As a part of Intel’s strategy of devouring businesses that do not exactly fit its IDM 2.0 strategy, the company this week quietly started to exit its wireless wire area network (WWAN) business. The move has been in development for a while and while Intel is set to cease making 4G and 5G modems itself,…
Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced that Intel co-founder Gordon Moore died peacefully this evening, surrounded by his family in Hawaii, at the age of 94. Moore co-founded Intel with his longtime friend Robert Noyce in 1968, but is perhaps best known as the creator of the eponymous Moore’s Law. Intel has…
Intel Graphics head Raja Koduri is leaving Team Blue to found an AI gaming company, putting a spotlight on the future of Intel’s discrete graphics dreams. Announced by Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger yesterday on Twitter (opens in new tab), the departure of Koduri comes after five years at Intel where he recently headed up Intel’s…
It’s finally happening! After two generations of getting roundly obliterated by Intel in overall CPU performance, it looks like AMD is finally working on an answer to Intel’s incredible big.LITTLE processor core architecture – and that could mean an end to Intel’s long-running market dominance in the CPU space. For those not in the know,…
Intel on Tuesday appointed its veteran Stuart Pann as general manager of Intel Foundry Services. Stuart Pann has never worked in the foundry industry, but he has vast experience in supply chain management, planning, and strategic allocation of resources. Apparently, Intel believes that these are the skills that IFS needs to become one of the world’s leading…
(Image credit: Intel) Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced on Twitter today that Raja Koduri, the company’s current Chief Architect, is leaving the company to found a software startup. Koduri’s exit comes five years after he joined the company in November 2017. His exit also comes on the heels of a restructuring of Intel’s AXG graphics…
(Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Intel Core i9-13900K rivalry is a battle of flagships for the highest-end of the gaming market, but the chips take drastically different approaches to serving up leading performance. The Core i9-13900K wields Intel’s 13th-Gen Raptor Lake x86 hybrid architecture to square off against AMD’s chiplet-based Zen 4 Ryzen…
Intel has quietly canceled its hybrid Thunder Bay system-on-chip (SoC) that integrates general-purpose CPU cores and computer vision-oriented Movidius hardware. The chipmaker does not disclose the reasons behind its decisions, but it looks like Intel’s CPUs and vision processing units (VPUs) will remain separated for now. “Remove Thunder Bay specific code as the product got…
Intel’s budget-friendly Arc A750 graphics card is now budget-friendlier than ever, available for just $229.99 at Newegg.com. The card in question – an ASRock Challenger variant (opens in new tab) – packs 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM and a twin-fan configuration. If you’re looking to get the best graphics card for your cash, this could be…
Intel’s Arc Alchemist graphics cards have received significant discounts from U.S. retailers. The Arc A770 and Arc A380, already two of the best graphics cards, are getting even more affordable, dropping in price by up to 18%. The flagship Arc A770, available in 16GB and 8GB variants, launched at $349 and $329, respectively. The 16GB…
