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 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.

Chipzilla finds two high-severity vulnerabilities
Published in PC Hardware


Wide range of processor families

Intel has disclosed two high-severity vulnerabilities that affect a wide range of Intel processor families, allowing threat actors and malware to gain higher privilege levels on the device.

Intel says Aurora on the way
Published in News
Thursday, 28 October 2021 11:26

Intel says Aurora on the way


And bigger than planned... even if it is late 

After Chipzilla has released its Alder Lake family into the world and is shipping 28 versions of the chip to PC makers, with "broad availability" starting on 4 November, the outfit says that its new supercomputer Aurora is on the way.

Chipzilla unlikely to catch up in semiconductor fabrication
Published in PC Hardware

 
Economic academics agree Intel squandered its lead trying to impress shareholders

A couple of economic academics have penned a rather interesting paper claiming that Intel will not catch up to TSMC and SEC in semiconductor fabrication.

Chipzilla delays production of next gen Xeons
Published in PC Hardware


Sapphire Rapids not so rapid after all

Chipzilla has delayed production of its next-generation Xeon Scalable CPUs, code-named Sapphire Rapids, to the first quarter of 2022 and said it would start ramping shipments by at least April of next year.

Ericsson needs Intel inside its 5G midband
Published in Network


I RAN, I RAN so far away, couldn’t get away


Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has continued is using Intel chips to do its mid-band 5G RAN operations.

Intel is back as number one
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:51

Intel is back as number one


But only one to see a sales decline

Chipzilla is the #1 semiconductor maker in the world despite being the only one in the top 15 to post a sales decline.

Intel to invest $3.5 billion in Rio Rancho
Published in News


Part of chip production modernisation

Chipzilla is to invest $3.5 billion in the Rio Rancho technical campus as part of its global chip production modernisation.

Intel disappoints Wall Street
Published in News
Friday, 23 April 2021 10:21

Intel disappoints Wall Street


Booming sales, but profits down

Chipzilla disappointed the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street by turning in a second quarter profit forecast well short of their great expectations.