How to buy an Intel Arc graphics card in South Africa
South African gamers looking to buy one of Intel's Arc desktop graphics cards can show their interest in the products through one of two popular PC hardware retailers or import it themselves.
Intel launched the Arc A750 and Arc A770...
Intel patent teases Adamantine L4 cache
A patent filed by Intel has revealed more details about the Level 4 (L4) cache on its upcoming 14th-generation processors.
VideoCardz recently spotted the patent on the United States Patent and Trademark Office website, in which Intel refers to the cache...
Arm making its own advanced chip
UK semiconductor and software design company Arm is developing its own advanced chip to showcase the potential of its products, Financial Times reports.
The project is being spearheaded by former Snapdragon designer and Qualcomm executive Kevork Kechichian.
Intel scraps Bitcoin mining chip
Intel has discontinued a chip designed for efficient Bitcoin mining, claiming the company wants to prioritize other investments.
Intel is one of the largest producers of semiconductor chip manufacturers in the world by revenue.
AMD benchmarks show how the Ryzen 7 7800X3D destroys Intel's top-end gaming processor
AMD has published its first benchmarks showing how the Ryzen 7 7800X3D wipes the floor with Intel's top-end Core i9-13900K in gaming.
AMD's benchmarks claimed that the $449 (R8,130, excl. taxes) processor was...
Intel's Pat Gelsinger gets salary slashed by a quarter
Intel Corp., struggling with a rapid drop in revenue and earnings, is cutting management pay across the company to cope with a shaky economy and preserve cash for an ambitious turnaround plan.
Chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger is...
Intel gives grim quarterly forecast
Intel Corp. gave one of the gloomiest quarterly forecasts in its history after a personal computer (PC) slump ravaged the chipmaker’s business, sending shares tumbling and further setting back turnaround efforts.
The company predicted a surprise loss in the...
Intel launches record-setting desktop CPU — turbo frequency up to 6GHz
Intel launched its Core i9-13900KS desktop processor — the fastest in the world — on Thursday, 12 January 2023.
It features a turbo frequency of up to 6GHz without overclocking, and it is the first central processing unit...
Intel launches Sapphire Rapids in bid to recapture server market share from AMD
Intel Corp. released chips with its delayed server design that are key to regaining control of one of the most lucrative markets in computing.
Xeon processors based on the new Sapphire Rapids design are already in...
Intel Inside — Smuggler tried to hide over 200 CPUs in fake belly
Chinese customs authorities recently caught a woman trying to smuggle over 200 Intel chips and several iPhones in a prosthetic belly attached to her body, Mydrivers reports.
The woman was apprehended at the Gongbei Port in...
Best bang-for-buck gaming laptops in South Africa
South Africans looking for a portable gaming machine will find a plethora of capable laptop models on the market.
The early days of gaming laptops taking heavy flak for their lacklustre performance compared to desktop gaming PCs are well behind us.
AWS launches new Graviton chip in challenge to AMD, Intel, and Nvidia
Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud-computing unit is rolling out new chips designed to power the highest-end of computing, supporting tasks such as weather forecasting and gene sequencing.
Amazon Web Services, the largest provider of...
From Amazon to Twitter — these 18 US tech companies are cutting jobs
Tech companies are trimming staff and slowing hiring as they face higher interest rates and sluggish consumer spending in the US and a strong dollar abroad.
The tech industry shed 9,587 jobs in October, the highest monthly...
The gaming rig South Africans can build for R15,000
With the global chip crunch easing off and graphics card demand at a low, there have been few better times in recent years to build a new gaming PC.
2021 and the start of 2022 were not ideal periods for those looking to upgrade their rig.
Intel's next-gen Thunderbolt prototype enables display upstream speeds of 120Gbps
Intel has previewed an early prototype of the next generation of the Thunderbolt hardware interface, which will deliver 80Gbps of bi-directional bandwidth.
The updated technology will also enable up to 120Gbps —...
Chip crunch is easing off
Chip delivery times shrank by four days in September, the biggest drop in years, in a sign that the industry’s supply crunch is easing.
Lead times — the gap between when a chip is ordered and when it is delivered — averaged 26.3 weeks in the period, according to...
Intel plans to shed thousands of jobs due to waning chip
Intel Corp. is planning a major reduction in headcount, likely numbering in the thousands, to cut costs and cope with a sputtering personal computer market, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
The layoffs will be...
Source code for Intel Alder Lake BIOS leaks online
The BIOS source code for Intel's 12th gen Alder Lake processors has been leaked online, Tom's Hardware reports.
The publication discovered a 6GB file containing tools and code for building and optimising BIOS/UEFI images for the platform on...
Intel smashes AMD — Core i9-13900K overclocked to 8.2GHz
Well-known PC overclocker Allen "Splave" Golibersuch has successfully boosted clock speeds on Intel's 24-core Core i9-13900K to 8.2GHz.
The impressive feat on the top-of-the-line 13th-gen Raptor Lake processor came at Intel's Creator...