Intel has defended itself against accusations that its latest executive hire stole trade secrets, as TSMC sues the exec and Taiwanese prosecutors say they’ve begun a probe into the incident. Wei-Jen Lo, a Taiwanese engineer, joined Intel this fall, hired to help the company improve its mass production processes. He’d previously worked at the American […]
Arizona’s economy was once dominated by the “five C’s”: cotton, cattle, citrus, copper, and climate. But a new C has emerged that could grow to overshadow the rest: chips. New semiconductor manufacturing facilities are springing up across the greater Phoenix area, stretching across blocks of new roads with names like “Processor Parkway” and “Transistor Terrace.” […]
Intel added $20 billion to its balance sheet in Q3 but didn’t offer many details on the progress of its floundering foundry business.
With Windows 10 on its last legs, Intel is looking forward to the PC industry growing more than it has in years – the most since 2021, when the covid-19 pandemic revived the industry by creating a huge surge in demand. But it seems the struggling Intel, which just received lifelines from Nvidia, Softbank, and […]
Intel announces new processors produced in Arizona as the company looks to increase its U.S. manufacturing.
Panther Lake is the most important chip Intel has made in years. It’s the one that will tell the world if a smaller, more focused Intel can still meet or beat the competition from Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm. It’s the first on Intel’s 18A process, the one Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger claimed would right the […]
The Trump administration wants the industry to reach a 1:1 ratio of domestically produced and imported chips.
In the future, Intel will make CPUs with Nvidia graphics inside — among other things, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed today that Nvidia will contribute “GPU chiplets” that Intel can place alongside its x86 CPU cores instead of the Arc integrated graphics it develops in-house today. But, at least for now, Intel says that doesn’t […]
Today, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan held a joint webcast to explain just why the world’s most valuable company (Nvidia’s at $4.28 trillion) is throwing a $5 billion lifeline to a struggling competitor. Nvidia quickly shut down several possible explanations. Huang claimed it had nothing to do with Trump, who famously […]
Nvidia has agreed to invest $5 billion in Intel as part of a broader deal to together develop “multiple generations” of data center and PC products. Nvidia will buy Intel stock.