In recent years, Intel has lost its unrivaled dominance in the PC chip market to its competitor, AMD. Now, the company seeks to catch up with its rival by aggressively pushing for smaller chips.

According to an Engadget report, the American chipmaking giant plans to pull ahead in the race to make chips smaller by pushing for 4nm, 3nm, and even 1.8nm processes by the year 2025. At the moment, the company’s 10nm “Enhanced Superfin” process is being renamed to “7nm” despite it not being a true 7nm process. Furthermore, the company has struggled to move past the 10nm process for years now, while AMD has already launched its chips that are based on the 7nm process.

While Intel has managed to still remain competitive in the market, shrinking the chip size is an essential move going forward to keep up with its rival’s performance and power efficiency. Thus, the company has recently mapped out its plans for an EUV based 3nm node that utilizes high energy manufacturing process to streamline chip production. This process node has been dubbed 20A (angstrom node), which also implies that it is one ten billionth of a meter (or 2nm).

Following this, the company also aims on start the production of the 1.8nm process, which is called 18A, by 2025. The plan showcases Intel’s aggressive schedule to make up for lost ground and to pull ahead in the shrinking chip race. Meaning, we might soon have laptops, desktops, and more with a major performance boost in the near future. So stay tuned for more updates.

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While ZTE has already released their ZTE Frand X IN which powered by Intel processor, the company is now ready to unveiled the new smartphone which powered by Intel’s dual-core SoC chipset.

While for now, the Chinese based manufacturer, ZTE is becoming the potential partner for Intel since ZTE is the world’s largest and fastest growing mobile communications and houshold manufacturer.

ZTE has not announced any specific plans for the Atom Z2580. However, we can imagine that the dual-core up to 2.0GHz clock speed, and a substantial improvement PowerVR 544MP2 GPU.

For Intel, this is a win-win solution. ZTE is an important player in the field of mobile devices, cooperative relations with more than 200 operators in 160 countries and regions. Although these markets are not necessarily suitable for high-end mobile phone sales equipped with Atom Z2580, but ZTE are trying to compete for high-end mobile phone market share.

This year the company has launched a 5.0-inch screen ZTE Grand S smartphone, this ZTE smartphone is ready to compete with HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4.

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Lenovo has been cooperative with Intel to built the Lenovo K900 smartphone which powered by Intel processor, this is the second-generation smartphone which powered by x86 chip

Lenovo K900 smartphone is now approaching with the listing of dates, Lenovo stores also opened a predetermined page. We can see from the predetermined page K900 is priced at 3,999 yuan or around $640 USD, for a while nowthere is no information about the specific release date of this phone.

K900 is powered by a brand new Intel Z2580 2GHz processor, equipped with SGX544MP GPU, otherwise 2GB of RAM and 16GB of ROM. Consistent aspect of the screen as same as the Galaxy Note II are 5.5 inch which support for 1080P HD screen display.

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An Asus tablet device with code ME371MG caught on camera with the Intel inside logo on the rear body. The tablet is rumored 7-inch tablet and will compete with the cheap Nexus 7. Considering the price of the Nexus 7, this tablet also predicted to be priced at an affordable price.

It is said that the processor used is an Intel Atom Z2420 single-core processor, which is an Intel chip that is intended for low-cost devices. Later, the processor will run at 1GHz to 2GHz clock and use the PowerVR SGX540 GPU.

Previously, the tablet Fonepad also been sticking to the public with similar specifications to the tablet. The screen is equally rumored 7-inch IPS manifold with a resolution of 1280 x 800. There is 1GB of RAM and an internal storage of 8 to 32GB. In addition, the supplied microSD slot, a feature absent from the Nexus 7.

The tablet is said to have running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. There is also two camera, 1.2 megapixel front-facing camera and a 3 megapixel rear camera. For a while now, there is no information about the price and launching date.

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From the foreign media reported that China is developing the most powerful supercomputers in the history. It uses the latest Intel Xeon E5 processors Ivy Bridge architecture and Xeon Phi coprocessor, the total number up to 100,000.

Its computing power of up to 100 PFLOPS [a PFLOPS equal per second 1.000.000.000.000.000) fastest super-calculator than the year 2011 is 10 times faster, but also five times faster than the fastest supercomputer right now.

This supercomputer government departments is very important, it can play a huge role in many areas of aerospace, urban planning, and medical. The supercomputer will be housed in a city in the southwest part of the hardware cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.

As a hardware vendor, Intel provides the latest Xeon E5-2567W v2 processor ($ 2,500 / peice) Xeon Phi 5110P with 8GB GDDR5 coprocessor ($ 2,649 / piece), just two chips the total price to more than $ 500 million, not even counting the motherboard, ECC parity memory, chassis, cooling and other parts, turns out to be true, “a large amount of money” to build.

At present, one thing is certain, this super “monster” is the fastest computer in the world will be in for a long period of time, will make an important contribution to China’s space industry (the moon, Mars plan). However, other countries are not far behind, 1000 PFLOPS computing power super-computer being developed in Australia, is expected to put into use a few years.

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