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Intel hopes new chip-level security features move it past the Meltdown/Spectre fallout

As one of the biggest security events of the year kicks off Monday, Intel promised that its future chip designs… Read More

Intel says ‘partitions’ in new chips will correct the design flaw that created Spectre and Meltdown

After security researchers were able to exploit design flaws in modern processors that lay undetected for up to 20 years,… Read More

Intel expands bug bounty program to include Spectre-like side-channel attacks, dangles $250K

Intel is promising up to $250,000 to security researchers who uncover new side-channel vulnerabilities in its processors, in the wake… Read More

Intel sets a record with 1,218-drone salute for Olympics’ opening ceremony in Korea

The Winter Olympics’ first-ever drone light show has earned Intel the title from Guinness World Records for the “most unmanned… Read More

Former Intel executive Renee James launches Ampere, a new Arm-based server chip company

A former top executive at Intel is launching a new server chip company Monday, betting on Intel’s rival architecture with… Read More

Intel promises more “transparency” around chip flaws, as strong Q4 offset by weaker 2018 forecast

Intel enjoyed one of its best years ever in 2017. 2018 is going to be a lot tricker. The chip… Read More

Congress wants to know how Big Tech managed the Meltdown/Spectre embargo period

That didn’t take long: the leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee within the U.S. House of Representatives sent letters… Read More

Intel says it has found “root cause” of flawed patches for Meltdown and Spectre on older systems, but advises customers to avoid patches for now

After it acknowledged two weeks ago that its initial fix for the Meltdown and Spectre flaws was itself flawed for… Read More

Intel admits that patches for Meltdown and Spectre are causing reboots on a wider variety of systems

As part of its quest to ensure “transparency” after initially insisting that the fixes for design flaws in its chips… Read More

Intel: Our initial fix for the Meltdown and Spectre chip design flaws had flaws

Intel continued to undermine the confidence placed in its chips by more than 90 percent of data center customers on… Read More

Who will pay for Meltdown and Spectre? Chip flaws could leave a financial mess in their wake

2018 greeted CIOs around the planet in quite rude fashion, following the revelation of two 20-year-old undiscovered security flaws in… Read More

Microsoft stops distributing Meltdown/Spectre patches for AMD devices after fixes brick machines

Microsoft has temporarily stopped distributing patches to computers and devices running AMD processors after acknowledging that its Windows security updates… Read More

Intel brings out former NFL star Tony Romo at CES keynote to tout company’s sports technology

LAS VEGAS — First, it was Deion Sanders and Satya Nadella. Now, it’s Tony Romo and Brian Krzanich. During Intel’s… Read More

In unusual CES statement, Intel CEO addresses Spectre and Meltdown bugs

Just how serious are the Meltdown and Spectre microprocessor vulnerabilities for Intel? Enough for the company’s CEO Brian Krzanich to divert… Read More

Report: Intel creates new group to focus on hardware security amid Meltdown and Spectre fallout

As the public fallout from a 20-year-old design flaw that left Intel processors unprotected continues, the company told employees Monday… Read More

A week later, the long-term impact of the Meltdown and Spectre chip flaws is starting to become clearer

Cloud users and data center managers began to understand the performance effects of the patches required by the Meltdown/Spectre chip… Read More

Intel, cloud vendors shed more light on two major chip security issues that emerged this week

Hours after reports spread about design flaws in Intel processors that could have compromised an enormous number of computers, the… Read More

Updated: Cloud vendors secretly scramble to patch critical flaw in Intel chips, performance hits expected

Update 5:30pm: Intel held a press conference Wednesday afternoon after this was published, and several researchers released a lot more… Read More

Google Cloud hires the former head of Intel’s data center group, Diane Bryant, as COO

Google is bringing on an experienced enterprise tech leader, former Intel datacenter executive Diane Bryant, to serve as chief operating… Read More

Intel Capital invests in IOTAS, a Portland-based ‘smart apartment’ startup

IOTAS is raising more cash to build out its smart apartment technology platform. Intel Capital is the latest firm to… Read More

Introducing SHIFT, a new video series from Intel and GeekWire on the digital transformation of business

The cloud computing landscape is evolving rapidly, with new technologies emerging regularly to redefine and reshape a movement that has… Read More

Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini, key figure of the Wintel era, dies at the age of 66

Paul Otellini, who steered what was then the world’s largest chip maker through the decline of the Wintel duopoly and… Read More

House Speaker Paul Ryan to visit Boeing in Everett and discuss tax reform at employee town hall

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) is making a trip to the Pacific Northwest this week to lay out the Republican… Read More

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich resigns from Trump advisory council over concerns about Charlottesville

The tragic events over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, continue to have an impact on the tech industry, and prominent… Read More

After breaking free from Intel, McAfee lays off some Portland-based employees

Security software developer McAfee has laid off an undisclosed number of employees in marketing-related roles based in its Portland office,… Read More

Navin Shenoy, executive vice president and general manager, Intel's Data Center Group (Screenshot)

Intel looks to maintain its data center dominance with powerful new server chips

Intel took the wraps off its newest processors for data centers Tuesday, promising a significant boost in performance compared to… Read More

China's Taihu Light supercomputer is the most powerful computer in the world as of November 2016, capable of hitting 93 peta-flops (floating-point operations per second). (Top 500 photo)

These six tech companies are getting $258M from the DOE to research exascale computing

Hoping to beat China to the development of the first production-ready exascale computer, the U.S. Department of Energy plans to… Read More

Here’s how to watch weekly MLB games in virtual reality for free

You can now watch MLB games in virtual reality. Starting June 6, MLB will launch a VR livestream of one… Read More

49ers president, Intel VR guru added to agenda at GeekWire Sports Tech Summit

The San Francisco 49ers president. A virtual reality guru helping Intel. And the executive heading up U.S. operations for sports… Read More

Intel’s last Itanium processor end of an era that never began

The Itanic is finally pulling into port. Intel announced Thursday that it will ship the last version of its notorious… Read More