Intel will shake chips up by building Qualcomm’s future processors

I’ve always thought of Qualcomm as one of Intel’s biggest rivals, what with its dominance of the non-Apple mobile market and its increasing presence in the PC space. But as it turns out, the companies are teaming up in a major new partnership for the years to come: Intel willmanufacturefuture Qualcomm chips. Things can get a little confusing in the semiconductor world. while many companies design chips, not all of them actually manufacture their own hardware....

3 min · 480 words · Jessica Crawford

Intel’s 11th-gen Tiger Lake-H chips promise 19% faster laptop performance

Another year, another set of chips by Intel. The company today announced its 11th-gen H-series chips — codenamed Tiger Lake-H — which the company claims offer up to a 19% speed boost over the prior comet lake technology. The H-series chips are normally found in larger gaming and desktop-replacement laptops, so it’s a welcome improvement. The jump in performance isn’t exactly a huge surprise; Intel is moving from a 14nm architecture to a 10nm one, so the improvements are to be expected....

3 min · 438 words · Albert Schultz

Intel’s new AI helps you get just the right amount of hate speech in your game chat

The Intel microprocessor company was founded in 1968. It’s bushwhacked a trail of technology and innovation in the decades since to become one of the leading manufacturers of computer chips worldwide. But never mind all that. Because we live in a world where Kodak is a failed cryptocurrency company that’s nowdealing drugsand everyone still thinksElon Musk invented the tunnel. Which means that here in this,the darkest timeline, we’re stuck with the version of Intel that uses AI to power “White nationalism” sliders and “N-word” toggles for video game chat....

3 min · 588 words · Ronald Leach

Intel’s new campaign: You’ve never seen YouTube quite like this

We previously wrote about Intel turning yourFacebook into a museum pieceand now they’re back with an impressive interactive Youtube video experience called ‘The Escape’. It works by bringing the user completely into the story, with the option to connect with Facebook to further personalise the video and bring your friends in to help you save the femme fatale. This is a YouTube experience quite unlike any other, as they have turned the takeover into a complete gaming experience, adding in user interaction along the way such as firing at assailants, combining keys to unlock a door and lots of other cool content that we’ll let you discover for yourself....

2 min · 422 words · Douglas Rodriguez

Interactive Augmented Reality TV tested in Germany

We’ve written a lot recently about howapps will transform TV, and it appears that the promise is starting to become reality. Augmented Reality browser appJunaiowas used earlier this week by German science TV showGalileoto run an interactive quiz that viewers could participate with using their phones. The quiz provided multiple choice questions and to take part, users had to hold their phone cameras up to the TV screen and point them at the answer they wanted to select....

2 min · 311 words · Stephanie Drake
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