Intel lowers Kyrgyzstan’s electric bill with mining ASIC
Intel has declared its intent to contribute to the development of blockchain technologies, with a roadmap of energy-efficient accelerators.
Intel launches Project Circuit Breaker
Bizz, zap, boing, poof, pop, BANG! “I think we found the back door Chad.” “Cool, let’s go.” All complex (non-biological) systems have them. A secret way to get inside and fix things. But once inside, things can be fixed for good or evil depending upon one’s morals and self-respect. The trick then is to find viabilities, and patch them before … Read more
Intel Q4 2021 Results
Intel takes Covid very seriously. (Source: Intel) Intel reported its fiscal year and fourth-quarter results for 2021. The company beat Wall Street expectations on revenue, and gross margin, even though it was down from Q3’21. Hitting $20.5 marked the highest quarterly and full-year revenue ever for the company. Intel advanced its IDM 2.0 strategy and announced a new U.S. … Read more
In Q3’21, the Workstation Market Blows Past Previous Record Levels
Tiburon, Calif. – December 6, 2021 – As part of its ongoing research on the workstation market, Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has released its JPR Workstation Report Market Quarterly for Q3’21. The workstation market’s record levels — set in Q1 and essentially sustained in Q2 — now seem like a distant memory, as the third quarter obliterated both. All told, the … Read more
Happy 50th birthday to the Intel 4004
The chip that changed the world
VESA upgrades Embedded DisplayPort
The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) announced Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) Standard version 1.5. It retains all key features of the previous specification while adding additional capabilities and performance such as an improved panel self-refresh protocol coupled with enhancements to VESA’s Adaptive-Sync protocol. VESA says it should result in added power savings and improved motion image quality. For devices such as … Read more
Intel Q3 2021 results
Intel reported its third-quarter revenue had a strong recovery in the Enterprise portion of Data Center Group (DCG) and the Internet of Things Group (IOTG), which saw higher demand amid recovery from the economic impacts of COVID-19. The Client Computing Group (CCG) was down due to lower notebook volumes due to industry-wide component shortages and lower adjacent revenue, partially offset … Read more
Germ-free ultrathin notebook from Acer
Acer America announced the Aspire Vero notebook. The company says it is their first sustainability-focused product. It is one of Acer’s first products powered by Windows 11, is eco-friendly, EPEAT Silver-certified, which features post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic throughout the chassis and keyboard with 100% recyclable packaging. It also has antimicrobial Corning gorilla glass, an alkali-aluminosilicate thin sheet glass formulated with … Read more
Nvidia’s Q2 FY22 results
May the Omniverse be with you (Source: Nvidia) The company again reported record revenue gains. For the second quarter ended July 30, 2021, the company reported sales of $6.51 billion, up 68 percent from a year earlier and up 15 percent from the previous quarter, with record revenue from the company’s Gaming, Data Center and Professional Visualization platforms. The company’s … Read more
Intel architectural developments and plans
Intel revealed some of the details of their newest CPUs, a few tidbits of their Ponte Vecchio HPC GPU. They also mentioned their someday recently renamed consumer GPUs that are going to put AMD and Nvidia out of business. First off, and totally seriously, the Intel presentation was one of the best-looking and well-organized I have ever seen. Intel has … Read more
The Arc of the story—Intel brands its GPU
An Intel chip (maybe DG1). (source: Intel) After years in the process, Intel has come up with several names for their proposed someday dGPUs. To tell the world about it, Intel’s marketing department shed a little of the spotlight on some of the troops who are valiantly struggling to fulfill Raja Koduri’s promise. A group of them made a … Read more
SiliconArts released its ray tracing accelerator core to the Intel Solutions Marketplace
Source: SiliconArts SiliconArts is releasing a dedicated ray-tracing accelerator core into the Intel Solutions Marketplace. As an Intel Partner Alliance (IPA) Gold Member, SiliconArts is expanding its support for FPGA design services to incorporate its ray tracing IP into a dedicated IP core that can be combined with legacy GPUs to provide ray tracing to any level of graphics … Read more