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2 days ago
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Intel Confirms 12 P-Core Bartlett Lake S CPU In Nova Lake Slide
Intel has given the first confirmation of the long-rumored Bartlett Lake CPU with 12 performance cores and no E cores. The surprise reveal comes in a slide about Intel's Time Coordinated Computing platform, which pushes high-performance edge computing. The document is designed to show how Intel's CPUs can manage real-time and general-purpose workloads simultaneously, showing current and future-generation CPUs that can do this. One of them is a 12-core Bartlett Lake design. Intel's desktop platforms have been rather uninspiring for the past few generations. The 14th Generation was barely a clock-speed increase over its predecessor, and saw very little movement between generations, especially with the flagship. The Arrow Lake generation that followed improved performance per watt and productivity workloads, but did little for gaming. Bartlett Lake is slotting somewhere in the middle, supporting the older socket design, but with a performance focus. Long-rumored as more of a competitor for AMD's gaming-focused X3D CPUs, the 12-core Bartlett Lake CPU is unique among Intel's existing designs since it has just one CPU core architecture onboard. It uses just performance cores, whereas all other Intel CPUs from the past few generations have offered either a small quantity of solo P cores, or a mixture of performance and efficiency (and sometimes low-power efficiency) cores. Credit: Intel The lack of any E cores will absolutely tank this chip's multithreading performance. But Intel's performance cores have long been impressively powerful, just hampered by their limited number and high power draw compared with AMD's alternatives. A 12-core Bartlett Lake CPU could end up being Intel's gaming performance king for a short time ahead of an Arrow Lake refresh later this year, or provide an alternative to older CPU generations like AMD's still-supported Ryzen 5000 series. No more details about the chip exist at this time, with this slide reveal being the first to even confirm its existence. It debuts on this slide alongside more established upcoming CPU generations, like Panther Lake and Nova Lake, with both performance S and efficient, U versions of the chips. Intel also gave the first lip-service to a generation of low-power chips called Wildcat Lake, which VideoCardz suggests as a probable successor for Twin Lake. Don't want to wait for Bartlett Lake or any other CPU launches? Here are the best CPU deals available right now.
Yahoo
3 days ago
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Intel Confirms 12 P-Core Bartlett Lake S CPU In Nova Lake Slide
Intel has given the first confirmation of the long-rumored Bartlett Lake CPU with 12 performance cores and no E cores. The surprise reveal comes in a slide about Intel's Time Coordinated Computing platform, which pushes high-performance edge computing. The document is designed to show how Intel's CPUs can manage real-time and general-purpose workloads simultaneously, showing current and future-generation CPUs that can do this. One of them is a 12-core Bartlett Lake design. Intel's desktop platforms have been rather uninspiring for the past few generations. The 14th Generation was barely a clock-speed increase over its predecessor, and saw very little movement between generations, especially with the flagship. The Arrow Lake generation that followed improved performance per watt and productivity workloads, but did little for gaming. Bartlett Lake is slotting somewhere in the middle, supporting the older socket design, but with a performance focus. Long-rumored as more of a competitor for AMD's gaming-focused X3D CPUs, the 12-core Bartlett Lake CPU is unique among Intel's existing designs since it has just one CPU core architecture onboard. It uses just performance cores, whereas all other Intel CPUs from the past few generations have offered either a small quantity of solo P cores, or a mixture of performance and efficiency (and sometimes low-power efficiency) cores. Credit: Intel The lack of any E cores will absolutely tank this chip's multithreading performance. But Intel's performance cores have long been impressively powerful, just hampered by their limited number and high power draw compared with AMD's alternatives. A 12-core Bartlett Lake CPU could end up being Intel's gaming performance king for a short time ahead of an Arrow Lake refresh later this year, or provide an alternative to older CPU generations like AMD's still-supported Ryzen 5000 series. No more details about the chip exist at this time, with this slide reveal being the first to even confirm its existence. It debuts on this slide alongside more established upcoming CPU generations, like Panther Lake and Nova Lake, with both performance S and efficient, U versions of the chips. Intel also gave the first lip-service to a generation of low-power chips called Wildcat Lake, which VideoCardz suggests as a probable successor for Twin Lake. Don't want to wait for Bartlett Lake or any other CPU launches? Here are the best CPU deals available right now.
Yahoo
15-04-2025
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Applied Materials buys 9% stake in chip equipment supplier BESI
-- Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT) has acquired a 9% stake in BE Semiconductor Industries (AS:BESI), becoming the Dutch chip equipment maker's largest shareholder, according to a filing on Monday. The move places Applied ahead of BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) Institutional Trust in terms of ownership, based on LSEG data. Shares in BE Semiconductor jumped more than 7% in Amsterdam trading Tuesday. BESI is known for producing the most precise hybrid bonding tools globally—a key technology in advanced semiconductor packaging that enables chips to be stacked directly on top of one another. The investment signals that Applied Materials is aligning with, rather than competing against, BESI's hybrid bonding technology. Unlike traditional packaging steps, hybrid bonding is integrated much closer to the front end of the semiconductor manufacturing process and complements Applied's existing equipment. The technique is already used in cutting-edge chips, such as AMD's X3D processors, where memory and compute components are joined at Taiwan's TSMC foundry. Applied Materials said it has no plans to increase its stake or pursue a seat on the board of BE Semiconductor, also known as Besi, according to a statement released on Monday. 'We view this as a strategic, long-term investment that demonstrates Applied Materials' commitment to co-developing the industry's most capable hybrid bonding solution, a technology that is becoming increasingly important to the advanced logic and memory chips at the foundation of AI,' said Terry Lee, a corporate vice president at Applied Materials. As of April 14, the chipmaker's shares were down roughly 11% year-to-date, weighed by cautious guidance issued in mid-February. Sentiment took another hit after U.S. President Trump announced a fresh round of tariffs. Related articles Morgan Stanley maintains Xian LONGi Silicon Materials at 'equalweight' with a price target of RMB38.00 Morgan Stanley maintains Nifco Inc at 'underweight' with a price target of JPY3100.00 Yandex granted Nasdaq lifeline subject to Russia restructuring Sign in to access your portfolio
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17-03-2025
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AMD Shares Climb Following 45% GPU Market Share Boost in Japan
AMD (AMD, Financial) saw its shares rally more than 3% on Monday morning after the company claimed it now holds a 45% GPU market share in Japan. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 3 Warning Signs with AMD. At a special event in Akihabara, Japan, AMD highlighted strong demand for its Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards, with supply struggling to keep up. The company also showcased its latest products, including Ryzen 9000 X3D CPUs, alongside new software features like the "3D V-Cache Performance Optimiser" for X3D chips and Fluid Motion Frames 2.1 for RDNA GPUs. AMD executive Yoshaki Sato addressed production concerns, joking that AMD isn't used to selling graphics cards, drawing laughter from the audience. The stock movement reflects investor optimism over AMD's growing presence in the Japanese GPU market as it challenges competitors for market share. This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Sign in to access your portfolio
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13-03-2025
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Here comes Intel's new CEO: a semiconductor veteran that won the same prestigious award as Jensen Huang and Lisa Su
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Intel has a new CEO: Lip-Bu Tan. Once a member of Intel's board of directors, Tan joins from his current position as chairman of Walden International and Founding Managing Partner at Walden Catalyst Ventures. If all of that means nothing to you, he also once won the same award as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su. How's that for context? Yep, Tan won the Robert N. Noyce Award in 2022, which is aptly named to honour the memory of the Intel co-founder. Previous winners included Huang in 2021, Su in 2020, Morris Chang of TSMC fame in 2008, Gordon Moore of Moore's law fame in 1994, and AMD founder Jerry Sanders in 1998. So you could say it's a hot list. Tan brings some experience to the role, then. Both as a big tech investor and from previously working as CEO of Cadence Design Systems, a company that makes or licenses products for designing other semiconductor products. Tan is taking over the role from interim co-CEOs David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus. Though, saying that, Holthaus will remain CEO of Intel Products, which deals with the non-manufacturing side of the business. Zinsner will stick around as CFO. It's not going to be an easy first year for Tan, however. Intel is in a bit of a state, as it was for most of previous CEO Pat Gelsinger's time, with more rumours about who might be buying it than leaks for its next-generation products right now. The current rumour is Intel Foundry competitor TSMC, trying to convince Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom to go splitsies with it. That feels like a long-shot, but massive mergers and buyouts hardly ever make much sense to me. Whether Tan has any interest in selling any part of Intel off is what to look out for in the coming months, and potentially years. The board might like Tan for his potential to take Intel back into big profits, but just as easily Tan might be the sort of character to cut their losses and spin out or sell a part of the business in the face of a good deal. We just don't know yet. We do know what the Intel board think: "Lip-Bu is an exceptional leader whose technology industry expertise, deep relationships across the product and foundry ecosystems, and proven track record of creating shareholder value is exactly what Intel needs in its next CEO," says Frank D. Yeary, who was the acting executive chair for Intel's board while searching for a new CEO. Your next upgrade Best CPU for gaming: The top chips from Intel and gaming motherboard: The right graphics card: Your perfect pixel-pusher SSD for gaming: Get into the game ahead of the rest. What we should maybe hope for from Tan is a commitment to gaming graphics cards (don't let us down, Tan) and to get Intel's desktop CPUs back up to speed with the competition. AMD's X3D chips are killing it, but there's hardly enough to go around. And here's what Tan has to say: "Intel has a powerful and differentiated computing platform, a vast customer installed base and a robust manufacturing footprint that is getting stronger by the day as we rebuild our process technology roadmap,' Tan continued. 'I am eager to join the company and build upon the work the entire Intel team has been doing to position our business for the future." Also, Tan mentions some stuff about shareholder value, which crops up a lot in the Intel press release announcing the move. That will be a big priority for any Intel CEO now, as Intel's share price has plummeted where other similar companies' (Nvidia, AMD) have skyrocketed. That's not that interesting to me though—bring me more affordable GPUs!
