Newest MLPerf results for Intel Gaudi 2 accelerator and 5th Gen Intel Xeon demonstrate how Intel is raising the bar for generative AI performance across its portfolio and with its ecosystem partners.
There are more than 8,500 performance results in the MLCommons' latest benchmark, testing all manner of combinations and permutations of hardware, software and AI inference use cases.
Smooth-Stone, a well-heeled start-up looking to make a name for itself by producing much more energy efficient server processors than established players like AMD and Intel, has changed its name to Calxeda.
Intel has pledged that its proposed $7.68 billion McAfee buyout will result in more secure networked devices through an integration of software and hardware that will challenge offerings from other big security vendors and perhaps change the way in which security is delivered to enterprise IT shops.
Looks like Intel is on what has the makings of a good old-fashioned shopping spree. The company's blockbuster announcement Thursday morning that it plans to buy security company McAfee for $7.68 billion comes on the heels of its buyout of Texas Instruments' cable modem chip division earlier this week, and amidst rumors that it will pluck Infineon Technologies AG's wireless chip unit.
Intel (INTC -- NASDAQ) said Thursday morning it has entered into an agreement to acquire McAfee (MFE -- NYSE) for approximately $$7.68 billion, based on a price of $48 per share.
Despite a lackluster economy, the worldwide security software industry just keeps growing. Led by Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, IBM and EMC, total industry sales are projected to hit at least $16.5 billion this year, up 11.3% from 2009, according to Gartner.
Intel has reached a proposed settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in the agency's antitrust complaint, with Intel prohibited from giving computer makers benefits for exclusively using its chips.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has amended a settlement order in an antitrust case against Intel by exempting a planned chipset for netbooks from requirements that they include an interface with the open standard PCI Express Bus.
Intel has posted a demonstration of its Linux-based Meego OS for tablet computers via a YouTube video that shows the OS's multitouch support, multitasking and integrated social networking.
Intel is teaming up with football helmet manufacturers to bring the science of supercomputing to sports equipment in an effort to monitor brain damage and build helmets that minimize risk of injury.
The University of New Mexico's patent arm, STC, filed a lawsuit against Intel on Monday alleging the infringement of a patent related to advanced chip manufacturing.
Nintendo's 3DS portable game console will uses a graphics processing engine designed by a Japanese company, which was selected over technology from graphics heavyweights like Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices, an analyst said.
At Intel's annual Research Day this month it will show technologies that read users gestures and respond to thoughts, and a cloud-computing ready "smart car" with accident-prevention smarts.