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Top corporate contributor to the Linux kernel by commit volume
Linux 7.0 was the first major version number change since 6.0 in October 2022. It runs on most of the world's servers and all 500 of the fastest supercomputers. Rust, a memory-safe programming language, became a permanent part of the kernel after a three-year experiment.
Updated Nov 2
Says no supported commercial products known to be affected
A 16-year-old bug in the firmware that boots most servers lets a network attacker run code before the operating system and Secure Boot load. The flaw sits in TianoCore EDK II, the open-source base behind firmware from AMI, Insyde, Phoenix and Microsoft's Project Mu.
Updated Oct 28
Restructuring, shedding workers
Intel's July layoff notices, covering 103 workers across four Santa Clara facilities, took effect August 15. In September, Intel filed four more WARN notices covering 52 workers across four Santa Clara sites, effective September 30, bringing its total to 31 WARN notices covering 1,475 workers since July 2025.
Updated Oct 16
As of July 2026: Expanding in Ireland while cutting elsewhere
Intel committed €5 billion to expand its chip factory in Leixlip, Ireland. The money scales up production of server chips for artificial intelligence, and it lands a year after Intel scrapped a larger €30 billion plant in Germany.
Updated Jul 14
As of July 2026: Matching $1,000 for U.S. employees' children
The program launched July 4, 2026, opening for contributions on America's 250th birthday. Treasury deposited $1,000 into 1.4 million eligible accounts, committing $1.4 billion in total; 6 million children are now enrolled.
Updated Jul 7
As of June 2026: Seeking foundry customers; 10% government-owned
For almost two decades, the most advanced chips inside iPhones and Macs have been etched in Taiwan. On June 18, 2026, President Trump said Apple has agreed to design and build some of those chips with Intel, on U.S. soil.
Updated Jun 18
As of May 2026: Defending data center share against Arm-based challengers
For 35 years, Arm Holdings sold blueprints, not chips. On May 6, 2026, Arm formalized a different future: a $15 billion direct chip-sales business by fiscal 2031, anchored by an in-house data center processor called the Arm AGI CPU.
Updated May 31
As of May 2026: 18A in high-volume production; foundry backlog exceeds $15B; stock up ~76% YTD in 2026
Intel's foundry strategy has shifted from a single Apple deal to a growing roster of major chip buyers in weeks. In early April 2026, Intel signed on as primary foundry partner for Terafab, a $25 billion AI chip venture backed by Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI.
Updated May 30
As of May 2026: Potential partner; cautionary precedent for fab economics
Every company designing custom artificial intelligence chips today (Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft) pays someone else to manufacture them. Tesla just announced it will build and operate its own semiconductor fabrication plant, a $20 billion facility called TeraFab targeting the 2-nanometer process node, the most advanced manufacturing technology in existence. No company without decades of chipmaking experience has ever attempted this.
As of May 2026: Building world's largest neuromorphic hardware platforms
For decades, simulating the physics of airplane wings, nuclear weapons, or weather systems required warehouse-sized supercomputers consuming megawatts of power. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have now demonstrated that brain-inspired neuromorphic chips can solve these same equations (the partial differential equations underlying nearly all physics simulations) with a fraction of the energy.
Updated May 29
As of May 2026: Released Loihi 3 neuromorphic chip for commercial deployment (January 2026)
Scientists at Germany's Jülich Research Centre demonstrated in mid-January 2026 that Europe's most powerful supercomputer can simulate 20 billion spiking neurons—matching the scale of the human cerebral cortex. The team plans to combine this capability with anatomical brain data to run full-cortex simulations, a technical milestone that has eluded researchers since the field's founding in the 1980s.
Updated May 22
As of May 2026: Achieved 18A manufacturing milestone with Panther Lake launch but faces yield challenges and supply constraints; foundry gaining traction with Microsoft partnership
Intel just shipped its first client processors built on 18A, the most advanced semiconductor process ever made in America. The Core Ultra Series 3 chips, unveiled January 5 at CES 2026, went on sale globally January 27 with over 200 PC designs, offering 60% faster performance and 27-hour battery life.
Updated May 19
As of May 2026: Testing ACM tools for its 14A node at CHIPS-subsidized U.S. fabs while facing political backlash
Intel is racing to regain its chipmaking crown with a 14A process backed by billions in U.S. subsidies. In mid-December 2025, Reuters revealed the company had been test-driving critical tools from ACM Research, a China-rooted equipment maker whose Shanghai and Korean units sit on a U.S. export blacklist.
Updated May 15
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