Intel India head Nivruti Rai steps down after 29 years at company
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"We're grateful to Nivruti for the tremendous progress Intel India has made under her leadership," the company said in a statement to IANS on Friday. "Today, Intel India is our largest engineering site outside the US and a critical talent base for the company. We will have more to share soon about Intel India's leadership plans, and we wish Nivruti all the best in her next chapter," Intel India added.
Gordon Moore, Intel's co-founder and creator of Moore's law, passes away
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Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced that Gordon Moore died peacefully on Friday, "surrounded by family at his home in Hawaii". Moore and his longtime colleague Robert Noyce founded Intel in July 1968. Prior to establishing Intel, Moore and Noyce participated in the founding of Fairchild Semiconductor, where they played central roles in the first commercial production of diffused silicon transistors and later the world's first commercially viable integrated circuits.
Intel launches 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processors at MWC 2023
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The company also announced the Intel Infrastructure Power Manager for 5G core reference software, providing a 30 per cent average run-time CPU power savings. The advancements we've made in our 4th Gen Intel Xeon platforms to double vRAN performance while staying within the same power envelope, to nearly doubling the 5G core UPF throughput.
Intel launches new Xeon workstation processors for professional creators
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"Our new Intel Xeon desktop workstation platform is uniquely designed to unleash the innovation and creativity of professional creators, artists, engineers, designers, data scientists and power users -- built to tackle both today's most demanding workloads as well as the professional workloads of the future," Roger Chandler, Intel vice president and general manager, Creator and Workstation Solutions, Client Computing Group, said in a statement.
Intel launches new desktop processor with 6GHz clock speeds
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The new processor is now available to purchase at retailers worldwide, with a recommended customer price starting at $699, according to the company. The chip-maker mentioned that the new processor with 6GHz max turbo frequency promises to power world-class gaming and create experiences for desktop enthusiasts.
Intel unveils 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processors with better performance
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The chip maker also unveiled the Xeon CPU Max Series (code-named Sapphire Rapids HBM) and the Data Centre GPU Max Series (code-named Ponte Vecchio). As Intel's most sustainable data centre processors, 4th Gen Xeon processors deliver customers a range of features for managing power and performance
Intel unveils 13th-gen mobile processors at CES 2023
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"The 13th Gen Intel Core mobile processor family delivers unrivalled, scalable performance for leadership platforms across all laptop segments," Michelle Johnston Holthaus, executive vice president and general manager of the Client Computing Group, Intel, said in a statement. "With our industry-leading technologies and unmatched global partner ecosystem, people can expect a high-calibre mobile experience in new and unique form factors-- so they can game or create from anywhere," Holthaus added. The company's a13th Gen Intel Core H-series' mobile processors include the first 24-core processor for a laptop.
Intel begins layoffs, offers unpaid leave to factory workers globally
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The company started its expected layoffs in California with at least 201 employees as "part of a broader cost cutting effort", reports CRN. The layoffs are scheduled to begin from January 31, the report said, adding that according to the "Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notifications", 111 employees will be laid off at Intel's Folsom, California location while "90 employees will be asked to go from Santa Clara location, where the company is headquartered".
Acer India launches new laptop with stereoscopic 3D gaming
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A stereoscopic video game is a video game that creates depth perception for the player by any form of stereo display. The laptop is available from Rs 3,19,999 at key retail and online stores. It features 12th Gen Intel Core i9 processors and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 laptop GPUs.
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