor Intel has been ordered by the US government to cease product shipments to the largest server company you’ve probably never heard of. Inspur isn’t quite as large as Dell or HPE, but it’s the third-largest server manufacturer …

  Historically, AMD motherboards have been less expensive than the equivalent Intel products. It’s one of the ways AMD has consciously attempted to position itself as offering a better value proposition than Intel. Buy an AMD motherboard, and you’ll not only save money on the initial purchase, but you’ll also …

Ex-Intel Engineer: Skylake QA Problems Drove Apple Away Now that Apple and x86 have made their impending breakup official, attention has turned to when the company made that decision and why. According to an ex-Intel engineer, Apple pulled the trigger as far back as 2015, after it saw how buggy …

Apple Announces A12Z CPU for Mac, Will Transition Away From Intel, x86 After 15 years and approximately 50 failed predictions, Apple has finally announced its own ARM CPU for the Mac and MacBook product lines. The upcoming A12Z will transition Apple away from the x86 CPUs it adopted in 2005 …

May Partly Protect Against Spectre, Meltdown Intel announced today that an upcoming CPU security technology, Control-Flow Enforcement (CET), will deploy for the first time on Tiger Lake CPUs, expected later this year. The new capability may include some ability to protect against attacks like Spectre and Meltdown, though Intel doesn’t …

Updated Radeon Drivers for Intel/AMD Hades Canyon Are Nowhere to Be Found When AMD and Intel jointly announced the Hades Canyon NUC would feature an Intel CPU and AMD GPU with an attached HBM memory pool, curiosity across the user community was high. Unfortunately, the driver situation has turned into …