Headhunting

Rohit Verma, an AMD veteran SoC architect, has jumped ship to Intel.

We have got two animals but this might take longer than 40 days and nights 

Raja Koduri, Intel’s SVP and GM of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) Group delivered an update on the state of Intel’s first generation of Arc graphics and it looks like that it will be a long time before we see anything.

Stable until 2025

Intel expects its profit margin to drop this year and then be steady for several years as it invests in new technologies and factories to meet rising chip demand.

$5.4 billion

Chipzilla has written a $5.4 billion cheque for Tower Semiconductor – a foundry for analogue semiconductor solutions.

Background tasks and light workloads can be run on the E-cores

The Linux 5.18 kernel is adding support this spring for the Intel Hardware Feedback Interface to make better decisions about where to place given work among available CPU cores/threads.

Leak suggests that Nvidia’s Nemesis will be the middle of the year

Intel’s Arc Alchemist graphics cards was expected to launch in early 2022, and give Nvidia’s higher-end desktop GPUs a run for their money, but leaks are suggesting that they will be a bit later.

Starts a $1 billion fund

Chipzilla has announced a new $1 billion fund on February 7 to build a foundry innovation ecosystem and will collaborate with several RISC-V standard IC design firms.

Gelsinger appears to be viewing the world through rose-coloured glasses

Changes at Intel are not wowing asset management outfit O'Keefe Stevens Advisory which accused Kicking Pat Gelsinger of seeing the world through rose-coloured glasses.

Thwarts take over while promises to spend cash

Germany appears to be sending mixed messages about its technology strategy after promising cash while thwarting a local take over.

Intel cleans its old partner’s clock

Fruity Cargo Cult Apple made a big thing of the fact that it was replacing Intel Chips with its own technology.