Tag: Accelerator Chips
In a Monday letter to employees, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger outlined changes that will help the beleaguered chipmaker save billions of dollars and bounce back financially while highlighting a new multibillion-dollar chip deal with Amazon Web Services. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said the company plans to turn its contract chip manufacturing business into an independent…
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As Intel undergoes major spending cuts, longtime channel advocate Jason Kimrey is leaving the chipmaker along with a few other partner-facing leaders. Longtime Intel channel stalwart Jason Kimrey, a fierce channel advocate admired by partners as one of the most influential channel chiefs in the industry, is leaving the beleaguered semiconductor giant, CRN has learned.…
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Altera CEO Sandra Rivera denies a report that Intel is planning to outright sell its programmable chip business. ‘We are executing to the plan, which is not a sale of Altera, but rather it is selling a stake in the business, which has always been the plan, which we’ve communicated for now over a year,…
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“People enjoy a narrative where they say like, ‘How are you possibly doing your own chips when you have other partners who have their other chips?’ And it turns out, customers like choice,” said AWS CEO Matt Garman. Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman is bullish about his company’s future in homemade silicon chips as…
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The iPhone 16 series is arriving ahead of its much-hyped Apple Intelligence set of AI features, which will debut in beta next month with an initial set of features for the iPhone 15 Pro or higher as well as Macs and iPads with an M1 or newer system-on-chip. Apple said its newly revealed iPhone 16…
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The new subpoenas are an escalation beyond the questionnaires the Justice Department previously sent to Nvidia, according to Bloomberg. Nvidia has reportedly received legally binding requests for information from the United States as part of the Department of Justice’s investigation into whether the semiconductor vendor broke antirust rules as part of its domination over the…
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“We’ve been working closely with customers to evaluate and test these new devices, and the feedback has been incredible,” Microsoft GM Nancie Gaskill said in a blog post. Microsoft will make several new Surface devices aimed at business users available this month, including the Surface Laptop 7th Edition, Surface Pro 11th Edition and Surface Pro…
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For the week ending Aug. 30, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Cribl, Check Point, Intel, Citrix and IBM. The Week Ending Aug. 30 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is data management and observability tech developer Cribl for its very impressive nine-figure funding…
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HP veteran Stephanie Dismore continues to be a ‘Ryzen’ star in the industry as she takes a new role heading up the EMEA business for chip vendor AMD. HP Inc. Managing Director of Northwest Europe Stephanie Dismore, a 25-year HP veteran, has joined rising CPU and GPU provider AMD as president of EMEA (Europe, Middle…
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The options could also include M&A or selling or splitting its foundry division, according to Bloomberg. Intel executives will consider splitting and selling a business unit as part of a turnaround strategy as rival chipmakers capture a greater share of the artificial intelligence wave, according to media reports. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based vendor has enlisted…
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