TSMC Dismisses Intel Tie-Up Talk, Says No Intent to Share Tech(bloomberg.com) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. isn’t engaged in discussions to form a venture or share its technology with any company, its top executive said, dismissing persistent speculation that the Taiwanese company is negotiating a tie-up of some sort with ailing chipmaker Intel Corp.
Linux 6.15 Features Deliver a Lot for Intel and AMD, Many Other Changes(phoronix.com) The Linux 6.15 merge window ended on Sunday with the release of Linux 6.15-rc1. There is a lot of exciting features and updates that were merged during the two-week merge window. Here is a look at all of the most prominent changes to be found with Linux 6.15.
Intel, TSMC tentatively agree to form chipmaking joint venture(yahoo.com) Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co have reached a preliminary agreement to form a joint venture to operate the U.S. chipmaker's factories, the Information reported on Thursday, citing two people involved in the discussions.
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Intel AVX10 Drops Optional 512-Bit: No AVX10 256-Bit Only E-Cores in the Future(phoronix.com) Intel updated their AVX10 whitepaper and associated open-source compiler patches around this next Advanced Vector Extensions standard... While AVX10 had intended to allow either 256-bit or 512-bit modes depending upon processor capabilities, Intel has dropped the 256-bit-only approach and going for 512-bit everywhere.
Raytracing on Intel's Arc B580(chipsandcheese.com) Intel’s discrete GPU strategy has emphasized add-on features ever since Alchemist launched. Right from the start, Intel invested heavily in dedicated matrix multiplication units, raytracing accelerators, and hardware video codecs. Battlemage continues that trend. Raytracing deserves attention because raytraced effects are gaining prominence on an increasing number of titles.
Intel Xeon 6700P and 6500P Granite Rapids-SP for the Masses Initial Benchmarks(servethehome.com) This Intel Xeon 6 series has been a launch we have been waiting on for around three quarters. Today, we have the launch of the Intel Xeon 6700P and Xeon 6500P series. These are the smaller Socket E2 (LGA4710-2) processors compared to the big socket Intel Xeon 6900P series. At the same time, they are not necessarily “lower-end” as they can scale to 4 sockets, eight sockets and beyond.
Chipzilla Devours the Desktop(abortretry.fail) At the end of 1974, Intel had announced plans for a reorganization following layoffs, and that was carried out between the time of the announcement and the first months of 1975.