Intel Vaunt smart glasses with retinal projection and motion gesture controls announced

Intel Vaunt smart Glasses

Intel has introduced the new Vaunt smart glasses with retinal projection and motion gesture controls. These smart glasses are first seen by The Verge are very similar to that of the regular glasses and they weigh just 50 grams since they are made of plastic.  Continue reading “Intel Vaunt smart glasses with retinal projection and motion gesture controls announced”

Huawei, Deutsche Telekom and Intel achieve 5G NR Interoperability

Huawei, Deutsche Telekom, Intel 5G

Huawei Deutsche Telekom and Intel today announced that they have collaborated to achieve 5G NR Interoperability and development testing, a multi-vendor interoperability based on 3GPP R15 commercial system which will accelerate 5G commercialization.  Continue reading “Huawei, Deutsche Telekom and Intel achieve 5G NR Interoperability”

Intel RealSense D415 and D435 depth cameras with D4 vision processor announced

RealSense D415

Intel today introduced the RealSense D415 and D435 depth cameras in the D400 Cameras series. The depth cameras add 3D capabilities to any prototype or end user-ready device or machine. It is powered by the D4 vision processor. Continue reading “Intel RealSense D415 and D435 depth cameras with D4 vision processor announced”

Intel details performance impact post security patches, says chipsets incur 6% performance drop

Intel Pentium Silver and Celeron chip

Intel today announced that the security patch fixing Meltdown and Spectre patches incurring 6% performance drop in most modern CPUs while the impact is bigger on older chipsets. The company further says that performance impact should not be significant for average computer users. Continue reading “Intel details performance impact post security patches, says chipsets incur 6% performance drop”

Intel announces 8th Gen Intel Core processors with Radeon RX Vega M Graphics

Intel today at the CES 2018 has introduced 8th Gen Core processors with Radeon RX Vega M Graphics crafted for gamers. It brings together the Intel quad-core CPU, Radeon RX Vega M graphics and 4GB of dedicated HBM2 using Intel’s Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) technology. Continue reading “Intel announces 8th Gen Intel Core processors with Radeon RX Vega M Graphics”

Intel hit with class-action lawsuits over Meltdown and Spectre Security Vulnerabilities

Intel 8th Core Desktop processors

On one hand, Intel is having a hard time fixing the Meltdown and Spectre Security Vulnerabilities that affected processors from the past 10-15 years, the company is now hit with three separate class-action lawsuits by plaintiffs in California, Oregon, and Indiana who are seeking compensation. Continue reading “Intel hit with class-action lawsuits over Meltdown and Spectre Security Vulnerabilities”

Intel to issue security updates to 90% of processors from past 5 years by next week

Intel Pentium Silver and Celeron chip

With Meltdown and Spectre security flaws taking over the internet from the past couple of days, Intel after confirming the memory leak issues, today announced that it has already issued updates for the majority of the processors. It also said that it expects to roll out security updates to 90% of processors released in the past five years by the end of next week.  Continue reading “Intel to issue security updates to 90% of processors from past 5 years by next week”

Meltdown and Spectre security flaw on Intel, AMD, ARM CPUs affect most computers and phones

Meltdown and Spectre

While it is known that Intel chips are facing a bug that is affected by serious Kernel memory leak issue on modern computers including Windows, Linux, and macOS, the exact problem and explanation for this bug remained a mystery. Windows and Linux have already started pushing the updates that will fix the issue, we now have what the flaw is and they have been named ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’. Continue reading “Meltdown and Spectre security flaw on Intel, AMD, ARM CPUs affect most computers and phones”

Intel chips affected with Kernel memory leak flaw, fix might incur performance drop: Report

Intel chips from the last ten years said to have been affected with serious Kernel memory leak issue on modern computers including Windows, Linux, and macOS, according to a report from The Register. This needs a fix at the operating system level which might incur performance drop.  Continue reading “Intel chips affected with Kernel memory leak flaw, fix might incur performance drop: Report”

Intel announces affordable Pentium Silver and Celeron Processors

Intel Pentium Silver and Celeron chip

Intel today revealed new affordable and budget-friendly Pentium Silver processors and Intel Celeron chips. These processors are based on Intel’s architecture ‘Gemini Lake’ and are the cheap and power-efficient processors for desktop PCs and laptops.  Continue reading “Intel announces affordable Pentium Silver and Celeron Processors”

Lenovo partners with Intel for PCs with built-in FIDO authentication, eliminates the need for passwords

Lenovo Intel

Lenovo in partnership with Intel has introduced first PCs with built-in FIDO authentication system for better and safer online authentication when logging into popular websites like PayPal, Google, Dropbox, and Facebook.

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Intel Nervana Neural Network Processor unveiled, to ship by the end of 2017

intel nervana neural network processor

Intel has unveiled the Nervana Neural Network processor which is formerly known as Lake Crest, at the Wall Street Journal D.Live 2017. It is the first generation high-performing ASIC custom-designed and optimized for deep learning workloads and neural network training.

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Intel kills Project Alloy standalone VR headset

Intel project-alloy

Last year, Intel unveiled an all-in-one virtual reality (VR) headset dubbed as Project Alloy at the 2016 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Now, the company is pulling the plug on Project Alloy that allowed third-party companies to build VR headsets based on Intel’s hardware. Continue reading “Intel kills Project Alloy standalone VR headset”

Intel to build fleet of over 100 self-driving cars and start testing them this year

Intel has announced that it will start building a fleet of fully autonomous (level 4 SAE) vehicles for testing in the United States, Israel and Europe. The company is deploy the first self-driving car later this year, followed by a fleet of more than 100 automobiles.  Continue reading “Intel to build fleet of over 100 self-driving cars and start testing them this year”

Intel officially completes $15.3 billion Mobileye acquisition

Intel Mobileye

Earlier in March, Intel has agreed to buy automotive technology firm Mobileye. Now, the chipmaker has finally completed the $15.4 billion acquisition by acquiring approximately 84 percent of Mobileye’s outstanding ordinary shares. Continue reading “Intel officially completes $15.3 billion Mobileye acquisition”