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Intel ex-CEO Gelsinger and current co-CEO slapped with lawsuit over Intel Foundry disclosures
By Anton Shilov last updated
The plaintiffs seek the entire sum of Gelsinger's $207 million salary that he earned during his tenure, which would then be paid back to Intel.
Intel terminates x86S initiative — unilateral quest to de-bloat x86 instruction set comes to an end
By Paul Alcorn published
Intel has confirmed to Tom's Hardware that it is no longer working on the x86S specification.
Intel Wildcat Lake CPU tooling surfaces in shipping manifests
By Hassam Nasir published
New shipping manifests highlight that Intel might be readying a successor to its N-series CPUs dubbed Wildcat Lake.
Tachyum releases a 1,600-page performance optimization manual despite continued tape-out delays and no actual silicon
By Anton Shilov published
Tachyum's new 1,600-page document to teach software developers to optimize performance.
Intel announces Arrow Lake performance fix is now available — another update coming next month
By Paul Alcorn published
Intel says it has root-caused the problems plaguing its Arrow Lake processors and that performance-boosting updates are now available.
Intel lists the Core 200H mobile CPU lineup based on an aging Raptor Lake design
By Hassam Nasir published
Intel has listed a total of five new Core 200H (Raptor Lake Refresh) processors at its website.
AMD 3D V-Cache teardown shows the majority of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is dummy silicon
By Hassam Nasir published
An in-depth analysis of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D suggests that a large portion of the chip is comprised of structural silicon.
Qualcomm says its Oryon CPU cores have 1% or less of Arm's original technology
By Anton Shilov published
Qualcomm's custom Oryon CPU cores are based on the Armv8 instruction set architecture, but they contain only about 1% of actual Arm physical IP, says developer.
Arm vs. Qualcomm trial begins — Arm demands that the patent-infringing Nuvia designs be destroyed
By Anton Shilov published
The legal battle begins.
China's dual 16-core Hygon CPU server rack barely outperforms a quad-core Skylake Core i7-6700HQ mobile CPU in Geekbench AI
By Aaron Klotz published
A server rack consisting of two Hygon 16 core server processors was tested in Geekbench AI and could barely outperform a 10 year old mobile Core i7 quad-core CPU.
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