Intel and AMD have been the two primary microprocessor companies for more than 50 years now. Although both use the x86 architecture to design their processors, over the last decade or so, their CPUs have taken completely different paths. In the mid-2000s, with the introduction of the Bulldozer chips, AMD started losing ground against Intel. A combination of low IPC and inefficient design almost drove the company into the ground. This continued for nearly a decade. The tables started turning in 2017 with the arrival of the Zen micro-architecture.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Computer scientists at Belgium’s leading higher education and research university KU Leuven have once again exposed a security flaw in Intel processors that could allow an attacker to acquire sensitive information, such as the victim’s fingerprints or passwords. In the past couple of years, Intel had had to issue quite a few patches for vulnerabilities that computer scientists at KU Leuven have helped expose. “All measures that Intel has taken so far to boost the security of its processors have been necessary, but they were not enough to ward off our new attack,” said Jo Van Bulck from the Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven.

Publication: Gadgets 360 

Fresh off the CES 2019 boat, we reported early last year that Intel was working on a new chip-stacking architecture called Lakefield along with the 10th Gen Comet Lake-S desktop CPUs. While Intel has yet to deliver the latter, it has been working on its proprietary Lakefield architecture in an attempt to bring ‘big’ and ‘little’ CPU cores together in the same stack, the same way ARM has with its big.LITTLE architecture. According to a recent report by TechRadar, this new project could give Intel an upper hand over AMD in its 12th Gen CPU line-up.

Publication: Digit

BIOSTAR, a leading brand of motherboards, graphics cards, and storage devices, today unveils the A10N-9630E motherboard with built-in AMD Bristol Ridge, 7th generation processor. BIOSTAR has been a manufacturer of robust and highly reliable motherboards for many years and has a wide range of models on both Intel and AMD platforms to choose from and a plethora of supplementary components catering to many user preferences.

Publication: IT Voice 

Intel on Tuesday said EU antitrust regulators got it wrong when they fined the chipmaker 1.06 billion euros ($1.2 billion) more than a decade ago for thwarting a British rival in a case that could affect Google and Qualcomm. The US company set out its arguments at the General Court in a rehearing of a case seen as testing the European Commission’s power to go after US tech giants which offer incentives such as rebates to lure customers from competitors.

Publication: The Times of India

Designed to make a bold and personal statement, its optional gigabit class 4G LTE allows workers to connect and collaborate from almost anywhere. HP Elite Dragonfly claims to be the world’s first business convertible with a 4×4 LTE antenna and pre-installed personal wellbeing software, HP WorkWell.

Publication: Financial Express