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Intel CFO George Davis To Retire In May 2022
by Dylan Martin
When Intel CFO George Davis departs next year, he will become Intel’s fourth most highly compensated executive from 2020 to leave the company since last year, underlining the major leadership changes experienced by the semiconductor giant since then.
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AMD Says New Patches Fix CPU Issues On Windows 11
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker says a new Windows 11 software update addresses an L3 cache latency issue that could reduce performance in certain applications and games while a separate AMD chipset driver package fixes thread scheduling issues that also impacted performance.
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Intel Ends Talks To Acquire Arm Rival SiFive — For Now: Report
by Dylan Martin
The talks fell apart as Intel seeks to regain technology leadership through its IDM 2.0 strategy and as rival Nvidia hopes to close its $40 billion acquisition of British chip designer Arm, the latter of which has sparked concerns about the future of Arm’s open-licensing model. Those concerns have helped raise the profile of SiFive, which provides processor designs using the open-source RISC-V architecture as an alternative.
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AMD Hires Tech Data Vet Marty Bauerlein To Lead VAR Business
by Dylan Martin
After hiring HPE channel veteran Terry Richardson in March, AMD is expanding its channel team further with the hiring of former Tech Data executive Marty Bauerlein as head of North America commercial VARs. Bauerlein tells CRN that he plans to expand AMD’s coverage model for VARs in the enterprise, midmarket and SMB segments, and partners say he will increase the chipmaker’s relevance in the channel.
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IBM CEO Arvind Krishna: Chip Shortage ‘More Likely’ Continuing Until 2023 Or 2024
by Kyle Alspach
Krishna said he sees any suggestion that a resolution could come by 2022 as ‘optimistic,’ and called upon the U.S. government to do more to support a larger return of semiconductor manufacturing to the country.
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‘Geographically Diversify Manufacturing’ To Solve Supply Chain Crisis: Analyst
by Michael Novinson
‘There’s no question we need to geographically diversify manufacturing. We absolutely have put too much dependence on Asia without having a more predictable macroeconomic and geopolitical relationship,’ says Daniel Newman of Futurum Research.
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Intel Hires Top AMD GPU Architect To Lead Xe IP Road Map
by Dylan Martin
Intel confirmed to CRN that former AMD GPU architect Vineet Goel joined Intel in late September as vice president and general manager of the Xe Architecture and IP Engineering Group, which is part of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group that was formed in June.
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AMD Warns CPUs May Run Slower On Windows 11, Promises Patch
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker says one issue for Windows 11 users is causing the L3 cache latency of its CPUs to roughly triple, slowing down latency-sensitive applications by 3-5 percent. For PC games that are commonly played for esports activities, the performance impact can be much worse: a 10-15 percent reduction.
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Intel Considering New Paid Software Services, CEO Gelsinger Says
by Dylan Martin
In an exclusive interview with CRN, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says the chipmaker is looking at new ways to bring in revenue through software, which would add on to existing paid software services like Intel Unite and Intel Data Center Manager. Greg Lavender, Intel’s new CTO who followed Gelsinger from VMware, says one potential avenue for paid software services is the telemetry capabilities of the company’s processors.
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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger: The Silicon Man With The Software Plan
by Dylan Martin
Pat Gelsinger’s eight-year stint leading VMware cemented his mantra that ‘the future is software.’ Now that he’s in the CEO seat at Intel, he’s determined to team with its large ecosystem of partners to prove that’s still true.
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AMD Hires Intel Data Center Vet To Grow EPYC’s Cloud Business
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker confirms to CRN that it has hired Lynn Comp, a 22-year Intel veteran, as corporate vice president of AMD’s Cloud Business Group. She will lead all go-to-market activities for cloud and ‘mega data center’ customers of the chipmaker’s EPYC CPUs, which are expected to power more than 400 cloud instances by the end of the year.
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Nvidia Shows Arm CPUs Run ‘Neck And Neck’ With x86 For AI
by Dylan Martin
‘First of all, it shows that Arm as an acceleration platform can deliver performance that is just about on par with similarly configured x86 server,’ an Nvidia representative says about new AI performance comparisons that were made based on peer-reviewed data. However, one partner says it will take a major performance advantage for his customers to switch from x86 to Arm: ‘Among our customers, there needs to be some large, clear selling point of why they need to change to a new architecture.’
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Intel’s New Xeon E-2300 CPUs Bring Rocket Lake To Entry-Level Servers
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker says the Xeon E-2300 CPUs are a good fit for on-premises servers used by small businesses and entry-level bare metal instances provided by cloud service providers. The new chips offer up to a 17 percent improvement in performance over the Xeon E-2200 processors that launched in 2019 and double the memory enclave capacity for Intel Software Guard Extensions, which isolates confidential data in private memory regions, according to Intel.
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