Intel and Samsung might be considering a foundry alliance to counter TSMC
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Intel and Samsung might be considering a foundry alliance to counter TSMC

Business new tamfitronics Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In a nutshell: Intel's fledgling foundry business, Intel Foundry Services (IFS), has struggled to gain significant traction since its launch in 2021. While it's secured customers like Cisco and AWS, bigger clients and chip orders are still out of reach. Now, the company has reportedly reached out to Samsung Electronics to explore forming a strategic foundry alliance. According to a report by the Korean Maeil Business Newspaper, a senior Intel executive recently requested a high-level summit between the company and Samsung. The goal is for Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger to meet directly with Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong to discuss comprehensive cooperation plans merging their foundry...
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Intel, AMD team up to confront rising challenge from Arm, Digital News
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Intel, AMD team up to confront rising challenge from Arm, Digital News

Technology tamfitronics Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on Tuesday (Oct 15) said they are forming a group to help make sure software works across their chips, responding to a rising challenge from Arm Holdings .Intel invented what is known as the x86 computing architecture, a technology that for 40 years has powered the world's laptops, PCs and data centre servers. AMD licences the technology from Intel and also makes chips using x86, competing directly against Intel under a longstanding legal settlement.But the market share of both firms has been eroded by Arm, which licences a competing architecture for computing to laptop chip designers such as Apple and Qualcomm, as well as to firms like Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet that use it in data centres. Part of Arm's rise stems from rules in its contracts that...
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Intel Capital Invests in $15M Venture Round for AI-Powered Buildots
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Intel Capital Invests in $15M Venture Round for AI-Powered Buildots

Technology tamfitronics Buildots' AI/machine learning tools analyze and identify potential construction problems based on 360-degree imaging captured onsite. Photo courtesy Buildots Buildots, an artificial intelligence and machine learning construction software firmwhose tools document construction progress and can help predict scheduling problemshas announced a $15-million investment round, led by Intel Capital with participation from OG Venture Partners and previous investors. In conjunction with the financing, Lisa Cohen, investment director at Intel Capital, will join Buildots as a board observer."We are proud to work with Intel Capital to propel large-scale construction into a more efficient and controlled future, taking out the guesswork and providing decision-makers with comprehensive and precise oversight," said Roy Danon, co-founder and CEO of Buildots in a statement.Intel Capital is the division of...
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Got an Intel Mac? Here’s the deal so far, and possible future scenarios
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Got an Intel Mac? Here’s the deal so far, and possible future scenarios

Top Stories Tamfitronics If you’ve got an Intel Mac of up to six years old, there was mixed news for most when Apple announced macOS 15 Sequoia. Most Macs that can run macOS 14 can still run this year’s version but Intel models unsurprisingly won’t get the headline Apple Intelligence features.A historical analysis of how long Macs continue to support the latest version of macOS shows that with a couple of exceptions not much changed this year on the surface, but it does still leave the question of Apple’s future plans for its Intel-chipped machines … The Intel Mac story so farArsTechnica used over 20 years’ worth of data to determine how long you can expect your Mac to continue being eligible for each year’s version of macOS, and found a...
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