‘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...
Intel plans to pump $20bn into the EU chip market
Intel is going to invest at least 17 billion euros (20 billion dollars) in expanding or building new European chip factories. The company also expects the EU to pitch in by subsidizing a huge amount. The plan is to spread the investments across multiple EU countries.
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Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) offers high bandwidth memory
The company is focusing on HPC and AI.
At the 2021 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) Intel showcased how the company is expanding its high performance computing (HPC) offering. It is doing so through a range of technology disclosures, partnerships and customer adoptions.
Intel is...
Intel forms new business units, makes top management changes
High level reshuffling of personnel accompanies the addition of two new focused business units.
This week Santa Clara chipmaker Intel announced it will create two new business units. One will be focused on software and one on high performance computing (HPC) and graphics. As part of these change...
Germany’s Bavaria is in talks with Intel to build a chip megafactory
The southern state of Bavaria, in Germany, is in talks with Intel, to build a large European chip factory, to deal with supply bottlenecks that have crippled production in the automotive industry. The news came from the local economy minister on Friday.
In recent months, Intel has been seeking 8...
Intel releases IPU chips designed specifically for cloud data centres
Intel has just released information on the new chip they have created, called the infrastructure processing unit (IPU). It aims to boost the efficiency of cloud providers' data centres as it offloads computing tasks from their main server CPU's.
Intel has announced that their IPU chips are now o...
Intel could buy SiFive to compete against Arm with RISC-V chip technology
Intel is debating the possibility of acquiring SiFive, according to a person familiar with the matter, who spoke to Reuters. SiFive is a company that is closely associated with the open-source community and is seen as a potential challenger that could take on Intel's rival, Arm.
SiFive is based ...
Intel adds 11th-Gen chips to line-up and hints at 12th-Gen Alder Lake
Intel is ready to reunify its desktop and mobile product line as Alder Lake comes to the high-end desktop line and the entire chip stack.
The 11th-Gen Core processors
Intel announced a brand new line of 11th-Gen Core processors for laptops and desktop offerings at this year's virtual CES conf...
Alibaba is making a cloud OS for multiple chip architectures
Alibaba Cloud, the fourth largest global cloud service, announced that its Apsara operating system compatible with multiple chip processors like ARM, RISC-V, and x86.
The shift from chip servers to cloud technologies
Intel and ARM largely control the global chip market – Intel's x86 dominat...
EU should pay Intel 8 billion euros for two chip factories
This week it became clear that Intel's CEO, Pat Gelsinger, has put a proposal on the table with the European Commission to build a chip factory in Europe. Gelsinger wants an 8 billion euro subsidy in exchange for the construction of one European chip factory. That's a nice offer to start with, but ...
Intel wants 8 billion euros from EU to build a European chip plant
Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger, came to Europe last week to talk to European officials about building a European chip factory. Gelsingers wants to EU to pitch in for 8 billion euros in subsidies because of the higher costs compared to building a plant in Asia.
Intel wants 8 billion euros ($9.7 billion...
Spectre is back with new AMD and Intel vulnerabilities discovered
The chip vulnerability named Spectre which was first discovered in 2018 is back again. Researchers have found variants of Spectre that affect all modern x86 processors from AMD and Intel.
Researchers from the University of Virginia, and the University of California at San Diego, detailed the thr...