It never hurts to be on the consortium that’s setting the standard. Apple has joined the Alliance for Open Media, the technology consortium developing AV1 the new industry standard, high-efficiency video code. The group includes Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Hulu, Intel, and many others. Apple was quietly added to the website’s homepage today, and is […]
Category: Intel
Where the Meltdown and Spectre bugs are now affecting billions of processors around the world, Intel has not stated that forthcoming firmware updates and software patches will render Intel-based computer systems “immune” to these issues. The company has stated that updates have been issued for the majority of Intel processor products introduced within the past […]
On Wednesday, chipmaker Qualcomm filed suit against Apple, claiming Apple has failed to abide by the terms of a software license and said it may have used its unprecedented access to that code to help Qualcomm-rival Intel Corp. The two companies are now engaged in a lawsuit over technology licensing fees that Qualcomm charges for […]
Intel today announced the workstation class Xeon W processors that could find their way into the next generation of Mac Pro. The new processors, which will replace the E5 and E7 series, range from Bronze, Silver, Gold, to Platinum for professional/enterprise use. They will replace the E5-1600 series that Apple has used in its Mac […]
With its 8th-generation Coffee Lake processors arriving next week, Intel has released information pertaining to its upcoming 10-nanometer “Ice Lake” chip, which will serve as the successor to the 14-nanometer Coffee Lake and 10-nanometer Cannon Lake chips. The company stated that “the Ice Lake processor family is a successor to the 8th generation Intel(R) CoreTM […]