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Pat Gelsinger’s Tech Background Key To Intel’s Rebound: Partners
by Dylan Martin
Intel partners tell CRN they are optimistic about how Pat Gelsinger’s deep experience in software and hardware could help Intel fight against competitors like AMD. ‘I think every successful Intel CEO has been an engineer,’ one says.
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Intel CEO Bob Swan To Be Replaced By VMware’s Pat Gelsinger
by Mark Haranas
VMware’s chief executive of nearly nine years is set to become the semiconductor giant’s eighth CEO in the company’s 52-year history.
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AMD Counters Intel’s Tiger Lake With Ryzen 5000 Laptop CPUs
by Dylan Martin
‘The AMD Ryzen 5000 series are the best processors in the world for thin and light notebooks, whether you‘re running general office productivity applications or more CPU-intensive tasks like video rendering, photo editing or 3D design,’ CEO Lisa Su says in her CES 2021 keynote.
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Intel Brings Tiger Lake CPUs To Pro Laptops With 11th-Gen vPro
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker is bringing new levels of security, graphics and AI capabilities to business laptops with the launch of the 11th-generation Intel Core vPro processors, which will support the new Intel Evo vPro brand for premium designs.
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Intel Starts Shipping Ice Lake Xeon CPUs, Promises More Cores
by Dylan Martin
The news come after the company delayed production shipments of the processors from last year, giving a head start to AMD, which was on track to begin volume shipments for its third-generation EPYC processors by the end of 2020.
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Intel May Outsource Production Of Some Top Chips To Samsung, TSMC: Report
by Dylan Martin
The reported discussions with TSMC and Samsung are happening as Intel faces pressure from hedge fund Third Point to explore strategic options, including potentially selling off ‘failed acquisitions’ and even the company’s manufacturing operations.
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AI Chip Startup Tenstorrent Hires Chip Design Legend Jim Keller
by Dylan Martin
‘Jim Keller is one of the most respected processor architects in the industry. He‘s been responsible for the turnaround efforts at AMD twice,’ says a hardware architect at an AI system provider who has been impressed with Tenstorrent’s Grayskull processor.
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Hedge Fund Urges Intel To Explore Going Fabless, Selling ‘Failed Acquisitions’
by Dylan Martin
‘Without immediate change at Intel, we fear that America’s access to leading-edge semiconductor supply will erode,’ Third Point founder Daniel Loeb said in a letter to the chipmaker’s board, calling for Intel to explore whether it ‘should remain an integrated device manufacturer.’
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Intel, Nvidia Swept Up In SolarWinds Attack: WSJ
by Dylan Martin
The chipmakers say they are investigating the impact of downloading a software update containing malicious code for SolarWinds Orion — the trigger that has left many SolarWinds customers vulnerable — though there is no evidence of any negative impact.
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Intel Makes Case For Optane’s Future As NAND Biz Splits Off
by Dylan Martin
‘NAND needs greater scale to go after the world‘s insatiable appetite for more data, and Optane needs platform-connected solutions to focus on faster insights on that data,’ Intel’s Rob Crooke says, explaining the rationale for selling the NAND business and keeping the Optane memory technology.
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Microsoft Is Working On Arm-Based Chips For Azure, Surface PCs: Report
by Dylan Martin
Arm has been making a bigger push into the data center over the past few years with its Neoverse CPU platform. In September, the company said its V1 and N2 core designs significantly outperform CPUs made by Intel and AMD while also having high energy efficiency.
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Intel Reveals Visual Sensing Controller Chip For Smarter Laptops
by Dylan Martin
The company calls the Visual Sensing Controller a ‘secure companion chip that helps make PCs more smart and secure through the power of Intel artificial intelligence.’ For example, it could be used to detect the presence of a user and automatically adjust the brightness of the screen.
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COLUMN: Can Intel Regain The Dominance It Once Enjoyed?
by Robert Faletra
The Channel Company’s Executive Chairman Robert Faletra wonders if Intel, still an incredible company with world-class products, can remain the biggest player in an increasingly-crowded semiconductor market.
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U.S. Lawmakers Query Intel, Nvidia On Chips Used By China Against Uighurs
by Dylan Martin
The chipmakers say they were unaware their products would be used for mass surveillance purposes by the Chinese government against Uighur Muslims — a group that has been allegedly subject to torture and abuse by the country, according to the U.S. State Department.
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