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Intel Chairman Frank Yeary retires, Craig Barrat to become the new chairman of the Board of Directors
The man who tried to split Intel retires from the board of directors.
Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon 6+ CPU
Intel formally announces Xeon 6+ CPUs with up to 288 cores that are made on 18A process technology.
AMD details Ryzen AI 400 desktop with up to 8 cores, Radeon 860M graphics
Still holding out hope for Ryzen 9000G.
AMD’s K6-III ‘Sharptooth’ debuted this week in 1999 with on-die L2 cache to savage the Intel Pentium II
AMD launched its first processors with on-die L2 cache this week in 1999, heralding the beginning of the Super Socket 7 era.
