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CES 2022: Intel Battles Rivals Harder with Launch of 12th Gen Intel Core Family of Mobile Processors

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Intel unveils the 12th Gen Intel Core mobile processors family at CES 2022 highlighted with the launch of eight new mobile H-series processors predicated on Intel’s performance hybrid architecture. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Intel’s new 12th Gen Core mobile processors raise the performance bar across the industry, advances laptop/desktop content creation workload optimization, and enables Intel to take the portfolio differentiation and marketing offensive against key foes AMD and Apple.

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GlobalFoundries files for an IPO, But Don’t Rule Intel Out Just Yet

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Futurum Research Principal Analyst, Daniel Newman provides his take on news coming out of GlobalFoundries today about the company’s plans to IPO as early as later this year.  As the saga continues with chip shortages and bifurcation of global supply chains, the twists and turns of big tech mergers and acquisitions play out in the mainstream media.  Today’s news about the GlobalFoundries IPO is just another chapter in the story.

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AWS Advances Amazon EC2 with new Xeon-powered Amazon EC2 M6i Instances

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AWS announced the availability of new general-purpose Amazon EC2 M6i instances that offer up to 15% improvement in price/performance in comparison to fifth-generation instances. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why expanding the sixth-generation offerings to include x86 instances strengthens the overall Gravitron2 processor proposition, bolsters AWS’ supply chain stability, and advances Amazon’s overall sustainability & ESG goals as well as boost the competitive edge AWS has over Azure and Google Cloud in the custom silicon realm.

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New Futurum Research Report: Why Intel’s Portfolio Key to Powering Ecosystem-wide 5G Innovation

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In our research paper “Intel: 5G Trailblazer Powering 5G Ecosystem-wide Innovation”, we conclude that operator 5G decision makers must prioritize considering Intel as their primary trusted advisor in driving their 5G network journeys, since Intel provides the extensive portfolio capabilities and channel expertise (i.e., Intel Network Builders) across the most strategic 5G technology areas, such as network cloudification, 5G edge, 5G core, vRAN, and 5G ecosystem, needed to meet the highest priority 5G business objectives.

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Intel Provides its Multi-Year Roadmap Beyond 3nm to 20A

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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has charted a path to expand Intel’s leadership in both semiconductor design and fabrication, including the new RibbonFET transistor architecture, the PowerVia power delivery system, and a revamped node framework that sets the stage for a shift from Nanometer to Angstrom terminology. Our Futurum analysts break it down and explain why this, and the new Intel Foundry Services (IFS), are key to Intel achieving process performance parity by 2024 and leadership by 2025.