Intel Innovation 2022: live coverage of Raptor Lake launch and more

It’s hardware season, and Intel is up to bat next. The company is hosting its next Intel Innovation event, and the focus at today’s event is expected to be on its next desktop processors, the 13th-gen Raptor Lake. These highly anticipated new chips are the sequel to last year’s 12th-gen Alder Lake, which represented a […]

Intel drops the Celeron and Pentium names for its low-end laptop CPUs

Intel has used the Celeron and Pentium brands for CPUs since the 1990s, but they're finally fading away — if not quite in the way you'd expect. The company is replacing both brand names for low-end laptop chips in favor of the simpler (if not exactly creative) "Intel Processor" badge starting in 2023. The move […]

Trump’s own former intel chief worried that Russia had compromising material on him, book says

President Donald Trump (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive to waiting media during a joint press conference after their summit on July 16, 2018 in Helsinki, Finland. Chris McGrath/Getty Images Dan Coats, former director of national intelligence, worried about Trump's relations with Putin.  According to a new book, Trump's behavior at a summit with […]

AMD might deal a huge blow to Intel with new 3D V-Cache CPUs

According to a new leak, AMD may be readying up some truly powerful Ryzen 7000 processors equipped with its 3D V-Cache technology. The rumor suggests that this time around, at least three CPUs are in the works, and they’re the top-of-the-line models, including the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, Ryzen 9 7900X3D, and Ryzen 7 7800XD. Equipping […]

Cobra Kai Season 3 Finale: EPs Explore Kreese’s Trauma, the Dojos’ Unlikely Alliance — Plus, New Endgame Intel

RELATED STORIES Season 3 of Cobra Kai turned up the heat on the rivalry front, but the dojos’ greatest challenge is yet to come. After some soul-searching took Daniel to Japan and Johnny to… well, a bar stool, a visit from an old friend helped the two at-odds senseis bury the hatchet. Following another knockabout […]

NVIDIA joins Intel in bidding war for major Israeli chip maker

If you needed any further evidence that NVIDIA is becoming more of a direct competitor for Intel, you might just have it. A Calcalist source claimed that NVIDIA has made an offer to acquire Mellanox, a chip maker best known for its high-performance computing and networking tech. While it’s not clear how much NVIDIA has […]

The rise of Bob Swan, who went from leading a notorious dot-com bust to becoming the new CEO of Intel (INTC)

Intel Intel has a new CEO in the form of Bob Swan, ending a search that started in the wake of former chief exec Brian Krzanich’s departure.  Swan had been interim CEO since Krzanich left in June 2018, and Intel’s CFO before that.  Before Intel, Swan had a long career in Silicon Valley and beyond: […]

VIDEO of Russian Foreign Intel Spetsnaz training shown for the 1st time on TV

Russian TV has offered a glimpse into the training of an elite special unit of the country’s Foreign Intelligence Service. The clip shows them storm a mock-up building, engage ‘terrorists’ in near darkness with sirens blaring. The footage of the SVR’s Spetsnaz unit training was run on Rossiya-1 as part of an extensive interview with […]

We want to believe: ‘Russian hacking’ memo REVEALS how US intel pinned leaks to Kremlin

A newly-out memo containing the Obama admin’s talking points about “Russian hacking” in the 2016 election reveals how US spy agencies attributed email leaks to Kremlin by saying it’s “consistent” with what they think Russia does. The seven-page document was contained within the 49 pages published on Friday by BuzzFeed, which obtained them through a […]