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Santa Clara, California-based silicon giant Intel today announced a new member of its high-end mobile processor series. Based on the 10th generation of the company’s proprietary chip designs, the Intel Core i9-10980HK is debuting with a claim of being the fastest portable central processing unit in the world.

“Portable,” in this instance, means one intended to be used in battery-powered devices such as laptops, ultrabooks, notebooks, and whatever other buzzword for describing those you can think of. Compared to the previous generation of Intel’s mobile CPUs, the i9-10980HK promises up to 54% more frames per second during 3D games rendering, almost as high of an overall, system-wide improvement to performance, including both processing power and energy efficiency, and up to twice as fast exporting and rendering of video projects in 4K resolutions.

These enchancements are made possible thanks to a record 5.3GHz Turbo functionality covering all eight cores of the i9-10980HK. The CPU also comes with 16 threads, a whopping 16MB cache system enhanced with AI management algorithms, Wi-Fi 6 AX201 support that can potentially nearly triple the speed of your downloads, and Thunderbolt 3 support. Expect the Intel Core i9-10980HK to start debuting in gaming-oriented Windows laptops and workstations in the coming months.

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The PhiSat-1 is the name of history’s first space satellite designed to be fully controlled by artificial intelligence. This scientific and technological breakthrough was just presented with a short demonstration held at the Turin, Italy offices of space pioneers Tyvak International last month.

The demonstration saw a smallish satellite the size of a ceral box, as per Intel’s vivid descriptions, launched from a rocket dispenser as part of a larger ejection wave that included 45 other such contraptions.The experiment was a success, with the PhiSat-1 now traveling at a speed of over 27,500 km/h (17,000 mph) some 530 km (330 m) over Earth.

Intel used the opportunity to demonstrate how its CPU tech is already advanced enough to be entrusted with tasks as critical as spaceflight. Which is a far cry from the days in which we have sent a man to the moon on a rocket whose computer was less capable than your average calculator – from the ’90s.

There is still no word on whether Intel will be expanding into spaceflight in the immediate future however. As for the tech in question, the CPU powering the PhiSat-1 is called the Intel Movidius Myriad 2 Vision Processing Unit and is typically used in smart cameras and drones instead of spacecraft.

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The concept of machine smell, much like machine vision, is not exactly new but that does not make it highly explored, by any means. Santa Clara, California-based Intel is hoping to begin changing that with the introduction of its latest technological advancement, however.

We are looking at the Loihi, a new kind of a neuromorphic chip that can power what is very close to our, human understanding of smell and aroma. The solution was detailed in the latest issue of a scientific journal called Nature Machine Intelligence, published earlier today. In the attached paper, Intel scientists reveal how they have partnered with their colleagues from the Cornell University, New York, in order to contribute to the stagnating field of machine smell.

The result of this effort is a chip that ended up being at the center of the Pohoiki Beach, which is how Intel calls its latest neuromorphic system for scientific research. The said platform actually utilizes not one but 64 Loihi chips. Naturally, do not expect consumer-level applications of this technology to emerge in the foreseable future, unless you can think of any that make sense.

Even so, it is going to be a while until the economies of scale make mass-production of these things somewhat viable, assuming that ever happens.

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