Intel

Innovation and competition in global semiconductor fabrication For a half-century after the invention of the integrated circuit at Texas Instruments (TI) and Fairchild Semiconductor in the late 1950s, the United States was a leader in global semiconductor fabrication. Until 1991, … Read more

News of a fresh Spectre BHB vulnerability that only impacts Intel and Arm processors emerged this week, but Intel’s research around these new attack vectors unearthed another issue: One of the patches that AMD has used to fix the Spectre … Read more

Just over a month ago Intel pulled the trigger on the rest of its 12th generation “Alder Lake” Core desktop processors, adding no fewer than 22 new chips. This significantly fleshed out the Alder Lake family, adding in the mid-range … Read more

Just in case we needed any more reassurance we made the right move with OpenPOWER: Phoronix is reporting that Intel is about to get even more restrictive with firmware. For as much flak as Intel (deservedly) takes over the Intel … Read more

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 21 (Reuters) – Intel Corp said on Friday it would invest up to $100 billion to build potentially the world’s largest chip-making complex in Ohio, as it looks to boost capacity amid a global shortage of semiconductors … Read more

Intel’s earnings are not until next Wednesday, but whatever it is that CEO Pat Gelsinger plans to discuss, it seems to me the real news about Intel came from the earnings of another company: TSMC. From the Wall Street Journal: … Read more

Intel is now set to disable “AVX-512” completely on all Alder Lake CPUs with an upcoming microcode update in new BIOS releases. Mainboard manufacturers were able to make the supposedly disabled instruction set available at launch, which resulted in a … Read more