The semiconductor giant Intel has surprisingly announced a revision of its current Intel Core processors of the 8th generation. The x86 SoCs released as part of the “Kaby Lake Refresh” family is being modified in their hardware to protect against the previously known ” Meltdown ” and “Spectre” vulnerabilities.
The US semiconductor giant Intel is apparently considering to actively interfere in the struggle for the acquisition of the competitor Qualcomm by the chip company Broadcom.Among other things, a takeover bid for Broadcom is also under discussion.
The fast memory based on the 3D XPoint technology should now also speed up notebooks and other systems properly.Intel has now also presented corresponding models of its Optane SSDs, which can be installed in the form of an M.2 card in computers.In most cases, however, they are probably suitable as a supplement to other storage.
In 1998, Intel and Real 3D co-developed their own first, also the “last” a discrete graphics card – i740. Because its 3D graphics performance has a good performance, i740 was introduced, and a lot of users and graphics card manufacturers still recognize it. Now, Intel has rekindled its interest in discrete GPU.
Now the chip manufacturer AMD will have to explain in a court, why numerous users were supplied with unsafe processors.There are now several lawsuits pending against the company in the United States.They were filed because of the security vulnerability Spectre, which became a hot subject at the beginning of the year.
Intel held a presentation ahead of MWC 18 (Mobile World Congress 18) scheduled to be held in Barcelona, Spain from February 25. Rob Topol, General Manager, 5G Business / Technology Division, Communication / Device Business Unit, Intel, said, “Intel is committed to bringing mobile PCs with communication capabilities compatible with 5G to Dell, HP, Lenovo”. The
The semiconductor giant Intel has begun, after some back and forth claims, to deliver a final version of the microcode updates against the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities in its processors to the device manufacturers.
Intel has released patches for Meltdown and Specter, the two CPU vulnerabilities found earlier. But because of the patch, there are problems, so Microsoft has made an urgent change, and released an emergency patch to resolve the issue.
The chip maker Intel can currently use positive news and headlines, after all, it is at the center of the security vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown, especially the latter concerns primarily the company from Santa Clara, California.
Last week, the gaps that have since become known as Meltdown and Spectre have been the big issue.Many manufacturers of hardware and software have now provided patches, but these are partly noticeable in terms of performance.