Trace a little faster Ray

Intel Linux GPU driver developers have released an update that results in a massive 100X boost in ray tracing performance.

Form foundry partnership

Intel and MediaTek today announced a strategic partnership to manufacture chips using Intel Foundry Services’ (IFS) advanced process technologies.

A770 remains top

Intel’s Ryan Shrout, part of the Intel marketing group, used his Twitter to confirm that the Arc A780 card never existed.

Expect it to get pricey after autumn

Chipzilla has decided that its chips are too cheap and it is going to jack up the prices, according to Nikkei Asia.

Retbleed leaks password data 

Intel and AMD are vulnerable to a newly discovered speculative execution attack that can covertly leak password data and other sensitive material.

At least if a rumoured feature turns up

The battle ground between Core i9-13900 and AMD Ryzen 7000 has been levelled and some reviews suggest that Intel is set to lose. However, another rumour has suggested that Intel has a secret weapon – a Raptor Lake feature which has been overlooked.

Plenty of living space

Intel Alder Lake CPUs have boosted their market share globally but AMD Ryzen CPUs dominate the DIY segment in Germany.

Give us more money or we will go to Europe

Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine took time from his busy schedule of forcing ten-year-old sexual abuse victims to have babies, to complain that Intel is stinging it for huge amounts of cash to build a chip factory.

Performance cores able to reach 5.5GHz

Details of Intel’s Core i9-13900K have been leaked online showing that it can manage a peak boost frequencies of 5.5GHz.

It nicked FPGA SoC chips that use ALM and my other acronyms

Japanese boffin Masahiro Iida is incandesnant with rage that Intel has borrowed his idea for Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and System-on-Chip (SoC) chips that employ Adaptive Logic Modules (ALM).