Intel
In what is to be the last of Intel's processor families to use the well-established Core i9, i7, i5, and i3 naming scheme, Intel has released its 14th Generation Core series of desktop processors, aptly codenamed Raptor Lake Refresh (RPL-R). Building upon the already laid foundations of the 13th Gen Core series family, Intel has announced a variety of overclockable K and KF (no iGPU) SKUs, including the flagship Core i9-14900K, the reconfigured Core i7-14700K, and the cheaper, yet capable Core i5-14600K. The new flagship model for Intel's client desktop products is the Core i9-14900K, which looks to build upon the Core i9-13900K, although it's more comparable to the special edition Core i9-13900KS. Not only are the Core i9-14900K and Core i9-13900KS similar in specifications...
ASML to Deliver First High-NA EUV Tool This Year
In a promising sign for the development of the next generation of EUV lithography machines, ASML has revealed that the company is set to deliver the industry's first High-NA...
7 by Anton Shilov on 9/6/2023Intel Foundry Services to Make 65nm Chips for Tower Semiconductor
In quite an unexpected turn of events, Intel on Tuesday announced that its foundry division would produce chips for contract chip maker Tower Semiconductor. Tower was a previous acquisition...
9 by Anton Shilov on 9/5/2023GIGABYTE Z790 Aorus Xtreme Motherboard Review: Flagship Z790 With Impressive VRM Thermals
Over the years, motherboard manufacturers have consistently pushed the limits on top-end motherboards with striking designs and PCBs filled to the brim with the latest controllers and feature sets...
20 by Gavin Bonshor on 9/5/2023ASUS Takes Over Intel NUC Brand, Begins the Next Era for the Next Unit of Computing
As of September 1, ASUS has officially taken over Intel's NUC brand and product range. Per the companies' previously announced agreement, ASUS has become the de facto heir to...
12 by Anton Shilov on 9/5/2023Hot Chips 2023: Intel Details More on Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest Xeons
With the annual Hot Chips conference taking place this week, many of the industry’s biggest chip design firms are at the show, talking about their latest and/or upcoming wares...
19 by Ryan Smith on 8/28/2023Intel Cuts Some R&D Positions in California to Reduce Costs
As Intel continues to refocus on its core competencies, the company has been no stranger to shedding business units and jobs in the process. And while the roughly 132,000...
12 by Anton Shilov on 8/18/2023Intel Calls Off Tower Acquisition, Forced to Focus Solely on Leading-Edge Nodes
Intel Corp. will not proceed with its $5.4 billion deal to acquire Tower Semiconductor foundry due to a lack of regulatory approval from China, the two companies announced on...
17 by Anton Shilov on 8/17/2023Intel and Synopsys Ink Deal to Develop IP for Intel's 3 and 18A Nodes
Intel and Synopsys this week signed an agreement under which Synopsys will develop a portfolio of various IP offerings for Intel 3 and 18A fabrication technologies for Intel Foundry...
1 by Anton Shilov on 8/15/2023Intel Plans Massive Expansion in Oregon: D1X and D1A to Be Upgraded
Intel has filed a permit application that outlines significant expansion plans for its campus near Hillsboro, Oregon. According to filings submitted to state regulators, the tech giant's ambitious proposals...
4 by Anton Shilov on 8/2/2023Intel Quietly Launches New Arc GPUs for Laptops
Intel has quietly released two new Arc Alchemist-series graphics processors for laptops. The new Arc A530M and Arc A570M target mid-range notebooks designed for light gaming. Perhaps the most...
3 by Anton Shilov on 8/2/2023ASRock Z790 Taichi Carrara Motherboard Review: ASRock Rocks With White Marble
Building on the success of their hybrid architecture Alder Lake (12th Gen) Core series chips, Intel last year released the upgraded Raptor Lake core with a similar core architecture...
13 by Gavin Bonshor on 8/2/2023TACC's Stampede3 Supercomputer Uses Intel's Xeon Max with HBM2E and Ponte Vecchio
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) unveiled its latest Stampede supercomputer for open science research projects, Stampede3. TACC anticipates that Stampede3 will come online this fall and will deliver...
5 by Anton Shilov on 7/25/2023Ultra Ethernet Consortium Formed, Plans to Adapt Ethernet for AI and HPC Needs
This week the Linux Foundation has announced that the group will be overseeing the formation of a new Ethernet consortium, with a focus on adapting and refining the technology...
7 by Anton Shilov on 7/21/2023ASUS Signs Agreement to Continue Development and Support of Intel's NUC Business
ASUS and Intel late on Tuesday announced that they had agreed to a term sheet involving Intel's NUC business, ensuring the continued support of existing NUC hardware as well...
6 by Ganesh T S & Anton Shilov on 7/19/2023ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-1360P/D5 Review: Raptor Lake-P on the Leading Edge
ASRock Industrial has been a key player in the ultra-compact form-factor PC space over the last few years. They have managed to release 4"x4" systems based on the latest...
21 by Ganesh T S on 7/18/2023Intel Foundry Services Readies Intel 16 Process: Low Power FinFET For Everyday Chips
Intel Foundry Services (IFS) this week soft-launched their new Intel 16 process technology, a 16nm-class node that will be used for the production of low-power chips for everyday workloads...
3 by Anton Shilov on 7/14/2023ASRock Announces Taichi Lite Motherboards: Same Specs, Less RGB
Last month at Computex, ASRock unveiled two new Taichi-inspired motherboards based on a 'lite' approach to aesthetics and design, which they called Taichi Lite. Today, ASRock has officially announced...
11 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/13/2023Intel Set to Exit NUC PC Business - Pushes Partners to Develop More SFF PCs
Intel has disclosed today that it will halt further development of its small form factor Next Unit of Compute (NUC) PCs. The tech giant expects its partners to take...
39 by Anton Shilov on 7/11/2023ASRock Goes Low-Profile with New Arc A380 Graphics Card
As Intel's slate of video card board partners has expanded over the last year, so has the variety in the ecosystem, as the newly minted partners set out to...
18 by Anton Shilov on 7/5/2023The Aurora Supercomputer Is Installed: 2 ExaFLOPS, Tens of Thousands of CPUs and GPUs
Argonne National Laboratory and Intel said on Thursday that they had installed all 10,624 blades for the Aurora supercomputer, a machine announced back in 2015 with a particularly bumpy...
39 by Anton Shilov on 6/22/2023