Jim Keller did his Intel job, moves out
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Four leaders continue his work

A lot of people were surprised to learn that Jim Keller decided to leave Intel for personal reasons. We were less surprised than the rest of his colleagues, just based on Jim’s track record as we believe that Keller went and did what he was hired to do, and left. 

Intel talks Lakefield CPUs with Intel Hybrid CPU Technology
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Foveros 3D stacking with Hybrid CPU for 4+1 CPU and up to 64 EUs GPU

We have been hearing about Intel's Lakefield CPUs for quite some time, and these combine one big with four small CPU cores on a small footprint, thanks to the 3D stacking Foveros technology. Now, Intel disclosed a bit more information, including two SKUs, aimed at ultra-mobile small form-factor premium laptops.

Apple about to abandon Intel
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Will make its own chips instead

Fruity cargo-cult Apple is nearly ready to dump Intel and use its own chips in its Macs.

Another security bug found in Intel chips
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CrossTalk attack

Dutch boffins have found another flaw in Intel processors which enables attacker-controlled code executing on one CPU core to leak sensitive data from other software running on a different core.

Swan advises to stop looking at benchmarks
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Intel is the best you just have to take our word for it

We were looking through the transcripts of last week’s Computex and noticed that Intel CEO Bob Swan made a surprising comment about benchmarking.

Russian CPU is still behind AMD and Intel
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Turns out the Russian's aren't coming yet

Rostec, which is a Russian giant conglomerate has a chip project called Elbrus, an indigenous CPU family that has its roots in the 1970s and according to Tech Radar , a new model has surfaced: the Elbrus 8CB.

Intel culls eighth generation Coffee Lake
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Coffee Lake-based Xeons are still with us

Chipzilla has issued a product change notice (PCN) confirming the discontinuation of its 8th-generation Core desktop processor family up to the flagship Intel Core i7-9700K, along with Pentium Gold and Celeron processors based on the 14nm Coffee Lake silicon.

Gamers starting to abandon Intel for AMD
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Give me Steam

Number crunchers working for the Steam gaming platform have noticed that punters are slowly giving up the Intel chip based machines for something more AMDish.

AMD and Nvidia have little to fear from Intel's DG1
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No great shakes after all

Intel's crack at a discrete GPU Xe DG1 graphics card has been spotted in a 3DMark benchmark and scored 5,538 in 3DMark’s Fire Strike test (paired with an Intel Core i9-9900K processor) and hit a graphics score of 5,960.

Intel notes PC back from the dead
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2020 will be the year of Windows on the desktop

Intel's global vice president of client computing sales, Steve Long, is telling the world that he is optimistic about the future of the PC market.