Hacker News with Generative AI: Intel

Sources Say Intel Is an Acquisition Target (semiaccurate.com)
About two months ago, SemiAccurate was read an email about a company trying to acquire Intel, whole. We have absolute faith in the accuracy of this email but it took months to confirm it.

Acquisitions, Intel, Semiconductors

20 points by monkeydust 14 hours ago | 20 comments

Intel Arc B570 Graphics Performance on Linux Review (phoronix.com)
Last month when Intel formally introduced Battlemage graphics their initial products in the B-Series were the B570 and B580 graphics cards.

Graphics Cards, Linux, Performance, Intel, Reviews

7 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 0 comments

AMD says Intel's 'horrible product' is causing Ryzen 7 9800X3D shortages (tomshardware.com)

AMD, Intel, CPU, Hardware, Shortages

50 points by doener 7 days ago | 14 comments

AMD says Intel's 'horrible product' is causing Ryzen 7 9800X3D shortages (tomshardware.com)

AMD, Intel, CPU, Shortages, Hardware

9 points by LorenDB 8 days ago | 4 comments

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D claims 20% faster gaming performance vs. Intel (tomshardware.com)

AMD, Gaming, Performance, Processors, Intel

9 points by speckx 11 days ago | 0 comments

Intel's Reign of Terror (youtube.com)

Technology, Intel, History

18 points by bane 12 days ago | 2 comments

Intel's Reign of Terror [video] (youtube.com)

Intel, Technology, Video, Humor

5 points by tambourine_man 12 days ago | 0 comments

Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU (righto.com)
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors.1 The Pentium includes a floating-point unit that can rapidly compute functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms, and exponentials. But how does the Pentium compute these functions? Earlier Intel chips used binary algorithms called CORDIC, but the Pentium switched to polynomials to approximate these transcendental functions much faster. The polynomials have carefully-optimized coefficients that are stored in a special ROM inside the chip's floating-point unit.

Reverse Engineering, Computer Architecture, Intel, Floating-Point Arithmetic, Programming

151 points by mef 12 days ago | 23 comments

Agner Fog's Software Optimization Resources (agner.org)
This series of five manuals describes everything you need to know about optimizing code for x86 and x86-64 family microprocessors, including optimization advices for C++ and assembly language, details about the microarchitecture and instruction timings of most Intel, AMD and VIA processors, and details about different compilers and calling conventions.

Software Optimization, C++, Assembly Language, Microprocessors, Intel, AMD, VIA

4 points by davikr 15 days ago | 1 comments

Chinese cyber-spies reportedly targeted sanctions Intel in US Treasury raid (theregister.com)
Chinese spies who compromised the US Treasury Department's workstations reportedly stole data belonging to a government office responsible for sanctions against organizations and individuals.

Cybersecurity, Government, China, Espionage, Intel

7 points by penda 15 days ago | 0 comments

UALink Consortium Led by AMD and Intel Poised to Compete with Nvidia's NVLink (tomshardware.com)

Hardware, AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Competition

5 points by teleforce 23 days ago | 0 comments

Intel shareholders file case asking ex CEO, CFO to return 3 years of salary (cfodive.com)
Intel Corporation shareholders are asking for the disgorgement of “all profits, benefits, and other compensation” obtained by ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger, CFO and current co-interim CFO David Zinsner and other company leadership, arguing the leaders breached their fiduciary and contractual duties, according to a shareholder derivative lawsuit filed Tuesday.

Business, Lawsuits, Intel, Finance, Leadership

209 points by YetAnotherNick 25 days ago | 111 comments

Intel Arc B580 with two M.2 slots, Maxsun offers storage expansion for SSDs (tomshardware.com)

Intel, Graphics Cards, Hardware, SSDs, Storage

5 points by haunter 27 days ago | 0 comments

Intel ex-CEO Gelsinger and current co-CEO sued over Intel Foundry disclosures (tomshardware.com)

Intel, Lawsuits, CEO, Semiconductors, Business

5 points by Ozarkian 28 days ago | 0 comments

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance (phoronix.com)
One of the areas for benchmarking exploration that I had been meaning to dive into since the launch of the Intel Arrow Lake processors back in October was checking out the Microsoft Windows 11 vs. Linux performance for the new Core Ultra 9 285K flagship processor.

Performance, Linux, Intel, Processors, Operating Systems

33 points by rbanffy 29 days ago | 67 comments

Intel Abandons "X86S" Plans to Focus on the Regular x86-64 ISA Advisory Group (techpowerup.com)
Intel has announced it will not proceed with X86S, an experimental instruction set architecture that aims to simplify its processor design by removing legacy support for older 32-bit and 16-bit operating modes.

Intel, Processors, Architecture, Hardware, Industry News

4 points by ksec 29 days ago | 0 comments

Intel Terminates X86S Initiative (tomshardware.com)

Intel, Processors, Technology, Business

29 points by jamesy0ung 29 days ago | 18 comments

Intel terminates x86S initiative – x86 de-bloat quest ends (tomshardware.com)

Intel, Processors, Technology, Hardware

10 points by pella 29 days ago | 2 comments

Intel 18A Process Node Clocks an Abysmal 10% Yield (techpowerup.com)
In case you're wondering why Intel went with TSMC 3 nm to build the Compute tile of its "Arrow Lake" processor, and the SoC tile of "Lunar Lake," instead of Intel 3, or even Intel 20A, perhaps there's more to the recent story about Broadcom voicing its disappointment in the Intel 18A foundry node.

Semiconductors, Intel, Technology, Manufacturing, Business

9 points by LordNibbler 30 days ago | 0 comments

Intel Inside, Gelsinger Outside (spyglass.org)
Dealt a bad hand by a board who wouldn't give him enough time, Intel's next leader needs full control to think different

Business, Intel, Leadership, Technology

34 points by yarapavan 30 days ago | 8 comments

Linux Fixing a "Hilarious/Revolting Performance Regression" Around Intel KVM (phoronix.com)
It's not too often that "fixes" to the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) are noteworthy but today is an interesting exception with among the KVM fixes sent in today ahead of the Linux 6.13-rc3 tagging is for beginning to deal with a "hilarious/revolting" performance regression affecting recent generations of Intel processors.

Linux Kernel, Performance, Intel, Virtualization, Hardware

4 points by LinuxBender 33 days ago | 1 comments

Intel ME Cleaner (github.com/corna)
me_cleaner is a Python script able to modify an Intel ME firmware image with the final purpose of reducing its ability to interact with the system.

Security, Python, Intel, Firmware

31 points by akkartik 35 days ago | 4 comments

Intel built best budget GPU for 1440p gaming (tomshardware.com)

Graphics Cards, Gaming, Hardware, Budget, Intel

55 points by akmittal 36 days ago | 18 comments

Intel's Fall from Grace (cacm.acm.org)

Intel, Technology, Business, Semiconductors

58 points by subvertify 37 days ago | 32 comments

Ken Shirriff Tracks Down Intel's Infamous Pentium FDIV Bug in the Silicon Itself (hackster.io)
Noted reverse engineer and vintage electronics enthusiast Ken Shirriff has turned his attention to one of the darkest days in Intel's storied history: the discovery of, and subsequent impact of, the infamous FDIV bug in its Pentium processor range.

Hardware, Reverse Engineering, History, Computer Science, Intel

53 points by voxadam 38 days ago | 14 comments

TSMC founder says Intel has neither a strategy nor a CEO (tomshardware.com)

TSMC, Intel, Semiconductor Industry, Business, Leadership

58 points by rbanffy 38 days ago | 23 comments

Gelsinger fires back at recent stories about 18A's poor yields (tomshardware.com)

Semiconductors, Technology, Intel, Business, News

11 points by LorenDB 39 days ago | 2 comments

Intel's Death and Potential Revival (stratechery.com)
In 1980 IBM, under pressure from its customers to provide computers for personal use, not just mainframes, set out to create the IBM PC; given the project’s low internal priority but high external demand they decided to outsource two critical components: Microsoft would provide the DOS operating system, which would run on the Intel 8088 processor.

Technology, History, Business, Intel

25 points by feross 40 days ago | 24 comments

Pat Gelsinger was wrong for Intel (dtrace.org)
By all accounts, Pat Gelsinger is affable, technically sharp, hard-working, and decent.