Intel Q3 2019 results
Revenue for the quarter was up 16.4% from last quarter to $19.2 billion, GAAP profit was $6 billion, up 43% from last quarter—7nm queued up
Revenue for the quarter was up 16.4% from last quarter to $19.2 billion, GAAP profit was $6 billion, up 43% from last quarter—7nm queued up
Intel beat Wall Street expectations on its third-quarter financial performance sending the company’s stock up 6.9% in morning trading Friday after the chipmaker reported late-Thursday afternoon. Intel reported its calendar Q3 2019, revenues were flat year-over-year and grew significantly quarter-to-quarter. The PC-centric business and data-centric revenue increased over 10% and 28%, respectively, over the last quarter. This was the best … Read more
Remember when it cost almost a half a million dollars for Flame?
Just for a reference point, you should know that the Hubble optical telescope is 11,4777 × 7,965 or 94.4-Mpixels Last week, Samsung introduced a new image sensor with the highest resolution for mobile phones; more than anything on the market—64-Mpixels. The ISOCELL Bright GW1 sensor uses the same 0.8-μm-sized pixels as Samsung’s current 48-Mpixel sensor, so the 64-Mpixel sensor … Read more
Intel reported its calendar Q2 2019; revenues were down year-over-year 3% but grew quarter-to-quarter. Intel achieved 1% growth in the PC-centric business while data-centric revenue declined 7%. “Second quarter results exceeded our expectations on both revenue and earnings, as the growth of data and compute-intensive applications are driving customer demand for higher performance products in both our PC-centric and data-centric … Read more
I have never been a fan of the term mixed-reality, and think it is misleading, confusing, and annoying. Microsoft started it by calling their Hololens AR HMD an MR HMD because they were trying to get some product differentiation and distance from AR and the damage Google had done to the term. Qualcomm tried to sidestep the politics and … Read more
The weather wasn’t the best, but they came to learn. Developers at Google I/O learned that security is the new cool. (Source: Google) It’s been clear for a long time that Google doesn’t see itself as the company that helps people find things. Not anymore, at Google I/O, Sundar Pichai told the audience that Google wants to be the … Read more
Intel has built a special processor just for workstations
Intel’s latest generation of Xeon processors are specifically designed for workstations, and the company has cleverly designated them the W series. Workstations are a growing market segment and have been for quite some time. They run 24-7, are extremely reliable, and have features and specifications you can’t find in a PC. Therefore, workstations can command high price points because of … Read more
When Intel decided to develop an alternative AIB to compete with discrete GPUs, they choose to use a ring of x86 processor, and called it Larrabee, named after Larrabee State Park in Whatcom County, Washington. The chip was to be released in 2010 as the core of a consumer 3D graphics AIB. Those plans were cancelled four years later in … Read more
With 25 new products coming, Intel is going for breadth
Intel used an announcement about its new Cascade Lake-based Xeon 9200 Platinum to show off all the stuff they are bringing to the data center, which introduces many multiple SKUs and a range of supporting products with the intent of giving customers the ability to build custom server applications covering HPC, AI, edge, memory, and super-sized particle chasing servers. Intel … Read more