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Prodigal Son Gelsinger Returns As Intel CEO

Forrester IT

Early today, Intel announced CEO Bob Swan will be replaced by VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger. Facing stronger competitive challenges, Intel has struggled. As you can see, Intel’s stock (INTC) has languished while its peers grew exceptionally well. In the past 12 months, INTC stock lost 5.3%

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Intel Details 'Biggest Shifts in a Generation' at Architecture Day 2021

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This week Intel held its annual Architecture Day and even for an event that often previews major upcoming changes to the company’s silicon, this year Intel is hailing its new advancements as some of the “biggest shifts in a generation” across its CPUs, GPUs, and more. Read more.

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NVIDIA Arms Itself To Terminate Intel’s Processor Dominance

Forrester IT

The combination aims to conquer the enormous compute market that has long been dominated by the x86 architecture (and thus, Intel and AMD). NVIDIA just announced it plans to acquire Arm Limited from SoftBank Group for $40B. The x86 platform remains the leader in PCs and data centers, but the future growth prospects lie in […].

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Intel CEO Hopes to Make a Chip That's Good Enough to Win Apple Back, Someday

Gizmodo

On the eve of Apple’s big MacBook event, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said he hopes the company can win back Apple, noting that he hasn’t given up on the idea that one day Macs may once again run on Intel chips. Read more.

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Intel's First-Gen Discrete Laptop GPUs Are Just Weeks Away

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Intel just announced that its first discrete graphics cards in over a decade will start shipping soon. We didn’t get a specific release date, but the long-awaited Intel Arc graphics for laptops will be ready in Q1, so no later than April. That’s right around the time 12th-gen Intel H-series notebooks are slated to be… Read more.

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Apple's Third-Gen Chips Could Pave the Way for a World Without Intel

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But that fear permeates throughout Silicon Valley, and with reports that Apple’s chips may soon eclipse chipmaking veterans like Intel, it sounds like we’re heading for a high season of chip wars. With its A- and M- processors, Apple has shown that it doesn’t need a third party to find success in the hardware realm. Read more.

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Microsoft Pluton: New chip design draws lessons from Xbox to make Windows PCs more secure

GeekWire

Microsoft’s new “Pluton” architecture has won support from Intel, AMD and Qualcomm. It’s modeled after the chip design that Microsoft introduced with the Xbox One in 2013, and also uses in its Azure Sphere processors for Internet of Things devices. Microsoft Graphic).

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