Not just for the data centre now

Intel is releasing its flagship SSD Optane P5800X into the greasy paws of its workstation users.

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.

Will head Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group

Former AMD exec who turned to Chipzilla, Raja Koduri, has been promoted in a shake-up at Intel.

Tame Apple Press on overkill

The Tame Apple Press is predicting the death of Intel now that Apple has started producing its own PC chips.

Compute and coms side by side

Intel CEO Kicking Pat Gelsinger and Qualcomm CEO-elect Cristiano Amon are locked in meetings to see if there are areas they can work together.

SmartNICS help data centres

Chipzilla is pushing its idea of “infrastructure processing units” (IPUs) into its data centre infrastructure.

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.

You must use the glorious M1 or buy a proper computer.

Fruity cargo cult Apple has dismantled some of the features of macOS Monterey for those who are dumb enough not to drink its M1 cool aid.

DIY

Google has designed its own Argos video transcoding units (VCU), that have one solitary purpose: processing video and will use them to replace tens of millions of Chipzilla CPUs with its silicon.

Driver optimizations underway

Intel's Raja Koduri has teased the Xe-HPG (DG2) chip with 512 EUs on Twitter, showing that the chip is ready but that there are still a lot of things to be done, including upcoming game and driver optimizations from the software team.