Enlarge (credit: Intel) Not to be outdone by the upcoming release of AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D , Intel is placing one more Alder Lake desktop CPU at the top of its 12th-generation Core desktop lineup. The Core i9-12900KS (the “S” is for “special edition”) is a 16-core, 24-thread chip (eight P-cores and eight E-cores) with […]
Enlarge (credit: ony Avelar/Bloomberg) Intel announced another string of investments yesterday, this time focused on shoring up its chipmaking efforts in Europe. The company has committed $36 billion so far, and if it completes all the projects it’s considering, it’ll spend nearly $88 billion across six countries. The centerpiece of the investment is a megafab in […]
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Enlarge / Intel’s Core i7-12700. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Intel’s K-series desktop CPUs always get the most attention from enthusiasts because they represent the best performance that new Intel processors are capable of when money, heat, and power are no object. But more people will end up using the cheaper, non-overclockable versions of these processors, whether […]
Enlarge / A sample chiplet design, with the CPU dies made with a more advanced manufacturing process and the chipset and some other functions made on older, cheaper processes. (credit: Universal Chipset Interconnect Express) Some of the CPU industry’s heaviest hitters—including Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Arm, TSMC, and Samsung—are banding together to define a new standard […]
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(credit: Andrew Cunningham) Intel has agreed to pay $5.4 billion to buy Tower Semiconductor, an Israeli foundry that focuses on specialty processes to make chips for imaging, power management, and wireless communications. The acquisition is Intel’s latest move to add capacity and customers to its new foundry division, which focuses on making chips for other […]
Enlarge (credit: ony Avelar/Bloomberg ) Many of Intel’s current woes can be traced to the fact that the company was left out of the iPhone. Whether Intel passed on the opportunity or couldn’t meet the spec is by now a moot point, but missing out on the particular smartphone revolution—and its billions of chips—played no […]
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