Intel recently announced plans eliminate 12,000 jobs, or about 11 percent of its entire workforce as the company shifts some of its focus from personal computers to cloud services including data centers and the Internet of Things. Now Intel CEO Brian Kraznich is offering a little more explanation of what that means. Update: Apparently one thing […]
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Intel’s upcoming Kaby Lake chips will still be 14nm
For most of the past decade, Intel has been releasing new chips in a tick-tock pattern. A tick means the shrinking of the manufacturing process technology, while a tock signals an improved microarchitecture. But for the first time since 2007, Intel is delaying the tick. The company’s next two families of desktop and notebook chips will […]
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IBM and partners build the first 7nm chip
IBM and a group of partners have managed to produce the first processor using a 7 nanometer process. This is just a test chip, and it’ll still be a while before processors based on 7nm technology used in real-world products. But this is the first time anyone’s demonstrated a working chip smaller than 10nm. Why is […]