A specifications table posted by leaker Jaykihn describes Intel's unannounced Moon Lake processor as having four low-power efficiency cores and no performance cores, with a TDP range of 6W to 15W. The leak suggests the chip would succeed Intel's current N-series budget processors and shares its tile-based layout and BGA1516 package with the Core Series 3 Wildcat Lake family launched in April. Intel has not confirmed these specifications.
techspot.com
· 2026-11-01
A security researcher found that cache timing information leaked enough data to reconstruct a full RSA private key, and spent six months privately coordinating with vendors before going public. He presented the findings at BSDCan on May 13, 2005, with advisories issued around the same time by FreeBSD, NetBSD, Red Hat, SCO and Ubuntu. Intel reportedly pressured Yahoo to have him withdraw the paper, but Yahoo noted it had no employment relationship with him to leverage.
daemonology.net
· 2026-10-31
Tom's Hardware reviewed ASRock's B860 Challenger Wifi, a $149.99 ATX motherboard built on Intel's budget B860 chipset that supports Arrow Lake and Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs. The board includes eight rear USB ports capped at 5 Gbps, three M.2 slots with one PCIe 5.0, four SATA ports, 2.5 GbE, Wi-Fi 7, basic audio, and a dated BIOS, paired with weaker power delivery than rival boards.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-31
Intel is shifting manufacturing capacity away from consumer PC chips toward data center CPUs, citing surging AI-driven demand. The company is expanding Fab 24 in Ireland to produce more Xeon processors, has started equipment installation at Fab 62 in Arizona ahead of schedule for 18A chips, and is growing advanced packaging capacity in New Mexico and Malaysia. CEO Lip-Bu Tan said Intel's Data Center and AI unit posted $7.3 billion in Q3 2026 revenue, up 17% sequentially and nearly 80% year-over-year.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-31
Developer Jan de Jager has published Retro486 Modular Browser PC, also called e486-web, a full Intel 80486DX2-66 system emulator built entirely in JavaScript and hosted on GitHub. The live demo includes a CRT-style display tab with retro color options, plus tabs for configuring motherboards, expansion cards, storage, and diagnostics, along with preloaded DOS disks and games like Doom and Wolfenstein 3D.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-31
Intel stock dropped nearly 29% to close at $65.76 on Friday, its worst single-day performance since 1974, despite beating Wall Street's earnings estimates for the quarter. The company's fourth-quarter revenue forecast of $15-16 billion fell well short of the $17 billion analysts expected, with Intel citing a projected 12% drop in PC shipments in 2026 due to rising memory prices, plus a fab shutdown in Israel following a fatal explosion.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-31
Intel stock fell about 28% on Friday after the company projected fourth-quarter revenue of $15-16 billion, below analyst expectations of roughly $17 billion, and warned gross margins would drop to 37% from 43% with no positive cash flow expected. The decline cut roughly $12 billion from the value of the US government's 10% stake in Intel, acquired over a year ago, and also dented Nvidia's shares along with the wider chip sector.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-30
Intel stock lost 30% of its value on Friday after the company issued a weak financial outlook, including a forecast that sales in its client computing group would drop over 20%. The slide erased nearly $150 billion from Intel's market cap and contributed to roughly $1 trillion wiped off the broader semiconductor sector, as measured by Benzinga's intraday estimates and a 9.14% drop in the PHLX Semiconductor Sector Index.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-30
US technology stocks fell for a second straight day, with the Nasdaq down over 3.5%, Intel shares plunging as much as 30%, and Reddit dropping 26%. Alphabet extended losses after losing more than $500 billion in market value the previous day, as combined 2026 AI spending commitments from Meta, Alphabet, Oracle, Amazon and Microsoft reach $800.6 billion.
news.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-30
US tech stocks fell sharply, with Intel dropping as much as 30% after warning of a weaker PC market even as it boosts AI spending, and losing over $130bn in value. Amazon shares slid up to 6% following earnings that missed expectations, while Alphabet continued falling after a $500bn plunge the previous day tied to AI summaries hurting search ad revenue. The Nasdaq opened at its lowest level in over two months, down 2.5%, with Reddit and Roblox also declining.
bbc.co.uk
· 2026-10-30
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the Cheeky Pint podcast that people running AI models locally on personal computers is an inefficient use of the world's limited DRAM supply. He argued that cloud-based inference through hyperscalers achieves better utilization than individual users hoarding memory chips for home use. His remarks came as Intel shares fell nearly 30 percent Friday amid a PC market slowdown that analysts linked partly to AI-driven component shortages.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-30
Walmart is selling the ABS Cyclone Aqua gaming desktop for $849, a $350.99 cut from its $1,199.99 list price. The configuration pairs an Intel Core 5 Processor 120 with an Nvidia RTX 5060 (8GB VRAM), 16GB of DDR4 RAM, and a 1TB NVMe SSD.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-30
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