For around $14 million, a wealthy bidder can lay claim to the commanding, 7,700 square foot hillside estate of the late Silicon Valley legend Robert Noyce. For those less inclined toward history, agents say the 4.6-acre property can be easily subdivided into four lots and developed into new estates. The […]
Dan Loeb Gives Intel Investors Reason to Hope in 2021
Text size Third Point CEO Daniel Loeb David Paul Morris/Bloomberg After a tough year, Intel executives received one last 2020 surprise. It came in the form of a sharply worded letter this past week from activist investor Daniel Loeb. Loeb, CEO of hedge fund Third Point, laid out the need […]
Chip Giants Intel and Nvidia Face New Threats From Amazon to Google to Apple
The world’s largest semiconductor companies face a growing competitive threat: their biggest customers making their own chips tailored to the supercharged areas of cloud-computing and artificial intelligence. Chip making has long been ruled by big manufacturers and design houses such as Intel Corp. , Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and graphics-chip […]
Intel, partners make new strides in Loihi neuromorphic computing chip development
Intel has released new performance benchmarks for the Loihi neuromorphic computing processor, revealing improvements in power consumption and efficiency. During Intel’s virtual Lab Day, on Thursday, the tech giant revealed Loihi chip improvements in voice command recognition, gesture recognition in artificial intelligence (AI) applications, image retrieval, search functions, and robotics. […]