EU will decide on Chipzilla SK Hynix deal in May
Antitrust concerns
EU antitrust enforcers will decide by May 20 whether to clear South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc's $9 billion buy of Intel’s NAND memory chip business.
Chipzilla claims it will fix the auto chip shortage
Put some nice Intel chips in there
Intel Chief Executive Kicking/ Pat Gelsinger has said that Intel will start producing chips at its factories within six to nine months to address the auto shortage, which has idled assembly lines at some US automotive plants.
Intel’s server chips finally go to 10nm
Partners show off new ranges
Intel has just officially launched its first server products built on its 10nm process node and its partners have issued their server-based products.
G.Skill releases its new DDR4 kits for Intel Z590 platform
High speed DDR4 kits ranging from DDR4-4600 to DDR4-5333
G.Skill has released a series of new high speed DDR4 kits aimed to be used on Intel's new Z590 platform. These kits will be a part of G.Skill's Trident Z Royal, Trident Z RGB, and Ripjaws V series and reach speeds of up to DDR4-5333.
Rocket Lake-S a bit of a yawn for reviewers
Tests do not match the marketing claims
Retail availability for Intel's 2021 gaming CPU lineup, codenamed Rocket Lake-S has started and it is fair to say that the reviewers are not impressed.
AMD's Ryzen puts pressure on Intel
Alienware has an AMD option
Dell's next Alienware M15 will ship with an AMD Ryzen 5000 CPU, in a move which is rather bad news for Intel.
Raptor Lake in the pipeline
13th generation tech details spotted
Intel's 13th-gen model, Raptor Lake processors, have been mentioned in official documentation, indicating that they are indeed in the pipeline.
Intel 7nm is on schedule, Meteor Lake CPU in 2023
Keeping the fabs, IFS, and more
During its presentation, Intel's new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, shared his vision of Intel in the future, including details about the 7nm manufacturing process and next-generation Meteor Lake CPUs.
Rocket Lake might be slower than Ryzen 5000
So much for new architecture
New benchmarks which have tipped up online have shown some embarrassing facts for Intel's new Rocket Lake-S architecture.
Intel Alder Lake-S could bring 20 percent single-thread IPC improvement
10nm SuperFin, DDR5, and PCIe 5.0
While Rocket Lake-S has just been announced, we now have new rumors about Intel's 12th gen Core Alder Lake-S CPUs, which could bring as high as 20 percent higher single-thread IPC improvement, support for both PCIe 4.0 and PCIe 5.0, as well as DDR5 memory support.