Computex 2024: Expects to match Nvidia and AMD

US chipmaker Intel announced new artificial intelligence chips for data centres as it seeks to challenge rivals Nvidia and AMD.

Intel inside 

MSI lifted the kimono on its latest Intel Xeon 6 processor-based server platforms at Computex 2024 in Taipei, yesterday.

A business-oriented twin of ROG NUC

ASUS has introduced its newest NUC 14 Performance, a small powerhouse equipped with up to Intel Core Ultra 9 185H CPU and Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 GPU. This puts it in line with ASUS' previously launched ROG NUC.

It’s been a hard days knight

Chipzilla has withdrawn support for its Xeon Phi Knights Mill and Knights Landing accelerators from the LLVM/Clang 19 compiler as a sign that its MIC architecture is toast.

Mt Evans has been a long time in the making

Chipzilla has finally released its IPU E2100 DPU for the mass market. 

80 laptops, 20 OEM and 45+ TOPS NPU, fastest ever

Intel announced a bit more details about the next-generation notebook technology SoC codenamed Lunar Lake and synced it up with Microsoft’s Copilot+ announcement. Lunar Lake has new P and E cores, 1.5 times faster Battlemage graphics, 45+ TOPS NPU and an additional 60 TOPS from the GPU, advanced low power, and most importantly performance faster than Ryzen 7 8840U & Snapdragon X Elite. 

Nvidia's only needs 1200W

Intel has let slip that its soon-to-drop Falcon Shores AI processor, a nifty hybrid chip that marries x86 and Xe GPU cores, is set to be a proper guzzler, chugging down a hefty 1500 watts (W) of juice -- a fair bit thirstier than Nvidia’s B200, which only sips up to 1200W. 

Screen and file sharing between PCs

Intel has unveiled the Thunderbolt Share software, which is crafted to provide a straightforward, swift, and effective method for sharing screen and files between two PCs.

New research proves it

Mercury Research boffins have been adding up some numbers provided by AMD and concluded that Team Red is chipping away at Intel’s market share.

One to have for Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut and Homeworld 3

Intel has released the new Arc 101.5518 Beta GPU driver with optimizations for two new big games, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut and Homeworld 3.