Category: Intel

This kind of PLATYPUS is not a sweet and unusual mammal, this is a security problem recently announced that affect Intel across server, desktop and laptop CPUs.

Intel did something of a surprise this weekend, especially on a Saturday: they announced their first Xe-based discrete GPU with the Iris Xe MAX Graphics.

AMD has over the last few years truly put Intel and NVIDIA on notice, they're not messing around and Intel are trying to create a little fanfare with a tease of fresh 11th gen desktop Rocket Lake-S CPU info.

Intel have now confirmed a release window for the desktop version of their 11th Gen Intel Core CPUs code-named 'Rocket Lake', although not much else.

Dell is a company we don't often cover here, however we're now on their press lists and they sent over something quite interesting today with their new XPS 13 laptop models which come with the latest 11th Gen Intel Core processors. (ARTICLE UPDATED)

VUSec have published and shown an example of a newly discovered flaw present with both Intel and AMD processors when used with Linux.

Intel has now revealed properly and launched 'Tiger Lake', their 11th Gen Intel Core processors with 'Willow Cove' cores backed up by their new Xe graphics architecture.

During Intel Architecture Day 2020, they made a number of announcements. While a fair amount was marketing talk and plenty for servers, they did give a few details on their upcoming dedicated GPUs.

Seems Intel are not having the best of times with their CPU tech lately. Not only have they been through waves of security issues, they're continuing to struggle to move to smaller processing nodes.

Jim Keller, something of a legend when it comes to chip design has formally resigned from Intel over 'personal reasons'.

The latest in open source graphics drivers for Linux has released, with Mesa 20.1.0 now out with tons of changes and improvements everywhere.

Intel have now fully revealed their latest processors today, with the Core i9-10900K now their flagship with a claim of it being "the world's fastest gaming processor".

The Khronos Group has today announced that the cross-platform Vulkan graphics API now has official Ray Tracing support with their new provisional extensions.

Security? What security? Say hello to 'LVI' (Load Value Injection), a new class of' transient-execution attacks' exploiting flaws in modern processors and it defeats all existing countermeasures.

Two bits of Linux driver news to share today, one quite big for AMD/Intel and the other on the smaller side for NVIDIA.

Community support for Unreal Tournament was able to breath some new life into the game, even with the limitations of the closed binary. By 2018 however the game was no longer launching for Mesa users. For an engine with such a pedigree on Linux this outcome is still disappointing.

Today, The Khronos Group has released the next big update the Vulkan graphics API specification with Vulkan 1.2 now available.

Not exactly surprising, Intel have stated that for their new discrete GPU that Linux gaming will have a focus for them.

Writing on their personal blog, Jason Ekstrand from the Intel Mesa team has written up some information on what they've been doing to improve the Intel drivers on Linux.

Intel has now officially confirmed that they will release a discrete GPU that will be available in 2020.