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Intel wants AI everywhere

Posted on July 31, 2023 by - News

Intel CEO Pat [kicking] Gelsinger said that AI will become part of every business and an inflection point for the PC market, and Chipzilla will have a product everywhere.

“We see AI as a workload, not as a market, which will affect every aspect of the business—whether it’s client, whether it’s edge, whether it’s standard data centre, on-premises enterprise or cloud,” Gelsinger said .

“We’re going to build AI into every product that we build—whether it’s a client, whether it’s an edge platform for retail and manufacturing and industrial use cases. Whether it’s an enterprise data centre. … We firmly believe in this idea of democratising AI, opening the software stack and creating and participating with this broad industry ecosystem that’s emerging. It’s a great opportunity and one that Intel is well-positioned to participate in.”

Intel and Accenture release AI kits

Posted on July 25, 2023 by - News

Canalys Forum EuropeIntel has announced the culmination of a years-long collaboration with Accenture to bring 34 AI reference kits to the community.

The kits are said to aid developers and data scientists in deploying AI faster and more easily, accelerating AI development across a wide range of industries, including consumer products, energy and utilities, financial services, and health. 

Intel pokes the i out of its Core brand

Posted on June 19, 2023 by - News

Intel has changed its Core CPU brand after more than 15 years beginning with the next generation of Intel Core CPUs, code-named Meteor Lake.

The changes involve poking the “i” out from processor tiers such as Intel Core i7 or Intel Core i5, the removal of the generation in front of the brand (like 13th-Gen Intel Core), and the introduction of the “Intel Core Ultra” name for its “most advanced” processors.

Chipzilla claims to have evolved the brand for its Intel Evo premium laptop program and will now label Evo-verified designs with “Intel Evo Edition.” In addition, Intel plans to dole out new Intel vPro labels for commercial systems using vPro processors.

Apple finally purges Intel from its Mac Pro

Posted on June 6, 2023 by - News

Fruity cargo cult Apple has purged Intel chips from its Mac Pro PC and has the whole lot running on its homemade silicon.

Apple began replacing Intel CPUs in its Mac lineup in 2020 with custom Arm-based chips designed in-house. Three years later, the company’s entire lineup of Macs is powered by homegrown M-series chips, including its MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, iMacs and Mac Minis.

With its higher spec and “cheese grater” design, the flagship Mac Pro could not use Apple silicon and had to stick to more traditional Intel hardware.

At its WWDC 2023 event client device giant said it had come up with the M2 Ultra, which combines two M2 Max chips on a single die to deliver double-digit performance boosts over the M1 Ultra.

Intel wants to turn PCs into partner data gathers

Posted on April 17, 2023 by - News

Chipzilla wants to equip IT vendors and solution providers with advanced capabilities to fix network issues by giving them real-time access to PC connectivity data.

The move would give Intel partners access to Intel Connectivity Analytics, a commercial software service that creates “unique networking and system insights” using driver-level telemetry data captured from Intel Wi-Fi 6 chipsets in laptops and desktops.

Eric McLaughlin, general manager of Intel’s Wireless Solutions Group, said Intel Connectivity Analytics is meant to help partners develop advanced solutions for fixing network issues and improving the end-user experience for PCs in offices, homes and other environments.

“What this analytics capability is supposed to do is help IT managers and service providers understand what’s really happening from the client level all the way to the cloud,” he said.

The real-time insight generated by Intel Connectivity Analytics helps partners deliver solutions around network performance optimisation, dynamic bandwidth adjustment for critical usages, performance monitoring and technical support for client networking, security threat detection and issue resolution as well as asset tracking and facility resource management.

Intel staff nervous about pay cuts

Posted on February 27, 2023 by - News

Intel staff are getting increasingly nervous about the state of their company after a wave of pay cuts was announced last week.

When Chipzilla announced its lacklustre results it believed that firing people and reducing the pay of employees who stayed working was the best way to secure loyalty.

However, to its surprise, Intel staff were unhappy about this 19th-century style approach and several are believed to have handed in their notice. The head of the company’s Europe, Middle East and Africa business Frans Scheper has resigned, although it is unclear if this was connected to the cuts.

Scheper had only been in the job a year and holds the role of corporate vice president in Intel’s Sales, Marketing and Communications Group.

Vendor job kill continues

Posted on January 23, 2023 by - News

Never mind any skills gap, Vendors are firing staff who they may never see again to make a short-term cut in costs.

Google handed six per cent of its global workforce pink slips apparently to refocus on its priorities, including AI.

CEO Sundar Pichai said: “We’ve decided to reduce our workforce by approximately 12,000 roles. We’ve already sent a separate email to employees in the US who are affected. In other countries, this process will take longer due to local laws and practices.”

Pichai said the company will be reviewing its current operations in order to make the most of its early investments in AI.

Intel’s Mobileye files for IPO

Posted on October 3, 2022 by - News

Intel’s self-driving technology subsidiary Mobileye, has filed for an IPO nearly a year after Chipzilla said it wanted to do it.

The Israeli outfit generated 2021 revenue of $1.4 billion with a net loss of $75 million for that same period. In 2020, Mobileye revenue was $967 million with a net loss of $196 million.

Despite losing more cash than a UK mini-budget Reuters reported Mobileeye could be valued as high as $50 billion.

Mobileye said that as of this past July its solutions had been installed in approximately 800 vehicle models and its system-on-chip technology had been deployed in over 117 million vehicles.

Intel warns that there are more troubles ahead

Posted on September 12, 2022 by - News

Intel CEO Pat [kicking] Gelsinger has warned that the company’s pants performance is likely to get worse before it gets better.

Talking to the gathered throngs at the Evercore ISI TMT conference, Gelsinger warned Intel will continue to lose share in the server processor market next year, with recovery starting in 2025.

After selling off its Optane memory business earlier this year, Intel is also likely to take further steps to streamline the bloated product portfolio of its dross.

Gelsinger’s return in early 2021 appeared to breathe new life into the firm, but he appears to be dealing with shedloads of more woe.

Checkpoint Partners with Intel on IoT

Posted on August 31, 2022 by - News

Security outfit Checkpoint says  that it is teaming up with Intel to create Quantum IoT Protect which will appear within its Pathfinder for RISC-V.

Intel’s Pathfinder is a new platform for IoT device developers and the increased security aims to remove a particular issue that IP cameras, routers, HVAC systems, and medical devices have with being hijacked by hackers.

IoT device security has been low on developers’ priorities because they have limited processing power and storage, leaving little room for traditional security software. IoT devices run older operating systems that cannot be patched, use weak or default passwords, and are not monitored for security breaches.  Unfortunately, cybercriminals target these vulnerable IoT devices as an entry point into a corporate network.

Miri Ofir, R&D Director at Checkpoint Software commented: “Cyberattacks are increasing in number and sophistication all the time. It has never been more important for IoT device developers to prioritize cybersecurity, not just to win a competitive edge or comply with emerging regulations but to give their end customers enterprise grade security and peace of mind.”

 

 

US Senate throws cash at chip industry

Posted on July 21, 2022 by - News

The US Senate has voted to move ahead with proposed legislation that will see billions of dollars in subsidies and tax credits chucked at the chip industry.

The Senate has begun debating on the bill which will attempt to ease the supply chain problems which started with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The big idea is to decrease the reliance on Asia for semiconductor supply, with chip shortages hurting the world’s biggest vendors and their resellers over the past couple of years.

Nvidia-Intel alliance could scare rivals

Posted on March 25, 2022 by - News

Yesterday’s news that Nvidia and Intel are snuggling up for a glorious alliance could cause some major headaches for the industry.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said during a press briefing that he was in talks to use Intel foundries to produce GPUs, a development that could see the dogged rivals join forces.

Data centre tech is based around GPUs and Nvidia holds an 81 percent market share.

All this could be problems for others in the industry especially AMD’s data centre supercomputing ambitions and TSMC’s foundry business.

AMD and Nvidia use TSMC’s foundry. AMD’s strategy so far has been to produce cheaper GPUs with a slightly better performance than Nvidia.

Intel wants ARM now

Posted on February 23, 2022 by - News

While it is unlikely to happen, it seems that Intel is considering snapping up British chip manufacturer ARM.

Nvidia officially announced the termination of its $40 billion acquisition from owners SoftBank Group (SBG) earlier this month due to “significant regulatory challenges”.

Shortly after its collapse, ARM confirmed it was preparing for an IPO within the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023.

Now, Intel is weighing up its own offer for ARM. Kicking Pat Gelsinger has said Intel would be interested in participating if a consortium emerges to own the UK semiconductor company.

Fitzpatrick defects from Vole to Chipzilla

Posted on January 31, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Intel has appointed Microsoft’s former general manager for worldwide partner sales to head up its own partner sales organisation.

Alyssa Fitzpatrick told her LinkedIn friends about her new role as the chip maker’s vice-president and general manager of global partner sales after six years with Microsoft.

Her responsibilities are listed as “leading the programmes, support, and end-to-end partner journey under the Intel Partner Alliance with a focus on ISVs, systems integrators and cloud partners”.

McAfee close to sale

Posted on November 9, 2021 by - News

McAfee HQ in Satan ClaraSecurity outfit McAfee, whose founder offed himself in a police cell this year,  is in talks to sell up to a consortium of private equity firms in a deal valued at more than $10 billion, according to various reports.

The consortium of private equity investors is led by Advent International and also includes Permira, CPP Investment Board, Crosspoint Capital, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and GIC.

It would represent one of the biggest cybersecurity acquisitions of all time and would bring McAfee’s brief spell as a public company to an end after it had an IPO last October.