EU court sides with Intel in appeal of $1.2B antitrust fine

A European court announced Wednesday that it overturned a $1.2 billion fine on Intel, which the European Union had imposed on the semiconductor chip manufacturer in 2009 over alleged violations of antitrust laws.

Testing Intel’s 12th-gen Alder Lake laptop CPUs: Many cores make light work

The size of the speed improvements depends on the work you're doing.

Redefining the Rust Belt: Intel announces $20 billion mega-plant near Columbus; impact to be felt statewide

In what has been called the largest economic development project in state history, Intel has announced plans for a $20 billion semiconductor manufacturing facility near Columbus that is scheduled to go online in 2025.

Fintiv challenged in SCOTUS Amicus by Unified — Unified Patents

On January 14, 2022, Unified Patents filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of the petition for certiorari in Intel Corp. v. VLSI Tech. LLC, challenging the USPTO's reliance on their own NHK-Fintiv ruling, as well as the...

Intel Wins Backing for High Court Review of Patent Board Rule

Carmaker and cable industry groups are joining Unified Patents LLC in supporting Intel Corp.‘s bid for U.S. Supreme Court review of a much-debated U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rule that makes it harder to initiate patent challenges.

iTWire - Samsung edges out Intel to take top spot in 2021 semiconductor sales

South Korean giant Samsung Electronics became the globe's top vendor of semiconductors in 2021, overtaking Intel for the first time since 2018 with a 31.6% rise in revenue to US$75.9 billion (A$105.2 billion), the technology analyst firm...

There are 20 different Intel ARC GPU IDs noted in upcoming Linux Mesa driver update

The driver update suggests that we'll see plenty of options when Intel releases its Arc Alchemist GPU lineup later this year.

Gentoo Linux: Building/rebuilding a kernel and Intel CPU microcode in an installation with initramfs

In a 2014 post I explained how to update the Intel CPU microcode in a Gentoo Linux installation with an initramfs (I use sys-kernel/genkernel to build the kernel in the installation on my Compal NB…

SGX Deprecation Prevents PC Playback Of 4K Blu-ray Discs

This week Techspot reported that DRM-laden Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs won’t play anymore on computers using the latest Intel Core processors. You may have skimmed right past it, but the table on …

Stefan Sperling (@stsp@bsd.network)

I'd like to add that I asked #intel #linux #wifi engineers for help with this issue, without any response. So much for "many eyes make bugs shallow". If people in this community cannot freely share their knowledge because they are under #NDA, you...

New leak claims the Galaxy S22 series will use the Exynos 2200 in Europe after all

Recent reports excited Samsung fans in Europe with the idea of the Galaxy S22 Ultra being shipped with the Snapdragon Gen 1 across all regions. New information might just have put paid to those thoughts, however, as it now appears that the Galaxy...

Intel Arc Alchemist GPU gets 20-40% perf boost with Mesa 22.0 Linux OS

Mesa 22.0 build offers the very latest in Linux's recent kernel GPU driver optimizations, with DG2 and Arc Alchemist optimizations.

Intel introduces 12th gen Alder Lake-H led by the Core i9-12900HK with up to 5 GHz boost and 115 W max TDP, Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-U SKUs detailed

Intel has now made the Alder Lake-H mobile processors official. The Intel Alder Lake-H lineup is led by the flagship Core i9-12900HK and is said to offer improved raw performance and better performance per watt compared to the Apple M1 Max and the...

TDP (Thermal Design Power) vs PBP (Processor Base Power) - Are there differences? - CNX Software

TDP vs PBP - Intel has recently started to use the term "Processor Base Power" instead of "Thermal Design Power". We check out what this means