News & Reviews:   Intel

Are you excited for CES 2017? We know we are, for those who aren't familiar with it, CES stands for Consumer Electronics Show and this year marks the 50th anniversary for all tech geeks and nerds alike. As one of the largest shows on the planet, this year will be held in Las Vegas and several key players are set to present something awesome.

If you think that deca-core processor in your smartphone is the best in the market – researchers at UC Davis has recently trumped it with a 1000 core processor that leaves others in the dust. 

A global tour by Intel are currently in Malaysia for two weeks until 1st March before they continue their journey elsewhere of showcasing Intel's technology and innovations. Known as the Intel InsideOut Experience (IOE), the tour covers 28 sites in 11 countries celebrating the people behind amazing inventions. 

Intel seems to finally understand that releasing a new chip or two every year isn't going to let it break into the mobile market. There are many ARM-based competitors already offering much better alternatives such as Qualcomm, Samsung, Huawei, Apple, TSMC, NVIDIA and many more. New players emerging from China such as MediaTek are also offering equal if not better performance processors at much cheaper price points. New Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has had this to say about it:

We see that Atom is now at the same importance, it's launching on the same leading edge technology, sometimes even coming before Core," says Krzanich.

I think you'll start to see stuff with our silicon toward the end of the year and the beginning of next year," We're trying to get our silicon into some of them, create some ourselves, understand the usage and create an ecosystem."-Brian Krzanich, CEO, Intel