Intel fires CEO Brian Krzanich
Relationship with an Intel employee
There is no better way to steer the week than an announcement that the CEO of Intel, Brian Krzanich, was fired as both the leader of the company and a member of the board of directors. Intel officially says he resigned but it also said that he was in a past consensual relationship with an Intel employee, a big no-go and against the company’s policy.
Porsche gets 10 percent of Rimac
High voltage battery and power trains
Porsche AG officially announced that it acquired 10 percent of Rimac automobile for an undisclosed sum.
Safety is why Intel acquired MobileEye
27 million car market share helped too
A year ago, Intel acquired Mobile Eye for $15.3 billion and Intel's CEO has expained why it happened. Safety is in the company’s mind, but Brian Krzanich was honest enough to recognize that Mobile Eye solves a large gap that Intel had before the acquisition.
The reason why AMD's Vega power was high
Power optimization engineers went to EPYC
It is no big secret that Vega 64 and 56 had quite high thermals and didn’t actually meet some of its performance targets. Some key power optimization engineers were pulled from the Vega team to the more important goal. The Naples server chip had a higher priority.
Samsung still building a GPU
As Fudzilla reported in 2014
It takes a long time to make a GPU. As Fudzilla reported in late 2014, Samsung has been working for its own in-house GPU and it is getting closer to the finishing line.
Intel Gaming offers @AMDRyzen an 8086K CPU
Twitter wars
Intel found its sense of humor and offered to send @AMDRyzen twitter account, a brand-new Core i7 8086K.
Xilinx helped AMD with HBM 2
High bandwidth is the key
There is an interesting story that's very little known about the public cooperation that has happened between AMD and Xilinx about HBM memory.
Tesla to enable full self-driving
Elon said August
Elon Musk likes Twitter communication just as much as the current US president and he used the 140-character medium to reveal its Autopilot self-driving update.
NXP deal still pending in China
Yet to be confirmed
A report that officially Beijing greenlighted the NXP deal has been questioned by Reuters which dismisses the confirmation and backs its up with multiple sources.
IBM steps up AI efforts
Digital brains boom coming
IBM is focusing its efforts on developing AI and cloud application solutions, seeking to explore immense application opportunities ranging from manufacturing, transportation, smart cities and healthcare.