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[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel acquires Recon, maker of wearable displays for athletes

Chipmaking giant Intel has acquired (http://www.reconinstruments.com/2015/06/intel-acquires-recon-instruments/) Recon Instruments, a maker of wearables specialising in devices for sportspeople and athletes. There were no deal terms officially disclosed but the Vancouver, Canada-based Recon was bought in a deal costing Intel less than $175 million, according (http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/17/intel-acquires-successful-google-glass-competitor-recon-instruments/) to VentureBeat. Intel previously invested in Recon via its capital portfolio.
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As the acquisition takes place Recon has two products on the market; the Recon Jet sunglasses with integrated display for cyclists and runners, and the Recon Snow2 ski mask for the winter sports market. These devices include components such as an accelerometer, gyroscope, altimeter, barometer, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, HD cameras and displays. In 2013 Recon stated that it had shipped 50,000 units of the earlier Snow ski mask. Combined with Recon's software these provide smart wearable sports-centric functionality.
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In a blog post (http://www.reconinstruments.com/2015/06/intel-acquires-recon-instruments/) on the Recon website the firm's co-founder and CEO, Dan Eisenhardt, boldly claims that Intel's acquisition of Recon is "a pivotal event in the consumer electronics industry". Eisenhardt predicts "amazing things" for the wearables industry with Recon folded into Intel and having the resources to grow. He explained that Recon's strong smart eyewear and software ecosystem plus the extensive technology at Intel's disposal would be critical going forward. The 75 employee strong company will now become part of Intel.

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In a complementary blog post (https://blogs.intel.com/technology/2015/06/intel-acquires-recon/) by Intel, senior vice president at Intel, Josh Walden, wrote that the acquisition of Recon "gives Intel a talented, experienced wearable computing team that will help us expand the market for head mounted display products and technologies". Walden assured current Recon customers that "they’ll continue selling, enhancing and marketing their products under the Recon brand without disruption".
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Recon Snow HUD display Intel's purchase of Recon could be considered to be a canny move to accelerate its development efforts in the field of wearables and IoT devices.



Noticia:
http://hexus.net/mobile/news/accessories/84092-intel-acquires-recon-maker-wearable-displays-athletes/

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel slashes five percent of staff

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Things not going that well after all
Chipzilla might be the world leader for chips and squeezing the lift from AMD at the moment, but for some reason it decided to slash five percent of its workforce.

Intel has announced it will reduce its global workforce of 107,000 by about 5 percent this year as the chipmaker tries to save cash.
Apparently Intel is "struggling with falling personal-computer sales" and wants to shifts focus to faster-growing areas.
The announcement, equivalent to over 5,000 positions, comes a day after Intel posted a fourth-quarter earnings report that did little to dispel concerns about a slowing PC industry.
"This is part of aligning our human resources to meet business needs," spokesman Chris Kraeuter said.
The job reductions may include retirements, voluntary programs and other options, Kraeuter said, adding that Intel's typical annual attrition worldwide is about 4 percent so this is mostly going to be a non-hiring policy. But it is still a little surprising.
Chief Financial Officer Stacy Smith alluded to a reduction in employment this year and said that Intel would increase investments in areas such as data centre technology, low-power chips and tablets.
Chipzilla culled 10,000 staff as AMD duffed it up in 2006. Overall number of employees has grown since then and AMD is less of a threat.
Apple's favourite news agency, Reuters with its finger firmly on the pulse of reality, actually claims that Intel has been destroyed by Apple bringing in tablets killing off laptops. Given that laptop sales are growing while tablet sales are falling it is probably better that Reuters finds a reporter which does not write his Apple fantasies as real news stories,
Earlier this week, Intel said a newly built factory in Chandler, Arizona, originally slated as a $5 billion project that in late 2013 would start producing Intel's most advanced chips, would remain closed for the foreseeable future while other factories at the same site are upgraded.
Last September, Intel said it would close an old factory in Massachusetts, eliminating about 700 jobs.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/38035-intel-slashes-five-percent-of-staff


Despedimentos nunca são boas noticias...

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Joins Industry Leaders in Open Container Project (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/06/23/intel_joins_industry_leaders_in_open_container_pro ject/)

Today at DockerCon, Intel announced it is teaming with (http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2015/06/22/chip-shot-intel-joins-industry-leaders-in-open-container-project-demos-secure-containers) a broad coalition of industry leaders as inaugural members of the Open Container Project (OCP). The OCP was established to create open, common standards for software container technology to ensure true interoperability across container environments, protecting against industry fragmentation and assisting in the broad proliferation of container-based solutions to the enterprise. As part of this effort, Intel is demonstrating secure containers through the integration of Intel® Cloud Integrity Technology (CIT) 3.0 software with Docker containers. The integration is designed to assure a trusted launch of containerized applications by extending the chain of trust up through the Docker container image and application itself. The demo will be showcased in Intel booth #P1.

Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/06/23/intel_joins_industry_leaders_in_open_container_pro ject#.VYpywkb0OTQ

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel IDF 2015 to take place on August 18th

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Expect Skylake and more
It has been a public secret that Intel was planning to pull in the Intel Developers Forum to August 2015.

It is now official, as Intel finally announced that instead of hosting this year's IDF in the second week of September like many years before, it will hold its biggest event between August 18th and 20th (http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intel-developer-forum-idf/san-francisco/2015/idf-2015-san-francisco.html). There was one huge problem with the second week of September timing. What happened a few times in the last few years is that Apple had its keynote almost at the exact same time as Intel. Apple usually holds its iPhone event in the second week or September.
Key members of the press would have to choose which one to addend, in case that they were on Apple love list. The second reason we hear is that Skylake, second generation 14nm core is ready to launch. Intel wants to make a big splashy announcement at its biggest event. CEO Bryan Krzanich is expected to hold a day one presentation and show Skylake in action, as well as the successor, probably called Cannon Lake, a new 10nm part.
Intel cannot wait to show you the desktop, notebooks that will define late 2015 and Intel is anxious to show you a cableless notebook. The company showed off a wireless charger last year, but this year it will launch it commercially.
Skylake-S, Skylake-U and Skylake-Y SKUs are expected to start shipping in Q4 2015, or about a month after Intel's introduction. Some other versions of Skylake will launch a bit later in Q1 2016. Intel has quite a strong roadmap for late 2015 and early 2016, but many are anxious to see Intel's 10nm plans. Last time we heard there were a Cannonlake 10nm processor scheduled for late 2016, but we will have to wait and see if Intel can manage to introduce 10nm processors in 2016.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/38099-intel-idf-2015-to-takes-place-on-august-18th

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel 28nm 4G AP missing until early 2016

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Have they looked down the back of the SoFIA?
Chipzilla has been hinting that the design for its Intel's 28nm SoFIA 4G application processor is ready for mass production but a rumour from the Far East (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20150629PD202.html) suggests that it will not be launched until the beginning of next year.


The delay is not because of the hardware, but the fact that Intel cannot get the software to run properly.
This means for the rest of the year Intel will still need to rely on its SoFIA 3G/3G-R APs to prop up is mobile device AP business and may miss the business opportunities from the 4G market.
Fortunately Intel is so far ahead on the mobile market in terms of market share so it is probably happy to lose a bit of the 4G market which is expected to grow like topsy in the second half of this year.
Intel must be hoping that its software issues will be ironed out early in 2016 when it is hoping for its 14nm SoFIA product line is already planned for late-2016. This could mean that Chipzilla could overlap with the 28nm one from early 2016.
Intel only has a system which uses an independent XMM baseband with an Atom AP for its 4G product lineup, and this has been causing many of its rivals to smirk. Particularly in China where it costs a bomb to make.
Intel has been working on integrating two chips into an SoC for its SoFIA product line since the end of 2014 to improve things. .
SoFIA 4G was originally scheduled for 2015 and then delayed until early 2016. Now with Intel only being able to provide baseband+AP solutions for 4G demand in 2015, the CPU giant may find it difficult to persuade clients that having Intel inside is worth a hill of beans.
Intel's second-generation SoFIA 4G AP, based on a 14nm process, will become available in late-2016 and could put the first-generation SoFIA 4G AP based on a TSMC 28nm process, This means that the 28nm AP to have a shorter life expectancy than a fruit fly fed on an "all American diet/"
Chipzilla might cover its mistake by offering cheap prices for the 28nm SoFIA 4G AP and push the 14nm one to the high-end. Either way its bottom line is once again going to be thoroughly spanked.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/38108-intel-28nm-4g-ap-missing-until-early-2016

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Announces Leadership Changes (http://www.techpowerup.com/214006/intel-announces-leadership-changes.html)

Today Intel Corporation's CEO, Brian Krzanich, announced a series of leadership and organizational changes in a message to employees. Intel President Renée James informed the board that she will be stepping down as President of Intel to pursue an external CEO role. She has agreed to stay at Intel until January in order to transition the Executive Office. In connection with today's news, James today distributed an employee message about her plans.

In addition, other leadership and organizational changes that are being made to streamline operations and better position Intel for growth include: Arvind Sodhani, President of Intel Capital, will retire in January after a distinguished 35-year career with the company. President of Mergers and Acquisitions Wendell Brooks will take an expanded role to also become President of Intel Capital. Merging these teams under one leader will allow clear focus across all investment opportunities for Intel.

On July 1, the Intel Security organization - formerly the independent McAfee division - was formally integrated into Intel operations under the leadership of General Manager Chris Young. This integration will deliver better technologies for our customers and more effective operations that enable Intel Security to advance the state of security across the industry.

Intel Communication and Devices Group General Manager Aicha Evans has been elevated to the company's Management Committee, reflecting the leadership role she plays across Intel's business and the importance of communication and mobility to the company's growth strategy and product portfolio.

Josh Walden, General Manager of Intel's New Technology Group, now leads all product and research teams that create and deploy new technology categories, such as interactive computing devices, perceptual computing and wearable devices. He is responsible for expanding the power of Moore's Law into entirely new categories.

Associated with these changes, Intel executives Hermann Eul and Mike Bell will leave the company after a transition period.

"We are aligning our leadership structure to continue to become more efficient in order to deliver the benefits of our strategy even faster than before," said Krzanich.

"Over the past 28 years, Renée has contributed immeasurably to Intel," he continued. "On behalf of the Board and management team, we sincerely thank Renée for her tireless efforts toward building the business that we have today, and we fully support her in this decision."

Noticia:
http://www.techpowerup.com/214006/intel-announces-leadership-changes.html

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel's Brian Krzanich announces change of a few management positions


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</header><article><center style="clear:both;margin:30px 0"></center>In a recent press release, Intel Corporation CEO Brian Krzanich announced some leadership changes within his company, ranging from Presidents to operational management.


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First off is Intel President Renée James, said to be stepping down in order to "pursue an external CEO role" after January 2016. Intel's President of Capital, Arvind Sodhani, will retire in January after 35 years in the technology giant and Wendell Brooks, President of Mergers and Acquisitions, will also manage Intel Capital.

Further to this, Aicha Evans formerly from Intel Communication and Devices Group has been promoted into the Management Committee and Josh Walden will lead all product and research teams involved in creation and deployment of new technology categories. In addition, executives Hermann Eul and Mike Bell will leave after a transition period.

Krzanich praised James for past efforts, stating "On behalf of the Board and management team, we sincerely thank Renée for her tireless efforts toward building the business that we have today, and we fully support her in this decision."

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[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel needs to stop taking the tablets

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No one believes in homeopathic mobile remedies
Analysts are hinting that Intel is not going to do well out of mobile chips and should probably give up trying.

Chipzilla has spent a fortune on getting into mobile after it dropped the ball at the beginning of the smartphone boom. But analysts are starting to warn that money is being wasted and indeed the sales of mobile chips for Intel is actually sinking.
Digitimes now says that 2015 will see just 10.8 million Intel-powered Android tablets down from 14.23 million shipped a year earlier.
Chipzilla is making money from Android handsets but only more than 10 million of which are expected to have Intel inside this year.
Over all this figure is tiny. It has been estimated that the world will make 230 million tablets and phablets this year and IDC thinks there will be 1.447 billion smartphones. So this means that Intel's cut is tiny.
What will save Intel are those two-in-one PC and tablet blends which will push Intel's overall mobile CPU sales up to 46 million a year. This is good, and means that Intel will probably continue to make money, it is just that it will not make it from tablets and smartphones.
One has to question what is Intel trying to do in those markets anyway? Tablets are dying and pretty soon will be as out of date as a tape based Walkman. Smartphones sales are expected to fall and any way the margins on those are pretty pointless. The two-in-ones are born from Intel's Core-M range which is rather natty and a much better focus for x86 anyway.
What appears to be keeping Intel interested in mobile is this stubborn belief in the Internet of Things which everyone is certain is going to be the next most important technology breakthrough.
However so far the only thing we have seen from this technology are gadgets like watches which have been greeted by a loud sounding yawn. It would be much better for Intel to walk away from the fiddly mobile stuff and focus on mobile office chips.

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Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/38205-intel-needs-to-stop-taking-the-tablets

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel reports Q2 financials, qualifies Skylake chips for production

Intel has released its financial results for Q2 2015. The company reported operating income of $2.9 billion on revenue of $13.2 billion, down 25% and 5% respectively from a year ago. Gross margin fell two points year-over-year to 62.5%, while earnings per share remained flat at 55 cents.
Here's a tabular summary of the results:

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Q2 2015
Q2 2014
Change


Revenue
$13.2 billion
$13.8 billion
down 5%


Operating income
$2.9 billion
$4.9 billion
down 25%


Net income
$2.7 billion
$2.8 billion
down 3%


Gross margin
62.5%
64.5%
down 2 points

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Performance results by group were mixed. The Client Computing Group took in $7.5 billion, down 14% from a year ago, and the company's software and services businesses saw revenue of $534 million, down 3% from this time last year. Other sectors had brighter results: the Data Center Group brought in $3.9 billion, up 10% from a year ago, while the company's Internet of Things business brought in $559 million, up four percent year-over-year.
CEO Brian Krzanich pointed to the results as evidence of the company's broadening focus, noting that 70% of operating profits came from growth in the data center, memory, and Internet of Things spheres. Those businesses helped to offset a soft PC market.
Looking forward, the company reports that it has qualified its sixth-generation "Skylake" Core processors for production during the second half of the year. Along with these chips, Intel thinks that the release of new PCs with Windows 10 will "bring excitement to client computing" later this year. For Q3 2015, the company forecasts revenue of $14.3 billion, plus or minus $500 million, and a gross margin of 63%, plus or minus "a couple of percentage points."



Noticia:
http://techreport.com/news/28641/intel-reports-q2-financials-qualifies-skylake-chips-for-production


Mesmo tendo uma ligeira quebra, os números continuam impressionantes.

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Security Positioned As A Leader In The Gartner Magic Quadrant For SIEM (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/07/31/intel_security_positioned_as_leader_in_gartner_mag ic_quadrant_for_siem/)

Intel Security today announced (http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2015/07/30/chip-shot-intel-security-positioned-as-a-leader-in-the-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-siem) that leading research firm Gartner, Inc. has positioned the company in the leaders quadrant for its "Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management" (SIEM) as published on July 20, 20151. According to the report, "Organizations are failing at early breach detection, with more than 92% of breaches undetected by the breached organization. The situation can be improved with stronger threat intelligence, the addition of behavior profiling and better analytics." Additionally, the report highlights that "during 2014, the SIEM market grew from $1.5 billion to approximately $1.69 billion, achieving a growth rate of about 14%. The primary drivers that were in place at the start of 2014 remain in effect. Threat management is the primary driver, and compliance remains a secondary driver."

Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/07/31/intel_security_positioned_as_leader_in_gartner_mag ic_quadrant_for_siem#.VbttrPn0OTQ

[Jorge-Vieira]

Has VIA Sold a Portion of its Company Assets to Intel?

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VIA Technologies has announced part of the company will be sold under a new branch entitled, VIA Telecom. The deal is estimated to be worth $100 million and has already been completed with an undisclosed buyer. VIA is the world”s largest manufacturer of motherboard chipsets and produces other components including CPUs and Memory. Intel are the most likely source of the investment with enough capital to expand their stronghold in the PC and mobile sector.
According to VIA’s official statement (http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/pressroom/pressrelease.jsp?press_release_no=8507), the takeover should be completed by the fourth quarter of this year barring any last minute disagreements. We reached out to both Intel and VIA but neither commented to deny or confirm the alleged agreement.
Hopefully, more substantial evidence will emerge in the coming weeks but I highly doubt any other major technology firm are interested in VIA. As with any unconfirmed reports, it’s important to remain cautious but I’m fairly confident that Intel are the purchasing party. Does this mean Intel’s dominance is becoming a complete monopoly? Only time will tell, and the lack of real competition is hindering any kind of price wars or significant increases in compute performance.
I do wonder what the future holds for VIA and if they are considering selling off even more assets so Intel can use their financial resources to develop upcoming technologies.



Noticia:
http://www.eteknix.com/via-sold-portion-company-assets-intel/

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Boa tarde,

A Intel não devia comprar só uma parte da VIA, devia comprar TUDO! Intel é que é, qual VIA qual quê...

Cumprimentos.

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel doubles referral bonus for women and minority hires


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Intel is offering incentives (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/08/03/intel-doubles-up-on-hiring-women-and-minorities/?mod=ST1) of up to $4000 to staff who refer women, minorities, and veterans to its workforce. The fee is double the chipmaker’s current referral bonus and is seen as a way to diversify its predominately white, male personnel.
The move is part of Intel’s ongoing $300 million Diversity in Technology initiative (http://newsroom.intel.com/docs/DOC-6308), which aims to invest in training and recruiting female and other groups of underrepresented computer scientists. The company said it aims to have a fully diverse workforce by 2020. According to a 2014 report (http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/company-overview/equal-employment-opportunity-employer-info-report.html), Intel’s US workforce was 76 percent male and 56 percent white.

Intel is committed to increase the diversity of our workforce. We are currently offering our employees an additional incentive to help us attract diverse qualified candidates in a competitive environment for talent. This is not the first time we have offered employees referral incentives for diverse candidates, and it’s a commonly used recruitment tool for businesses. Today, it’s one of many programs we are deploying to attract talented women and underrepresented minorities to Intel.
Intel isn’t the only tech giant looking at ways to diversify its workforce; Facebook, Google and Apple have all launched similar initiatives aimed at addressing the underrepresentation of woman and minorities in the IT sector.
Facebook recently started a program (http://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-tests-program-to-boost-diversity-in-the-workplace/) within a handful of divisions that requires the applicant pool for a job to include at least one minority. Google is also attempting diversify its workforce by pledging $150 million to focus on diversity initiatives this year, up from $115 million in 2014. Moreover, in addition to hiring more women and minorities, Apple announced that it would ensure equal opportunities in the workplace for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals.
The issues of workplace diversity and the treatment of women and minorities within tech companies have been under the spotlight recently, with several Silicon Valley firms facing high-profile lawsuits and charges of discrimination.



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http://www.techspot.com/news/61645-intel-doubles-referral-bonus-women-minority-hires.html#commentsOffset

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Sets New Bar for Diversity Reporting (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/08/12/intel_sets_new_bar_for_diversity_reporting)

Intel today released (http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2015/08/12/chip-shot-intel-sets-new-bar-for-diversity-reporting) its first mid-year 2015 U.S. Diversity in Technology Report, the most in-depth and transparent report from a tech company to date. The update details positive, measurable progress in workforce demographics and diversity programs toward Intel’s goal to reach full representation of women and underrepresented minorities in its U.S. workforce by 2020. Intel is tracking to 43.3 percent diverse hires for 2015, exceeding its goal of 40 percent diverse hires for the year, including improvements in representation of underrepresented minorities and women in the workforce and in leadership positions. Rosalind Hudnell, Chief Diversity Officer, offers more insights about the report in a blog post and more information is available at intel.com/newsroom/diversity.

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http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/08/12/intel_sets_new_bar_for_diversity_reporting#.VctkZv n0OTQ

[Jorge-Vieira]

Autodesk's Pixlr* Leveraging Intel RealSense Technology (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/08/13/autodesks_pixlr_leveraging_intel_realsense_technol ogy/)

Today, Intel announced (http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2015/08/12/chip-shot-autodesk-s-pixlr-leveraging-intel-realsense-technology) that its Intel® RealSense™ technology is now featured in Autodesk’s latest version of its online image editor, Pixlr*. Intel software engineers worked closely with Autodesk to enable Pixlr to capture 3D image data using the Intel RealSense 3D camera, allowing users to seamlessly extract, replace or enhance the foreground and background in real time (no green-screen required). What used to be a multi-step, time-consuming and somewhat technical editing process is now quick and simple for anyone who loves taking and sharing great photos. Intel will be sharing updates on Intel RealSense Technology at the Intel Developer Forum on August 18-20.

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http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/08/13/autodesks_pixlr_leveraging_intel_realsense_technol ogy#.Vcyg7fn0OTQ

[Jorge-Vieira]

Nine Intel Employees Receive Society of Women Engineer Awards (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/08/18/nine_intel_employees_receive_society_women_enginee r_awards/)

Nine Intel employees recently received Society of Women Engineer Awards (http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2015/08/17/chip-shot-nine-intel-employees-receive-society-of-women-engineer-awards). The annual awards program recognizes men and women who enhance the engineering profession through contributions to industry, education and the community. Congratulations to the following Intel award recipients: Hussein K. Mecklai (Rodney D. Chipp Memorial Award); Patty Lopez, Ph.D. (Advocating Women in Engineering Award); Joan Tafoya (Global Leadership Award); Lakecia Gunter and Rahima K. Mohammed, Ph.D. (Prism Awards); Barbara H. McAllister (Spark Award); Sumita Basu, Ph.D. and Shaila Murty, (Emerging Leader Award); and Lynda Grindstaff (Fellow Grade Award). Award recipients will be honored at a ceremony at WE15, the world’s largest conference for women engineers in October.

Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/08/18/nine_intel_employees_receive_society_women_enginee r_awards#.VdNVs5f0OTQ

[Jorge-Vieira]

The End Of An Era: With Thanks And Gratitude For An Intel PR Professional


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There’s an old saying that goes something like “people do business with people they like.” If any shred of that adage is true, then Intel’s soon exiting PR Manager, Dan Snyder, has it “going on,” so to speak, on a number of levels. Dan has the privilege and good fortune to work for one of the most capable and powerful semiconductor manufacturers on the planet. With that power and capability comes a lot of attention and focus. Almost justifiably so, Dan could have been very hard to approach, tougher to access and even more difficult perhaps to relate to. Why? Because he works for Intel, a company affectionately referred to as “Chipzilla” over the years and frankly, as members of the press, you may or may not justify the blip on his radar screen or the bandwidth to engage with him. It’s simple physics and nothing personal. When you’re Intel PR, you get a lot of attention and a lot of requests and there are only so many hours in a day and even fewer in a week.

However, when Dan took over at Intel (http://hothardware.com/tags/intel) for his then semi-retiring predecessor, George Alfs (a man cut very much from the same cloth as Dan), he quickly got up to speed with us and it was readily apparent that he was looking to develop valuable, lasting relationships with members of the press and analyst community. Dan could have had his contact filters dialed up high, just to get through the day, but that just isn’t his style. A response was always given (whether you liked it or not) and any reasonable action item followed-up on.

After a few years of working with this gentleman had passed, my business partner Marco and I began to realize that “Dan The Man” as we call him, from Intel, was the real deal. Not only was he highly professional, diligent, skilled, informed and quick to follow-up in his approach, he “got it.” Referring to someone that “gets it” is sometime noted casually in business. It's typically referring to someone you work with that has a knack for knowing just what needs to be done and then appropriately responding in a timely manner. You don’t have to worry about where you stand with people that “get it.” They’re transparent and there’s no mystery. You don’t have to worry about whether or not they’ll do what they say. People that "get it" say what they’ll do and then do what they said, every time, without fail. People that “get it” not only understand their business partner’s needs and goals, but they find a way to mesh those needs with the goals of the company they work for, one way or another and intrinsically so, usually without much if any guidance. They truly "get" the bigger picture.

Dan Snyder of Intel Corporation gets it and always has. He will be sorely missed.

This week at Intel Developer’s Forum in San Francisco, Dan informed key members of the Tech press community that he was moving on from his PR Manager’s role at Intel. Believe me when I tell you, a collective gasp was let out across the Internet. Dan has been working with us for a very long time, from Conroe to Skulltrail (http://hothardware.com/news/something-cool-for-hh-fans), Haswell and Skylake and every winding path (or board etch) in between. We had been to so many CES, IDF and other conferences with him, endless conference calls and meetings, that the years just seemed to blur together. He wasn’t just a PR Manager at Intel. He was/is a fixture; an employee so ingrained in the company he works for, that his persona and personal brand equity pays dividends virtually daily for the company in return, and in spades.


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Dan, on top of it as usual...

In this business (in any business really but especially in Tech) you have to learn to handle the constant change and to just roll with it. It’s quite literally evolve or die in this space. Still, not working with Dan Snyder of Intel PR feels like an unimaginable reality. Dan was and is Intel (http://hothardware.com/tags/intel) for so many in the professional Tech press and analyst industries.

At the risk of sounding a little sappy, one simple word comes to mind when we here at HotHardware.com think of Dan Snyder from Intel – “revered.” For us here at Hot Hardware Dan is the best in the business. People do business with people they like. It's common sense and human nature. It has truly been an honor and unique privilege to work with Dan for the past decade or more.

Great working with you Dan. We’ll carry on of course but it just won’t be the same without you.

Dave Altavilla
Editor In Chief


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Members of ASUS, Western Digital, HotHardware.com And Dan Snyder (far right, back) - CES 2011



Noticia:
http://hothardware.com/blogs/post/the-end-of-an-era-with-thanks-and-gratitude-for-an-intel-pr-professional

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Intel: Our foundry business is well, we have new customers (http://www.kitguru.net/components/anton-shilov/intel-our-foundry-business-continues-to-go-well-we-have-new-customers/)


Brian Krzanich, chief executive officer of Intel Corp., claims that despite of lack of any announcements concerning its contract semiconductor manufacturing business unit, the latter is growing and is still an important opportunity for the chip giant. Moreover, it has new customers that Intel just cannot name.
Intel established its Intel Custom Foundry (ICF) contract manufacturing division within its technology and manufacturing group in early 2010, but so far, IFC has not secured any tangible market share in the foundry market, according to analysts. Intel has been traditionally extremely tight-lipped about IFC’s ongoing endeavours, future plans, prospects and clients. In May, 2015, Sunit Rikhi, general manager of Intel Custom Foundry, retired and the replacement is yet to be named.
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Since its foundation, Intel Custom Foundry has announced only six customers: Altera (now a division of Intel), Achronix Semiconductor, Tabula (defunct), Netronome, Microsemi and Panasonic. By contrast, leading foundries like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., GlobalFoundries and United Microelectronics Corp. have hundreds of customers. But while there are only six clients officially, there are a lot of companies, who work with IFC, according to Brian Krzanich.
“The foundry business continues to go well,” chief executive of Intel said in an interview with EETimes (http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1327478&page_number=1). “We have new customers. Altera is a customer. A lot of customers we are working with do not want to announce until they are ready to go to market because they have relationships with other foundries. They want to stay quiet. But we are out getting new customers all the time.”
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Intel needs its contract semiconductor business to maximize utilization of its production facilities and offset increasing costs of research and development (R&D) of new manufacturing processes. Every new fabrication process costs more than the previous one and the cost of new fabs is growing as well. Today, R&D costs of one process technology total $1 – $1.5 billion, whereas capital investments in a new production facility typically exceed $6 billion. Future process technologies will get even more expensive and the cost of a 450mm semiconductor fabrication plant will be around $10 billion. In a bid to keep per-chip costs low, Intel and other makers of ICs [integrated circuits] need to maximize utilization of their fabs, which means that either Intel has to constantly increase its chip sales, or produce chips for others.
At present it is unknown how much money does Intel earn by making chips for other developers. It is also unclear whether the company produces any ICs for its clients using 14nm FinFET process technology.



Noticia:
http://www.kitguru.net/components/anton-shilov/intel-our-foundry-business-continues-to-go-well-we-have-new-customers/


Sendo a Intel líder no processo de fabrico e muito provavelmente a sua facturação seja superior a todos os outros concorrentes juntos, a Intel trabalha com o objectivo de produzir os seus próprios produtos e só isso deve chegar para cobrir todo o investimento feito em R&D.

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CSIRO picks Intel's Edison for bee-tracking project

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Intel has announced that it has partnered with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) of Australia in a project which uses the Edison microcomputer to track bee activity.

In an effort to understand colony collapse disorder, which is wiping out bee populations across the globe, CSIRO has joined forces with Intel to develop an analysis platform which combines the company's low-power ultra-compact Edison single-board computer with small radiofrequency identification (RFID) tags fitted to the bees themselves. The Edison-powered monitoring systems are placed inside the beehive and records when each RFID-tagged bee passes by. Combined with environmental sensors linked to the Edison, this provides data which could be used to help protect bee populations around the globe.

'Bee colonies are collapsing around the world and we don’t know why,' explained Professor Paulo de Souza, Office of the Chief Executive Science Leader at CSIRO. 'Due to the urgent and global nature of this issue, we saw the need to develop a methodology that any scientist could easily deploy. This way we can share and compare data from around the world to collaboratively investigate bee health. This united effort is a fantastic example of the Internet of Things. The Intel Edison Breakout Board kit is the perfect platform for this type of research. It’s incredibly reliable, small in size, flexible with programming, and has low power consumption. It’s also easily customisable which means that if a scientist has a sensor they would like to add, they can virtually plug in and play.'

The Edison was originally unveiled (http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2014/01/07/intel-edison/1) as an SD-card format microcomputer powered by Intel's ultra-low-power Quark processor. The Quark's dated, Pentium-based instructions set led to poor performance, however, and the company soon switched to the Atom chip (http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2014/03/31/intel-edison-atom/1) while retaining the Quark as a co-processor. A move away from the SD format followed, with the final design taking the form of a stamp-sized computer-on-module which connects to open-standard break-out boards.

The bee-tracking project began with a trial outing in Hobart, Tasmania, with 10,000 RFID tags being fitted to the backs of bees. Following its success, CSIRO is looking for collaborators to pick up kits based on the technology and fit them to their local hives as a means of building a global picture of bee activity and health, under the banner of CSIRO's Global Initiative for Honeybee Health (GIHH) project. More information on both the project and the kit is available from the official website (https://research.csiro.au/gihh/).

Noticia:
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2015/08/25/csiro-intel-edison/1

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel and BlueData Collaborate to Simplify Big Data Infrastructure (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/08/25/intel_bluedata_collaborate_to_simplify_big_data_in frastructure/)

ntel Corporation and BlueData today announced (http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2015/08/25/intel-and-bluedata-collaborate-to-simplify-big-data-infrastructure-intel-capital-makes-additional-equity-investment-in-bluedata) a broad strategic technology and business collaboration, as well as an additional equity investment in BlueData from Intel Capital. This relationship will bring together BlueData's infrastructure software for big data with the leading data center architecture based on Intel® Xeon® processor technology. The goal is to accelerate the adoption of big data solutions by simplifying deployment. This builds upon Intel's existing investments and initiatives in the big data market, including Intel's strategic collaboration with Cloudera* for Apache Hadoop* as well as recent projects focused on Apache Spark*.

Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/08/25/intel_bluedata_collaborate_to_simplify_big_data_in frastructure#.Vdyaw5f0OTQ

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel gets into drones

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Buy our chips or else
Chipmaker Intel is taking its competitive game up a notch by investing in its own drones.

Chipzilla has written a cheque for more than US$60 million to Yuneec International, a Chinese aviation company and drone maker.
This is not the first time that the Chipmaker has invested in drones. It has written smaller amounts for the drone makers Airware and PrecisionHawk. The Yuneec deal is its largest investment in a drone company yet.
Apparently Intel thinks that drones are potential computing platforms for its processors.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said he believed in a smart and connected world. And one of the best ways to bring that smart and connected world to everyone and everywhere has been drones.
Amazon and Google are developing drones as they seek new ways to deliver items to consumers, Intel just wants to make sure that its chips are delivering the payload. There is no indication that it is building a secret airforce which it will use to take down competition – that would be silly.
Yuneec makes a range of drones built for aerial photography and imaging. Its technology also powers manned electric aircraft.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/wearables/38569-intel-gets-into-drones


Será que os drones trazem este logotipo :D
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[Jorge-Vieira]

OpenStack missing important bits says Intel

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Promises to help it out
Intel has told OpenStack fans that their favourite software is missing some important bits, and it wants to help out.

Intel told the OpenStack Silicon Valley conference to expand on its commitment to OpenStack as the platform to create more cloudy goodness.
Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Data Centre Group said that Chipzilla uses OpenStack infrastructure in its data centres and has done so since 2011.
But she said that Intel faced similar problems to other companies, in that its internal servers were running at about 10 percent utilisation and it took too long to provision new infrastructure. The way around this was building it into a private infrastructure-as-a-service cloud instead, using OpenStack to address the problems.
Intel is getting behind OpenStack by putting investment and engineering resources into the open-source project to help it advance. Intel says the platform needs to be more enterprise-ready.

"There are still features missing from OpenStack that enterprises require, such as failover, version control, management to integrate into existing infrastructure, ticketing and monitoring," she said.

"Our goal at Intel is to eliminate impediments to growth and create tens of thousands of new clouds. Building a cloud should be as seamless and easy as loading a new operating system. To make this possible, we will invest in the cloud stack, optimise for high efficiency and work with the community to ensure interoperability."
As part of the "Cloud for All" initiative Intel is working with Rackspace, with which it has already partnered to set up the OpenStack Innovation Centre. Mirantis is engineering the equivalent capabilities into OpenStack.
Boris Renski, co-founder of Mirantis, said that Intel's increased involvement had significant symbolic value.

"OpenStack is hard, but not too long ago Linux was hard, such that the most common consumption model was shipping it ready installed on a server," he said.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/38584-openstack-missing-important-bits-says-intel

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Security To Showcase Cloud Security Solutions At VMworld (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/08/31/intel_security_to_showcase_cloud_solutions_at_vmwo rld/)

Intel will be exhibiting at VMworld (http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2015/08/28/chip-shot-intel-security-to-showcase-cloud-security-solutions-at-vmworld), Aug. 30-Sept. 3, in booth #1529. Intel Security will host two demo stations and two breakout sessions focused on its advanced security services for the software defined data center. The demos will highlight McAfee MOVE AV, McAfee vNSP and the Intel Security Controller showing how they integrate with VMware NSX. The breakout session titled "Data Center in Transition – A Journey to a Secure Hybrid Data Center" is scheduled for Wednesday, September 2, from 11AM to 12PM PT. The second session, "Utilizing Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) to Enable Advanced Threat Protection in Cloud Environments" is scheduled for Thursday, September 3, from 12PM to 1PM PT and will feature Matt Ferrari, CTO of ClearDATA, discussing how he uses this solution to provide advanced security services to its healthcare application customers. To see Intel Security demos, stop by the Intel booth #1529 at VMworld, at Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/08/31/intel_security_to_showcase_cloud_solutions_at_vmwo rld#.VeRdnpf0OTQ

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel might have miffed the Tablet market

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Why do you need one?

As Intel unveiled its Skylake chips yesterday it was hammering in another nail in the coffin of tablets.

Tablet sales have been slumping as the world discovers that Steve Jobs dreams of keyboardless netbooks were just an Apple Kool-Aid inspired bad trip.
While Intel has been spending a fortune trying to get its chips under the bonnets of the various Apple clones, Skylake might be the tool, which disembowels the technology.
Skylake will allow a PC to cut its weight and thickness in half, while speeding up the overall performance. It needs less heating, making some laptops go fanless, and almost no wires with its USB-C cable compatibility.
Notebooks with Skylake will look sleek as tablets, have a great battery life, a keyboard you can type on and be light. It will also have all the Windows 10 goodness you can eat which makes your device a PC rather than a poxy mobile phone
The question is why would you bother with a standalone tablet?
IDC analyst Loren Loverde warned that the new features supported by Skylake, and in combination with Windows 10, will enable more attractive PC designs that will address today's needs better than older products, and compete better with tablets and phones.
Another IDC analyst, Shane Rau, said that it would now be the PC markets, which will make a comeback.
But that doesn't mean the tablet market will disappear overnight. Skylake will not be available on laptops until later this year, and it takes a long time to revive a market as big as the PC business.
The Tame Apple Press insists that Apple will save the tablet with its even bigger iPad later this year.
It is odd to see Apple pundits forced to peddle out-of-date old-fashioned technology, however amusing this might be. Sooner or later someone is going to have to admit that tablets were never the game changer Apple said they were.



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http://www.fudzilla.com/news/38639-intel-might-have-miffed-the-tablet-market

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Invests US$50 Million to Advance Quantum Computing (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/09/03/intel_invests_us50_million_to_advance_quantum_comp uting/)

Today Intel Corporation announced (http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2015/09/03/intel-invests-us50-million-to-advance-quantum-computing) a 10-year collaborative relationship with the Delft University of Technology and TNO, the Dutch Organisation for Applied Research, to accelerate advancements in quantum computing. To achieve this goal, Intel will invest US$50 million and will provide significant engineering resources both on-site and at Intel, as well as technical support. Quantum computing holds the promise of solving complex problems that are practically insurmountable today, including intricate simulations such as large-scale financial analysis and more effective drug development. Quantum computing is an area of research that Intel has been exploring because it has the potential to augment the capabilities of tomorrow's high performance computers.

Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/09/03/intel_invests_us50_million_to_advance_quantum_comp uting#.VehKUpf0OTQ

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Announces Intel Media Server Studio 2016 (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/09/04/intel_announces_media_server_studio_2016/)

Today, Intel announced Intel® Media Server Studio 2016 (http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2015/09/03/chip-shot-faster-video-transcoding-and-transition-to-hevc-and-4k), a family of software products that includes Intel® Video Pro Analyzer and Intel® Stress Bitstreams and Encoder. Created for media and cloud developers as well as video professionals and broadcasters, these products help them create solutions that deliver faster video downloads and high-quality streaming video. Intel Media Server Studio 2016 enables real-time 4K HEVC video encoding on select Intel® Xeon® E5 processors and delivers a large improvement in streaming density for Xeon E5, E3, and Intel® Core™ i7 platforms, of up to 1.5 times faster and 10 percent better visual quality than the 2015 version. The tools support the BT.2020 color gamut on Ultra HD TVs, providing viewers a TV color palette that more accurately resembles real life. Developers can also build robust video coding solutions and deeply analyze and debug HEVC, VP9, AVC and MPEG-2 video streams. Intel Video Pro Analyzer 2016 and Intel Stress Bitstreams and Encoder 2016 will be available on Sept.14, and Intel Media Server Studio 2016 editions will launch in the coming weeks. See the Intel Media Server Studio products in action at IBC in Amsterdam, September 11-15, in Hall 4, booth #B72.

Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/09/04/intel_announces_media_server_studio_2016#.Vemnb5f0 OTQ

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Bails On High School ‘Science Talent Search’ It Has Sponsored Since 1998

Intel (http://hothardware.com/tags/intel) has chosen to end support for the Science Talent Search, an annual science and mathematics competition for American high school students. As part of the contest, each year 40 finalists are brought to Washington for meetings with government leaders and industry professionals.

The competition began as an essay contest in 1942 with the topic "How science can help win the war." The male winner, known as "Top Boy," later developed an artificial kidney, while the "Top Girl" would go on to become an ophthalmologist. Since its inception, competitors have included eight Nobel Prize winners. Also among the contest's ranks through the years are university professors, accomplished scientists, and other prominent individuals.


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Intel has been sponsoring the competition since 1998. The New York Times called Intel's decision to drop support a "puzzling" one considering it costs $6 million a year, a drop in the buck compared to Intel's annual revenue, which was reported at $55.6 billion in 2014.

A former chief executive of Intel said he was "surprised and a little disappointed" at the turn of events. He also indicated that Intel seems "more interested in applied things," such as the Maker Faire.

The contest continues to be popular with around 1,800 applications a year. Back in March of this year, President Obama met with finalists at the White House. Going forward, it's expected that another corporation will step in to support the program once Intel's commitment ends in 2017, with Google named as a potential candidate.






Noticia:
http://hothardware.com/news/intel-bails-on-high-school-science-talent-search-it-has-sponsored-since-1998#ixzz3lHI9Zvg1

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel pounces on better bandwidth router chips

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Puma 7 lands on its paws
Intel has released its new Puma 7 DOCSIS 3.1 chip and while router chips are normally a bit of a yawn this one could lead to multi-gigabit cable modems.

Puma 7 chip is fabricated on the same 14-nm process as Intel's latest 'Skylake' Core chips that mean that it can run cool in fanless designs. OK a router normally does not need a fan, but it does mean that the beast will be a lot more energy efficient.
Intel said that inside it is a dual-core Atom chip, Intel said, which can run Linux or another OS through a virtualisation feature.
Other features include support a packet accelerator, support for third-party 4x4 MIMO Wi-Fi and even voice recognition modules, the company said. Puma 7 supports HyperScan, which is a way for the chip to do some on-the-fly scanning for malware or potential hackers.
DOCSIS 3.1 is the next evolutionary step in cable modems because it allows 10 Gbps down and 1 Gbps upstream. Even if four Mbps downstream speeds are more realistic, that is enough for simultaneous 4K streams.
Chipzilla is facing some competition. Comcast and Liberty Global have supported a DOCSIS 3.1 chip manufactured by Broadcom. ST Micro has also shown off its own system.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/38728-intel-moves-to-better-bandwidth-chips

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel thinks PCs will come back

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But tablets are history
The PC will make a comeback, but the so-called Tablet revolution is history, according to the Chipmaker who missed out on it.

Kirk Skaugen, GM of Intel's client computing group told the Intel Global Capital Summit that there are more than a billion PCs that are more than three years old and a third of a billion that are over five years old. People are coming back to the PC and refreshing their systems.
It used to be that people upgraded every two years or so, but in the last five years silicon has got so powerful that no one saw the need. The problem is that they still don’t and Skaugen hopes that two-in-one detachable-screen systems, will be a major growth driver.
Sales of two-in-one systems are up 150 per cent, he claimed, and are leading to people wanting to refresh their PCs up to 18 months earlier than they would have. Mini computers are another growth market.
Without the growth in two-in-ones, the laptop market in the US would have shown 4 per cent negative growth, Skaugen said. However the new forms created a one per cent growth. He thinks the new hardware that such systems are starting to carry, particularly 3D cameras are going to have people rushing back to laptops.
The big loser in all of this is going to be the tablet market. Intel had got the growth in tablets wrong, he said, and is now revising its forecasts.

"18 months ago many people thought that tablet sales were going to cross over PCs in 2014. Now we're sure they won't ever. Intel has taken a billion units out of our forecasts in the last year," he said. That is just as well because Intel never made a sustainable dent into the tablet market, but it also fulfilled our predictions that the technology never solved any problems. It was still the same toy that Microsoft had been attempting to sell without success for years and they never had a use.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/39184-intel-thinks-pcs-will-come-back

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel dumps a pile of cash in China

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Targeted building up of Chinese firms
Intel Capital is putting a ton of cash into Chinese businesses in a move that will get it onside with the Chinese government.

According to Digitimes (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20151105PD200.html), Intel has invested $500 million in 2015. This is on top of the $168 million invested last year and a separate US$1 billion investment in the Tsinghua Unigroup and a US$5.5 billion investment to upgrade its wafer foundry in Dalian.
Intel Capital has written cheques for $60 million investment in Hong Kong-based unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturer Yuneec and $67 million investment in eight China-based companies covering industries such as smart device equipment, robots and cloud computing service applications.
Intel recently announced investment in China-based Perfant Technology, a company that mainly focuses on developing artificial intelligence, machine vision, 3D modelling and virtual reality technologies. Perfant's 360-degree camera, Eyesir, is capable of being used for travel, aerial and virtual reality applications.
Perfant will launch a new product designed based on Intel's RealSense technology.
The move is interesting as it places Intel on the side of the Chinese government, which wants to encourage the country’s home grown businesses as the expense of big multinationals, like Intel. At the same time if they take off, Intel will have access to the technology and have a back door into those organisations.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/39183-intel-dumps-a-pile-of-cash-in-china

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel might lose Apple contract

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Fanboy thinks x86 is doomed
Intel is about to lose its lucrative contract to supply Apple gear as Jobs’ Mob thinks its own ARM based chips can do better

Daring Fireball’s resident Apple Fanboy (http://daringfireball.net/2015/11/the_ipad_pro)John Gruber has been getting all moist about the Apple’s expensive Surface Pro knock-off and thinks it signals a huge change for Apple away from x86.
“The new MacBook is slower, gets worse battery life, and even its cheapest configuration costs $200 more than the top-of-the-line iPad Pro. The iPad Pro is more powerful, cheaper, has a better display, and gets better battery life.”
He admits that it is not a clear cut-and-dry win. MacBooks still have more RAM, are expandable, and offer far more storage.

“But at a fundamental level CPU speed, GPU speed, quality of the display, quality of the sound output, and overall responsiveness of interface — the iPad Pro is a better computer than a MacBook or MacBook Air, and a worthy rival to the far more expensive MacBook Pros.” Gruber believes that the future lies with the ARM-based processors used in the iPad and most smartphones, rather than the x86 architecture used by Macs and Windows PCs.
He claimed that the entire x86 computer architecture is living on borrowed time.

“It's a dead platform walking. The future belongs to ARM, and Apple's A-series SoC's are leading the way,” Gruber said. Of course his problem is that he is only seeing things from an Apple point-of-view, blinkers are standard issue for any member of the Tame Apple Press. But what he appears to be suggesting is a variation on the theme that the world has gone mobile so therefore everyone should be using ARM-based mobile chips.
Logically he has a point. After all if Apple can charge an ARM and a leg for a souped up tablet that does more or less the same thing as a MacBook aren’t the days of Intel over?
We don’t think Chipzilla will be losing much sleep. Its latest Mobile M range can do more than anything ARM can come up with on mobile notebooks. What appears to be the saviour of the notebook, besides business, is the games industry and ARM chips are nowhere near what x86 can do in that market. Neither can it match the performance required for a large chunk of desktop work.
It might suit Apple to make is own mobile chips for tablets, after all Microsoft did the same thing, but that sort of technology is not as well researched or focused as Intel or AMD. Notice Apple has not tried to create any chip in either this space or graphics meaning it does not think it is up to it.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/39230-intel-will-to-lose-apple-contract

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Earns Perfect Score on Human Rights 2016 Corporate Equality Index (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/11/19/intel_earns_perfect_score_on_human_rights_2016_cor porate_equality_index/)

Intel earned a perfect score (http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2015/11/18/chip-shot-intel-earns-perfect-score-on-human-rights-campaign-foundation-s-2016-corporate-equality-index) of 100 for the second consecutive year on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation's Corporate Equality Index, a national benchmarking survey and report on LGBT workplace equality. HRC evaluates LGBT-related policies and practices including non-discrimination workplace protections, domestic partner benefits, transgender-inclusive health care benefits, competency programs, and public engagement with the LGBT community.

Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/11/19/intel_earns_perfect_score_on_human_rights_2016_cor porate_equality_index#.Vk3aYr9v708

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel does not need PCs for growth

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Predicts it can make its cash elsewhere

Intel said 2016 sales will climb in the "mid single-digit" percent range and said it didn’t need a buoyant personal-computer market to make piles of dosh.

Chief Executive Officer Brian Krzanich told analysts that Intel’s growth was not dependent on its PC business.
Intel is facing a weaker PC market and said that its revenue has been bolstered by demand for high-powered processors that run servers, the building blocks of cloud-computing centers.
Additionally, orders for memory chips and processors used in new markets for Intel -- such as automotive and factory automation -- are helping to boost sales, the CEO said.
Intel predicted gross margin, or the percentage of sales remaining after deducting the cost of production, of about 62 percent for 2016. It’s budgeting about $10 billion for spending on new plants and equipment and raised its quarterly dividend payout by 2 cents a share, the company said in a filing today. The higher payout is in line with Bloomberg’s dividend forecast for Intel.
IDC Corp predicted that PC shipments are on course to shrink 4.9 percent to below 300 million units this year, after peaking at 364 million in 2011.
Stacy Smith, Intel’s chief financial officer said that even if the PC market shrinks 10 percent, Intel expects to be able to grow in the low-single digit percentage range, said. If the market is flat, Intel will grow in the high-single digit percentage range, he said.
While Intel got more than twice as much revenue from selling PC chips as it did from its data-centre group in the recent period, the two units brought in almost the same amount of operating profit.
That change has been driven by Intel’s 99 percent market share in server chips and surging demand for the machines from operators of data centres, such as Amazon.com Inc. and Google, which are building up their capacity to provide computing power, storage and services via the Internet.
Bill Holt, Intel’s head of manufacturing said that Chipzilla could reduce the cost of transistors which makes it worth investing in new production techniques. The company is maintaining its lead over TSMC and Samsung.
Intel is also on track to cut losses by its mobile chip division and expects a reduction of about a $1 billion this year, Smith said. In 2016 it’s aiming to get another $800 million closer to profitability in that business, he said.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/39294-intel-does-not-need-pcs-for-growth

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Announces Increase in Quarterly Cash Dividend (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/11/20/intel_announces_increase_in_quarterly_cash_dividen d/)


At Intel Corporation's annual investor meeting (http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2015/11/19/intel-announces-increase-in-quarterly-cash-dividend-2016-business-outlook-at-annual-investor-meeting) today, the company announced that its board of directors has approved an increase in its cash dividend to $1.04 per-share on an annual basis, an eight-cent increase, beginning with the dividend that will be declared in the first quarter of 2016. Intel also provided the 2016 Business Outlook. "Our financials show that Intel's transformation is underway, and we're forecasting growth for 2016," said Stacy Smith, Intel CFO. "The 2016 dividend increase reflects confidence in the strategy and Intel's ongoing commitment to create value and return cash to shareholders."

At today's investor meeting, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich addressed Intel's strategy to utilize the company's core assets to move into profitable, complementary market segments. He described Intel's Client Computing business as a strong foundation, which delivers healthy profits and critical intellectual property to the rest of Intel. The Data Center, Internet of Things and Memory businesses are expected to be growth engines for the company.



Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/11/20/intel_announces_increase_in_quarterly_cash_dividen d#.Vk8snL9v708

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel gets Qualcomm’s Renduchintala

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Expect something fabless
Chipzilla has announced that it has a new president Dr. Venkata "Murthy" Renduchintala which it appeared to have headhunted from Qualcomm.

Renduchintala will be president of a newly created Client and Internet of Things (IoT) Businesses and Systems Architecture Group which is a combination of Intel's Platform Engineering, Client Computing, IoT, Software and Services, and Design & Technology Solutions groups.
However Renduchintala, who is replacing the departing Intel president Renée J. James, has been at Qualcomm for a jolly long time and had been tipped to be the supremo of Qualcomm’s chipset business. Qualcomm had been restructuring the job so that instead of being joint effort it would be under the control of one person.
Qualcomm offered the job to Cristiano Amon. Murthy was offered another role within Qualcomm, but he chose to leave the company instead.
We might be a bit cynical, but the the statement from Qualcomm was a bit bitchy:

"A few months ago we made the decision to move away from a co-president leadership structure for QCT. was the clear choice as President of the chipset business. We made the decision to enhance the operation of QCT by having a single decision maker who has an exceptional track record of executing and has the confidence of the team and our customers. We are confident in Cristiano's leadership as we capitalize on the opportunities ahead."


Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/39308-intel-gets-qualcomm-s-renduchintala

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel loses LG’s Nuclun 2 to TSMC

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Low production capacity
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn that Intel will not be getting the work for LG’s Nuclun 2 because it lacks the production capacity.


According to the rumours (http://www.androidheadlines.com/2015/11/lg-nuclun-2-chip-benchmarked-intel-tsmc-flavors.html), LG is flat out trying to get the chip ready and avoid all the mess it made with the first generation Nuclun.

LG has been working with Intel and TSMC, and created two Nuclun 2 chips. The one made by Chipzilla had the best performance, but Intel didn’t get the contract.
Intel’s Nuclun 2 was based on the Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A72 cores which are working together in heterogeneous computing big.LITTLE architecture.
Intel’s SoC is using a 14nm FinFET tech, and is running at 2.4GHz and would throw in a XMM 7360 modem with support for category 10 4G LTE connectivity speeds.
TSMC’s flavour used a 16nm manufacturing process, and the CPU is running at 2.1GHz so Chipzilla should have won hand’s down.
The rumour is that LG did not think that Intel could manage the high production capacity and gave the contract to TSMC.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/39339-intel-loses-lg-s-nuclun-2-to-tsmc

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Receives 2016 IEEE Corporate Innovation Award (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/12/04/intel_receives_2016_ieee_corporate_innovation_awar d/)

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is awarding Intel (http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2015/12/03/chipshot-intel-receives-2016-ieee-corporate-innovation-award) its 2016 IEEE Corporate Innovation Award for "pioneering the use of high-k metal gate and tri-gate transistor technologies in high-volume manufacturing." Intel was the first to design, develop and manufacture products at high-volume using high-k and tri-gate (or FinFET) technologies. These innovations made it possible to continue scaling transistors ever smaller with lower cost-per-transistor, improved performance and lower power consumption – keeping Moore's Law going.

Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/12/04/intel_receives_2016_ieee_corporate_innovation_awar d#.VmGlFL9v708

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel gets the iPhone C modem deal

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Exclusive: Spring launch
Intel will be under the bonnet of the next generation iPhone C with its modem design. The company won't score the big iPhone 7 as this is in the safe hands of Qualcomm, Fudzilla and reveal.

Intel has reached an agreement to build its wireless modem inside of the consumer version of the iPhone. This phone has a smaller screen than the 4.7 – probably 4.0 inches. It should launch in early 2016.
It is hard to say if Apple plans to use iPhone 6C or iPhone 7C brand and we will stay away from the naming anything until we get something solid. Our sources in the Silicon Valley want to remain unnamed as Apple doesn’t really like big leaks.
Intel has minions working on modem for the iPhone. Intel desperately wants this deal and probably made an offer to Apple that the company could not refuse. The company has a few modems that Apple might want. The most likely choice is the Intel XMM 7260 / XMM 7262 slim modems with LTA Advanced support. Both modems support Cat. 6 LTE-Advanced, 22 bands at 300 Mb/s including world support.
The latest generation Cat 10. Intel XMM 7360 is an option in case Intel decides to dramatically reduce the price of the modem. This would without a doubt be the most important deal for Intel's wireless LTE 4G division.
Our sources say that only way that Apple would drop the Intel modem from the iPhone (insert number) C is if Intel gets terribly late. So far our sources are quite sure that Intel gets the C, but not the next generation big – expensive iPhone.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/mobile/39437-intel-gets-the-iphone-c-modem-deal

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel completes Altera sale

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All your FPGA are belong to us
Chipzilla has formally announed that it has completed the acquisition of Altera, a provider of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology in a deal which cost it $16.7 billion.

The deal was announced on June 1. Altera will be swallowed up as a new Intel business unit called the Programmable Solutions Group (PSG), led by Altera veteran Dan McNamara.
Intel said that Altera customers should not notice much difference and it will continue the support and future product development of Altera's many products, including FPGA, ARM-based SoC and power solutions.
PSG will also work closely with Intel's Data Center Group and IoT Group to deliver the next generation of highly customized, integrated products and solutions, Chipzilla said.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich in a statement:

"We will apply Moore's Law to grow today's FPGA business, and we'll invent new products that make amazing experiences of the future possible - experiences like autonomous driving and machine learning. Combining Altera's industry-leading FPGA technology and customer support with Intel's world-class semiconductor manufacturing capabilities will enable customers to create the next generation of electronic systems with unmatched performance and power efficiency."


Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/39544-intel-completes-altera-sale

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel gives Xiaomi a special deal

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Atom in every tablet

Chipzilla is giving Xiaomi a free processor to install in its tablets as part of its sales push.

According to Digitimes (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20151231PD201.html), Intel is bringing in the free chip deal to see off rivals like Qualcomm, MediaTek and China-based chip designers. While it will not make Intel any cash, it will boost the outfit’s market share.
In addition to giving preferential pricing to clients with large orders, Intel has also cooperated with Rockchip and invested in Spreadtrum.
Even free, Intel’s chip deal is a bit of coup. Chipzilla has been trying to get Xiaomi as a major client for a while. It adopted Intel's Atom X5-Z8500 in its Xiaomi Tablet 2 launched in late-November,
Xiaomi's upcoming notebooks are expected to use Intel's Haswell-based Core processors.
With Intel's discounts and Inventec's assistance, Xiaomi's notebooks have become competitive in both pricing and quality which will allow the China-based vendor to step on an equal footing against first-tier vendors such as Lenovo, Asustek Computer and Acer.
Unfortunately Xiaomi only has only offered limited shipments for its tablets but Intel is hoping that it will lead to the company adopting Intel chips in its 70 million annual smartphone shipments.
Since Xiaomi has also been aggressively expanding its smart home Internet of Things (IoT) supply chain, Intel's partnership with Xiaomi may help the CPU giant get a foot in the door there too.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/39576-intel-gives-xiaomi-a-special-deal

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel acquires German drone company Ascending Technologies

Intel has announced that it has acquired Ascending Technologies, a German company that specializes in detect-and-avoid systems for UAVs.


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Last year at CES 2015, Ascending Technologies helped Intel show off with a game of "drone ping pong", with the companies teasing a hovering drone that automatically moved away from people and objects that were close to it. The drone was called AscTech Firefly, featuring six of Intel's impressive RealSense depth cameras.

Intel's acquisition of Ascending Technologies is a reiteration of its interest in the UAV business, which is something the company calls "an important computing platform of the future".




Noticia:
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/49395/intel-acquires-german-drone-company-ascending-technologies/index.html


Será que vamos ter drones com o selo "Intel Core Inside" :D

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel hits its conflict minerals goal
http://images.bit-tech.net/news_images/2016/01/intel-conflict-free/article_img.jpg Intel's Brian Krzanich has confirmed that all products shipped by the company from this year on will be free from 'conflict minerals,' fulfilling its 2014 pledge.



Intel has announced that from this moment on, every piece of hardware it ships will be entirely free from 'conflict minerals' - materials mined in oppressive regimes, often through the use of forced labour.

Modern electronics require a range of raw materials, and many of these are located within the borders of oppressive regimes: a 2012 estimate suggested that 80 per cent of the world's supply of columbite-tantalite, from which tantalum for capacitors is refined, came from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where armed groups such as the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) and rogue brigades of the official armed forces (FARDC) force subsistence miners into near-slave labour in order to fund arms deals. In 2012, Intel pledged to release a chip free from these minerals by 2013 (http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2012/05/18/intel-conflict-minerals/1), eventually launching its first in 2014 before later that year announcing a plan to be entirely conflict-mineral-free by 2016. (http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2014/09/04/intel-conflict-free/1)

With 2016 here, Intel's Brian Krzanich has announced that its goal has been met: speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show this week, Krzanich confirmed that no products shipping from this year onwards will be produced with conflict minerals, and that items will be marked as 'conflict free' on the packaging in the near future. 'My hope is that Intel can influence an entirely new and different way of doing business,' Krzanich explained.

The conflict mineral pledge is part of Intel's corporate and social responsibility (CSR) effort, which has seen the company call for action on climate change, renewable energy, diversity in the workplace and education, technological improvements to agriculture, and even using the Quark processor to track endangered rhinos (https://blogs.intel.com/csr/2014/08/rhino/).

Noticia:
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2016/01/06/intel-conflict-free/1

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Says Iris and Iris Pro Graphics Can Outperform 80% of Discrete GPUs – Casual and Mainstream Users Don’t Need dGPUs

Intel has said that most casual and mainstream gamers don’t require a discrete graphics card as the iGPU that comes with their processors are powerful enough to meet their gaming demands. The statement was said by Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s desktop client’s platform, Gregory Bryant. The statement shows that Intel is confident enough to call their Iris chips as a competitive gaming solution against discrete graphics cards.
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Intel Claims Casual and Mainstream Audience Don’t Need a Discrete Graphics Card Gregory mentioned that Intel has gains in the graphics department on their Core processors which is quite true. He stated that Intel’s integrated graphics chips available today are 30 times more faster and better than what they were five years ago:

“We have improved graphics 30 times what they were five years ago,” Bryant said during a speech at a J.P. Morgan forum last week at CES. via PCWorld (http://www.pcworld.com/article/3021496/hardware/intel-integrated-chip-graphics-catching-up-with-graphics-cards.html)
He also said that the top-end graphics chips, known as Iris and Iris Pro can outperform 80 percent of discrete graphics chips available today however Intel hasn’t done a great job to showcase the benefits of their iGPUs in the consumer market and they will try to make up for it now:

He said that the top-level graphics processors integrated in Intel’s chips, called Iris and Iris Pro, can outperform 80 percent of discrete graphics chips.However he thinks that Intel has done quite a poor job of communicating the benefits of integrated graphics. via Fudzilla (http://fudzilla.com/news/graphics/39640-intel-claims-most-don-t-need-a-gpu)
There’s no doubt that Intel has made a tremendous improvement on their graphics chips. Starting with the 4th generation Haswell processors, Intel gave key improvements to their graphics core which now stands with over a TFLOPs of performance (Skylake). Intel has not only gave improvements to their hardware side but also made improvements in the software department adding support for DirectX 12 API, Vulkan API to their graphics chips and supporting three 4K monitors simultaneously off a single graphics processor.
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Their graphics chips currently stand on par with AMD’s GCN architecture that is found on several APUs shipped in either laptops or desktop platforms. Surprisingly, the Intel Iris Pro 580 graphics chip which is expected to debut this quarter with the Intel Skull Canyon platform (http://wccftech.com/intel-skull-canyon-nuc-iris-pro-580-powerful-2016/)will actually be the first graphics chip from Intel that is faster than AMD’s top-end GCN core found on their Carrizo APUs.
As for Intel saying that the chip is faster than 80% of discrete GPUs, they are probably talking about the entry level class which sell a lot in the discrete market. The Intel iGPUs are far from reaching mid-range performance but they have performance that can match entry level cards such as the GTX 750 or the Radeon R7 260. When Intel announced (http://wccftech.com/idf15-intel-skylake-analysis-cpu-gpu-microarchitecture-ddr4-memory-impact/3/)their next generation Skylake chips, we saw an incremental increase in graphics performance with the top level GPU going past the TFLOPs barrier with 1152 GFLOPs of processing power.
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Iris Pro can easily take on several discrete GPUs in the mobility sector and even the desktop market. It was just recently revealed by NVIDIA (http://wccftech.com/nvidia-gameworks-vr-large-scale-vr-adoption/)that only 1% (13 million) of the 1.5 Billion PCs around the globe are capable of running Virtual Reality. This is a shocking figure and we know that most PCs have an Intel based processor in side them. Given that only such a low number of PCs are capable of running virtual reality for which the base requirements are either a GeForce GTX 970 or Radeon R9 290 equivalent graphics card, their can’t be a whole lot of gaming PCs that are in the mid-range sector.
For several users with entry level PCs, the Iris and Iris Pro chips are already a lot faster than the discrete graphics processors they are using. In a way, AMD and NVIDIA not providing any significant improvements in the low-end, entry-level market has brought Intel to the point where they can outperform 80% of the discrete class graphics cards. If we check out AMD and NVIDIA’s entry level options, we will find a card that has seen at least 2-3 rebrands from a previous generation core, namely the Radeon R5 series and the GeForce GT cards.
Intel innovating in the graphics field is a good thing for the industry but for AAA gaming on higher resolutions with full VR/AR support, users should sight at nothing less than the best from NVIDIA and AMD as they offer faster frame rates, better performance and a superb gaming experience.
Intel’s Iris and Iris Pro Comparison Versus Entry Level dGPUs:
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Chip Name
GPU Core
GFlops (GPU Only)
GFlops (Whole Package)

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Chip Name

GPU Core

GFlops (GPU Only)

GFlops (Whole Package)


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AMD Radeon R7 360
Tobago Pro
1536 GFlops
N/A


NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Maxwell GM107
1389 GFlops
N/A


AMD Radeon R7 250X
Cape Verde XT
1216 GFlops
N/A


Intel Skylake Gen9 GT4/e
Intel Iris Pro 580
1152 GFlops @ 1 GHz
TBC


NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750
Maxwell GM107
1044 GFlops
N/A


AMD Radeon R9 M370X
Venus XT
992 GFlops
N/A


Intel Skylake Gen9 GT3/e
Intel Iris 560/570?
884 GFlops (Estimation)
TBC


AMD Carrizo FX-8800P
GCN 1.2
819 GFlops
1070 GFlops


Intel Core i7-5775C
Intel Iris Pro 6200
768 GFlops @ 1 GHz
883 GFlops


AMD Kaveri A10-7850K
GCN 1.1
737 GFlops
856 GFlops


Intel Core i7-5557U
Intel Iris 6100
724 GFlops
845 GFlops


AMD Richland A10-6800K
VLIW4
648 GFlops
779 GFlops


Intel Skylake Core i7-6700K
Intel HD 530
442 GFlops
TBC


Intel Haswell Core i7-4790K
Intel HD 4600
400 GFlops
512 GFlops

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Noticia:
http://wccftech.com/intel-iris-pro-graphics-gamers/#ixzz3x73tfQHx


Só concordo com os "Casual Users", acho que todas as restantes pessoas não dispensam uma placa grafica, que por mais barata que seja consegue sempre melhores resultados que os chips graficos incluidos nos CPUs Intel.
Existe ainda outra vantagem a meu ver, o facto de uma grafica avariar e não existir outra para substituição no imediato, a grafica presente no CPU serve para remedeio e assim continuar a utilizar o PC.
Neste campo, acho que os chips graficos presentes nos APUs AMD, estão um pouco mais à frente em performance que aqueles que a Intel disponibiliza e acho que esses de certa forma são mais coincidentes com as afirmações da Intel.
(http://wccftech.com/intel-iris-pro-graphics-gamers/#ixzz3x73tfQHx)

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Welcomes Altera Employees (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/01/14/intel_welcomes_altera_employees/)

On Tuesday, January 12, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich visited Altera headquarters (http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2016/01/13/chip-shot-intel-welcomes-altera-employees) in San Jose, CA and formally welcomed hundreds of new employees into Intel. The (former) Altera employees received new Intel badges and are now officially part of Intel's Programmable Solutions Group. A new sign was placed on the property designating the 101 Innovation Drive site as Intel's newest Silicon Valley campus. Intel announced earlier that it has completed the acquisition of Altera, a leading provider of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology. The acquisition complements Intel's leading-edge product portfolio and enables new classes of products in the high-growth data center and Internet of Things (IoT) market segments.

Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/01/14/intel_welcomes_altera_employees#.VpfQXFJv4vc

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel disappoints Wall Street wows others

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Jury is still out if it will have a good 2016

Chipzilla reported strong quarterly profit but the news was overshadowed by concerns about slowing revenue growth in its highly profitable data centre business.

The world's largest chipmaker reported data centre revenue of $4.31 billion in the fourth quarter ended December 26. Given the amount of focus Intel had been placing on high-end servers Wall Street had expected Intel to make $4.42 billion. This meant that revenue in the business rose only 4 percent from the preceding quarter, compared with the 8 percent growth in the third quarter.
This sparked fears that Chipzilla’s might have some long term growth problems.
Chief Executive Brian Krzanich tried to deal with the slump in PC chips by focusing on the business of supplying chips for high-end servers.
But companies do not appear interested in upgrading because they are mostly planning a cloud push soon. This means sticking their old servers with tape and string to hold together long enough before the move to the cloud.
But Intel knew this was happening. In October, Chipzilla warned that its 2015 revenue growth forecast for the data centre business would be lower because companies were slashing spending due to weak macroeconomic growth.
Intel forecast revenue of $14.1 billion, plus or minus $500 million for the first quarter ending March. This is down 6 percent from the fourth quarter, the company said.
Krzanich said on a post-earnings call said that the first quarter outlook reflects some caution for overall demand, particularly in China, we continue to expect solid growth in the business in 2016.
Revenue in the personal computer business fell about 1 percent to $8.76 billion from a year earlier.
Intel completed its $16.7 billion purchase of programmable-chip maker Altera in December, a deal that adds a new class of products to Intel's portfolio.
The company's net income fell to $3.61 billion from $3.66 billion in the fourth quarter. Net revenue rose to $14.91 billion from $14.72 billion. Analysts on average had expected a revenue of $14.80 billion.
But according to Technology Business Research analyst Krista Macomber it all shows that Intel is getting into 2016 having made all the changes it needed.
She said that Intel closed out 2015 by capitalizing on high-end client processor demand and increasing revenue in strategic segments such as non-volatile memory (NVM), the Internet of Things (IoT), and next-generation data centre architectures.
This meant that Intel’s revenue grew 1.3 per cent year-to-year to $14.9 billion in 4Q15 after two quarters of decline, and operating income declines slowed, dipping 3.5 per cent to $4.3 billion.
The company’s shift to higher-end processors in its Client Computing Group (CCG), which contributes nearly 60 per cent of its quarterly revenue and operating income, increasingly influences its corporate performance, as well as its ability to invest in its ongoing expansion into growing, adjacent markets such as IoT and data centre.
Intel’s CCG revenue slipped only one per cent year-to-year in C4Q15 after falling approximately 10% year-to-year in the first nine months of the year.
Intel did reasonably well from its Skylake processors during the holiday period. Increased selling prices and stabilizing revenue helped to slow CCG operating income declines, a trend that is critical to Intel’s ability to continue investing in its targeted growth markets during 2016.
Intel is also exhibiting success in its identified growth markets. The chip giant’s Data Centre Group (DCG) revenues rose 11 per cent year-to-year to $16 billion in 2015, driven by increasing traction in cloud providers’ data centres.

“TBR believes this traction coupled with Intel’s growing investment in areas such as high-performance computing (HPC) position DCG to sustain double-digit growth in 2016. IoT revenues rose 7 per cent year-to-year to $2.3 billion in 2015, as Intel built use cases with marquee customers that will set the stage for broader adoption and accelerated growth in 2016,” she said. It looks like Intel expects China to consume nearly a third of the NAND chip market in 2016, which might sound optimistic given that China is in recession. However Intel is working to play a key role in helping China to build out this industry.
In 4Q15, Intel Capital announced its plan to invest $5.5 billion in its Dalian facility in China, expanding its manufacturing capacity for non-volatile memory. The Dalian facility will house the initial production of the 3D NAND technology, slated for release in 2H16. The 3D NAND technology, developed jointly by Intel and Micron, will bring cost savings, lower power usage and high performance for a range of mobile consumers, marking an important investment area for Intel to increase market share.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/39673-intel-disappoints-wall-street-wows-others


Penso que isto reflete o abrandamento que tem existindo na venda de componentes para PC onde temos assistido a um declinio constante mensal.

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel works with Chinese on servers

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Tackling fears of spy technology
Chipzilla is joining an increasing number of western companies who are forming partnerships with Chinese outfits to help address concerns about the security of imported technology.

This deal is with Tsinghua University and Montage Technology Global Holdings and comes with a $100 million worth of research funding from Intel,. Chinese officials have been calling for a reduction in the country’s reliance on foreign-made semiconductors—particularly those used in systems that could be targeted by spies from abroad.
Intel said the university, known as TU, will develop a programmable chip that would be placed in a plastic module alongside one of its Xeon microprocessors, the most widely used calculating engine in corporate and government data centers. The additional reconfigurable computing processor (RCP) and associated software developed by the university would add capabilities that address “specific local requirements.”
The company declined to discuss what those requirements may be. But it is likely that the RCP would help ensure that the Intel chip doesn’t carry out suspicious activity. It lets you prove the Xeon is behaving as it is supposed to be and not sending all your data to the Americans.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/39738-intel-works-with-chinese-on-servers

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/01/22/intel_declares_quarterly_cash_dividend/)

Intel Corporation’s board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend (http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2016/01/22/intel-declares-quarterly-cash-dividend) of 26 cents per share ($1.04 per share on an annual basis) on the company’s common stock. The dividend will be payable on March 1, 2016, to stockholders of record on February 7, 2016. Intel is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. As a leader in corporate responsibility and sustainability, Intel also manufactures the world’s first commercially available "conflict-free" microprocessors.

Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/01/22/intel_declares_quarterly_cash_dividend#.VqOVcVJv4v c

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel’s roadmap has three families on 10nm

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Rumours starting to firm up

It is starting to look like the rumours Chipzilla is planning to launch three processor families manufactured on the 10nm process node are proving true.

.Motley Fool’s (http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/01/18/what-is-the-name-of-intels-third-10-nanometer-chip.aspx) deep throats appear to have confirmed a leak we had last week. It’s source is someone in Intel and it has arrived with some specifics.
It says that Intel’s first Intel 10nm architecture processor will be Cannonlake and should arrive in H2 2017.
Cannonlake is that it is expected to bring the first consumer processors that go beyond quad-core.
After Cannonlake Intel will produce a 10nm chip called Icelake. Icelake will be launched in H2 2018. Then the final
10nm chip to be launched by Intel will follow a year later and be known as Tigerlake. That's Tigerlake launched in H2 2019. If all those plans fall in place we should be looking at Intel's first 7nm architecture processor launch in H2 2020.
It is too early to say if Intel is ever going to go back to producing two products per process node. But MotleyFool thinks that 7-nanometer could be a two-product node, implying a transition to the 5-nanometer technology node by the second half of 2022.
But there are significant doubts that Chipzilla will get back to a two-years-per-technology cycle, reports The Motley Fool.
All this suggests that Intel is worried about TSMC which claims that it will go into high-volume manufacturing on its 10-nanometer technology in late 2016/early 2017.
TSMC plans to begin mass production of its 7-nanometer node during H1 2018. Samsung is another one which is galloping ahead with its semiconductor manufacturing plans.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/39767-intel-s-roadmap-has-three-families-on-10nm


Para ainda são rumores, mas já se vê que a Intel planos a longo prazo.

[Enzo]

Estao a preparar-se com armas e bagagens para os zen.

[Jorge-Vieira]

Altera deal might bite Chipzilla

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Analyst warns
Technology analyst Ashraf Eassa is getting a little worried about Intel’s $16.7 billion Altera deal which he thinks could end up being a huge flop.

Eassa warned (http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/01/26/why-intel-corps-altera-purchase-could-be-a-huge-fl.aspx)that when Intel first wrote the cheque it argued that transitioning Altera's existing stand-alone FPGA products to Intel's chip manufacturing technology, could improve Altera's competitive positioning in the market for such products. Intel could then take Altera's FPGA technology and integrating it into its server processors for significant performance/power gains.
But what worries Eassa is that Intel’s stand-alone FPGA claim that it can gain a manufacturing advantage over rival Xilinx which builds its FPGAs at contract chip manufacturer TSMC is looking shaky now.
Xilinx has beaten Altera to the punch by creating a 14/16-nanometer class stand-alone FPGA and started shipping samples in late 2015. Meanwhile Altera/Intel have not started sampling their own 14-nanometer FPGAs.
It is looking even bleaker now that Xilinx wants to skip TSMC's 10-nanometer technology and create its next high-end FPGA on TSMC's 7-nanometer technology. This should give Xilinx better transistor density than the Intel 10-nanometer technology that Altera's next high-end FPGA will be built on.
In fact it is looking like Chipzilla is making the same mistake it did in 2010 when it bought the struggling wireless division of Infineon in a move which should have made it a major player in the market for cellular modems and system-on-chip designs.
Chipzilla planned to build Infineon Wireless modems on its in-house chip manufacturing technology, integrated onto the same piece of silicon as the company's low-power Atom processors.
It only managed to do that by moving its Atom processors to TSMC's older 28-nanometer chip manufacturing technology. It is late with its plans to put out an integrated Atom and modem on its 14-nanometer technology.
Eassa makes the point that history is repeating and Intel/Altera have yet to ship the first 14-nanometer FPGAs for revenue. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich will only say that Intel is still working on its roadmap for when it integrates the full IP into its silicon
But Intel's previous track record of integrating major third-party technologies into its own chips is pretty rubbish he said and this deal could start to look a bit shaky.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/39808-altera-deal-might-bite-chipzilla

[Enzo]

Xi...tanta pasta. A Intel está mesmo confiante.

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Promotes Two Corporate Officers, Elects Six New Corporate Vice Presidents (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/02/01/intel_promotes_two_corporate_officers_elects_six_n ew_vice_presidents/)


Intel Corporation today announced (https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-promotes-two-corporate-officers-elects-six-new-corporate-vice-presidents/) that its board of directors promoted two corporate officers and elected six new corporate vice presidents. Wendell Brooks, 50, was promoted from corporate vice president to senior vice president. Brooks is president of Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment organization, which makes equity investments in innovative technology startups and companies worldwide in support of Intel’s strategic objectives. He also leads the Strategic Transactions Group at Intel, driving the company’s mergers and acquisition strategy, execution and integration. Brooks joined Intel in 2014 and is based in Santa Clara, Calif.

Steven Fund, 53, was promoted from corporate vice president to senior vice president. As Intel’s chief marketing officer, he leads all aspects of worldwide marketing. Fund is responsible for global marketing strategy and execution, brand management, product positioning, market research, advertising, partner marketing, retail channel marketing, digital marketing, social media and global communications. He joined Intel in 2014 and is based in Santa Clara, Calif.



Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/02/01/intel_promotes_two_corporate_officers_elects_six_n ew_vice_presidents#.Vq9021Jv4vc

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel pays men and women the same

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Just does not hire as many

Intel is unusual in the tech industry in that it does not discriminate against women when it comes to salaries.

While many tech companies issue “annual reports on diversity” this is usually comes with a promise that the “company will do better” usually stated by a white, middle aged manager with lots of spin and no mention of how they will do it.
Intel’s report is a little different. It publicly discloses its diversity goals — such as the percentage of new hires that should be women or underrepresented minorities — and it revealed that there was no no pay gap between men and women who work at the same job-grade level within Intel.
Intel has apparently conducted a compensation analysis in 2015 that went beyond its annual pay audit to examine gender-pay parity for US employees within job grade levels.
Danielle Brown, Intel’s chief diversity and inclusion officer said the results surprised her but apparently the company has been working at getting pay parity for women for a decade.
It is a long way from being perfect. She said the company would next work for pay parity for minorities.
Intel’s diversity report is an update on its promise early last year to invest $300 million in diversity efforts over five years and reach what it called “full representation at all levels of our company’s workforce by 2020.
Intel is not after a representation of the full U.S. population, but rather, the number of women and minorities who have the job skills Intel needs. However that does mean that 40 percent of its new hires would be women or underrepresented minorities.
So far it has beaten that goal as 43.1 percent of new hires in 2015 were “diverse” candidates. It will boost its 2016 diverse hiring goal to 45 percent, with a “sub-goal” of 14 percent of new hires being underrepresented minorities, higher than the 11.8 percent of hires in 2015 who were from those groups.
Intel still has work to do on its glass ceiling. The report also said women now make up 17.6 of leadership roles which is 14.3 percent better than 2014, but still rubbish.
Chipzilla also feels that retention of its underrepresented minorities is poor and fell short of its goal in 2015.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/39871-intel-pays-men-and-women-the-same

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Rumored To Lose One Of Its Biggest Processor Clients? Can You Guess Who

Despite being the leading manufacturer of desktop, laptop and server processors, Intel has faced stiff resistance, particularly from manufacturers intending to commence a skirmish with the company in the server CPU market. Now, it looks like cracks in the firm’s armor have finally started to show as one of its biggest clients could be looking to sever the partnership.
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Google Rumored To Switch To Qualcomm And Reduce Its Dependency On Intel – Does Qualcomm Have Such Resources At Its Disposal? Google happens to be one of the biggest clients of Intel’s server processors. Now, the latest report from Bloomberg suggests that the advertising giant intends on publicly announcing its support for Qualcomm, the world’s largest mobile chipset manufacturer during an investor meeting that is going to take place next week. Both Google and Qualcomm has have already cooperated on design work and the former will commit to using the processors if they are able to meet performance goals. Currently, individuals hailing from both companies have declined to comment on the matter.
Qualcomm’s SoCs and custom developed processors use ARM’s architecture, which is ultimately used in chips that consume far less power as opposed to x86 processors, which will substantially reduce the power draw and make them more favorable for companies that want to pay for less overheads. Additionally, Intel does not go easy on its server processor pricing, and this is another area where Qualcomm will also be looking to attack. Long time back, there was news suggesting that Qualcomm was prepping a 64-bit capable processor (http://wccftech.com/qualcomms-prepping-64core-arm-server-cpu-called-hydra/) that had been codenamed Hydra.
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The cores would be custom made and will be able to handle high parallel applications, which is exactly the kind of performance feature that enterprises and consumers are looking for. On Google’s orders, we could see Intel’s market share dwindle, after possessing a firm grip over the market for the past decade. For those that do not know this, Intel currently possesses a market share of more than 99 percent of processors used in servers, making its dominance unmatched in this sector. However, the company’s struggles in tapping into the mobile chipset market are well known, and it was reported that it was actually giving away free chips to potential partners like Xiaomi (http://wccftech.com/upcoming-xiaomi-laptop-will-be-coming-in-two-processor-models-will-most-likely-be-released-globally/) in order to secure more clients for its mobile SoCs.
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In other news, Google is also intending to be a completely green tech firm (http://wccftech.com/google-announces-latest-deal-power-mountain-view-hq-wind-energy/) in the foreseeable future, so perhaps this also encouraged the company to reduce to dependency on Intel. Intel has enjoyed a huge operating income, and there is very little that its partners can do to negotiate prices, particularly when the company’s closest rival AMD has been unable to produce powerful chips at a competitive pricing element. According to the latest statistic, Google purchases as many as 300,000 processors every quarter for servers it manufactures, meaning that cutting off its relationship with Intel would definitely deliver a huge blow to the latter. It cannot be said what Qualcomm will offer to Google to rival the capabilities of Intel’s products, but during the next investor, you guys will know soon enough.







Noticia:
http://wccftech.com/intel-rumored-to-lose-one-of-its-biggest-processor-clients-can-you-guess-who/#ixzz3zP2uwF9A



Quem será?
(http://wccftech.com/intel-rumored-to-lose-one-of-its-biggest-processor-clients-can-you-guess-who/#ixzz3zP2uwF9A)

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel says chips to become slower but more energy efficient
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Intel has said that new technologies in chip manufacturing will favour better energy consumption over faster execution times – effectively calling an end to ‘Moore’s Law’, which successfully predicted the doubling of density in integrated circuits, and therefore speed, every two years.

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It’s a prediction worth remembering, since Gordon E. Moore himself was the co-founder of Intel and Fairchild Semiconductor when he made the prediction that led to ‘Moore’s Law’ in a paper (https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0ahUKEwjEgMHasODKAhXItxQKHeD3BMoQFggrMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.eng.fiu.edu%2Fnpala%2Feee6397 ex%2Fgordon_moore_1965_article.pdf&usg=AFQjCNG6hBLt6szGhA2onrw-i7wfC7h7lw&sig2=iuJf6D8d1ex2PAS0ArTRSQ) [PDF] back in 1965.
The prognosis comes from William Holt, Intel’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of its Technology and Manufacturing Group, speaking at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, and discussing the new technologies – such as tunnelling transistors (http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2012/ph250/esfandyarpour1/) (or ‘Quantum tunnelling’) and spintronics (https://thestack.com/world/2015/10/06/machiel-flokstra-spintronics-superconductor-magnetised-golf/) – which will define the next stages of evolution in computing.
“We’re going to see major transitions,” said (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600716/intel-chips-will-have-to-sacrifice-speed-gains-for-energy-savings/) Holt. “The new technology will be fundamentally different.” and continued “The best pure technology improvements we can make will bring improvements in power consumption but will reduce speed.”
Holt elaborated that while Intel recognises the need to consider re-tooling its plants and committing to new technologies in chip production, it hasn’t made a decision about direction yet. Quantum tunnelling, though brought to advanced proof-of-concept by DARPA and the Semiconductor Research Corporation, is currently further from commercialisation than spintronics, which uses quantum mechanical properties of particles as switch facilitators, and which is expected to begin to appear in commercial technology such as graphic chips within 18 months.
Holt has stated not just that Moore’s Law is coming to an end in practical terms, in that chip speeds can be expected to stall, but is actually likely to roll back in terms of performance, at least in the early years of semi-quantum-based chip production, with power consumption taking priority over what has been the fundamental impetus behind the development of computers in the last fifty years.
“Particularly as we look at the Internet of things, the focus will move from speed improvements to dramatic reductions in power.”
It could be argued that both the consumer and business sectors have already prepared themselves for the low-energy paradigm that Holt discusses, having in the last ten years gradually sacrificed the faster and more powerful desktop computing experience for the low-end latency, compensated by mobility and reduced complexity, of smartphones and tablets.

Noticia:
https://thestack.com/iot/2016/02/05/intel-william-holt-moores-law-slower-energy-efficient-chips/


Será que é só para dispositivos moveis ou vamos ver a Intel a continuar a dar mais mesmo nos desktops nos proximos anos?

[Enzo]

Finalmente, alguem grande que resolveu ver que a Intel tem mais preços grandes do que propriamente apenas performance pura. Viva a Qualcomm.

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel not ahead of the foundries

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Transistor performance lagging
The naming game for the next generation of chipmaking actually covers up the fact that Intel is probably not ahead of the foundries in terms of transistor performance.

TSMC and Samsung told the world that they were advancing from technologies named "20-nanometer" to "14/16-nanometer" and would focus on FinFET. Intel said that it was going to shrink going from its 22-nanometer technology to its 14-nanometer as it rolled out its second generation FinFET transistors.
Intel fans have been putting it about that TSMC's and Samsung's respective 16nm/14nm processes is the same as Intel's 22-nanometer process and that the Foundries have fallen behind.
But according to financial analyst Ashraf Eassa (http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/02/09/intel-and-taiwan-semiconductor-manufacturing-clear.aspx) while Intel shrunk in going from 22-nanometer to 14-nanometer trailed the competition in terms of transistor density.
Intel never bothered to mention this until it revealed details of its 14-nanometer tech (which would be decisively ahead of the foundry 14/16-nanometer technologies).
Intel admitted that its 32nm technology was behind the comparable 28nm offerings in terms of gate pitch-by-metal pitch (density). Same thing with Intel's 22nm relative to foundry 20nm offerings. However when it got to the 14/16-nanometer node Intel started claiming that it had a lead over the Foundries.
Intel's 14nm does have a density advantage over foundry 14/16-nanometer offerings, but the foundry offerings are still ahead of what Intel had at 22nm, because at the 20/22nm generation, Intel was actually behind.
Chipzilla has also been claiming that they are on their second-generation FinFET while the competition is on its first-generation FinFET. This implies that Intel's 14-nanometer transistors are a full generation ahead of the foundries in terms of performance.
But word on the street is that Intel’s 14nm transistors are ahead in all performance metrics relative to the foundries' except for parasitic capacitance. This is a byproduct of the fact that Intel's transistor fins are packed closer together than the foundries’ 14/16nm offerings.
But the Samsung 14nm FinFETs fins look more like Intel's 14nm fins than the 22nm fins Chipzilla Intel put into production in late 2011. Which means that they are second generation rather than first.
All up, Eassa reasons that Intel is probably behind the foundries in terms of technology. It is not much but there might be some notable differences between the two when the start hitting the shops.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/39914-intel-not-ahead-of-the-foundries


A ser verdade, não deixa de ser estranho a Intel ser apanhada quando era a propria Intel que praticamente ditava o rumo dos acontecimentos sempre com varios meses de antecedencia sobre todos os outros.

[Enzo]

Adivinham-se mudanças para o futuro

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel goes Gaga at Grammys

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Ga-ga-ooh-la-la! Want your bad romance

Intel has teamed up with the woman who bought the world a steak dress, perhaps hoping to create steak and chips.

Intel and Lady Gaga were both involved in the 58 Annual GRAMMY Awards which was supposed to be a homage to David Bowie.
According to Chipzilla’s press release “The breakthrough performance demonstrated the power of technology to elevate an artist’s ability to deliver an amazing on-stage experience in ways never before imagined.”
Lady Gaga said she liked to do things that integrate technology and art with powerful experiences.
“I think that this collaboration with Intel has been very different than anything I have done before. They have really given me so much amazing technology to play with.”
Intel and Gaga create a show with visuals and interactive content that responded in real time to Lady Gaga’s every movement and command.
Specialised hardware powered by Intel Xeon, Intel Core and Pentium® processors provided the requisite high performance to choreograph the lighting, audio and projection systems in perfect harmony with Lady Gaga.
Other things included Digital Skin which was an “animated face” was developed for Lady Gaga that allowed her to take on a number of iconic looks all in a single performance in real time.
Intel’s highest performing processors were used throughout the development of this part of the performance, accurately tracking her facial movements while the “digital makeup” was adapted and displayed onto her instantaneously through a projector powered by a 6th Generation Intel Core processor-based desktop.
Lady Gaga was given the power to control how she appeared on a beautiful large LED wall. Her Intel Curie module-based ring generated the real-time effects as she rotated and animated her wrists and arms, while Intel Xeon processor-based media servers generated the live content.
Intel Robotics were behind Gaga’s rose gold piano as three Intel Atom processor-powered robot arms danced as one to add unexpected motion effects.
There were also some Interactive Holograms to allow Lady Gaga to generate a beautiful three-dimensional hologram of Bowie.
Steve Fund, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Intel:

“Intel is on a journey to create and share the amazing experiences that our technology enables. This performance has set a new precedent for live music experiences and is a major milestone for Intel and the Grammys.”



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/39972-intel-goes-gaga-at-grammys

[Enzo]

Interessante projecto. Inovador, original...e mais uma boa jogada de marketing intel.

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel confirms 10nm on track for 2017
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Despite rumours of delay
Chipzilla has said that a job advert which implied that it would not be using the 10nm process for two years was inaccurate and confirmed that it is on track for a 2017 release.

The advert, which was spotted by the Motley Fool (http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/02/16/intel-corp-confirms-first-10-nanometer-product-on.aspx) has since been taken down, said the company's 10-nanometer chip manufacturing technology would begin mass production "approximately two years" from the posting date.
Chipzilla has said that the advert was wrong and confirmed that its "first 10-nanometer product is planned for the second half of 2017."
It is not expected that Intel will roll out server chips in 2017. At the moment the plan appears to be introducing its second-generation 14-nanometer server chip family in early to mid-2017. But instead Intel will be trying to get its process ramped at high yields experimenting on the PC market so that 10-nanometer server processors will be ready for the first half of 2018.
This follows Intel’s traditional pattern of a having a few parts released as it experiments with the new tech. This is what happened in the first year of Intel's 14-nanometer availability.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/40001-intel-confirms-10nm-on-track-for-2017


A ser verdade, é mais um passo importante para a Intel e estamos a um ano e mais ou menos a duas gerações de ver o que valem os 10nm.

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Named One of Fortune’s Most Admired Companies (http://www.hitechlegion.com/news-press/press-release/47702-intel-named-one-of-fortune-s-most-admired-companies)


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Intel was included on the annual Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies (http://fortune.com/worlds-most-admired-companies/) list announced today. The ranking is the definitive report card on corporate reputations and is based on a survey of executives, directors and analysts around the world. Graded across nine attributes – including innovation, social responsibility, and product quality – Intel also maintained its #1 position in the Semiconductors industry category. Learn more about Intel (http://www.intel.com/).



Noticia:
http://www.hitechlegion.com/news-press/press-release/47702-intel-named-one-of-fortune-s-most-admired-companies

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Shaping Tomorrow’s Generation of Engineers, Today (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/02/25/intel_shaping_tomorrowrsquos_generation_engineers_ today/)


National Engineers Week is upon us, and it is a great time to raise awareness and interest in engineering and technology careers — and the possibilities that they offer. At Intel, technology and engineering (https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/blog-shaping-tomorrows-generation-of-engineers-today/) are part of our DNA and we believe a diverse engineering workforce is critical to driving continued innovation and growth in our industry. To achieve our industry’s true potential, we must strive to build and continually foster a culture that is broadly representative and inclusive of all kinds of diversity, including, but not limited to, gender and ethnicity. Only through a collective and unified effort will we be able to effectively accomplish this.

Earlier this month, Intel released the 2015 Diversity & Inclusion Report that outlines our progress toward achieving a goal to achieve full representation in our U.S. workforce by 2020, and provides an update on our investments to support Diversity & Inclusion in our workforce and our industry at large. While we exceeded our annual hiring goal, achieved our overall retention goal, and achieved 100 percent gender pay parity across U.S. job types and job levels, we still have a great deal of work and opportunity ahead of us.



Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/02/25/intel_shaping_tomorrowrsquos_generation_engineers_ today#.Vs8vWuZv4vc

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Named a Top Company by NAFE for 7th Year (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/03/03/intel_named_top_company_by_nafe_for_7th_year/)

Intel has been named (https://newsroom.intel.com/chip-shots/chip-shot-intel-named-a-top-company-by-nafe-for-7th-year/) among the "Top 60 Companies for Executive Women" by the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE) for the 7th year. The 2016 list celebrates American corporations that promote women to top executive positions and create cultures that foster talented women through programs and policies. Intel is committed to significantly increase hiring, retention and advancement of women in the tech industry and offers innovative programs that are uniquely designed to help women build meaningful lives and careers. Learn more about Intel’s diversity vision and goals.

Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/03/03/intel_named_top_company_by_nafe_for_7th_year#.Vtio 3uZv4vc

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel buys Israeli sports imaging startup

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Plunging deeper into VR
Intel has written a $175 million cheque to buy the sraeli sports imaging startup Replay Technologies.

The pair have been in talks over the acquisition for the past six months and it was officially announced this morning.
Intel SVP Wendell Brooks said:

"Intel has been collaborating with Replay since 2013 to optimize their interactive, immersive video content on Intel platforms. As a natural next step in our collaboration, today we’re excited to announce that Intel signed an agreement to acquire Replay Technologies."
Replay Technologies was founded in 2011 by CEO Oren Yogev, CTO Mateo Shapira and COO Aviv Shapira. The company has 100 employees and it is sitting on some natty technology for multi-dimensional video imaging.
The Tel Aviv-based company has already introduced Free Dimensional Video (FreeDTM), which allows viewers to see and experience real-life scenes through immersive camera views from multiple angles.
Replay Technologies is exploiting the potential growth of virtual reality and augmented reality, and supports a service that encourages viewers to 'jump' into live events and experience them from any perspective. The idea is to change the way that people control and watch live events. Most recently, this vision came to life when Replay partnered with Intel to deliver consumer-controlled, 360-degree instant replays for the NFL during Super Bowl 50 and for the NBA during the All-Star Weekend.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/wearables/40164-intel-buys-israeli-sports-imaging-startup

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Honors 27 Companies with Preferred Quality Supplier and Achievement Awards (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/03/11/intel_honors_27_companies_preferred_quality_suppli er_achievement_awards/)


Intel Corporation today recognized (https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-honors-27-companies-with-preferred-quality-supplier-and-achievement-awards/) 26 companies with its 2015 Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award, which celebrates exceptional performance and continuous pursuit of excellence. The 2015 recipients exhibited extraordinary achievements across key focus areas of quality, cost, availability, technology, customer service, labor and ethics systems, and environmental sustainability.

Along with the distinguished PQS award, Intel recognized one supplier with the Supplier Achievement Award, which is a specific recognition for outstanding accomplishments in one or more key performance areas. The company also presented eight companies with its highest honor, the Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement (SCQI) award. Award winners will be honored in a ceremony tonight in Santa Clara, California. The theme of the ceremony is "Delivering the Future Together" as this dedicated group of suppliers has helped Intel push the boundaries of smart and connected technology and brings innovative products to market quickly.



Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/03/11/intel_honors_27_companies_preferred_quality_suppli er_achievement_awards#.VuLXveZv7ug

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel wants to improve fitness data



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New partnership with Exos

Chipzilla has announced a partnership with performance data company Exos, hoping to make the data collected from fitness wearables more personal and useful.

For those who came in late, Exos worked with Adidas on its line of wearables, including the MiCoach Elite wearable system. It has worked with the military, the Chinese Olympic Committee and a whole host of other industries adding up the number and dividing by its shoe size.
Intel and Exos want to work on the way data recorded by Intel-based fitness products is delivered back to the user. Users of wearables do not get much in the way of actionable data.
Exos worked with Chipzilla on its performance and health plans for Intel employees along with collaborating on Intel's Vitality Programme.It will be interesting to see what they come up with. More likely it will be the next generation Basis Peak or something which can make better use of Intel's Curie processor.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/wearables/40215-intel-wants-to-improve-fitness-data









(http://www.fudzilla.com/news/wearables/40215-intel-wants-to-improve-fitness-data)Intel and Lenovo team up with Open Labs and Linkin Park to Encourage Music Creators (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/03/15/intel_lenovo_team_up_open_labs_linkin_park_to_enco urage_music_creators/)

Today, Open Labs and Grammy®-Award-winning rock band Linkin Park announced the yearlong Stagelight Monthly Music Contest II, encouraging music creators of all skill levels. Entrants will have the opportunity to participate by submitting original compositions made using the free, Android* and Windows* compatible Stagelight music creation app. Prizes range from Lenovo desktop PCs, powered by the 6th generation Intel® Core™ processor, a haul of studio gear, and a mentoring session with Linkin Park. The contest, supported by Intel and Lenovo (https://newsroom.intel.com/chip-shots/chip-shot-intel-and-lenovo-team-up-with-open-labs-and-linkin-park-to-encourage-music-creators/), kicks off today and will run until March 31, 2017.

Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/03/15/intel_lenovo_team_up_open_labs_linkin_park_to_enco urage_music_creators#.VuhCP-Zv7ug

(http://www.fudzilla.com/news/wearables/40215-intel-wants-to-improve-fitness-data)

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Security And DLT Solutions Announce Strategic Alliance (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/03/17/intel_security_dlt_solutions_announce_strategic_al liance/)

Intel Security, a global security solutions leader, and DLT Solutions (DLT), a leading public sector technology company, today announced a strategic alliance (https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-security-and-dlt-solutions-announce-strategic-alliance/) focused on helping agencies address ever-increasing cybersecurity challenges. As part of the new program, Intel Security and DLT will develop a new cyber lab housed within the DLT Innovation Center which will serve as a physical and virtual showcase for security innovation.

Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/03/17/intel_security_dlt_solutions_announce_strategic_al liance#.VurkMOZv7ug

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Seeks AMD GPU Patent Licensing

http://i0.wp.com/www.eteknix.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Intel-AMD-GPU-Patents-Licensing.jpg?resize=800%2C450After Samsung and Nvidia had their recent legal spat, more light has been shed on the world of GPU patents and licensing. While Intel holds their own wealth of patents, no doubt some concerning GPUs, Nvidia and AMD, being GPU firms, also hold more important patents as well. With Intel’s cross-licensing deal with Nvidia set to expire in Q1 2017, the chip giant is reportedly in negotiations with AMD to strike up a patent deal (http://seekingalpha.com/news/3168017-bloomberg-intel-talks-amd-license-gpu-patents).
Being one of the big two GPU designers, AMD probably has many important and critical GPU patents. Add in their experience with APUs and iGPUs, there is probably quite a lot there that Intel needs. With the Nvidia deal expiring, Intel probably sees a chance to get a better deal while getting some new patents as well. Approaching AMD also makes sense as being the smaller of the two GPU makers, AMD may be willing to share their patents for less. It’s also a way to inject some cash into AMD and keep it afloat to stave off anti-trust lawsuits.
AMD also has a lot to offer with the upcoming generation. The GPU designer’s GCN architecture is ahead of Nvidia’s when it comes to DX12 and Asynchronous Compute and that could be one area Intel is looking towards. Intel may also be forced into cross-licencing due to the fact with some many patents out there, there have to be some they are violating. The biggest question will be if AMD will consider allowing their more important and revolutionary patents to be licensed.
With the Nvidia deal being worth $66 million a quarter or $264 million a year, AMD has the chance to squeeze out a good amount of cash from Intel. Even though $264 million wouldn’t have been enough to put AMD in the black for 2015, it wouldn’t have hurt to have the extra cash.



Noticia:
http://www.eteknix.com/intel-seeks-amd-gpu-patent-licensing/

[Zavtekirou]

Boa tarde,

Eu se fosse a Intel comprava mas é o raio das patentes. A Intel tem dinheiro a rodos e a AMD tem dinheiro em falta, era questão de números. Até podiam dizer que não até certo ponto mas daí em diante passava a ser uma oferta demasiado boa para recusarem.

Cumprimentos.

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/03/18/intel_declares_quarterly_cash_dividend/)

Intel Corporation’s board of directors (https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-declares-quarterly-cash-dividend-30/) has declared a quarterly dividend of 26 cents per share ($1.04 per share on an annual basis) on the company’s common stock. The dividend will be payable on June 1, 2016, to stockholders of record on May 7, 2016. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) expands the boundaries of technology to make the most amazing experiences possible. Information about Intel and the work of its more than 100,000 employees can be found at newsroom.intel.com and intel.com.

Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/03/18/intel_declares_quarterly_cash_dividend#.VuwjDOZv7u g

[Jorge-Vieira]

Warner and Intel sued over piracy accusation

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HDFury maker is furious

LegendSky, the maker of the HDFury has counter-sued Intel and Warner Bros over its anti-piracy antics.

For those who came in late, the HDFury is a small box that downgrades newer versions of HDCP copy protection to the older HDCP 1.4 version. It was sued by Warner Bros. and Digital Content Protection (DCP) which is owned by Intel. The pair claimed that the HDFury was being used to pirate 4K content, as 4K rips began appearing on the Internet shortly after the HDFury became available, and that LegendSky was violating the DMCA with its device.
However LegendSky points out that the Fury merely downgrades the HDCP version which is permitted by the DMCA as long as it isn’t used to connect two separate computer programs. Now, the company has filed several counterclaims against both Warner Bros. and DCP, TorrentFreak reports. It is demanding compensation for damages suffered and accusing DCP of defamation and monopolisation.
LegendSky’s counterclaim said that the Intel and Warner’s complaint was a sham. “They know, or should know, that Plaintiff DCP’s licensees, including Netflix, use HDFury Devices to convert newer to older versions of HDCP so as to enable interoperability between devices.”

LegendSky says that other companies like CBS, Disney, and NBC have purchased HDFury devices, and are using them for legitimate and legal purposes.
“Plaintiffs have, either directly or indirectly, made knowing false statements of fact to third parties wherein they have painted Defendant as a criminal enterprise releasing the HDFury Devices with no other intent than to steal and pirate copyrighted materials,” the counterclaim said.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/graphics/40269-warner-and-intel-sued-over-piracy-accusation

[Jorge-Vieira]

Andy Grove, One Of Intel’s Legends, Dies At 79



Intel is undoubtedly one the most iconic PC component makers in Silicon Valley. Today we take a brief look back at its past and one of its most legendary leaders, Andrew Grove, who passed away today (https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/andrew-s-grove-1936-2016/) at the age of 79.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich :
“We are deeply saddened by the passing of former Intel Chairman and CEO Andy Grove,” “Andy made the impossible happen, time and again, and inspired generations of technologists, entrepreneurs, and business leaders.”

http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Intel-Robert-Noyce-Andrew-Grove-Gordon-Moore.jpgLeft to right : Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce & Andrew Grove.
How It All Began

Why don’t we start from the very beginning, before there was even an Intel. It all started with a company that was spearheading semiconductor innovation in the late fifties and in the sixties, arguably the one that started the entire Silicon valley computing revolution, Fairchild Semiconductor. It was inside Fairchild and through the genius of Robert Noyce that the world’s first commercial integrated circuit came to be. And it was under the very same roof that the observation we’ve come to know as Moore’s Law was conceived by Gordon Moore.
Fairchild was actually a huge company back then and Fairchild Semiconductor was merely a subsidiary of a much bigger entity, Fairchild Camera And Instrument. In the late sixties the atmosphere inside Fairchild Semiconductor changed, it was losing its status as the leader and driver of innovation in the industry. Unfortunate mismanagement meant that the innovators inside the company were not reorganized or adequately compensated for their efforts. The revenue that was generated as a result of their hard work went to Fairchild Camera And Instrument and little of it came back to Fairchild Semiconductor where the real innovation was taking place.
Robert Noyce grew weary of this fact and convinced Gordon Moore to leave, together they founded Intel in 1968. Incidentally A year later, Jerry Sanders who was the Worldwide Sales Manager at Fairchild Semiconductor, also left in to found his own company, Advanced Micro Devices.
The Motto Of Andrew Grove Was “Only the paranoid survive”

Robert Noyce recruited Grove on the very same day of Intel’s incorporation, making him Intel’s first non-founding employee. Andrew Grove was born to a Jewish middle-class Hungarian family who had survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary during WW2. At the age of twenty he fled from the then communist controlled Hungary and finally made his way to the US where he continued his education to become a chemical engineer.
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http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/andy-grove-1991.jpg (http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/andy-grove-1991.jpg)Steve Jobs idolized Andrew Grove and sought his advice as often as he could.

Grove spoke of his early life in Hungary in his memoirs and said :
By the time I was twenty, I had lived through a Hungarian Fascist dictatorship, German military occupation, the Nazis’ “Final Solution,” the siege of Budapest by the Soviet Red Army, a period of chaotic democracy in the years immediately after the war, a variety of repressive Communist regimes, and a popular uprising that was put down at gunpoint. . . [where] many young people were killed; countless others were interned. Some two hundred thousand Hungarians escaped to the West. I was one of them.

Grove Is Intel’s Most Successful And Second Longest Running CEO

Grove was Intel’s President from 1979 to 1987 when he succeeded Gordon Moore as the company’s CEO. Being a chemical engineer Grove focused heavily on the manufacturing side of the business. He spearheaded the development and expansion of Intel’s fabrication plants propelling the company’s manufacturing capability and capacity from a handful of small facilities to become the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer.
He worked in an office that was an eight feet by nine feet cubicle where he used to work alongside ordinary Intel employees. He refused to assign any privileges to himself not even a parking spot. In 1998 he stepped down as CEO after being diagnosed with Prostate cancer. In his 12 year tenure as CEO, Intel’s market capitalization skyrocketed from $4 billion to $197 billion, making it the world’s 7th largest company.
Truly then, Grove made Intel the giant that it is today. He left a permanent mark on the industry and indeed the world.







Noticia:
http://wccftech.com/andy-grove-intels-legends-dies-79/#ixzz43cTjEGwk







(http://wccftech.com/andy-grove-intels-legends-dies-79/#ixzz43cTjEGwk)Intel Co-Founder Andrew S. Grove Has Passed Away (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/03/21/intel_cofounder_andrew_s_grove_has_passed_away)


Intel announced that the company’s former CEO and Chairman Andrew S. Grove passed away today at the age of 79 (https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/andrew-s-grove-1936-2016/). Present at Intel’s 1968 founding with Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, Andy Grove became Intel’s President in 1979 and CEO in 1987. He served as Chairman of the Board from 1997 to 2005. Both during his time at Intel and in retirement, Grove was one of the most influential figures in technology and business, writing best-selling books and widely cited articles, and speaking out on an array of prominent public issues.



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"We are deeply saddened by the passing of former Intel Chairman and CEO Andy Grove," said Intel CEO Brian Krzanich. "Andy made the impossible happen, time and again, and inspired generations of technologists, entrepreneurs, and business leaders." Born András Gróf in Budapest, Hungary, Grove immigrated to the United States in 1956-7 having survived Nazi occupation and escaped Soviet repression. He studied chemical engineering at the City College of New York, completing his Ph.D at the University of California at Berkeley in 1963. After graduation, he was hired by Gordon Moore at Fairchild Semiconductor as a researcher and rose to assistant head of R&D under Moore. When Noyce and Moore left Fairchild to found Intel in 1968, Grove was their first hire.



Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/03/21/intel_cofounder_andrew_s_grove_has_passed_away#.Vv EOnHpv7ug






Morreu um dos homens que ajudou a tornar a Intel no gigante que é hoje reconhecido por todos e a empresa que domina amplamente muitas tecnicas de fabrico, o mundo ficou mais pobre com esta partida.
(http://wccftech.com/andy-grove-intels-legends-dies-79/#ixzz43cTjEGwk)

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Makes Move to the Cloud Faster, Easier (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/04/01/intel_makes_move_to_cloud_faster_easier/)

Intel Corporation today announced (https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-makes-move-to-the-cloud-faster-easier/) a range of new technologies, investments and industry collaborations aimed at making it easier to deploy agile and scalable clouds so businesses can deliver new services faster and drive revenue growth. Businesses want flexibility and choice in cloud deployment models to support innovation while maintaining control of their most strategic assets. Despite a willingness to invest in modern software-defined infrastructure (SDI)1, businesses find the prospect of doing so themselves to be complex and time-consuming. Intel is easing the path with new processors, solid state drives and a range of industry collaborations to help businesses deliver new services at the scale and speed previously found only in the most advanced public clouds.

Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/04/01/intel_makes_move_to_cloud_faster_easier#.Vv58SXr0P ug

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel mobile chip boss gives up

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Only took a year

The woman who was supposed to be behind Intel’s mobile chip boost has given up on the job after only a year.

Aicha Evans had been working for Intel for a decade, but the last year as the head of the semiconductor maker’s struggling mobile phone division resulted in her handing in her notice.
Chipzilla has spent billions trying to get into phones and ended 2015 with a fairly sad one percent. However the exit happened when it seemed that Intel was going to get a deal supplying Apple with modems. While the deal was off the table for the latest iPhone5S rebadge – the iPhone SE, there are rumours that Intel will be inside the iPhone 7 later this year.
In February, Evans represented Intel at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona where she outlined plans to make the company’s technology central to upcoming fifth generation, or 5G, phone networks and devices. She was promoted to head of the division, and to Intel’s management committee, last year when the company announced its previous mobile leaders Hermann Eul and Mike Bell would be leaving after a transition period.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/mobile/40373-intel-mobile-chip-boss-gives-up

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel loses two Senior VPs, the General Managers of IoT and PC groups

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Doug Davis and Kirk Skaugen

We just reported (http://www.fudzilla.com/news/mobile/40373-intel-mobile-chip-boss-gives-up) that Aisha Evans (https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/aicha-evans/), Intel's corporate vice president and general manager of the Communications and Devices Group, is leaving the company. Now, it seems that two other highly-ranked Senior Vice Presidents are leaving as well.

Doug Davis (https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/douglas-l-doug-davis/) a senior vice president and general manager of the Internet of Things (IoT) Group at Intel Corporation is leaving the company at the end of 2016. He spent 32 years in Intel, and he probably just had enough of it, as apparently he wants to spend more time with family friends and chase some other interests. It is safe to assume that he has enough money to retire, but know knows maybe he will go somewhere else too.

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Doug Davis, Former Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel's IoT (Internet of Things) Group

His IoT division did a good job in really tough market, that still to this date didn't get its shape and outlines. In terms of devices and computation, one really knows where the Internet of Things "starts" and when it "ends." We all like the outcome of a potential IoT success story that would involve smart shoes, and smart watches that will last more than just a day or two, and even smart t-shirts.

Just please don't say drones, as we think that outside of transportation of packages, there is very little use for this surprisingly popular topic. Intel will announce who will get the Doug's role at a later date.

Another major departure is Kirk Skaugen (https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/kirk-b-skaugen/), Intel's senior vice president and general manager of the Client Computing Group (CCG). He was managing the company's client computing business and strategies exceeding $34 billion in total for Intel's smartphones, phablets, tablets and PC platforms.

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Kirk Skaugen, Former Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel's Client Computing Group (CCG)

The internal memo sent to Intel employees claims that Kirk is going to leave for another career opportunity. It will be interesting to see where he plans to move, as with his knowledge of Intel Inside, his experience and expertise can actually bring a lot of competitive problems for Intel, in case he decides to join any competitors.

If you add two and two, Kirk Skaugen, Doug Davis, and Aisha Evans were all reporting to Dr. Venkata "Murthy" Renduchintala (https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/dr-murthy-renduchintala/), Intel's president of the newly-created Client and Internet of Things (IoT) Businesses and Systems Architecture Group.
Obviously, they didnt get along and Dr. Murthy, an ex-Qualcomm executive, pushed all three out. This is now possibly the biggest executive shake out of the last few years.



Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/40374-intel-loses-evp-of-iot-and-evp-of-pcs

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel announces leadership changes for Client Computing and IoT

Intel has announced (https://newsroom.intel.com/chip-shots/intel-announces-executive-leadership-changes/) that two of its senior executives will be leaving the company. Doug Davis, who heads up Intel's Internet of Things Group, will retire after his successor has been named. Kirk Skaugen, the senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Client Computing Group, is moving on to a new career. Intel's current vice president and general manager of mobile client platforms, Navin Shenoy, will be taking over for Skaugen in the coming weeks.
Both men have held significant leadership roles at Intel over the years. Davis (https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglas-davis-5977b02b) started working for Intel in 1984 as a product engineer in the company's military division. While his recent work was mostly related to Intel's Internet of Things initiatives, he also has experience in Intel's manufacturing arm. Most notably, he was general manager of the Arizona Fab/Sort Manufacturing Site, where he was responsible for the site's site wafer fabrication manufacturing strategy and operations.
Skaugen joined Intel in 1992. For a number of years, he managed Intel's datacenter projects, as well as its connectivity intiatives like Thunderbolt. As the senior vice president of of Intel's PC Client Group from 2012 to 2014, Skaugen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirkskaugen) headed up Intel's largest business unit. His leadership role expanded when Intel merged its PC and mobile divisions (http://techreport.com/news/28082/intel-client-computing-group-combines-pc-and-mobile-divisions) in 2015 into the Client Computing Group. This business unit handles many of Intel's most important products, including its processor lineup and consumer devices.



Noticia:
http://techreport.com/news/29943/intel-announces-leadership-changes-for-client-computing-and-iot

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel to Revise Financial Reporting Structure (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/04/06/intel_to_revise_financial_reporting_structure/)


Beginning with the publication of Intel Corporation’s first-quarter earnings report on April 19, 2016, the company will revise the presentation of its financial results (https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-revise-financial-reporting-structure/) to reflect changes to certain operating segments. The company is providing the revised financial reporting structure now, as shown below, in order to give visibility into the new model. Intel’s operating segments will be:




Client Computing Group (CCG)

Data Center Group (DCG)

Internet of Things Group (IOTG)

Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group (NSG)

Intel Security Group (ISecG)

Programmable Solutions Group (PSG)

All Other New Technology Group (NTG)

The company is electing to separately disclose the operating results of NSG, ISecG, and PSG, although none of these operating segments meets the quantitative thresholds to qualify as a reportable operating segment. Intel previously disclosed the results of NSG within the "all other" category and aggregated the results of ISecG and Software and Services Group (SSG) as the "software and services" operating segments. PSG was formed as a result of our acquisition of Altera Corporation. Additionally, the company formed NTG, which includes Intel’s perceptual computing efforts and products designed for wearables, drones and other market segments. Lastly, the company determined that SSG will no longer be an operating segment. SSG’s historical results will be included in the "all other" category.



Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/04/06/intel_to_revise_financial_reporting_structure#.VwU 4PXr0Pug

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Helps Sisense Make BI and Analytics Accessible (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/04/07/intel_helps_sisense_make_bi_analytics_accessible/)

Today, business analytics company Sisense announced its unique In-Chip* Analytics is powered by the 6th Generation Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor to make business intelligence and analytics rapidly accessible for business users (https://newsroom.intel.com/chip-shots/chip-shot-intel-helps-sisense-make-bi-and-analytics-accessible/). This technology combination provides increased processing speed to handle large and disparate data sets to keep pace with the evolving analytics landscape. For more on Sisense and Intel’s Workplace Transformation vision, visit Tom Garrison’s blog.

Noticia:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/04/07/intel_helps_sisense_make_bi_analytics_accessible#. VwZgN3r0Pug

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel Looses Taiwanese Client Asustek As Qualcomm Increases Eastern Market Share

As we see Apple and its suppliers expanding production facilities in China, in the Android world its still Qualcomm who still remains the only major SoC manufacturer worldwide. While Intel’s been trying to catch up in the mobile hardware sphere, its still mostly Qualcomm and ARM who find themselves in the majority of devices out there, with Apple and Samsung looking to catch up on multiple fronts.
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Qualcomm And MediaTek Gain In The Chinese Hardware Market As Asustek Chooses Former For Intel Intel’s got some projects of its own that we’ve heard about in the past, with the company reportedly working with LG on the Korean company’s NUCLUN lineup of processors. But while the US chip giant continues its strong presence in the PC hardware platform, there’s very little concrete progress that we’ve seen in the mobile front.
That being said, with Intel’s clients in the East cutting ties with the manufacturer bit by bit, things really don’t seem to be moving forward for the company, unless it chooses to divert critical resources away from PC hardware and into the mobile segments. After all, when it comes to fabrication, the US manufacturer still is far ahead in that segment.
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With 30% of Asustek’s mobile shipments in 2015 being composed of Intel’s offerings, the Taiwanese manufacturer had been the largest client of Santa Clara in the mobile spectrum, but as we enter the second quarter of 2016, things aren’t looking that good for Intel. As Asustek sees its market share increase, looks like Intel just might be struggling to cope up with this increased demand; as the company’s yet to launch the next generation of its mobile processor lineup.
The LG Rolly Is A Full-Size Bluetooth Keyboard That Can Be Folded Into A Pocket Stick



(http://wccftech.com/lgs-wireless-keyboard-rolly-pocket-stick/)
When it comes to struggling with product launches, the Santa Clara based manufacturer isn’t new to the game, as we’ve seen reported delays in its PC hardware market segment as well. While companies such as Nvidia and AMD continue to consistently offer new products, Intel’s delays often get more publicity due to the large amount of customers the company has.
With that being said, lets hope for now that the company’s venture with LG for the NUCLUN 2 bears some fruit, with the Korean manufacturer choosing to launch the device in its flagship smartphone lineup, the LG GX series. The LG G5 was a well designed device after all and we’re eager to see future offerings from the company; which serve as a nice breather from the rather monotonous mobile spectrum. Thoughts? Let us know what you think in the comments section below and stay tuned for the latest updates.
Source (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20160408PD204.html)







Noticia:
http://wccftech.com/intel-looses-taiwanese-client-asustek-qualcomm-increases-market-share/#ixzz45Kiq9mT4

[Jorge-Vieira]

Intel makes it easy for you to build a robot army

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Time to take over the world
Chipzilla is putting a lot of effort into helping people build their own robots and drones at home.

The Robotic Development Kit and Aero Kit provide the necessary hardware and software tools to build robots and drones. It is darn useful for those considering building a robot army for taking over the world.
At the heart of the cuts are the RealSense 3D camera, which help the robots and drones navigate and avoid obstacles. The depth-sensing camera can recognise items and determine the size, shape and contours of objects. For robots, the camera provides computer vision.
Each kit will sell for $249 and will ship later this quarter. It has a credit-card-sized board from Aaeon, which is equipped with an Intel Atom x5 Z8350 CPU, an internal Intel HD 400 graphics processor, 4GB of DDR3 RAM and 32GB of storage. Other features include an HDMI slot, Gigabit Ethernet, two USB 2.0 ports, a USB 3.0 port, a camera interface and an eDP (embedded DisplayPort) slot to connect a display. It also has a 40-pin GPIO (general purpose input-output) slot to hook up add-on boards that may have sensors or other components.
The software that runs the kit is Ubuntu Linux but will also support Windows 10 and other versions of Windows.
The Aero Platform is a "ready-to-fly developer platform" with an Intel Atom x7-Z8700 processor, DDR3L RAM and flash storage, and it will run a version of embedded Linux. It will ship in the second half of this year, although we are not sure how much it will cost.
There are other kits out there. Nvidia's Jetson TX1 development board is already popular amongst those building their own drones. There is also Qualcomm's DragonBoard 410c, which supports Windows 10 IoT Core, embedded Linux and ROS (Robotics Operating System), the most widely used robotics OS.




Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/wearables/40445-intel-makes-it-easy-for-you-to-build-a-robot-army

[Jorge-Vieira]

Ryan Shrout of PC Perspective Joins Intel as Chief Performance Strategist (https://www.techpowerup.com/248881/ryan-shrout-of-pc-perspective-joins-intel-as-chief-performance-strategist)

Ryan Shrout, lead editor of PC Perspective late Wednesday, announced his departure from the publication. He will be joining Intel as the Chief Performance Strategist, and his role will be to identify the nature of the demands from the computing industry, and draw out strategies for the various silicon divisions to create products for. Shrout takes with him experience not just as the face of PC Perspective, but also Shrout Research, a market research firm.

In his farewell post, Shrout concludes: "As for PC Perspective, I am confident it will continue doing reviews, news, and analysis of the hardware you love for as long as you, the reader, support them. As I said earlier; they have already been running the show without me for some time, and they will continue doing the excellent job that has brought PCPer.com to where it stands today."

Go get 'em Ryan!https://www.techpowerup.com/img/uIJlBfWGTQWtdnrs_thm.jpg (https://www.techpowerup.com/img/uIJlBfWGTQWtdnrs.jpg)



https://www.techpowerup.com/248881/ryan-shrout-of-pc-perspective-joins-intel-as-chief-performance-strategist


A mais recente contratação da Intel, um nome sonante da escrita e das reviews, mas que me parece um tanto estranha...

[Winjer]

O ryan shrout já andava a trabalhar para a Intel há muito tempo.
Seja com aquelas reviews manhosas que ele mete no pcper, ou nos estudos encomendados que ele fazia para a Intel.

[Enzo]

O ryan shrout já andava a trabalhar para a Intel há muito tempo.
Seja com aquelas reviews manhosas que ele mete no pcper, ou nos estudos encomendados que ele fazia para a Intel.

Era um gajo com a camisola da empresa vestida sem trabalhar para eles. Agora tudo fará mais sentido :)

[Jorge-Vieira]

Darren McPhee, Former Radeon Marketing Executive, Joins Intel's Discrete Graphics Division (https://www.techpowerup.com/249045/darren-mcphee-former-radeon-marketing-executive-joins-intels-discrete-graphics-division)

Darren McPhee worked 12 years for ATI and AMD. When he left AMD in 2015, he was one of the company's top marketing managers. For the last three years he has worked for various companies, but the surprise has come with Intel recruiting him to occupy the position of Product Marketing Manager in its 'Discrete Graphics' group, one of the most interesting initiatives in the recent times.

This division is working hard to develop a new family of discrete graphics cards that will theoretically compete with AMD and NVIDIA solutions. Intel has been steadily growing, and in fact Intel already signed Raja Koduri (https://www.techpowerup.com/238620/intel-hires-raja-koduri-to-develop-discrete-gpus-this-time-for-real), AMD GPU architect, in November 2017. This firm has been attracting more and more talent from an AMD: Koduri was followed by Jim Keller (https://www.techpowerup.com/243673/ryzen-architect-jim-keller-joins-intel), Ryzen Architect, and Chris Hook (https://www.techpowerup.com/243236/top-level-amd-veteran-chris-hook-leaving-the-company), who led AMD's Radeon Technologies Group Marketing Departmen prior to his move to Intel. These hires certainly make it clear that Intel is taking an increasingly promising project very seriously. We will have to be patient, however, because the firm already indicated (https://www.techpowerup.com/246808/intel-teases-their-upcoming-graphics-cards-for-2020) in SIGGRAPH 18 that it will have its first models ready in 2020.https://www.techpowerup.com/img/YzmEOCwmRDJrJhu0_thm.jpg (https://www.techpowerup.com/img/YzmEOCwmRDJrJhu0.jpg) https://www.techpowerup.com/img/iXsRfG1o9vsVfvRY_thm.jpg (https://www.techpowerup.com/img/iXsRfG1o9vsVfvRY.jpg)



Noticia:
https://www.techpowerup.com/249045/darren-mcphee-former-radeon-marketing-executive-joins-intels-discrete-graphics-division


Mais uma contratação para a Intel.

[Enzo]

Finais de 2019, inicios de 2020, devem vir bombas azuis por aí.

[Winjer]

Finalmente a AMD vai dar luta à nVidia nas gráficas.
Pena ter sido preciso mudar a equipa quase toda para a Intel...

[Jorge-Vieira]

Por isso mesmo é que vão ter a designação de AMTEL
(lol)

[reiszink]

Pessoal, usem este tópico, para não andar a informação toda espalhada. ;)

https://www.portugal-tech.pt/showthread.php?t=5686