Chipzilla hits back at Torvalds AVX-512 coments
Published in PC Hardware


It is not nice to say “I hope it dies a painful death”

Intel has replied to  Linus Torvalds comments that he hoped “AVX512 dies a painful death" and “Intel starts fixing real problems instead of trying to create magic instructions to then create benchmarks that they can look good on"'

Intel losing the iPhone contract was the beginning of the end
Published in Mobiles

 
According to Michael Bruck

Former chief of staff to Intel CEO Andrew Grove - and later general manager of Intel China-  has been telling the world plus dog how Intel’s fall from grace can be traced back to a butterfly flapping its wings 15 years ago.

Intel and Accenture working on cheaper robot arm project
Published in News


Getting the parts cost down with a neural net

Intel and Accenture announced they are supporting an Intel Neuromorphic Research Community (INRC) project to develop a wheelchair-mounted robotic arm to assist pediatric patients with spinal injuries.

Intel shows PetaFLOPs Scale Xe HP GPU at HotChips
Published in Graphics


4-tile version of the Xe HP GPU

Holding a talk at HotChips 32, Raja Koduri showed a 4-tile Xe HP GPU, the biggest one in the lot, as well as talk about the scalability of the chip.

Intel reveals more Tiger Lake SoC details
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Friday, 14 August 2020 22:09

Intel reveals more Tiger Lake SoC details


10nm SuperFin, Willow Cove CPU, Xe LP GPU and more

During its Architecture Day 2020, Intel had a lot to show, but a big part of it was the upcoming 11th gen Core Tiger Lake SoC which will launch for notebooks this year.

GPU Xe LP die size with 96 EU similar to Ice Lake
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Intel senior graphics fellow confirms

One of the great advantages of taking part at the virtual architecture day at Intel is the chance to chat with the speakers and learn a tad more. David Blythe, a senior fellow graphics architect behind the Xe LP design, as well as Gen 11 GPU, has shared a few interesting details about Xe LP.

Xe HPG is Intel’s high end for 2021
Published in Graphics
Friday, 14 August 2020 13:41

Xe HPG is Intel’s high end for 2021


Hardware Ray tracing

Xe LP is a 96 EU GPU inside of Tiger Lake, and it will be the first time Intel gets to decent clock speeds at least at 1.7GHz in the notebook form factor. It is a new architecture that is the part for DG1 and SG1 desktop and server cards. Now Raja Koduri, Intel’s chief architect, announced Xe HPG high-end card for 2021.

Raja Koduri confirms Alder Lake
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Friday, 14 August 2020 12:55

Raja Koduri confirms Alder Lake


Performance Hybrid with big and small cores

Intel showed a Lakefield prototype CPU at the Architecture Day on December 12, 2018, and it was a unique part. It had one big core-based CPU and four smaller Tremont 10nm cores on a special package codenamed Foveros. At the architecture day 2020, Raja Koduri confirmed the existence of performance hybrid codenamed Alder Lake.

Intel Technology Day - all announcements made
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SuperFin 10nm, high-end Xe graphics, new Core, Tiger lake, and more.

Technology Day online can work, and it did work well for Intel. Intel engineering team lead by Chief Architect Raja Koduri and Intel fellows have shown us an incredible amount of news wrapped around six pillars of technology innovation.

Intel sued by shareholders over 7nm delays
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 11 August 2020 11:53

Intel sued by shareholders over 7nm delays


Making promises that could not be kept

Chipzilla is in trouble with its shareholders over its delayed 7nm moves.