3DMark for DirectX Raytracing comes in January 2019
3DMark Port Royal
UL Benchmarks has announced that its newest benchmark for ray tracing will be coming in January 2019, dubbed 3DMark Port Royal.
Global semiconductor industry growing
Worth $129.8 billion
Beancounters at IHS Markit have added up some numbers and divided them by their shoe size and worked out that the global semiconductor industry revenue grew 7.4 percent sequentially in the third quarter of 2018, reaching a record $129.8 billion.
TSMC could be about to replace Intel
Bloomberg’s thinks Chipzilla will go the way of the dinosaurs
The days of Intel dominating chipmaking is now under threat from a company many Americans have never heard of – TSMC.
Jon Carvill is VP of marketing at Intel
Long term industry veteran rejoins Intel
The exact title of Jon Carvill's new venture is the VP of Marketing for Technology Leadership and he started this job after leaving Facebook as the Director of Technology Communications. Jon is just destined to work in the chip industry, he just knows and likes it too much.
Intel Comet Lake-S CPU may have 10 cores
Improving the decor
The dark satanic rumour mill suggests that Chipzilla preparing a 10-core mainstream desktop CPU.
Latest Spectre patches bring big performance hits to Linux 4.20 kernel
From two to up to 35 percent in some tests
Spectre and Meltdown fixes have been slowly coming for most of this year, and according to results, the performance hit on Intel CPUs in the latest Linux 4.20 kernel can be over 30 percent.
Intel confirms its support for VESA Adaptive Sync
Says it has the widest impact and install base
After an initial report, Intel has now confirmed it will support Adaptive Sync, rather than focus on a proprietary solution.
Intel XMM 8160 5G silence XMM 8060
From 2G to 5G in 2H 2019
Intel has announced its XMM 8160 5G modem that supports all the "Gs" from 2G to 5G NR and it plans to ship the modem in 2H 2019 so expect it in phones and PCs in early 2020.
Intel announces new 5G XMM 8160 modem
Ahead of planned schedule
Intel has unveiled its latest XMM 8160 5G modem, which supports both the older standard but also brings 5G speeds with peak speeds of up to 6Gbps.
Intel’s new chip is comparable to AMD's
But overpriced
Intel’s new Core i9-9980XE is the fastest many-core desktop processor Intel has released to date but the 18-core Core i9-9980XE still trails AMD's 24 and 32-core Threadripper WX series processors in key areas and is overpriced.