Intel spends $7 billion on Malaysian chip packaging plant
Published in PC Hardware


To deal with chip shortage

Intel is spending $7 billion to build a new chip packaging facility in Malaysia, a major Asian investment intended to address endemic global semiconductor shortages at a time Washington is advocating domestic production.

AMD could go hybrid
Published in News
Tuesday, 14 December 2021 11:53

AMD could go hybrid

Intel could be onto something

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that AMD could be planning on bringing in hybrid processors – chips that mix different types of cores.

Intel shows off plans to speed up and shrink chips
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Will gain market lead lost to TSMC

Research teams at Intel unveiled work that the company believes will help it keep speeding up and shrinking computing chips over the next ten years, with several technologies aimed at stacking parts of chips on top of each other.

Intel Arc Alchemist gets video treatment
Published in Graphics
Monday, 13 December 2021 12:26

Intel Arc Alchemist gets video treatment


Rumoured launch plans

Intel’s Arc Alchemist graphics chips have been shown in a video, and its launch plans see fresh rumours.

Gelsinger "too old" to save Intel -  TSMC boss was wrong
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Updated: Claims former TSMC boss, 90 - 
Corporate Governance guidelines updated to 75 years old

Kicking Pat Gelsinger, 61, is too old to save Intel according to TSMC founder Morris Chang, age 90 told a lecture hall.

Intel has fixed issues with Alder Lake
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 08 December 2021 12:06

Intel has fixed issues with Alder Lake


Chipzilla had problems with gaming DRM

Chipzilla has assured the world+dog that it has fixed most of the problems gamers were having with its  Alder Lake processors.

Chipzilla to make its self-driving car unit public
Published in Transportation


Mobileye plans IPO 

Intel is planning to make its self-driving-car unit Mobileye a public company in the middle of next year -- an IPO which could value the Israeli unit at more than $50 billion

Intel’s Raptor Lake-S benchmark leaked
Published in News
Monday, 06 December 2021 13:00

Intel’s Raptor Lake-S benchmark leaked


Increase of core/thread count

Videocardz has stumbled across a leaked benchmark that appears to show a Raptor Lake-S CPU sample in action.

Intel wants to avoid a fight with Apple
Published in News
Monday, 06 December 2021 12:55

Intel wants to avoid a fight with Apple


But armies gathering for 3nm production capacity fight 

A war between Intel and Apple is brewing over TSMC’s production capacity for 3nm processors.

Intel updates old tech in secret lab
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 30 November 2021 12:25

Intel updates old tech in secret lab


Runs security tests

Chipzilla has a secret lab which hires more than 100,000 staff, whose only job is to make sure that security tests are carried out on its more ancient tech, according to the Wall Street Journal.