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Sapphire Rapids Signals Intel Has Found Its Bearings

Intel launched its 4th Gen Xeon processor, code-named Sapphire Rapids, today. This launch comes after some delay due to manufacturing issues, a change of leadership and other internal organization shifts. But IT consumers don’t much care about any of this—they care about quality, performance, fit for workloads, reliability and security. In that spirit, I will …

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Intel Announces New 13th Gen Mobile Processors At CES To Kick Off 2023

2022 was a big year for Intel. Although all its processors were not on the top of every stack in performance, it has made huge long-term progress in every product line. And we have to recognize still it still has commanding market share in PCs. The most notable PC product milestones for Intel in 2023 …

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AMD’s New Radeon RX 7900XTX And 7900XT Put The Pressure On NVIDIA

Up until this month, most people only knew AMD’s latest GPUs as Navi or RDNA 3, which are the codename and architecture upon which they are based upon. AMD announced the new Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT in Las Vegas in front of dozens of press and streamed the presentation to the public …

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Intel’s Journey From 100 Billion To 1 Trillion Transistors Was Painted At The IntelON 2022 Event

Last week, Intel held its annual Intel Innovation event, IntelON, where I was fortunate enough to attend in person and meet up with Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, for a conversation with industry analysts. Net-net, my conversations with each of the GMs and Gelsinger’s keynote have increased my confidence in the company and its future prospects.  …

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Intel Foundry Services Announces MediaTek As First Wafer Customer

It has been over a year since Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced Intel’s re-entry into the foundry business with Intel Foundry Services. Late last month, Intel announced that the company gained its first official wafer fabrication customer with MediaTek. Although other companies like Amazon and Qualcomm have signed up to use packaging and processing technology, MediaTek is …

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Intel’s Arc A370M Is Great For Creators On-The-Go

Intel recently released the first members of its new Arc family of GPUs, the A350M and A370M. Representing the mobile faction of the Arc lineup, these two GPUs will mostly be found in laptops. Intel has already scored design wins with ASUS, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, and others, which is not surprising given the strength of …

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