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Intel’s principal engineer Francois Piednoel will be leaving the tech giant after 20 years of service
Read More »Intel principal engineer quits to focus on AI
Processor market heats up as AMD makes record share gain
AMD gained 10.4 per cent in the second quarter, taking it to 31 per cent of the market – up from its 20.6 per cent market share in the previous quarter
Read More »Huge Intel processor flaw exposed
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh tells Debian mailing list that systems with hyperthreading enabled could "in some situations, dangerously misbehave"
Read More »Dedicated voice assistants are living on borrowed time
Qualcomm’s plans are to create chips that can turn any and every speaker into a voice assistant
Read More »IBM proves Moore’s Law is not dead by squeezing 30 billion transistors into a fingernail-sized chip
IBM has defied prediction by coming up with a practical way to make 5-nanometer processors, in collaboration with its partners Globalfoundries and Samsung
Read More »AMD to get ahead in processor pricing war?
Online retailer Newegg slashes prices of top three processors in anticipation of Intel's Core X-series and its own Threadripper CPU
Read More »AMD Ryzen 5 is ‘most warmly’ received CPU in seven years, survey finds
The AMD CPU received an unprecedented 83.9 per cent positive rating from more than 1,800 happy customers
Read More »Security flaw leaves Intel-run PCs at risk even if they are switched off
The flaw affects the Active Management Technology (AMT), that lets administrators manage machines via remote controls
Read More »Qualcomm reportedly teams up with Samsung on Snapdragon 845
The two firms are reuniting to create the latest Snapdragon processor
Read More »Intel could launch Coffee Lake processors as early as August
Increased competition from AMD's Ryzen processors is forcing Intel to launch early
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