Why Intel Corporation's Cascade Lake Is So Important

On May 16, #microprocessor giant #Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) put out a press release titled "Intel Shows 1.59X Performance Improvement in Upcoming Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family." In the press release, Intel talked up the performance benefits of its upcoming data center chips relative to its prior-generation chips. The most interesting bit of this press release, though, was the company's disclosures around its upcoming #3DXPoint -based memory modules for data center applications.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/06/05/why-intel-corporations-cascade-lake-is-so-importan.aspx

Researchers build a microprocessor from flexible materials

Researchers have built a primitive microprocessor out of a two-dimensional material similar to #graphene, the flexible conductive wonder material that some believe will revolutionize the design and manufacture of batteries, sensors and chips. With only 115 transistors, their processor isn't going to top any benchmark rankings, but it's "a first step towards the development of #microprocessors based on 2D semiconductors," the researchers at Vienna University of Technology said in a paper published in the journal Nature this month

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3191540/computer-processors/researchers-build-a-microprocessor-from-flexible-materials.html

Intel Corporation Plans Seismic Change to Data-Center Chips

For many years, when #microprocessor giant #Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) would introduce a brand-new manufacturing technology, it would use that technology to build chips for mass-market personal computers such as thin-and-light laptops.In contrast, the company's high-performance data-center processors would get the newer technologies much later.

To put that in perspective, Intel began shipping the first personal-computer chips manufactured using its 22-nanometer technology in late 2011, but it didn't introduce the first data-center chips built using that very same technology until late 2013 -- a two-year gap.

The same goes for the company's 14-nanometer technology: Intel shipped the first personal-computer chips built on 14-nanometer in the second half of 2014, but it didn't start shipping the first data center-oriented chips built on 14-nanometer until the first half of 2016 -- once again, a roughly two-year gap.

Intel Data Center Group (DCG) chief Diane Bryant says this practice will change going forward.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/02/12/intel-corporation-plans-seismic-change-to-data-center-chips.html