Intel beats AMD on German motherboard sales
First time in years
German retailer Mindfactory said that Intel’s motherboard revenue has passed AMD’s for the first time in years.
Intel's NUC 12 Extreme gets detailed
Two main barebone SKUs
While it might not be similar to earlier NUC Extreme barebones, the latest one, dubbed the NUC 12 Extreme, comes with rather interesting specifications and will be available in two versions, depending on the CPU.
Intel’s chip making plans an own goal
Wall Street thinks that AMD will win
The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street think Intel’s chip making plans to meet rising demand will give AMD a greater foothold in the segment.
Intel poaches another AMD graphics expert
Headhunting
Rohit Verma, an AMD veteran SoC architect, has jumped ship to Intel.
Koduri outlines the state of the Arc
We have got two animals but this might take longer than 40 days and nights
Raja Koduri, Intel’s SVP and GM of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) Group delivered an update on the state of Intel’s first generation of Arc graphics and it looks like that it will be a long time before we see anything.
Intel expects to see profits fall this year
Stable until 2025
Intel expects its profit margin to drop this year and then be steady for several years as it invests in new technologies and factories to meet rising chip demand.
Intel snaps up Tower Semiconductor
$5.4 billion
Chipzilla has written a $5.4 billion cheque for Tower Semiconductor – a foundry for analogue semiconductor solutions.
Linux kernel will support Intel Hardware Feedback
Background tasks and light workloads can be run on the E-cores
The Linux 5.18 kernel is adding support this spring for the Intel Hardware Feedback Interface to make better decisions about where to place given work among available CPU cores/threads.
Intel’s Arc Alchemist graphics cards delayed
Leak suggests that Nvidia’s Nemesis will be the middle of the year
Intel’s Arc Alchemist graphics cards was expected to launch in early 2022, and give Nvidia’s higher-end desktop GPUs a run for their money, but leaks are suggesting that they will be a bit later.
Intel cuddles up to RISC-V
Starts a $1 billion fund
Chipzilla has announced a new $1 billion fund on February 7 to build a foundry innovation ecosystem and will collaborate with several RISC-V standard IC design firms.