Intel Core i7-9700K already is missing it

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that Chipzilla is dumping hyperthreading. 

Things are getting better at Intel all the time

The second most important semiconductor company in the world,  Intel (ticker: INTC),  declared results for its second financial quarter and things apparently have never been better, even - or perhaps because - it lost a CEO during the quarter.

"Coffee Lake" SoCs

Intel has released its pre-built NUC desktops based around its newer  8th generation "Coffee Lake" SoCs.

Core i9-9900K, Core i7-9700K, and the Core i5-9600K

Intel is gearing up to launch its 9th generation Core CPUs, which are slated to bring more performance, mostly to higher core counts and higher clock speeds. The leak shows the Core i9-9900K. the Core i7-9700K, and the Core i5-9600K, which was previously confirmed accidentally by Intel.

Kills support for DirectX 9

Blizzard has recently released its latest Battle for Azeroth pre-patch for World of Warcraft, which has both finally added support for DirectX 12 as well as killed support for DirectX 9.

CEO disease is catching

The CEO of Texas Instruments (TI) has resigned because he has violated the company's code of conduct rules.

Brings fixes and improvements for several games

While you might not get a high FPS on extreme resolutions, Intel's iGPUs still hold a high percentage on Steam hardware survey, so there are plenty of users playing games on it, therefore it is good to see that Intel has started to more actively update its graphics drivers and bring support and bug fixes, including the latest Intel Graphics Driver for Windows 10 version 24.20.100.6194.

Haunting which cannot be exorcised 

Two security boffins have found details about the new Spectre-class vulnerabilities,  –  Spectre 1.1 and Spectre 1.2.

Does what Optane should have done in the first place

Enmotus, the company which was behind AMD StoreMi that shipped with X470 chipset motherboards, has now released a new version of its own FuzeDrive Software, which, to much surprise, works both with AMD and Intel chipsets, and pretty much does what Intel Optane should have done in the first place.

Vice President of Intel's Core and Visual Computing Group

While Intel managed to grab some key graphics guys from AMD, it appears that AMD can play that same game as Intel's VP Core and Visual Computing Group, Martin Ashton, has moved to AMD.