Sierra Forest with 288 cores hits the stage
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Dual socket 576 E-cores

Intel surprised the audience at the Innovation 2023 event, showing a new Sierra Forest data center processor with a twist. Intel has previously announced that the Sierra Forest has up to 144 Efficiency cores. Still, Gelsinger surprised the audience by showing the two tiles on the same package, resulting in a 288-core CPU.

Ryan Shrout says goodbye to Intel
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Ex PC Perspective leaves after almost five years

Ryan Shrout, ex. PC Perspective hack has announced its departure from Intel, where he has changed quite a few roles since 2018.

Intel confirms Meteor Lake desktop CPUs for next year
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Kills those Meteor Lake-S cancellation rumors

While earlier rumors suggested that Intel might have canceled its Meteor Lake-S, it appears these CPUs will indeed launch, but sometime next year.

Lunar Lake on Intel 20A shown on the stage
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Lunar Lake Intel 20A consumer processor, expected to launch next year, made a surprise appearance as a part of Pat Gelsinger´s keynote. The demo showed silicon in good shape running the Windows operating system and the AI application.

Meteor Lake secret sauce are the island cores
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Game-changing battery life

Intel’s CEO Pat Galsinger just announced Meteor Lake, and the company believes that this is a disruptive product. One specific feature made me a believer, as at Intel Technology Tour Malaysia, Tim Wilson, vice president of Intel’s Design Engineering Group and general manager of SoC Design, detailed the architecture behind Meteor Lake mobile processors, which will deliver game-changing performance and power efficiency for the PC industry when launched later this year.

Chipzilla flogs a slice of IMS Nanofabrication business to TSMC
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Keeps control

Intel has agreed to sell a stake of about ten per cent in the IMS Nanofabrication business to TSMC.

FinalWire releases AIDA64 v6.92 diagnostic and benchmarking tool
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Brings improved support for AMD Zen 5 CPUs, among other things

FinalWire has released its latest version of AIDA64 diagnostic and benchmarking software, the AIDA64 v6.92. The new version brings improved support for current and upcoming CPUs and GPUs as well as fixes and optimizes some other things.

Intel's Arc can't handle Starfield
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Might manage Chrysalis

Bethesda's customer service has been told that Intel's Arc A770 GPU does not satisfy the minimum specifications for Starfield, which call for an AMD Radeon RX 5700 or pr Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti.

Intel announces Intel Innovation 2023 event
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On September 19-20

Intel has announced its next Intel Innovation 2023 event that will be held at San Jose McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, California on September 19-20.

Intel latest Arc Graphics driver brings Starfield optimizations
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Intel Arc GPU Graphics 101.4672 Beta

Although a bit late to the party, Intel has now released the new Arc Graphics 101.4672 Beta driver which brings much-needed optimizations for Bethesda's Starfield game.