Tag: Processors

AI is embedded in Intel’s chipmaking process from ‘front end silicon design, back end, software development, all the way to manufacturing’

AI has its uses. While it’s tempting to think of AI in terms of chatbots, image -generators and perhaps the thing that might end us all if we’re not careful, major tech companies have been busy implementing AI and machine learning optimisation into multiple aspects of their business, in a quest to integrate what used […]

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Intel investigating CPU instability issues after South Korean Tekken 8 players kick up a fuss: ‘Intel is aware of problems that occur when executing certain tasks’

Earlier this year, we reported that a division of Epic Games was claiming that the increasing number of crashes in games using Unreal Engine was down to Intel’s high-end CPUs. The issue has spread further afield, with South Korean players of Tekken 8, developed on Unreal Engine 5, experiencing exactly the same problem and along […]

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President Biden says he’ll hand $6.6 billion to world’s largest chipmaker to stick around and expand in Arizona

President Biden has signed a preliminary deal with TSMC, the world’s largest chip manufacturer, to hand the Taiwanese company billions of dollars of CHIPS funding. In return, TSMC will commit to building high-performance computer chips on US soil, including a brand new third fab facility expected to use the latest lithographic technologies for the most […]

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The launch of AMD’s Zen 5 processors is close, as motherboard manufacturers begin rolling out BIOSes supporting the next-gen chips

The launch of AMD’s Zen 5 based Granite Ridge family of processors is clearly drawing near. Asus has begun the process of rolling out support for the next-gen chips to its latest enthusiast tier X670E motherboards. The public release of supporting BIOSes indicates the chips could be released at basically any time. The eagle-eyed hardware […]

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Intel’s chip foundry keeps losing billions of dollars but CEO Gelsinger says this is it, this year is ‘the trough’

As part of Intel’s internal reshuffling, separating its chip-making facilities into Intel Foundry and everything else as Intel Products, the company filed a Form 8-K with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. In this document, the full picture of how well the foundry service was performing became clear and with operating losses of $7 […]

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