Big "fabulous" package (BFP) for chiplets

Intel employee Raja (King) Koduri has tickled our fancy with a tease previously pre-announced as Ponte Vecchio, Xe-HPC line of chips that will take a chiplet approach, and offer smaller and larger designs.

Analysis: Interesting marketing that works

I have been around to vividly remember 350 nm and the first Pentium and AMD K5/K6 processors, and since that time, I have tracked the microprocessors and GPU market. It went swiftly from 350 to 250nm and later to 180, 130, 90, 65, 45, 32nm, and 14nm. It took some ten significant geometry shrinking and power reductions to get to 10nm and even to get to 7nm. Apple, in collaboration with TSMC, is just months away from announcing 5nm chips, but the real question is, do nanometers matter?

 
Part of data centre cunning plan

Chipzilla has been lifting the lid on its several AI devices for the data centre market including the third generation of its Xeon Scalable CPU, a new Stratix FPGA with a dedicated AI engine, new Optane persistent memory and NAND SSDs.

Coming later this year

Intel has showcased its Tiger Lake notebook prototype running Battlefield V game at 1080p with over 30 frames per second, which is a pretty nice feat for an integrated Xe graphics.

Control-Flow Enforcement Technology has been developed with Microsoft

Intel is baking some security into its CPUs that’s designed to thwart software exploits that execute malicious code on vulnerable computers.

Four leaders continue his work

A lot of people were surprised to learn that Jim Keller decided to leave Intel for personal reasons. We were less surprised than the rest of his colleagues, just based on Jim’s track record as we believe that Keller went and did what he was hired to do, and left. 

Foveros 3D stacking with Hybrid CPU for 4+1 CPU and up to 64 EUs GPU

We have been hearing about Intel's Lakefield CPUs for quite some time, and these combine one big with four small CPU cores on a small footprint, thanks to the 3D stacking Foveros technology. Now, Intel disclosed a bit more information, including two SKUs, aimed at ultra-mobile small form-factor premium laptops.

Will make its own chips instead

Fruity cargo-cult Apple is nearly ready to dump Intel and use its own chips in its Macs.

CrossTalk attack

Dutch boffins have found another flaw in Intel processors which enables attacker-controlled code executing on one CPU core to leak sensitive data from other software running on a different core.

Intel is the best you just have to take our word for it

We were looking through the transcripts of last week’s Computex and noticed that Intel CEO Bob Swan made a surprising comment about benchmarking.