Intel

At the 2026 VLSI Symposium, Intel said 18A-P, a drop-in upgrade to its 18A node, reached risk production with 9% higher performance at iso-power.

Intel's data-center inference GPU scales to 480GB of LPDDR5X in a 350W air-cooled PCIe card, sidestepping the HBM shortage that constrains Nvidia and AMD accelerators.

At Computex, Intel detailed its Diamond Rapids Xeon 7: up to 192 P-cores on 18A-P, 16 DDR5 channels and PCIe 6.0, but no Hyperthreading, arriving 2027.

Intel's first 18A server chip ships with up to 288 Darkmont E-cores and 576 MB of L3 cache, claiming a 30% per-thread lead over AMD's 192-core EPYC 9965.

Apple and Intel have struck a preliminary agreement for Intel to manufacture some Apple chips, ending a six-year split and handing Intel Foundry its most consequential customer win yet.

Mercury Research data show AMD's EPYC processors claimed a record 46.2 percent of x86 server CPU revenue in Q1 2026, as AMD's data center segment hit $5.8 billion and overtook Intel's comparable unit.

Mesa 26.1.0, released May 6, 2026, delivers over 40 new Vulkan extensions across major GPU drivers, adds VirtIO-GPU native-context support for Intel, and marks the end of VirGL maintenance.

AMD and Intel released the AI Compute Extensions specification, marking the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group's first joint matrix-multiplication standard since the rivals formed the consortium in October 2024 to fend off Arm.

Intel archived the GitHub repository that anchored its Open Ecosystem Community and Evangelism program on April 20, 2026, and shuttered several community-facing projects — the most visible step in a multi-quarter pullback that began with executive comments last October.

Elon Musk picked Intel's 14A process for Tesla's Terafab AI chip complex, handing the struggling Intel Foundry its first marquee external win for a node that is still years from volume production.

Cognichip's $60M round brings total funding to $93M as its AI platform works with 30+ semiconductor firms to cut design costs by up to 75 percent.

Linux 7.0 arrives on April 12, graduating Rust from experimental status, introducing an extensible eBPF scheduler framework, and adding autonomous XFS repair capabilities.