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Technology Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Joins VC Firm to Revive Moore's Law Using Light-Based Chips
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has joined venture capital firm Playground Global as a general partner, taking a board seat at xLight, a startup developing novel lithography techniques using light. Gelsinger believes that advances in nanometer-scale light etching can revive Moore's Law, which has stalled due to physical limits of transistor shrinking.
Technology Intel's Wildcat Lake CPU reduces laptop costs by leveraging smartphone component supply chains
Intel has detailed how its new Wildcat Lake mobile processors, part of the Firefly program, reduce laptop costs by integrating smartphone-class components such as LPDDR5X memory and audio chips. The approach aims to bring affordable Windows 11 notebooks to market quickly to compete with Apple's MacBook Neo. This strategy leverages the smartphone supply chain, potentially affecting sourcing patterns for laptop manufacturers.
Technology Valve's SteamOS Beta Boosts Intel Handhelds: Implications for MSI, Acer Devices
Valve released SteamOS 3.8.8 beta with improved Intel platform support and initial firmware for upcoming Intel G3 Extreme-powered handhelds from MSI, Acer, and OneXPlayer. The update addresses previous performance disadvantages versus Windows 11 on Intel hardware, bringing devices closer to parity with AMD-based SteamOS handhelds.