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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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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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New Intel CTO Greg Lavender Talks ‘Developer Reboot,’ Making ‘More Sophisticated Software’
by Dylan Martin
In an exclusive interview with CRN, new Intel CTO Greg Lavender talks about the company’s ‘developer reboot,’ which includes an unprecedented persuasion campaign for independent software developers, and building ‘more sophisticated software’ to create new business opportunities for partners.
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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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Pat Gelsinger: Intel Will Be ‘More Ecosystem-Friendly’ Than Nvidia
by Dylan Martin
In his exclusive interview with CRN, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger talks about how Intel’s recent reorganization will give more attention to Intel’s “under-focused” graphics and network businesses, how Intel plans to win market share from Nvidia and why Intel is looking at building new paid software services and purpose-built systems in the future.
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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’s Gelsinger: AMD’s Lead ‘Over’ With New Alder Lake, Sapphire Rapids CPUs
by Dylan Martin
In an exclusive interview with CRN, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger talks about how the upcoming Alder Lake and Sapphire Rapids CPUs will put the heat on AMD, his view of Arm’s emergence in the data center and the importance of channel partners to Intel’s future.
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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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5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
by Rick Whiting
For the week ending Sept. 10, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.
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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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‘Watch Out’ Intel: Google To Launch Custom Chromebook CPUs
by Mark Haranas
Google is reportedly developing its own CPUs for its Chromebook laptops and tablets, joining the likes of Microsoft and Apple who are building chips in-house.
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