Arne Verheyde

Intel and Apple are in “advanced talks” over the sale of Intel’s modem business, reportedly worth at least $1 billion, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

AMD on Thursday announced it has joined the Compute Express Link (CXL) consortium, the consortium for the PCIe 5.0-based cache-coherent interconnect.

Intel has quietly launched the Xeon Platinum 8284, the new Cascade Lake-SP flagship with an increased base frequency of 3.0 GHz and a list price over $15,000.

Intel announced it has scaled up its 14nm Loihi neuromorphic chip to a 64-chip system, containing over 8 million neurons, and plans a 100 million system by the end of the year.

Tachyum is developing its Prodigy 'universal processor': 64 cores at 4GHz, DDR5, and 72 PCIe 5.0 lanes, packed into just 290mm squared.

Cisco has acquired Acacia Communications for $2.6 billion. Acacia is its supplier of optical interconnect technologies. Cisco views the coherent optical networks market as a growth opportunity.

Intel revealed three new packaging technologies: Co-EMIB stitches multiple Foveros stacks together via EMIB, ODI connects dies, and MDIO is new EMIB interface.

Intel has partnered with Baidu on the development of its upcoming 16nm Nervana Neural Network Processor for Training (NNP-T), both on software and hardware.

Nvidia has presented its RC 18 research chip for inference acceleration. The small 16nm chip with RISC-V core scales to 32 units in a package, delivering over 100 TOPS at over 100W.

Intel announced that it has acquired Barefoot Networks, a provider of Ethernet switching silicon and creator of the P4 networking programming language.

Intel subsidiary Altera has lost a tax case concerning share-based compensation, whose outcome would have had multi-billion dollar implications for many tech companies if Altera had prevailed.

Infineon has announced that it is acquiring Cypress for $10.B. It expects to strengthen its position and growth in IoT, industrial and automotive with the companies' complementary portfolios.

The PCI-SIG organization on Wednesday released the final PCI Express 5.0 specification. The new interconnect standard doubles the bandwidth to 32GT/s per lane, less than two years after PCIe 4.0.

Marvell announced that it's selling its Wi-Fi Connectivity Business to NXP in an all-cash deal valued at $1.76B.

TSMC’s CEO said the company has started volume production of its 7N+ process technology, DigitTimes reported on Friday. It is the company’s first process node to use EUV on a few critical layers.

Intel has reported progress on making optical neural networks a reality. By using light, these chips could be up to 100 times more power efficient and reduce latency by many orders of magnitude.

A leaked roadmap from Huawei reveals that Intel will introduce will introduce DDR5 memory and PCI 5.0 with Sapphire Rapids in 2021.

Intel now officially considers its open-source Linux drivers for Ice Lake’s Gen11 graphics feature-complete, more specifically its OpenGL and Vulkan drivers that are respectively called i915 and ANV

Intel has hired Devon Nekechuk from AMD, the latest in a vast hiring spree of graphics industry veterans to Raja Koduri's group.

Intel reduced its full-year revenue projections against the backdrop of reduced China demand but said its 10nm Ice Lake chips are undergoing qualification.