Category: PC

Intel Corporation Might Finally Fix This Huge Flaw With Expensive Gaming Chips

Intel offers PC gamers chips with four incredibly fast processor cores , and it also offers them chips with between six and 10 processor cores , but each of these cores is much slower than the four-core chips. Although Intel does not provide sales data by individual chip model, I have a strong suspicion that even gamers with very deep pockets often opt for the super-fast quad-core chip rather than go for one of the more expensive chips.

Intel: Cramer’s Top Takeaways

In an “Executive Decision” segment, Cramer sat down with Bryan Krzanich, CEO of Intel , the semiconductor maker that’s transitioning away from the personal computer and into the industry’s hottest markets, including the data center, gaming, drones, the connected car and artificial intelligence. Krzanich said that Intel’s slogan of “Intel inside” still applies, only now Intel is inside of a lot more than just PCs.

Why Intel Corporation’s Cannon Lake-EP and EX Server Chips May Be Dead

Skylake-EP and EX represent all new architectures built using the company’s 14-nanometer+ technology, while Cannon Lake-EP and EX were supposed to represent mild architectural enhancements of the Skylake-EP and EX chips, but with the benefit of being built on the company’s upcoming 10-nanometer chip manufacturing technology. Although I can’t make this prediction with 100% certainty, I strongly suspect that based on Intel’s most recent disclosures, Cannon Lake-EP and EX are dead.

Intel Corporation Expects to Grow Client Computing Group Profit Margin

CCG is Intel’s largest business by revenue, generating nearly $33 billion in sales during 2016. Most of that revenue comes from sales of processors and related components into personal-computer systems, although the company has seen reasonable success from the sale of chips that power cable gateways and, more recently, cellular modem chips into Apple ‘s At Intel’s Feb. 9 analyst day, company management went over its financial expectations for this segment for 2017 — and beyond.

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Intel’s second-largest business unit by revenue, and arguably its most important business for the long term, is its data center group . The business is attractive for a couple of key reasons.

‘The explosion in data is so great that it’s almost like, if you have storage space, we’ll take it!’

If you didn’t know any better, we were back in 1999 when Intel and Microsoft and Western Digital and Seagate were hot as freshly shot cannonballs, because we figured out how to get some “high speed” lines to connect personal computers to the world wide web. Of course, those companies are, with the exception of Intel, really very different beasts now.

The Personal Computer Market Plunged 5.7% in 2016

Market research company IDC announced on Jan. 11 that the category of products that it refers to as “traditional [personal computers]” dropped 1.5% year over year during the fourth quarter of 2016 and by 5.7% over the course of the entirety of 2016. IDC said that the first quarter of 2016 was “still constrained by high inventory, free Windows 10 upgrades, and difficult comparisons to commercial replacements in 2014 that were fueled by the end of support for Windows XP.”

Intel Corporation PC Chief Talks Manufacturing Strategy

These chips, as would be expected, deliver improved performance and power efficiency relative to the company’s sixth-generation Core processor family. What is interesting about these chips is that they represent a third wave of products manufactured in the company’s 14-nanometer manufacturing technology, which was first used to build the company’s fifth-generation Core processors.