Intel should never have tried to be a contract chipmaker
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TSMC founder says it would have been better at AI

The founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co said that Intel should have focused on artificial intelligence rather than trying to become a contract chipmaker.

Intel Arc B580 Battlemage does well in Vulkan and OpenCL benchmarks
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Faster than Geforce RTX 4060 and Radeon RX 7600 XT

As reviewers are busy testing Intel's Arc B580 Battlemage graphics cards, the recent leak shows it to be faster in Vulkan and Open CL benchmarks at Geekbench, beating both the RTX 4070 and the RX 7600 XT.

Nvidia’s Project Denver was going to be x86
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Legal constraints meant it went to Arm

Nvidia’s Project Denver was supposed to be based on x86 tech, but things took a turn thanks to legal wranglings involving Transmeta’s Tokamak technology. Instead, Nvidia had to pivot to Arm, and the rest is history.

Former Intel CEO defends 18A process
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Pat Gelsinger speaks out on yield rate rumours

Intel's now "retired" CEO Pat [kicking] Gelsinger took time out from his busy schedule gardening, making homemade jam and other retirement activities, to defend Intel Foundry's 18A yield rate claims.

Microsoft winds down production of Surface Studio 2+
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Curtains for Ultra-Premium All-in-One

Software King of the World, Microsoft has ended production on the Surface Studio 2+, its ultra-premium all-in-one desktop PC designed for creatives and commercial customers.