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The state of Intel: What the company’s $5 billion deal with Nvidia could mean for the floundering chipmaker — Investments, capex, and the beating heart of x86
The news was as baffling as it was big: On September 18, Nvidia and Intel announced a collaboration to co-develop multiple generations of data center and PC products. As part of the deal, Nvidia said it would purchase $5 billion of stock in the troubled tech firm. Intel was so dominant in the 1990s that…
CNCF Triggers a Platform Parity Breakthrough for Arm64 and x86 — SitePoint
Snapshot Challenge Developing open source software for deployment on Arm64 architecture requires a robust CI/ CD environment. Yet, there has historically been a disparity between the levels of support for Arm64 and traditional x86 processor architectures, with Arm64 usually at a disadvantage. Developers of infrastructure components for multiple architectures have certain expectations of their work…