Jon Carvill is VP of marketing at Intel
Long term industry veteran rejoins Intel
The exact title of Jon Carvill's new venture is the VP of Marketing for Technology Leadership and he started this job after leaving Facebook as the Director of Technology Communications. Jon is just destined to work in the chip industry, he just knows and likes it too much.
Intel Comet Lake-S CPU may have 10 cores
Improving the decor
The dark satanic rumour mill suggests that Chipzilla preparing a 10-core mainstream desktop CPU.
Latest Spectre patches bring big performance hits to Linux 4.20 kernel
From two to up to 35 percent in some tests
Spectre and Meltdown fixes have been slowly coming for most of this year, and according to results, the performance hit on Intel CPUs in the latest Linux 4.20 kernel can be over 30 percent.
Intel confirms its support for VESA Adaptive Sync
Says it has the widest impact and install base
After an initial report, Intel has now confirmed it will support Adaptive Sync, rather than focus on a proprietary solution.
Intel XMM 8160 5G silence XMM 8060
From 2G to 5G in 2H 2019
Intel has announced its XMM 8160 5G modem that supports all the "Gs" from 2G to 5G NR and it plans to ship the modem in 2H 2019 so expect it in phones and PCs in early 2020.
Intel announces new 5G XMM 8160 modem
Ahead of planned schedule
Intel has unveiled its latest XMM 8160 5G modem, which supports both the older standard but also brings 5G speeds with peak speeds of up to 6Gbps.
Intel’s new chip is comparable to AMD's
But overpriced
Intel’s new Core i9-9980XE is the fastest many-core desktop processor Intel has released to date but the 18-core Core i9-9980XE still trails AMD's 24 and 32-core Threadripper WX series processors in key areas and is overpriced.
Short supply of Intel chips causes problems in Taiwan
PC-related IC suppliers expect sales to fall due to Intel blunder
Taiwan-based PC-related IC suppliers are predicting their sales will fall due to a short supply of CPUs from Intel.
Intel spills the beans on Cascade Lake
Ahead of the annual Supercomputing 2018 conference
Chipzilla has announced part of its upcoming Cascade Lake strategy and teased plans for a new Xeon platform called Cascade Lake Advanced Performance, or Cascade Lake-AP.
Intel spends $2 billion a year on modems
Industry sources
Each year Intel invests some $2 billon to please one large modem customer - Apple - and the level of investment will likely increase in the near 5G future.