Has Intel gone too far with its Ohio fab 'delay' stunt?
COMMENT With construction unceremoniously underway, x86 giant may have overplayed its hand
Systems06 Jul 2022 | 9
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Elon Musk’s brother buys Intel’s fireworks-replacing drone biz
Yet another sign x86 giant has moved past Krzanich era to focus on core chip businesses
Personal Tech05 Jul 2022 | 11
US expands efforts to hamstring China’s chipmaking mojo
Beijing can't get next-gen lithography gear, America now trying to block sales of older machines
Systems05 Jul 2022 | 18
One of the first RISC-V laptops may ship in September, has an NFT hook
A notebook with an RV SoC is cool enough. Did we really need the Web3 jargon?
Personal Tech01 Jul 2022 | 25
Meta: We need 5x more GPUs to combat TikTok, stat
Comment And 30% fewer new engineers this year
AI + ML30 Jun 2022 | 30
Intel ships crypto-mining ASIC at the worst possible time
Comment Chipmaker finally ahead of schedule only to find it arrived too late
Systems30 Jun 2022 | 24
Intel to sell Massachusetts R&D site, once home to its only New England fab
End of another era as former DEC facility faces demolition
Systems30 Jun 2022 | 18
Intel’s CEO shouldn’t be surprised America can’t get CHIPS Act together
Comment Silicon supremo warns he could prioritize expansion in Europe if Congress doesn’t approve subsidies
Systems29 Jun 2022 | 34
Arm says its Cortex-X3 CPU smokes this Intel laptop silicon
Chip design house reveals brains of what might be your next ultralight notebook
Personal Tech28 Jun 2022 | 18
Arm jumps on ray tracing bandwagon with beefy GPU design
British chip designer’s reveal comes months after mobile RT moves by AMD, Imagination
Systems28 Jun 2022 | 4
TSMC may surpass Intel in quarterly revenue for first time
Fab frenemies: x86 giant set to give Taiwanese chipmaker more money as it revitalizes foundry business
Systems27 Jun 2022 | 1
Software-defined silicon is coming for telecom kit later this year
Interview Startup EdgeQ believes pay-for-what-you-use model will make 5G transition more cost-effective
Networks26 Jun 2022 | 17
Intel withholds Ohio fab ceremony over US chip subsidies inaction
$20b factory construction start date unchanged – but the x86 giant is not happy
Systems23 Jun 2022 | 18
Train once, run anywhere, almost: Qualcomm's drive to bring AI to its phone, PC chips
Software toolkit offered to save developers time, effort, battery power
AI + ML23 Jun 2022 | 2
Samsung invests in ML chip startup NeuReality
Coining the term hardware-based 'AI hypervisor' has to be worth several million, dontcha think?
AI + ML21 Jun 2022 | 1
Top chip foundries grow amid electronics spending slowdown. Except Samsung
Chaebol hit by lower demand for smartphones and TVs plus 4nm yield issues
Personal Tech21 Jun 2022 |
AMD to end Threadripper Pro 5000 drought for non-Lenovo PCs
As the House of Zen kills off consumer-friendly non-Pro TR chips
Personal Tech20 Jun 2022 | 18
DRAM prices to drop 3-8% due to Ukraine war, inflation
Wait, we’ll explain
On-Prem20 Jun 2022 | 10
Nvidia wants to lure you to the Arm side with fresh server bait
Interview GPU giant promises big advancements with Arm-based Grace CPU, says the software is ready
Systems17 Jun 2022 | 10
McKinsey thinks quantum computing could create $80b in revenue ... eventually
Figure is 'value at stake' but 'not the actual value' which itself is a quantum statement
Science16 Jun 2022 | 4
US to help Japan make leading-edge 2nm chips, possibly by 2025
Player Four has entered the game
Systems15 Jun 2022 | 8
Big Tech begs Congress to pass $52bn chip subsidies bill
This silicon business ain't cheap, you know, say execs at Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia etc
Systems15 Jun 2022 | 24
GlobalFoundries, STMicroelectronics said to mull French fab
For what purpose, as 'energy efficient chips with advanced technology' really doesn't quite narrow it down?
Systems15 Jun 2022 | 3
Who's growing faster than Nvidia and AMD? Rising datacenter star Marvell
Of the top 10 fabless chip designers, the Big M soared in Q1 thanks to switch ASICs
Systems14 Jun 2022 | 3
Chipmakers to spend record $109b on fab machines this year
Factories hope to buy their way out of shortages – with Taiwan leading the pack
Systems13 Jun 2022 | 8
AMD’s AI strategy comes into view with Xilinx, GPU, software plans
Analysis Chip designer hopes to have broad inference and training coverage from the edge to the cloud
Systems13 Jun 2022 | 2
Intel details advances to make upcoming chips faster, less costly
X86 giant says it’s on track to regaining manufacturing leadership after years of missteps
Systems13 Jun 2022 | 31
Apple’s M2 chip isn’t a slam dunk, but it does point to the future
Analysis The chip’s GPU and neural engine could overshadow Apple’s concession on CPU performance
Systems10 Jun 2022 | 49
AMD touts big datacenter, AI ambitions in CPU-GPU roadmap
Epyc future ahead, along with Instinct, Ryzen, Radeon and custom chip push
On-Prem10 Jun 2022 | 2
Semiconductor industry growth to slow in 2022, warns IDC
Chip price hikes keeping sector healthy but new fabs could lead to 'overcapacity'
Systems09 Jun 2022 | 5
Intel says Sapphire Rapids CPU delay will help AMD catch up
Our window to have leading server chips again is narrowing, exec admits
Systems08 Jun 2022 | 6
Intel to get $7.3b for Germany fab site as TSMC dismisses Europe plans
x86 giant giddy about making chips on the continent, its foundry rival not so much
On-Prem08 Jun 2022 | 11
Nvidia taps Intel’s Sapphire Rapids CPU for Hopper-powered DGX H100
A win against AMD as a much bigger war over AI compute plays out
AI + ML07 Jun 2022 |
Taiwan bans exports of chips faster than 25MHz to Russia, Belarus
Doom it is, then, Putin
Systems06 Jun 2022 | 133
Ampere: Cloud biz buy-ins prove our Arm server CPUs are the real deal
Interview Startup teases 128+ core chip, disses Xeon and Epyc, unsurprisingly
Systems04 Jun 2022 | 8
Taiwan claims ‘breakthrough’ in EU semiconductor cooperation talks
The hope is for Taiwan’s chipmakers to build new plants in Europe as tensions brew with China
Systems02 Jun 2022 | 16
AMD nearly doubles Top500 supercomputer hardware share
Analysis Intel loses out as Instinct GPUs power the world’s fastest big-iron system
HPC01 Jun 2022 | 7
Intel’s Falcon Shores XPU to mix ‘n’ match CPUs, GPUs within processor package
x86 giant now has an HPC roadmap, which includes successor to Ponte Vecchio
Systems31 May 2022 | 1
Despite global uncertainty, $500m hit doesn't rattle Nvidia execs
CEO acknowledges impact of war, pandemic but says fundamentals ‘are really good’
Systems27 May 2022 | 1
How Intel can use its Granulate acquisition to maintain cloud footprint
Analysis Software-tuning suite could be used to show where and how Xeon trumps rivals, if customers can believe it
Applications25 May 2022 | 1
Nvidia brings liquid cooling to A100 PCIe GPU cards for ‘greener’ datacenters
Computex For those who want to give their racks an air cut
Systems24 May 2022 | 14
Mysterious firm seeks to buy majority stake in Arm China
Chinese joint venture's ousted CEO tries to hang on - who will get control?
Legal20 May 2022 | 14
Export bans prompt Russia to use Chinese x86 CPU replacement
With few options, Russia will look to half-fast chips from Chinese maker
Systems19 May 2022 | 87
Will this be one of the world's first RISC-V laptops?
Pic A sneak peek at a notebook that could be revealed this year
Personal Tech18 May 2022 | 55
The ‘substantial contributions’ Intel has promised to boost RISC-V adoption
Analysis With the benefit of maybe revitalizing the x86 giant’s foundry business
Systems17 May 2022 | 14
AMD claims its GPUs beat Nvidia on performance per dollar
* Terms, conditions, hardware specs and software may vary – a lot
Personal Tech17 May 2022 | 8
Meta hires network chip guru from Intel: What does this mean for future silicon?
Analysis Why be a customer when you can develop your own custom semiconductors
Networks16 May 2022 | 1
TSMC, Samsung plan price hikes for chip designers – reports
Nvidia, AMD, Apple et al may be forced to pass cost on to customers
Systems13 May 2022 | 6
Arm says microcontroller price hikes helped fuel sales
As well as chip design licensing, 5G smartphones, cars ... who needs Nvi-whatchamacallit?
Systems13 May 2022 | 7
AMD approaches '30%' x86 CPU market share, thanks to servers 'n' laptops
Guess you could call this Mercury Ryzen
Systems13 May 2022 | 17
How Intel and AMD hope to win the cloud security game
Analysis Team Xeon reveals 'Trust-as-a-Service' while Google Cloud details deeper ties with Team Zen
PaaS + IaaS12 May 2022 | 5
GlobalFoundries’ chipmaking machine unfazed by global disruptions
Records for revenue, gross margin in Q1 as others take a hit
Systems11 May 2022 | 4
Intel blames software, COVID lockdowns for Arc GPU delays
Intel Vision And China to get first dibs when graphics chips do ship
Personal Tech11 May 2022 | 3
Intel puts ‘desktop-caliber’ CPUs in laptops with 12th-gen Core HX
Intel Vision And puts the usual claims of world-beating performance in its marketing
Personal Tech10 May 2022 | 7
Intel's Habana unit reveals new Nvidia A100 challengers
Intel Vision Gaudi 2, Greco AI chips, plus more details on Arctic Sound-M server GPUs
Systems10 May 2022 |
RISC-V CEO seeks 'world domination' by winning over the likes of Intel
Interview We speak to the head of ISA's governing body on industry adoption, timelines, and more
Systems07 May 2022 | 40
Revealed: Intel's plan to sell software simplifying computer vision training
Exclusive Sonoma Creek to target non-AI experts, according to docs seen by El Reg
AI + ML06 May 2022 | 1
Nvidia pays $5.5m to settle SEC charges of shoddy cryptomining disclosures
GPU giant accused of obscuring its impact on gaming segment in 2017
Legal06 May 2022 | 1
AMD to offer CPUs with Xilinx AI engine in 2023
And unlike Intel, Zen giant saw boom in PC land, thanks to focus on high-end parts
AI + ML04 May 2022 |
Intel acquires graphics tech biz founded by ex-AMD, Qualcomm engineers
Demoscene-steeped Siru is on not its Second but, what, Third or Fourth Reality, now?
Personal Tech03 May 2022 | 5
