‘Intel wants to buy chipmaker GlobalFoundries for 25 billion euros’
Intel is very interested in chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries. This is what the Wall Street Journal reports. Intel considers an acquisition so that it can increase its production of processors.
According to sources of the business newspaper, an acquisition of GlobalFoundries would cost Intel app... Read more
Microsoft is making Azure instance types for chip designers
Microsoft is working on new Azure instance types that are optimized for Electronics Design Automation. This is a part of a collaborative effort with the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). The two companies have come together to create a Joint Innovation Lab that will fast track sili... Read more
IBM unveils new powerful Power10 processor
IBM expands its processor portfolio with the Power10. This processor is Big Blue's first 7-nanometer processor, and is particularly suitable for heavy workloads for big data analytics or AI applications.
The IBM Power10 processor is the successor to the 14-nanometer Power9 processor from 2016. ... Read more
‘Google is working on its own chips for Pixel phones and Chromebooks’
Google is working on processors for future Pixel phones and Chromebooks. With these, the company follows the major competitors Samsung and Apple who have been making their own chips for some time now.
According to Axios, Google has made 'considerable progress' in designing a self-produced proces... Read more
‘New Meltdown-like leak Intel chips make data vulnerable’
Researchers at Bitdefender and a number of universities have found a Meltdown-like vulnerability in Intel processors. In theory, the leak could be used to steal data from computers running on Intel chips.
The researchers gave the vulnerability the name Load Value Injection (LVI). After the repor... Read more
AMD announces new 5nm and 3D architecture chips
Building on hundreds of millions of Zen chips sold, AMD is taking the next step in the CPU market. CEO Lisa Su announced the arrival of a range of new chips, including a CPU with multiple layers of chips on top of each other.
In 2020, AMD will introduce a new server CPU called Milan, based on Ze... Read more
Intel wants to be at forefront of 5G vendors with new hardware
With new hardware and software, including a new 10nm system-on-chip (SOC) for wireless base stations, Intel hopes to make a significant step into the 5G market. With the new generation of hardware, the chip manufacturer wants to become a much larger player in the 5G network market.
The Intel Ato... Read more
Qualcomm introduces ultra-fast X60 5nm chip
Qualcomm's new X60 chip should become the standard in the next generation of 5G smartphones. The 5 nanometer architecture is extra efficient and offers double the transfer speed.
Qualcomm uses a five-nanometer process, which means that the chip uses less energy than the X55 model of the previous... Read more
New encryption chip promises ‘unhackable communication’
A new cryptography chip is designed based on chaos theory and should offer perfect secrecy with unbreakable security. At the moment, the chip has only been developed as a prototype, but it already works.
The new chip has been developed by the Center for Unconventional Processes of Science togeth... Read more
AWS introduces Graviton2 chip
AWS has announced Graviton2. The Arm-based server chip is up to seven times faster than its predecessor and offers users a price advantage over instances with Intel and AMD CPUs.
At the Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, AWS unveiled, as expected, the successor to the Graviton chip that was intr... Read more