Arne Verheyde

Intel has entered a period of exclusive talks with one potential buyer and has taken its patent assets off the market. The auction process could still be re-opened at a later time, potentially if this deal falls apart.

Intel revealed three new packaging technologies: Co-EMIB stitches multiple Foveros stacks together via EMIB, ODI connects dies, and MDIO is new EMIB interface.

Intel has partnered with Baidu on the development of its upcoming 16nm Nervana Neural Network Processor for Training (NNP-T), both on software and hardware.

Nvidia has presented its RC 18 research chip for inference acceleration. The small 16nm chip with RISC-V core scales to 32 units in a package, delivering over 100 TOPS at over 100W.

Intel has launched an auction for approximately 8,200 cellular wireless connectivity patents, with patents related to the 3G, 4G and 5G standards, wireless implementation technologies and connected devices.

Xilinx announced it has shipped its 7nm Versal FPGA (aka ACAP) to its Tier 1 customers and that general availability comes in the second half. Specifications of the first two series are also available.

Intel announced that it has acquired Barefoot Networks, a provider of Ethernet switching silicon and creator of the P4 networking programming language.

Intel subsidiary Altera has lost a tax case concerning share-based compensation, whose outcome would have had multi-billion dollar implications for many tech companies if Altera had prevailed.

The European Processor Initiative has delivered its first architectural designs to the European Commission. EPI wants to create a new family of low-power European processors aimed at HPC, AI and automotive.

Infineon has announced that it is acquiring Cypress for $10.B. It expects to strengthen its position and growth in IoT, industrial and automotive with the companies' complementary portfolios.

The PCI-SIG organization on Wednesday released the final PCI Express 5.0 specification. The new interconnect standard doubles the bandwidth to 32GT/s per lane, less than two years after PCIe 4.0.

Marvell announced that it's selling its Wi-Fi Connectivity Business to NXP in an all-cash deal valued at $1.76B.

TSMC’s CEO said the company has started volume production of its 7N+ process technology, DigitTimes reported on Friday. It is the company’s first process node to use EUV on a few critical layers.

Intel has reported progress on making optical neural networks a reality. By using light, these chips could be up to 100 times more power efficient and reduce latency by many orders of magnitude.

A leaked roadmap from Huawei reveals that Intel will introduce will introduce DDR5 memory and PCI 5.0 with Sapphire Rapids in 2021.

Intel now officially considers its open-source Linux drivers for Ice Lake’s Gen11 graphics feature-complete, more specifically its OpenGL and Vulkan drivers that are respectively called i915 and ANV

Intel has hired Devon Nekechuk from AMD, the latest in a vast hiring spree of graphics industry veterans to Raja Koduri's group.

Intel reduced its full-year revenue projections against the backdrop of reduced China demand but said its 10nm Ice Lake chips are undergoing qualification.

Today's leaked Intel roadmaps give more details about the upcoming Comet Lake, Ice Lake, and Lakefield launches this year, adds Rocket Lake as a new 14nm Lake alongside Tiger Lake for 2020, and also covers Skyhawk Lake for Atom.

GlobalFoundries is selling a 65nm and 45nm fab to ON Semiconductor for $430 million, giving the latter company full operational control by the end of 2022. The company also gets a technology license for the processes.

TSMC's new EUV-enabled 6nm node leverages its 7nm development and provides an 18% density boost. The process is design rule compatible with 7nm, providing a fast transition path from 7nm.

Intel announced it would no longer compete in the 5G modem market for smartphones. The company says it will refocus its efforts in 5G on the ‘cloudification’ of the network, while its 4G product line is unaffected.

Intel purchases Omnitek to bolster its vision processing portfolio.

Qualcomm revealed the initial details of its cloud 7nm Cloud AI inference processor, saying it will deliver a 10x performance increase over competing devices.

Intel's AgileX comes brimming with next-gen tech, like support for PCIe 5.0, DDR5, HBM3, Optane Memory DIMMs, and memory coherency with Xeons.