Intel annouces 11th-gen vPro processors
Intel has announced its latest line of vPro processors. These are four mobile processors that should be significantly faster than the predecessors of the tenth generation.
The vPro processors are based on the laptop processors that Intel also announced during CES. It concerns four quadcore proce...
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger replaces Bob Swan at Intel
Intel has announced that its CEO Bob Swan will resign. He will remain in the position until February 15th, after which Pat Gelsinger will replace him. Until now, Gelsinger was the CEO of VMware.
A specific reason for Swan's departure was not shared. Rumours suggest it has to do with competitor A...
Red Hat and Intel work together to capture the emerging 5G market
Red Hat and Intel announced that they would take the next step in their partnership, calling it an evolution that would align their products with the 5G market. Carriers will spend billions upgrading their systems to the 5G standard, which will boost LTE connection levels by up to 100 times.
The...
‘Intel to produce first 10nm server chips this quarter’
Intel has announced that it will begin mass production of server chips on the 10nm process this quarter. The company would also soon reveal whether or not it will be outsourcing part of its production.
Exactly what kind of chips Intel will produce is not known. It is also not clear how many chip...
Intel introduces face-recognition tech into RealSense
Intel announced on Wednesday that it is adding face-recognition hardware and software that retail stores can use to enable payments and dictate access to restricted areas. The tech was introduced in 2014, in Intel’s RealSense 3D cameras.
Combining depth and tracking technology, drones, robots,...
Linus Torvalds blames Intel for lack of error correcting RAM in PCs
Intel's market segmentation has made ECC available for servers but not PCs.
This week, Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds wrote a post fiercely critical of Intel. In a post on Real World Technologies, he blames the chipmaker for the lack of Error Correcting Checksum (ECC) RAM in consumer PCs an...
Activist investor pushes Intel to explore “strategic alternatives”
Hedge fund Third Point Management warns Intel that it may need to fundamentally change its structure and operations.
Reuters has reported that Intel is coming under pressure to look at deal options to keep the company competitive. An activist investor group is warning about the company's positi...
SolarWinds hack also hit Cisco, Intel, Nvidia, VMware and Belkin
The Wall Street Journal asked several companies asking whether they had been affected by the malware contained in SolarWinds Orion. This appears to be the case with multiple large IT companies.
The newspaper writes that network company Cisco, chip designers Intel and Nvidia, accounting firm Delo...
Intel announces its fastest Optane SSD yet
Intel has announced a new Optane SSD for use in data centres. The Optane P5800X uses PCIe 4.0 and is claimed to be three times faster than its predecessor.
The new SSD achieves sequential read and write speeds of 7.2 and 6.2 gigabytes per second respectively. Furthermore, the SSD achieves 1.5 mi...
‘Apple developing its own modems’
Apple appears to have started developing its own modems. With these modems, the company would no longer be dependent on parties such as Qualcomm or Intel for its network equipment.
Johny Srouji, the senior vice president of hardware at Apple, is said to have informed Apple's employees internally...
Intel announces second-generation quantum control chip
Intel has announced Horse Ridge II. Compared to its predecessor, the control chip for quantum computers has been modified in a way that should improve scalability.
In a press release, Intel writes that the second generation of the Horse Ridge-SoC has two additional control functions, making it p...
Dell Technologies: The cloud is a tool, not necessarily the solution
More and more companies are looking for ways to speed up innovation. To achieve innovation, the cloud is often regarded as the solution. Nevertheless, companies need to realise that the cloud is primarily a tool and not a complete solution. We discussed this with Patrick Eikenaar, Director of Data ...