Intel calls it a Knight on “HPC chip of the future"
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It’s been a hard days knight

Chipzilla has withdrawn support for its Xeon Phi Knights Mill and Knights Landing accelerators from the LLVM/Clang 19 compiler as a sign that its MIC architecture is toast.

Chipzilla releases IPU E2100 DPU
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Thursday, 23 May 2024 12:18

Chipzilla releases IPU E2100 DPU


Mt Evans has been a long time in the making

Chipzilla has finally released its IPU E2100 DPU for the mass market. 

Lunar Lake officially in Q3 24
Published in AI
Tuesday, 21 May 2024 18:41

Lunar Lake officially in Q3 24


80 laptops, 20 OEM and 45+ TOPS NPU, fastest ever

Intel announced a bit more details about the next-generation notebook technology SoC codenamed Lunar Lake and synced it up with Microsoft’s Copilot+ announcement. Lunar Lake has new P and E cores, 1.5 times faster Battlemage graphics, 45+ TOPS NPU and an additional 60 TOPS from the GPU, advanced low power, and most importantly performance faster than Ryzen 7 8840U & Snapdragon X Elite. 

Chipzilla confirms Falcon Shore's AI processor needs 1500W
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Nvidia's only needs 1200W

Intel has let slip that its soon-to-drop Falcon Shores AI processor, a nifty hybrid chip that marries x86 and Xe GPU cores, is set to be a proper guzzler, chugging down a hefty 1500 watts (W) of juice -- a fair bit thirstier than Nvidia’s B200, which only sips up to 1200W. 

Chipzilla releases Thunderbolt Share
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Thursday, 16 May 2024 10:51

Chipzilla releases Thunderbolt Share


Screen and file sharing between PCs

Intel has unveiled the Thunderbolt Share software, which is crafted to provide a straightforward, swift, and effective method for sharing screen and files between two PCs.

AMD chipping away at Chipzilla's market share
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New research proves it

Mercury Research boffins have been adding up some numbers provided by AMD and concluded that Team Red is chipping away at Intel’s market share.

Intel rolls out new Arc 101.5518 Beta GPU driver
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One to have for Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut and Homeworld 3

Intel has released the new Arc 101.5518 Beta GPU driver with optimizations for two new big games, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut and Homeworld 3.

Intel plans huge plant in Ireland
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Tuesday, 14 May 2024 11:33

Intel plans huge plant in Ireland


Not sure it will go through at all, at all

Chipzilla is in advanced talks for a deal with Apollo Global Management in which the equity firm would provide more than $11 billion to build a facility in Ireland.

Intel faces more ghosting from Spectre
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Call in more Ghostbusters

Top boffins from several universities have discovered a new Spectre-like method of extracting secrets from Chipzilla’s latest processors.

Chipzilla's Lunar Lake shows built-in graphics getting better
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Discrete graphics might become even more discrete

New leaks into the graphics power of Chipzilla’s Xe2 Battlemage architecture on Lunar Lake indicate that onboard GPUs are about to get a whole lot beefier, ready to smash out some serious frame rates.