After a delay when a microcode-related boot problem surfaced, FreeBSD 15.1 is now available. Laptop support is getting there, ...

For years, central processing units (CPUs) have looked like an afterthought next to AI chipmaker Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs). But that narrative is shifting -- and Intel is positioned to ...

President Trump said Wednesday that federal stock holdings in Intel generated more than $30 billion over the last several months, after he authorized the U.S. government’s investment in the struggling ...

Intel shares are off their highs, but are still up 14% after-hours. Here’s the key quote from CEO Lip-Bu Tan on the company’s earnings release: “The next wave of AI will bring intelligence closer to ...

Sixteen miles north of Albuquerque, in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, an Intel chip plant sits on more than 200 acres of land. The site was established in the 1980s, part of it built on top of a sod farm. In ...

An interesting detail about the Intel 8087 floating point processor (FPU) is that it’s a co-processor that shares a bus with the 8086 or 8088 CPU and system memory, which means that somehow both the ...

Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU). This microcode ...

CES 2026 is off and running, and chipmakers enabling the AI moment are one of the big starts of the show. In addition to NVIDIA and AMD taking the stage today, we'll also be getting Intel's 2026 ...

Intel laid off another 669 Oregon workers Thursday on top of 2,400 Washington County jobs the chipmaker cut in July, according to a filing with state workforce officials. Long the semiconductor ...

CPU manufacturers must address issues that arise with processors already on the market, especially the errors that are discovered over time. To handle this, Intel has released a new version of ...

Despite Intel’s best efforts via firmware patching, the voltage glitch that marred some of its 13th and 14th Gen desktop CPUs can still emerge from the shadows. My gaming rig was one of its latest ...

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