Intel Closes Two German Sites, 450 Employees Impacted By Arne Verheyde published 21 December 19 Intel is closing two German sites by the end of the year, causing 450 employees to lose their job. It is a result of the modem division sale to Apple.
Intel Hires Ex-AMD Executive to Lead Discrete GPU SoC Design By Arne Verheyde published 20 December 19 Intel has hired AMD executive Masooma Bhaiwala to become vice president of discrete GPU SoCs. She previously worked on semi-custom SoCs at AMD.
Broadcom Ships First 25.6Tbps Switch on 7nm By Arne Verheyde published 19 December 19 Broadcom's Tomahawk 4 chips offer superior throughput.
Intel at IEDM: Stacking Nanoribbon Transistors and Other Bleeding Edge Research By Arne Verheyde last updated 18 December 19 Intel opens up about its recent research projects
AMSL: 4.5 Million Cumulative EUV Wafers Processed Through 2018 By Arne Verheyde published 16 December 19 In a EUV update at the IEDM 2019 conference, ASML has disclosed that the number of wafers run through an EUV tool reached 4.5 million at the beginning of 2019. The latest NXE:3400C achieved 170WPH.
Intel Hires GlobalFoundries CTO Gary Patton to Lead Design Enablement By Arne Verheyde published 12 December 19
Intel Announces RealSense L515 with ‘World’s Smallest’ LiDAR Camera By Arne Verheyde published 11 December 19 Intel claims it is the world's smallest and most power efficient high-resolution lidar camera.
Intel Demonstrates STT-MRAM for L4 Cache By Arne Verheyde last updated 11 December 19 Intel demonstrated its STT-MRAM acting as an L4 cache.
Intel Process Roadmap Shows 1.4nm in 2029, Two-Year Cadence (Updated) By Arne Verheyde published 11 December 19 An Intel process technology that has surfaced at IEDM 2019 shows the company intends to launch its nodes at a two-year cadence for the next decade, with 1.4nm in 2029.
Imec Fabricates Beyond-Silicon MoS2 2D Transistors By Arne Verheyde published 11 December 19 Research institution imec has fabricated highly scaled transistors based on the MoS2 2D material as channel. The device has the potential to replace silicon transistors.
Intel Creates Cryogenic Control Chip for Commercial Quantum Computers By Arne Verheyde published 9 December 19 Intel details its Horse Ridge control chip for quantum computers that operates at cryogenic temperatures
Intel Releases Bare-Metal oneAPI Level Zero Specification By Arne Verheyde published 8 December 19 Intel is plowing forward on a key component of its Xe Architecture
Amazon Compares 64-core ARM Graviton2 to Intel's Xeon By Arne Verheyde published 5 December 19 The 64-core Graviton2 processors comes with 30 billion transistors created on the 7nm process.
Intel Opens 1,500-Person Engineering Center in India By Arne Verheyde published 4 December 19 Intel, joined by Raja Koduri, on Monday opened a new design and engineering center in India. It will focus on data-centric computing and communication technology.
Report: Intel in Talks to Acquire AI Company Habana Labs for Over $1 Billion By Arne Verheyde published 4 December 19 Intel is reportedly in 'advanced talks' to acquire Israeli AI start-up Habana Labs for between $1 and $2 billion, adding to its tally of AI acquisitions that includes Movidius and Nervana.
First Global 500 Companies Join Intel Neuromorphic Research Community By Arne Verheyde published 4 December 19 Intel has announced that the first corporate entities, Global 500 members, including GE, have joined its neuromorphic research community. They will build proof-of-concepts.
Intel's Ponte Vecchio, Tiger Lake, Shortages and Data Streaming Accelerator By Arne Verheyde published 29 November 19 Intel is moving on multiple fronts as it plows forward to 7nm.
Intel Shares Details on Movidius Keem Bay, Other A.I. Hardware By Arne Verheyde published 23 November 19 Intel has announced its next-gen Keem Bay VPU with 10x the deep learning inference performance. The company also provided some more details of its Nervana Neural Network Processors.
Samsung Memory Production Impacted by Equipment Issue, Predicts Millions of Dollars in Damage By Arne Verheyde published 10 November 19 Samsung faced a manufacturing issue in a 200mm DRAM fab a few weeks ago caused by contaminated equipment with millions of dollars of damage, but says the problems are solved.
Intel Introduces World’s Largest FPGA With 43.3 Billion Transistors By Arne Verheyde last updated 6 November 19 Intel today announced a monster FPGA with 43.3 billion transistors. The Stratix 10 GX 10M with 10 million logic elements is composed of two dies and four transceiver tiles all connected via EMIB.
TSMC to Hire 8000 Engineers for 3nm Research and Development Center By Arne Verheyde published 3 November 19 TSMC plans to hire 8000 engineers for a new R&D center for 3nm process development. It is set to be located in northern Taiwan and will be completed in late 2020.
Intel's New PTK1 Development Center Boasts 14,000 Sensors By Arne Verheyde published 31 October 19 Intel has opened PTK1, which it claims is highly efficient and the smartest building in the world, with 14,000 sensors and a building management system using AI.
TSMC Starts $19.5 Billion 3nm Fab Construction By Arne Verheyde last updated 29 October 19 TSMC has started construction of its 3nm fab. The $19.5 billion facility located in Taiwan is estimated to start production in 2023.
Intel Vies to ‘Recapture Process Leadership’ as it Returns to Two-Year Cadence By Arne Verheyde last updated 29 October 19 Intel says it wants to recapture its process lead after the plagued 10nm transition. It aims to return to a two-year process cadence, with 7nm in the fourth quarter of 2021.
AMD ROCm Code Suggests BFloat16 Support in Future GPU By Arne Verheyde published 23 October 19 A GitHub commit to AMD's ROCm GPU software suggests AMD will support the BFloat16 numeric data format for deep learning.