Unlike AMD or Nvidia GPU owners, Intel Arc users have not been able to play Starfield without encountering problems. With this new beta driver, Intel has fixed some of these issues.
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PC players are reporting a number of issues when running Starfield on Intel's Arc GPU cards. Intel says it is "aware of issues" and says it is "working to improve the experience" sometime next week
Global GPU market grew 12.4% in Q2 2023, despite overall PC market decline. AMD gained market share, while rivals Intel and NVIDIA declined. Nvidia maintained its leading position in the dGPU market.
Intel says its Sierra Forest Xeon processors, which will have up to 144 cores, are scheduled to launch sometime in the first half of 2024. The Granite Rapids Xeon chips will launch "shortly" afterward
IDC has released a report that shows a further decline in PC shipments, which is in line with the expectations at the beginning of the year. However, the company hopes to see an improvement next year.
Intel 14th gen Core i9-14900K, i7-14700K, i5-14600K are expected to increase in price by up to 15%. It is rumored to be preparing to launch the new CPUs in October with a 4-8% performance boost.
A "UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR" issue has been affecting Intel chips this week since the latest Windows updates. While trying to address the issue, Microsoft claims its updates aren't at fault.
This past week Intel users were affected by a new Windows update issue which led to an "UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR" error. While Microsoft is busy investigating, MSI has provided a workaround.
You can get the 13th Gen Intel Core i7-13700K processor with 16 cores and unlocked clock speeds up to 5.4 GHz for just $364.99 right now at Amazon, among other Intel CPU and GPU price cuts.
Intel says the previous free clock speed boost on the Arc A380 graphics card, that Neowin reported about, was a bug. The company has now released a new driver update to fix the problem.
Microsoft has confirmed it has received reports of Windows 11 and 10 blue screening and crashing after a UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR error message. The firm explains how it wants you to report feedback.
Windows 10 users may not be in luck in case they want to have a taste of Wi-Fi 7 on their PCs. That's because a document from Intel seems to suggest Windows 11 will be the oldest one supported.
Microsoft and Intel have cautioned about a recent security vulnerability affecting 7th Gen, 8th Gen, 9th Gen, 10th Gen, and 11th Gen chips. This security vulnerability is called Downfall or GDS.
Intel's recently released WHQL-certified Arc driver brings in multiple improvements. It not only brings DX11 improvements and a new monitoring tool, the driver also bumps up the clocks.
Intel says that DirectX 11 game performance will see an average boost of 19 percent FPS with the latest Arc GPU drivers. It has also released a new game performance tool, Intel PresentMon.
ASRock has leaked Intel's 14th Gen CPUs, which will be released in October with a moderate performance boost, support for DDR5-6400 memory, and compatibility with existing motherboards.
Intel announced over a year ago it planned to buy Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 billion, but now the deal won't be happening after China's regulators did not sign off for the acquisition in time.
The new Intel Arc and Iris Xe WHQL graphics driver 31.0.101.4644 update also includes support for the new game Wayfinder, along with firmware updates on some Intel Arc graphics cards.
The first IBM PC was launched on August 12, 1981. It and its many clones quickly dominated the PC market and helped Microsoft and Intel become huge tech companies that remain big to this day.
Intel, last year, announced that it was ending the Pentium and Celeron brandings for laptops and notebooks. Interestingly, the company may be planning to go a similar route on desktops too.
Microsoft has redeemed itself with the latest Patch Tuesday as it resolved a DirectX issue whereby apps using Apphelp.dll would produce errors. Interestingly, it was a Patch Tuesday that broke it too.
Intel will now enable telemetry or user data collection by default on its Windows Arc drivers. Hence, the component will now gather details like website categories visited, among others.
Microsoft and Intel worked together to optimize Windows 11 for the latter's hybrid CPU design. Testing however suggests that Windows 10 may indeed be a bit snappier overall than Windows 11.
Microsoft added some new AMD Ryzens to the Windows 11-supported CPU list. Interestingly, however, the company removed several of Intel's models that were previously on the support page.
Microsoft may have pushed the launch of Surface Go featuring ARM processors in favor of Intel. As per the reports, the new Surface Go is expected to feature Intel's new N200 mobile processors.
Intel has shared an update about the work it has been doing with the proceeds from its green bonds. It said that it has spent 34% of the $1.25 billion raised on projects that help cut emissions.
Intel says its newly released beta drivers offer up to 47 percent better performance per dollar for its Arc A750 GPU in the upcoming Baldur's Gate 3 compared to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB GPU.
AMD plans to develop the MI300 AI chip specifically for China due to US export restrictions. It aims to compete with Nvidia and Intel by offering compliant solutions to capitalize on China's demand.
Intel is rolling out a new set of Wi-Fi drivers for systems running Windows 10 and 11. The latest release resolves unstable speed issues, random disconnections, and other instabilities.
Intel has issued a new Arc WHQL driver with support for the upcoming A570M and A530M mobile graphics. In addition, the latest release fixes crashes in F1 23 in DirectX 12 mode on mobile Arc GPUs.
The Surface Laptop 5, Microsoft's latest and greatest notebook, has received a fresh set of drivers with a new network app for improved connectivity and support for new docking accessories.
Intel announced a strong financial performance, reporting earnings of $1.5 bn. The company's revenue exceeded expectations, reaching $12.9 billion. However, it is still behind last year's revenue.
Intel is apparently planning a refresh of the Raptor Lake CPUs as its 14th Gen desktop offering. Last week or so, the alleged specifications of the K series chips had leaked, and now we have more.
After recently proposing x86S 64-bit only CPUs, Intel today introduces AVX10 which brings AVX-512 to its E-cores as well. The company is also debuting a new APX ISA that doubles GPRs.
Project Endgame was supposed to use Intel's ARC graphics chips for "an always-accessible, low-latency computing experience." However, it looks like that's not going to happen for a long time.
Intel-based Surface Pro 9 owners can download the latest firmware update with stability and reliability improvements. The release also adds an Intel app for networking performance enhancements.
Intel has released its new Arc and Iris Xe WHQL signed graphics driver 31.0.101.4575 on Windows. It is optimized for Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Remnant II, and also fixes a couple of game bug fixes.
ASUS will now be able to make, sell and support the small form factor NUC PC systems under a non-exclusive contract with Intel, which will also allow ASUS to create future NUC-based designs.
Intel is apparently launching Raptor Lake refresh on its desktop later this year. The alleged spec details as well as performance of the chips have leaked. Arrow Lake numbers have leaked too.
On July 18, 1968, just over a year before the first people landed on the Moon, three men founded Intel in Mountain View, California. Their small start-up eventually grew to become a huge tech company.