Intel Corp. had two basic questions to answer at its long awaited analyst meeting Thursday: How bad And for how long A hint about the first one came in the chip makers third quarter report nearly four months ago, when Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger warned that Intel’s gross margins would fall into the 51%53% range as the company races to catch up its manufacturing technology while also building a new foundry business that makes chips designed by others companies.

Publication: Mint

DLSS and ray tracing are the latest in video game enhancing techniques. Here are some laptops with DLSS and ray tracing support.

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Student laptops are used for versatile workflows – at one moment, you can be taking down notes, the next, watching a movie. Here are some affordable laptops for students with SSD storage.

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As mining profitability plummets, multiple signals in the industry indicate that interest in crypto mining-specific GPUs is dwindling. We’re seeing indicators that AMD-based crypto mining GPUs are losing value as well. For example, the Sapphire GPRO Radeon’s pricing has dropped by over 40% in the previous month. Nvidia and AMD both seemed to be reporting a sharp decline in their profits due to crypto mining GPU sales.

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Intel also unveiled its updated client and server CPU roadmap, which includes its Core and Xeon CPUs, in addition to its graphics refresh. Intel’s latest Technology roadmaps and milestones provide an overview of their planned Client and Server division products. Intel claims to be on track to retake the perf per watt leadership by 2025 and has demonstrated several devices that will assist them in achieving this lofty objective.

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Intel Corp said on Thursday it has pushed back the launch of standalone graphics chips for desktops to the second quarter, while those for laptops will be rolled out in the first quarter as originally planned. The announcement comes against the backdrop of an ongoing chip shortage and global supply chain issues, with chipmakers struggling to keep up with unprecedented demand.

Publication: Indian Express

Intel’s first Arc Alchemist-powered graphics cards will be released in a few months, and we can already see the blue team testing the final samples, which have excellent clock speeds. Benchleaks has discovered a new entry in the Geekbench 5 database for the Intel Arc Alchemist graphics card.

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The government has received proposals from five companies for setting up electronic chip and display manufacturing plants with investment of over Rs 1. 5 lakh crore, an official statement said over the weekend. Vedanta Foxconn JV, IGSS Ventures and ISMC propose to set up electronic chip manufacturing plants with $13. 6 billion investment and have sought support of $5. 6 billion from the Centre under the Rs 76,000-crore ‘Semicon India’ programme.

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Hebbar isn’t worried about competition from mammoths like Qualcomm and Intel as he believes that going by the advanced chipsets of 3-6NM these companies produce, they wouldn’t be a competition. “The design that we are going to use is very well-used by local phones like Vivo, Oppo and laptop brands,” he said.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine

Israel-based chipmaker Tower Semiconductor, which was recently acquired by Intel for $5.4 billion, is in active discussions with the government to set up a manufacturing facility in India, according to a source close to the development. “Since the government announced the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme on December 15, our plan to set up a semiconductor facility in India is back on the table,” said the source who is close to the company.

Publication: Hindi Business Standard

Intel plans to ship at least 4 million ARC Alchemist graphics cards in 2022. But, you already knew that, didn’t you? Here’s something that actually raises eyebrows. For these 4 million GPUs, Intel only expects to earn $300 million in revenue, and the rest going to intra-company royalties. In a nutshell, the average selling price (ASP) of the 1st Gen ARC graphics cards will be a modest $75. That’s half as much as the MSRP of the GeForce GTX 1650, and a third of its present market price.

Publication: Hardware Times