AMD officially cuts the Ryzen 7000 series prices
After it has been done on Newegg and Amazon
AMD has now officially dropped the prices of its Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 series SKUs, and new prices are up on AMD's own webstore.
Intel releases new GPU graphics driver for the Arc A770 and Arc A750
Optimises many games
Intel has released a new GPU graphics driver for the Arc A770 and Arc A750 that optimises many games with minor performance improvements and fixes several key issues on nine titles.
Chipzilla spots deepfakes
96 per cent accuracy rate
In a bid to stop fake news and propaganda, Intel introduced FakeCatcher, which it says is the first real-time detector of deepfakes.
Intel put Optane drives in Ark
P5810X Series launched but no one saw it
Chipzilla released the new Intel Optane SSD DC P5810X Series without telling anyone and instead thought people would just "discover it" when they were reading through its Ark product database.
Intel moves to PCIe Gen5
Nvidia is no longer the only one
Intel has signed up for the new PCIe Gen5 or 16-pin or 12VHPWR power connector at least for its new Data Center GPU Max 1000 GPUs based on its Ponte Vecchio processor.
Intel unveils NUC 13 Extreme gaming PC
Not exactly compact any more
Chipzilla's new NUC 13 Extreme gaming PC is being demonstated and it appears that Intel has given up on the concept of NUCs being small.
Intel and AMD-based platforms can update Arc firmware
Linux not so much
Intel and AMD-based platforms can update Arc GPU firmware, and Intel's Management Engine is not required for firmware updates, according to the latest pronoucement from Chipzilla.
Intel talks up Software Defined Silicon
All very scaleable
Chipzilla has been talking about the Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) capability of its next-generation Xeon Scalable processors including the official brand name.
Sapphire Rapids gets a launch date
10 January 2023
Intel's Xeon Scalable processors, previously code-named Sapphire Rapids, have a launch date of 10 January 2023.
US chip restrictions on chip inevitable
Intel sees no way out
Intel Chief Executive [kicking] Pat Gelsinger (pictured) said that recently imposed US restrictions on semiconductor-industry exports to China were inevitable as America seeks to maintain technological leadership in competition with China.