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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.

Intel combines gallium nitride power transistors with silicon digital logic on an ultra-thin 19-micrometer chiplet harvested from 300mm wafers, targeting AI data center power delivery and 5G/6G infrastructure.

Intel's Heracles processor, developed under DARPA's DPRIVE program, performs computations on fully encrypted data without decryption, achieving speedups of 1,074 to 5,547 times over a 24-core Xeon.

Intel is in advanced talks with Google and Amazon for EMIB-based chip packaging services worth billions annually, positioning its foundry division as a credible alternative to TSMC's constrained CoWoS capacity.

Intel's Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus ship with additional efficiency cores, native DDR5-7200 support, and aggressive pricing that undercuts their predecessors by up to $100, though AMD's X3D chips retain the gaming crown.