Intel

The White House asked AI companies to develop a watermark identifying AI-generated content. Some tech companies like Microsoft, Intel, and Adobe may have their answer in an internet protocol called C2PA, named after the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity.

Q2 2023 earnings are down 15 percent to $12.9 billion, but Intel’s stopped the bleed — it’s actually making profit of $1.5 billion, after consecutive $2.8B and $0.7B quarterly losses. (Revenue dipped 36 percent last quarter.) Even PC chips are only down 12 percent, compared to the 16.6 percent or 13.4 percent decline in global PC shipments that Gartner and IDC reported two weeks back.

The company says the new Intel Arc Pro A60 and A60M are “ideal for computer-aided design and modeling (CAD/CAM), AI inferencing tasks and media processing in dedicated business environments.” It launched the A40 and A50 GPUs for professional users last year.

OBS Studio 29 just went live today with support for real-time AV1 — letting the latest Nvidia and possibly AMD and Intel graphics cards stream way higher quality video to YouTube using the same amount of data.

For over a decade, Intel’s CPUs have followed a (relatively) consistent “Core i” naming scheme. But that could be about to change with its upcoming 14th-generation Meteor Lake processors.

Q1 results are out (PDF). We knew the PC market was still struggling and Intel’s actually under the 40 percent revenue dip it forecast alongside January’s $0.7 billion loss, but that’s still a lot of money to lose! Intel says it’s still on track to ship five nodes in four years.

Intel announced two years ago that it would happily begin manufacturing Arm chips for other chipmakers, so it’s no surprise that it will begin doing so on its upcoming low-power 18A process coming late 2024. But Intel couldn’t tell me if it actually has any interested customers lined up.

Or so Nvidia says, promoting DLSS AI scaling technology while AMD touts the hand-coded algorithms behind FSR 2. Watch this video below to see Hardware Unboxed pit man vs. machine learning in 26 games.

Intel has been firing staff — and now, it’s instituting pay cuts, too. But don’t worry, the CEO will continue using cash to offer a dividend, because I guess paying off shareholders is the most important thing.

Intel’s Q4 and full year 2022 earnings are out (PDF) and it’s not looking great: a $0.7 billion loss and revenue down 32 percent, though its GPU business seems to have bottomed out. Intel warned things would be bad, and it’s forecasting 40 percent less revenue next quarter (YoY) too.

Intel’s long-awaited server chips are shipping today after two years of delays. Three months ago, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told us how shipping Sapphire Rapids was necessary to rebuild Intel’s confidence — and customers’ confidence in Intel. The company told The New York Times a bit more about the delays, though it wouldn’t describe the final fatal flaw that pushed it from 2022 to 2023.

When Intel’s new Arc A750 and A770 GPUs launched in October the performance of older DirectX 9 games wasn’t great. Intel is now promising a “massive” performance boost for games like CS:GO (up to 79 percent), StarCraft 2 (up to 48 percent), and League of Legends (up to 36 percent) all thanks to a new Arc driver.