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Intel, Nvidia, TSMC execs agree: Chip shortage could last into 2023
(credit: Intel) How many years will the ongoing chip shortage affect technology firms across the world? This week, multiple tech executives offered their own dismal estimates as part of their usual public financial disclosures, with the worst one coming in at “a couple of years.” That nasty estimate comes from Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, who […]
Microsoft makes the Surface Laptop 4 official, offers choice of AMD or Intel
Microsoft’s latest Surface PC: the Surface Laptop 4. [credit: Microsoft ] After recent leaks suggested an imminent arrival, Microsoft has officially launched the latest entry in its line of Surface PCs: the Surface Laptop 4. The new laptop starts at $999 and will be available to purchase in the US, Canada, and Japan as of […]
This is Intel’s plan to dominate driverless car technology
Enlarge / Udelv hasn’t announced details about its forthcoming Mobileye-powered delivery robots—such as who will help Udelv build them—but they are expected to look something like this. (credit: Udelv) I’ve written before that Mobileye, an Intel subsidiary since 2017, is among the most formidable and underrated players in the self-driving sector. The Israeli company is […]
Intel’s Ice Lake Xeon comes out swinging at AMD’s Epyc Milan
Enlarge / Thirty-six individual models of Ice Lake Xeon Scalable processor launch today, with immediate retail availability expected from major system vendors, including Supermicro, HPE, and Dell. (credit: Intel) Intel launched a new batch of third-generation Xeon server processors today. Significantly, these are Ice Lake processors—meaning Intel’s 10 nm process, not the increasingly outdated 14 […]
Intel 11th-generation Rocket Lake-S gaming CPUs did not impress us
Enlarge / Our test rig is a little more unlovely than usual, due to Asus’ decision to entomb the CPU socket in surrounding high-rise heatsinks, with the system’s RAM closing in just as tightly from the bottom. (Note the empty pair of DIMM slots.) (credit: Jim Salter) Today marks the start of retail availability for […]
Intel CEO plans to build two new CPU fabs in Arizona
Enlarge / The new fabrication plants will likely be somewhere near the company’s existing campus in Chandler, Arizona. (credit: Laura Segall/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger—a former chip designer who took the top slot from finance specialist Bob Swan this February—announced plans to expand Intel’s manufacturing muscle this week. Gelsinger wants to spend […]
TSMC: How a Taiwanese chipmaker became a linchpin of the global economy
Enlarge (credit: TSMC) When Li Ta-sen was a little boy, he used to walk to school through fields of sugarcane taller than himself. Some 40 years later, he is making a living by selling off the same fields as a property boom takes hold in his hometown of Shanhua. The reason for the construction frenzy […]
Intel’s new CEO wants to ‘bring back the geek’
Wall Street is applauding new Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger’s plans for the company, at least so far. Read More
Sunday’s Best Deals: Greenworks Outdoor Power Tools, Corsair Virtuoso Headset, 2-Pack 1080P Webcams, Kitchen Essentials, Garden Seat & Kneeler, and More
A sale on outdoor power tools and on a 40-pack of KN95 Masks lead Sunday’s best deals. Read more…