Intel Corporation

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Intel will release new server processors this year with new hardware features designed to block attacks that use the serious new Spectre vulnerabilities, Chief Executive Brian Krzanich said Thursday. The Spectre "side-channel" attacks let one software process snoop on another, gathering sensitive data ...

While the Meltdown vulnerability will continue to be addressed through software updates, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich says the company has “redesigned parts of the processor to introduce new levels of protection through partitioning” that will protect against the Spectre variants. Intel's next-generation Xeon ...

Microsoft also said it has begun archiving microcode patches that support Intel's Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake chips, all members of Intel's line of Core microprocessors. Microsoft had begun archiving some of Intel's Skylake microcode patches for Spectre and Meltdown and earlier this month.

The semiconductor-equipment group, semiconductor-manufacturing group as well as the computer-data storage group that includes some chip stocks rose 9.8%, 5.4% and 9% last week, respectively. Given such bullishness, investing in some solid semiconductors stocks having further upside potential ...

A combination of Micron's strength, the potential Broadcom-Qualcomm deal and a turn in the computer market makes Intel's stock a buy, Cramer argues. ... Shares of Micron, an Idaho-based chipmaker specializing in DRAM — dynamic random-access memory — and flash memory chips, ran up nearly 9 ...

Researchers have discovered how to use the Spectre design flaw to break into the SGX secure environment of an Intel CPU to steal information. ... a formal paper outlining how malicious program can take advantage of the CPU's branch predictor so that when the processor is executing SGX enclave code, ...

The state-backed Tsinghua Unigroup is spearheading China's ambitious plan to build its own domestic semiconductor industry. China wants to reduce its $200 billion ... Intel has reportedly agreed to supply NAND chips to Tsinghua's subsidiary UNIC Memory Technology. China is the world's assembly ...

The research firm indicated that overall industry spending, considering the top ten semiconductor companies (see chart, below), was up 6 percent in 2017 over 2016 to US $34 billion. Intel increased its already high levels of R&D spending by 3 percent to more than $13 billion—that Silicon Valley company ...

The fixed Spectre fixes are coming fast and furious now. Intel quietly pushed CPU firmware updates out for Haswell (4th-generation) and Broadwell (5th-generation) processors earlier this week, following in the footsteps of recent microcode patches for Skylake (6th-gen), Kaby Lake (7th-gen), and Coffee ...

Apple has been gradually replacing third-party chips in its iPhones with its own chips, cutting suppliers like Imagination Technologies and Dialog Semiconductor out of the loop. Google created a custom processor called the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) several years ago for its own machine-learning tasks ...

Benchmarks of an upcoming eighth-generation Intel “Coffee Lake” processor for notebooks recently appeared in the Geekbench database. ... Although technically Intel already offers five eighth-generation processors for laptops (and that's not including the new modules with Radeon graphics), they're not ...

It initially said the reboots were only occurring on Broadwell and Haswell processors but later admitted its patch was also causing stability issues on Skylake and Kaby Lake chips. Dell, HP, and Lenovo paused their respective BIOS updates while Intel worked on stable fixes. Microsoft also released an ...

While PC processors for computer and servers still account for more than half of the MPU market — a projected 52 percent in 2018 — ARM-based mobile ... Intel has long been the dominant supplier of PC microprocessors, nearly all of which are based on Intel's x86 architecture and supplied by Intel and its ...

If you own an Intel processor that you bought less than eight years ago, chances are that Intel has issued a Spectre/Meltdown patch for it. ... The patches also cover several, more niche architectures, such as the Gladden Xeon of the Sandy Bridge generation, and the Broadwell Xeon chips. On deck are the ...

Chip stocks have surged 15 percent from their 2018 lows in early February, and trader and CNBC contributor Todd Gordon believes Intel is the chip name to buy. "Intel and the rest of the chips have performed very well in this recent period of volatility that we've seen," the founder of TradingAnalysis.com ...

The 8th Gen Intel Core processors are designed for what's next and deliver up to 40% gen over gen performance boost. (Credit: Intel ... Their upcoming 10nm chips, including the much delayed Cannonlake and Ice Lake have been spotted in the 3DMark database along with their potential specifications.

New updates for Intel's Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge families of processors remains in beta, which means the company has released microcode updates for customers to validate under a non-disclosure agreement. Similarly, while most Skylake chips are in production, Skylake Xeon E3 remains in beta.

At its Manufacturing Day in March 2017, Intel (INTC) made some good points about how confusing and misleading process node designations such as “14 nm” or “10 nm” had become. Intel emphasized that competing 14-16 nm nodes didn't offer the actual transistor density (in Mtr/mm^2) of Intel's 14 nm ...