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On Thursday, Intel announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2024, and they weren’t favorable to the chip giant: The company’s revenue dropped by 1% year-over-year while its losses totaled $1.6 billion. Perhaps worse is that Intel expects the second half of the year to be challenging for its business. As a result, Intel announced plans tocut its workforce by a rather whopping 15% this year. Intel’s cuts will be severe....

In the High Court of England and Wales, Intel just won the case R2 Semiconductor filed against it. R2 alleges that Intel’s voltage regulation technology infringes on a patent it owns and wants to stop the sale of Intel processors that use it. This technology is designed to protect the chip from damage or degradation in case of overvoltage, and Intel uses it for its 10th to 12th-generation Intel Core processors....

Snag Intel’s Core i5-13600KF this Black Friday atAmazonfor a steal, slashed to its lowest price of $175, down from $304 (MSRP). If you’re unwilling to update to Team Blue’s latest Arrow Lake processors but still need a capable enough CPU to meet your needs, the Core i5-13600KF is a fantastic choice in terms of performance and affordability. The Core i5-13600KF is based on Intel’s Raptor Lake architecture - employing six Raptor Cove P-cores alongside eight Gracemont E-cores and twenty threads....

Dr. Ann B. Kelleher, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Foundry Technology Development of Intel, received the Dr. Lisa Su Woman of Innovation Award this weekfrom the Global Semiconductor Alliance(GSA). Dr. Kelleher was presented the award at the GSA’s Women in Semiconductor Hardware (WISH) conference, becoming the third recipient of the award. The Dr. Lisa Su Woman of Innovation Award is a capstone award from the GSA’s Women’s Leadership Initiative, awarded to female members of the semiconductor industry for “exceptional dedication and exceptional contributions to the development, innovation, growth and long-term opportunities for the semiconductor industry....

Fanless PSUs are a good choice if you: Otherwise, it’sbest to stick to standard PSUsas the drawbacks of using a fanless PSU easily outweigh the benefits. Let’s see how. Advantages of a Fanless PSU The first advantage of having a fanless PSU is—itreduces the overall noiseproduced by your PC. You’ll certainly notice a difference between a fanless PSU and afan-equipped PSUin this regard. Secondly, the potentialrisk of fan failureis hugely minimized....

UnlessMicrosoftchanges its mind at the last minute, Windows 10 will stop receiving freesecurityupdates this coming October. For those who can upgrade toWindows 11, the solution is obvious: Run the new OS even if you don’t like it. But there are hundreds of millions –by one estimate 240 million– PCs that don’t meet Microsoft’s stringent Windows 11 hardware requirements. If you’re a consumer or a business, Microsoft and the PC industry would very much like you to toss these systems in the trash and buy new computers to take their place....

Logitech webcam not working can refer to a range of problems, from the webcam not being detected at all, to minor issues with the audio stream or video quality. These aren’t exclusive to Logitech devices either. Webcams, in general, are prone to such issues, mainly due to problematic hardware or drivers. In this article, we’ve detailed how you can diagnose and fix your webcam when it is not working. The solutions will be applicable for non-Logitech webcams as well....

With many motherboard manufacturers sacrificing smaller PCIe x8, x4, and x1 slots on modern boards, the humble M.2 slot is finding new life beyond solid state drives (SSDs). Magewell, a company known for its video capture solutions, has created theEco Capture Dual HDMI M.2 card, a compact M.2-based device that can be used for video capture. It supports dual 2K video inputs, as indicated by the name.Superficially, the device resembles a typical M....

Microsoftrevealed in aYouTube videoWednesday that it vastly underestimated how many players would jump into Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 at launch. Despite Microsoft load testing the game’s servers with 200,000 simulated users, the game suffered — and is still suffering — from overwhelmed backend services, which have been the main cause for game loading issues and crashes.According to Microsoft engineers, the game’s infrastructure was stress-tested with 200,000 simulated users to ensure the game would run smoothly at launch....

AMD continues laying the groundwork for the Zen 5’s upcoming arrival on Linux in the form of Linux kernel “x86/urgent” patches addressing four numerical ranges of AMD Family 26 CPUs, aka Zen 5 CPUs. These ranges, as corroborated byPhoronix, are from 0-15, 32-47, 64-79, and finally 112-127. Each number could theoretically correspond to its own CPU or CPU range (e.g. Strix Point for mobile,Granite Ridgefor desktop), though the existence of pre-release CPUs, development-only CPUs, etc....

Ryzen 9000, which will contend with thebest CPUs, will benefit from a new feature in Curve Optimizer.1usmus, a third-party developer of Ryzen tuning software, reports that AMD is working on a new add-on for Curve Optimizer called Curve Shaper that significantly improves overclocking flexibility. Curve Shaper can set voltage offsets over the entire temperature range and load range of a Ryzen CPU, enabling higher frequencies in low/medium load scenarios. Curve Shaper sounds like a very impressive add-on....

TSMC’s newly elected board of directors elevated Dr. C. C. Wei, the chipmaker’s current CEO, to Chairman. This happened today in Taiwan during the company’s 2024 Annual Shareholders' Meeting, and Wei came out of the gates swinging. On the day Wei became chairman ofthe world’s largest semiconductor firm, Taiwan’sBusiness Todayreminded us that, back in February, Wei insisted that Samsung and Intel “have no way to compete with TSMC.” Moreover, when Bloomberg columnist Tim Culpan asked Wei aboutSam Altman’s plans to build AI fabsafter he visited a TSMC facility, Wei replied, “Sam Altman, he’s too aggressive, too aggressive for me to believe....

In line with FTC leaks regarding future Xbox console releases (both aSeries X refreshand anext-gen Xboxslated for 2028, at the time) and this week’sPS5 Pro specs leak, the latest Xbox Development Kit has popped up in the South Korean RRA (Radio Research Agency) database. The last time this happened in June 2020 with the Series X devkit (pictured in our header), the Xbox Series X released in November of the same year....