Intel in talks to make chips for automakers in 6-9 months
In a report by Reuters, Intel’s CEO said on Monday that the company is in talks to start making chips for automakers, to offset the shortage, which has slowed down the automotive industry considerably.
Chief Executive Officer, Pat Gelsinger, said that Intel is talking to companies that design ...
Cisco, Dell and Lenovo reveal Ice Lake servers
Following the announcement of the new Intel Ice Lake server processors, several manufacturers have unveiled their updated server line-up. In large part, these are modifications to existing servers in order to be able to work with the new processors.
Cisco comes with three new models: the UCS B20...
Intel reveals 10nm server chips with up to 40 cores
Intel has unveiled the latest generation of its Xeon server chips. The new Ice Lake chips are based on a new architecture for the first time since Skylake and are manufactured on a smaller process. Intel has also added some special new features for AI and 5G, among others.
Navin Shenoy, executiv...
AWS increasingly replacing Intel Xeon chips with self-made ARM chips
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is still the largest hyperscaler with the widest cloud offering. The development of its cloud portfolio started with standard Intel Xeon server chips (x86), but in recent years AWS has been rapidly developing its own ARM chips that more or less replace Intel.
A while ag...
Intel to build new chip factories in Europe
Intel has announced its plans for the future. The company is betting big on the production of 7nm chips and wants to make its chip factories available to other companies too. For this, the company wants to build more chip factories, starting with two factories in the American state of Arizona. Inte...
Google to make its own custom server chips as well
Google has announced that it plans to design its own SoCs for use in servers. To assist in the design process, the company has hired Intel veteran Uri Frank.
In a blog post, Google says that Moore's Law no longer provides great strides in computer speed. To ensure that improvements in speed and ...
’12th-gen Intel processors will support PCIe 5.0 and DDR5′
Intel is hard at work on its next-generation Alder Lake processors, intended for both desktop and laptop applications. According to new rumours, the new 10nm processors will support DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0.
Similar to the Lakefield processors released last year, Intel plans to use a design simi...
Intel announces new generation of 14nm desktop processors
Intel has unveiled its Rocket Lake-S desktop processors. This is the first time since 2015 that Intel has brought a new processor architecture to the desktop. However, the chips are still produced at 14 nanometres.
It is a series of new processors in the i5, i7 and i9 series. As with the previou...
Micron is done with 3D XPoint and is selling its factory
After almost a decade of investments and slow progress, Micron announced on Tuesday that it is ending its involvement in the development of 3D XPoint, a non-volatile memory technology, which was originally developed in partnership with Intel.
As it stops all research & development on 3D XPoi...
Does a best practice for hybrid cloud exist?
The cloud has defined itself in recent years. Defined with possibilities, opportunities, features, pitfalls and security issues. Meanwhile, there are many best practices, but one stands out head and shoulders above the rest. Most companies want a hybrid cloud, but how do you do it? We spoke with De...
Microsoft to offer AMD CPUs in smaller Surface Laptop 4
It seems the AMD processors will also be available in the 13.5 inch models.
AMD options in the Microsoft Surface Laptop series have not been unknown in the past. Indeed, since 2019 the company has offered their 15 inch Surface 3 Laptop with an AMD processor. AMD was not, however, available in th...
Intel needs to pay billions after lost patent lawsuit
Processor manufacturer Intel has been ordered to pay 2.18 billion dollars to VLSI Technologies because the company is said to have infringed two patents held by VLSI.
It is not clear which patents are at issue, other than that they concern technologies for making processors faster. For the two i...