Hackers got tons of data from #Intel, their most popular password is "Intel123"

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/massive-20gb-intel-data-breach-floods-the-internet-mentions-backdoors

#Intel will launch ARC GPUs lineup in 2022, and there are still just a few known facts about them, but you can expect fast RT-cores, AI-acceleration, DLSS equivalent:

https://twitter.com/IntelGraphics/statuses/1427262530594869258

#INTEL Arc GPUs will also feature open standard called XESS, the equivalend of NVIDIAs DLSS, but public and compatible with both Intel and NVIDIA (via XMX and DP4a AI acceleration):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9hfpf-SqEg

Nice move, #INTEL
PS. Fewer, not less

#Hardware

Intel is panicking: to improve financial reports for the next couple of years the company is shutting down a lot of divisions and services.

Among them goes PC development one and all their legendary NUC mini PC lineup: the last device will be produced in September. And Intel is trying to get rid of all units they still have by contacting partners and asking them to speed up sales.

Some parts of the division were consumed by ASUS who has their plans on portability (including ROG Ally lineup), but it's fascinating that the company was using their own laptops and NUCs to support new GPUs and now it's all gone.

#Hardware #Intel

#Intel CPUs and #NVIDIA GPUs are gaining market back from AMD, according to Steam #Hardware Survey.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

Recent CPUs from Intel are a ticking bomb: they have an exceptionally fast degrading cycle...

The issue isn't fixable: you literally need to replace a faulty generation as a whole, which they don't want to do. So to avoid losses, Intel is trying to hide oxidation issue behind updates for the Voltage pattern in Microcode and BIOS (those are the issue but not related to physical oxidation problem of all 13 and 14-gen CPUs).

Professionals admit that such issue hasn't happened for over 25 years in CPU history. And it may be impossible to replace those chips for Intel and partners since the question would be "with what?" It may take them up to a year to get a significant quantities of upgraded and fixed units to replace over two years of faulty products.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVdmK1UGzGs #Hardware #Intel

The Intel story is unveiling rapidly: they are now getting rid of 15-19K employees and will stop all non-essential work. Which may or may not mean that 13/14-gen issues will hit them hard this year... and they decided to prepare for the collapse.

The whole gaming industry lost about 20-25K people in 2023 and Intel is aiming to cut up to 19K (out of 125K).

#Hardware #Intel #Layoffs #Business

Finally: class action lawsuit against #Intel has been launched due to their very awkward statements regarding Gen 13 and 14 CPUs...

This and the recent news about firing 15% of workforce led to 28% market capitalization loss in one day.

https://abingtonlaw.com/class-action/consumer-protection/Intel-Processor-Issues-class-action-lawsuit.html

🍿 I'm getting some popcorn now to see what new Intel can offer:

What they promised to investors? No more education and cell phone compensations for workers, cut down in-office kitchens, sell-out unused offices...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6vQlvefGxk #Hardware #Intel

If anyone expected amazing Ryzen 9000, they will be disappointed. When mobile CPUs at least gonna have impressive AI accelerator, the desktop models perform equally or worse in games:

9600X can't beat a very stable and cheap 12600K and even 7600X.

Wanna get a cheap CPU this year? Try 12600K, Ryzen 5800X3D or Ryzen 7000 chips. And stay away from Intel 13/14-gen or Ryzen 9000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e80Gqhe2Kt8 #Hardware #AMD #Ryzen #Intel

All new #Intel Ultra (rebranded High-end CPUs) are absolutely useless for gaming. They are worse than 14-gen, 12-gen, and especially Ryzen with 3D cache (aka X3D).

Yes, their power consumption is way more reasonable than 14-gen (that ended up with massive hardware corruption), but this doesn't explain how they are somewhere at 10-gen level for a much higher price!

And the Ryzen 9000 X3D models will be fully announced this November and will crush Intel even further.

#Hardware #CPUs

Intel is facing some hard times of their hard times:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub27Ol4igwY

4:15 Nvidia ousts Intel from Dow Jones Index after 25-year run
5:43 For the first time ever, AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter space
6:27 Intel is being sued over the instability issues in its Raptor Lake CPUs
7:12 Intel 'still committed to Arc,' but with fewer discrete GPUs, more integrated graphics
TECH BRIEFS

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Yet another new year surprise: the retail version of Intel B580, that was initially sold out in its first day, suffers from driver overhead.

The card works horribly bad with older CPUs, not because it has to, but because there's something terribly wrong on a driver level.

Check the video in our chat!

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#GPU@GameDEV

Another incredible Intel-related story: Vulkan apps with certain names can increase memory usage. For example, Mosaic makes an app consume 400mb instead of 35mb.

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#Hardware@GameDEV
#Vulkan@GameDEV

Then he dropped the mic, put on sunglasses, and walked away 😎 (via)

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And according to Bloomberg, Intel is planning to fire 21 thousand people next week, mostly management staff to link departments and teams closer to each other.

They already fired 19 thousand about a year ago. And by the end of 2024 they've had 108 000 workers left.

#Intel@GameDEV
#LayOffs@GameDEV

Anton Kaplanyan from Intel showcased and discussed their image denoising and rendering technologies:

https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Client/Visual-Efficiency-for-Intel-s-GPUs/post/1697911

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#Rendering@GameDEV

Do you remember the unsinkable Nokia? Intel lost its place among top-10 chipmakers and will have to fire even more people.

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#Hardware@GameDEV