Shrugs at Washington’s pricey patriotism push

Despite a flood of government cash designed to drag chipmaking back to the US, one of the industry's key suppliers seems distinctly unimpressed.

Core Ultra 5 235HX punches above its weight in early benchmarks

While Intel's desktop Arrow Lake CPUs turned out to be all mouth and no trousers, its mobile Arrow Lake-HX line appears to be the opposite, turning in surprisingly strong results where it counts.

I am not highly conflicted

Troubled Chipzilla’s chief executive Lip-Bu Tan [pictured] has fired back at Donald Trump after the US president accused him of being “highly conflicted” and demanded he resign.

Intel threatens shutdown if no buyers emerge for new manufacturing tech

Troubled Chipzilla has once again waved the warning flag over its $28 billion chipmaking venture in Ohio, saying it may stop all work unless it can land external customers for its 14A process node.

More layoffs, fab delays and yet another AI pivot

Intel is hacking away at its workforce and torching grandiose European fab plans in Germany and Poland in a last-ditch effort to look relevant.

Entry-level CPU lineup ditches ray tracing

Troubled Chipzilla is prepping its Wildcat Lake CPUs to replace the tired Alder Lake-N and Twin Lake offerings in the bargain-basement segment.

Rumoured to be 55 per cent

Analysts at KeyBanc reckon Intel’s 18A yields have inched up to 55 per cent which is a modest five per cent improvement quarter-on-quarter.

Tan tells staff that catching up to Nvidia is a lost cause

Troubled Chipzilla’s new chief Lip-Bu Tan has decided to pull off the sticking plaster and tell staff that Intel is no longer one of the leading semiconductor companies in the world.

Intel claws second place as Samsung stumbles over its yields

TSMC is still lording it over the global chip foundry racket, holding on to a 35 per cent grip on what is dubbed the "Foundry 2.0" which covers everything from photomask manufacturing to chip packaging alongside the usual silicon stamping.

 
25 per cent higher clock speeds and up to 36 per cent power savings

Troubled Chipzilla is trying to shift attention from looming layoffs to technical progress, unveiling more details about its next-gen 18A process node at the 2025 Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits.