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Intel can’t afford to fail

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Intel has chosen CES 2026 to announce the launch of Panther Lakeand it is not a minor detail. It’s not just about teaching new generation of laptop processorsbut to publicly expose the first platform that tests its most ambitious industrial promise. According to Intelthis inaugurates the arrival of the Intel 18A node to the market and converts a process that had been, above all, a declaration of intent for years into a commercial product. In this context, what Intel is at stake is to demonstrate that it can deliver on its promises when there is no longer any room for delays or explanations. Panther Lake is the code name, but Core Ultra Series 3 is the way the firm led by Lip-Bu Tan He wants the market to understand this generation. With this commercial framing, the company seeks to differentiate it from previous stages and make it clear that this is not a minor iteration. We are looking at a complete platform for laptops, with a common architecture on which different product levels are built, from performance-oriented models to those that prioritize efficiency and price. Intel’s most demanding exam in years As we say, the true anchoring point of Core Ultra Series 3 is Intel 18A, the manufacturing process on which the entire proposal is built. It is about the most advanced node ever developed and manufactured in the United States, and the first to hit the market integrated into a complete family of laptops. This detail shifts the focus from the chip design to the industrial capacity behind it and places 18A as more than just a technical leap. For consumers, the company talks about up to 60% more multi-core performance compared to the previous generation, according to internal tests in Cinebench 2024 at 25 W, improvements of up to 77% in gaming performance in an internal battery of 45 titles at 1080p High, and a NPU capable of reaching up to 50 TOPS for AI loads. To all this, it adds autonomy estimates of up to 27.1 hours streaming Netflix, always under specific conditions and configurations, figures that outline the objective that Intel puts on the table for this generation of laptops. To understand what Core Ultra Series 3 really proposes on the market, you have to look less at the range number and more at the internal segmentation of the catalog. Intel introduces here a clear distinction between the X models and those that are not, with the X9 and X7 being the ones that concentrate the most ambitious configurationsespecially on integrated Intel Arc graphics. Added to this is the H suffix, which is the most reliable indicator of real power, since it identifies chips with more cores, greater bandwidth and higher power limits. This launch is also understood from a very specific competitive key. The product is part of Intel’s attempt to regain ground against AMD in the laptop market, a segment where pressure on efficiency and sustained performance has intensified in recent years. In that context, Panther Lake competes not only for performance, but also for perception, reinforcing the idea that Intel is a solid and reliable option for manufacturers and users. Beyond the numbers and the official discourse, Panther Lake will have to demonstrate its value in very practical aspects. We will have to see how he performs on a day-to-day basis.if the promises of efficiency translate into a consistent experience and if the autonomy holds up in real uses, not just in controlled tests. When do the new Intel Core Ultra series 3 processors arrive? With Panther Lake, Intel is no longer playing in the field of open promises, but in that of specific schedules. Pre-sales of the first laptops with Core Ultra Series 3 begin immediately and their global arrival on the market from January 27. Images | Intel In Xataka | The new Qualcomm chip for PC is a declaration of intent: more intelligence than power

An outage in AWS is causing a multitude of services to fail. It is the condemnation of the cloud

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If at this time you have noticed that “the internet is not working well”, you are not alone. The problem seems to be caused by the problems that one of Amazon’s large data centers is suffering. Its cloud infrastructure, AWS (Amazon Web Services), is what allows a multitude of platforms to function on the Internet, but if that infrastructure goes down, so do these services. Amazon reports the fall. The website itself that monitors the status of AWS services precisely indicates how there is a “multi-service operational problem in Northern Virginia.” There they point out that multiple services are “Disrupted” and note that they have seen an “Increase in error rates and latencies in several AWS services in the US-EAST-1 region.” Is your Alexa not working for you? Among the affected services is, for example, Amazon Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant. Some of the members of the Xataka team have noticed, for example, how their Echo was not working correctly, and this is one of the consequences of the fall. Duolingo, Canva, Perplexity… Among those affected are those platforms, but also many others such as Roblox, the aforementioned Amazon Alexa, Amazon’s own e-commerce sites, Fortnite, The New York Times, Apple TV, McDonalds or Life360 are suffering falls. according to DownDetector. Some of those platforms, like Canva, 3 that are explicitly suffering from problems. They are working on it. The fall was detected at 9:11 in the morning, Madrid time, and 40 minutes later this increase in errors was confirmed. Amazon indicates that they are working to mitigate the problem and understand the causes, and will provide a new update around 10:30. In development…

TSMC wants to build a chip factory in United Arab Emirates. Or convinces the US or your plan will fail

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TSMC is evaluating the possibility of building an integrated avant -garde circuit manufacturing plant in United Arab Emirates. This Taiwanese company, The biggest chips manufacturer on the planethe has embarked on An ambitious expansion plan of its manufacturing infrastructure Beyond Taiwan’s borders to protect yourself from a possible armed conflict between China and its place of origin. It is currently building new semiconductor production plants in USA, Germany, Japan and Taiwanand this possible factory of Arab Emirates would contribute to cement its avant -garde plants network beyond the borders of the island from which it proceeds. However, the conversations that TSMC and the Emirati government are presumably holding They started many months agoin September 2024. TSMC and Arab Emirates win. It is not clear that the US also does At the end of September The Wall Street Journal and Reuterstwo media that have a proven credibility, revealed that several executives of TSMC and Samsung had moved to Arab Emirates to negotiate the possibility of building several manufacturing plants of integrated avant -garde circuits in this country of the Middle East. According to these two sources, the Emirati government is willing to take over the financing of these plants. And it is because Like Saudi ArabiaArab Emirates needs to diversify its economy in forecasting The very likely loss of relevance in the medium term of oil. And technology at the current situation It’s a safe bet. In addition, the growth potential of the semiconductor industry is overwhelming. We just need to look at the hardware market for artificial intelligence (AI) to observe it. In 2031 the Chips Market for IA will invoice more than 263,000 million dollars According to The AMR consultant (Allied Market Research) In 2031 the chips market for AI applications will have a turnover volume of More than 263,000 million dollars. It is a real barbarity, especially if we are in mind that in 2021 its business amounted to just over 11,000 million dollars. It is evident that at the current TSMC situation and Arab Emirates win. However, this project will not come to fruition if this Taiwanese company does not obtain the US approval. A good part of Photolithography teams and wafering processing that TSMC uses in its factories uses American origin technologies. And some of its production processes also They turn to patents held by the US. This agency is what gives the power to the government led by Donald Trump to support or prohibit the construction of one or several manufacturing plants of avant -garde chips not only in Arab Emirates, but also in any other country. Currently the relationship sustained by US administrations and Emirates is good, but this last nation also has a narrow link with China and Iran. If in the future the geopolitical situation causes Arab Emirates if it will move away from the US and approach these last two countries, the presence of one or more factories of avant -garde semiconductors that would not be under the control of the United States would represent a security problem for this last nation. The US government has allowed Nvidia to sell its GPU to its Emirati customers, and also that OpenAi is installed in this eastern country, but right now it seems unlikely that this TSMC project supports. Image | TSMC More information | Bloomberg In Xataka | Saudi Arabia is on the blacklist in the United States with China. You have a plan to get out of it and buy NVIDIA GPU

The European Chips Law will fail. The European Court of Accounts believes that it is very unlikely to succeed

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On February 8, 2022 Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, announced that the old continent wants to be a fundamental actor in The semiconductor industryand the first step to achieve it requires manufacturing 20% of the planet chips in 2030. The CHIPS ACT Directive mobilizes up to 43,000 million euros between public and private investment to make it possible, and the still little tangible Integrated circuit plants that Intel and TSMC have programmed on German soil are two key pieces on this itinerary. Despite its similarities, the US plan paints better than that of Europe. The country led by Donald Trump has an integrated circuit manufacturing infrastructure more solid than that of the old continent. In addition, Intel, TSMCSamsung, Texas Instruments and Globalfoundries are some of the companies that are already putting new avant -garde plants on American soil. And the US government seems to be determined to invest all the money that is needed to achieve the leadership position to which it aspires. The Court of Accounts report gives Europe a reality bathroom Europe needs to be ambitious if it wants to increase its relevance in the semiconductor industry. Have Asml and Intel facilities, Globalfoundries, and presumably in the future also of TSMC, within its borders he plays in his favor. However, the speech of European leaders, among which are Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, and Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner of Internal Market and Services, seems to be focused on the quantity, and is not enough. The quality understood as the capacity of a chip to deliver added value is also fundamental. The automotive and appliance industry are two of those that are essentially nourished by relatively simple integrated circuits, and it is important that Europe produces them. However, it is also essential that In European soil, avant -garde chips are manufactured such as those that require, for example, data centers and research centers artificial intelligence (AI). Otherwise Europe will continue to depend on the plants located abroad to be competitive in this strategic ecosystem. “We are currently far from the pace necessary to meet our ambitions. The 20% objective was basically an aspiration” As we have anticipated in the holder of this article, the European Court of Accounts, which is nothing other than “the financial guardian” of the European Union, has published A very thorough report in which he argues that the objective of achieving a 20% share in the world market of integrated circuits in 2030 seems unattainable. And this means that “it is very unlikely that the European Union achieves its objective.” At the current situation, as we have verified in the first paragraphs of this article, this conclusion is perfectly credible. The Court of Auditors points out some interesting ideas in which we are being briefly stopped. Annemie Turtelboom, the head of this audit, He maintains that “The European Union needs a dose of reality in its strategy for the microchips sector (…) This is a field that changes rapidly, is characterized by its intense geopolitical competence, and currently We are far from the necessary rhythm To fulfill our ambitions. The 20% objective was basically an aspiration. To achieve this, our production capacity would have to be four times higher in 2030 and we are far from achieving those figures at the current speed. “ However, the production capacity they currently have and will have chips manufacturers established in Europe in Europe is not the only problem. The Court of Accounts points something that is important that we do not overlook: access to raw materials that are necessary to produce semiconductors, such as Rare earths; The cost of energy and geopolitical tensions further hinder the European Union plan. And, of course, the Chinese chips industry, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and the US will not stop their growth, so these countries will not easily give market share. We will see what happens during the next five years, but objectively the panorama does not paint well for Europe. Image | TSMC More information | European Court of Accounts In Xataka | We already know what the chips that will arrive until 2039 will be. The machine that will manufacture them is close

It is such an ambitious project that it cannot be allowed to fail

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The Russo brothers have had a frankly irregular trajectory after the explosion that put them in all the mouths of Hollywood: the last two films of the Avengers, ‘Infinity War‘ and ‘Endey me‘Since then, projects as expensive and very limited, such as’ have stood up, such as’Citadel‘For Prime Video. The credit begins to end, and Before returning to Marvel Redile With the new Avengers films, they have stood up a blockbuster in Netflix, ‘Electric State’, which is not characterized by its modesty. Let’s analyze why it is a company where both they and the platform play a lot. An ambitious project. The Russo brothers bought the rights of Simon Stålenhag’s illustrations book on which the film is based before it was put on sale. It was the time they walked to the neck with the last films of the Avengers, and Universal was interested in the project. Then he went to Netflix, who made him his new blockbuster after that ‘Red alert‘That he beat records but of which no one is remembered. This presumes 320 million budget and a distribution of stars headed by Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, and in which there are also first row names such as Stanley Tucci, Ke Huy Quan, Giancarlo Esposito, Holly Hunter, Jason Alexander and the voices of Woody Harrelson, Anthony Mackie and Brian Cox. A very unique science fiction. Stålenhag is a very peculiar illustrator: his style is pure science fiction, with semi -apocalyptic places, with a retro point and populated by robots and large machines. It also seems to share a certain innocent and childish point of view, as amazed by those mechanical mills that are not fully understood. Tremendously atmospheric and melancholic, his work has been adapted in the Prime Video series’Loop stories‘, with different independent stories around a machine built to explore the secrets of the universe. The series, as contemplative as the original work, was something unnoticed, which doubles strangely Netflix’s intention to turn it into a Blockbuster. Many millions. Let’s stop for a moment in your budget: 320 million is more than 50% of what have cost films like most Marvel and only a little less than those of the Avengers of the Russo cost. It is already the most expensive film in history that is not a sequel, and has been about to enter the top 10 of more expensive movies in history. If it looks or will not be a matter of opinions, but knowing the history of Netflix blockbusters, films that are not intended to be exhibited on a large screen or formats such as IMAX, it is still a strikingly high figure. The descending trajectory of the Russo … This ‘electrical state’ is the last layer of a race, that of the Russo-Post Marvel, which has already been characterized not by not getting emulates his Marvel films, but for billing a few failures Barra disappointments. For example, the expensive ‘The invisible agent‘He had a good audience (although not spectacular) and generated a sequel, but did not impress criticism too much. ‘Citadel’ for Amazon was one of the most expensive series in history, but received disastrous criticism and some studies say it was A failure in terms of view. As producers they have given birth to popular series such as ‘from’ or films like ‘Tyler Rake’, but it has been a career full of ups and downs and without clear successes. … and Netflix blockbusters. Netflix has not finished finding that movie to put it at the level of the Majors From Hollywood, an aspiration he had for a time when he insisted on premiere in cinemas films such as ‘The Irish’. It has long abandoned the purpose, but has changed it for the premiere of exclusive, equally very expensive films, but that it can be said that they meet artistic or commercial expectations: they are titles such as ‘Atlas’, ‘Bright’, ‘6 Underground’, ‘Superdetective in Hollywood: Axel F.’ or the aforementioned ‘red alert’ and ‘the invisible agent’. Apple’s reflection. Netflix also has a fearsome mirror to look at: Apple’s intentions of becoming a Major And that they have paid with a series of millionaire losses (‘Napoleon‘,’The Moon Killer‘,’Argylle‘) and that have ended the company leaving alone for the streaming Another very expensive bet (‘Wolfs‘) and announcing that cuts are coming in their productions. ‘Electric state’ does not have to be a failure, but if it were, the paradigmatic beards of the neighbor will be short for the measures that the platform will have to take with theirs. Header | Netflix In Xataka | The streaming economy is completely broken and things will only get worse within the coming years

What is cloudflare, how it works and why a fall or block makes half the Internet fail

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Let’s explain What is cloudflare and how it works This shield and accelerator for web pages. It is one of those almost essential services for the correct functioning of the Internet, but that we are not aware until it fails or blocks and you can enter hundreds of websites. We will begin this article explaining in a simple way what is cloudflare, summarizing the operation of the Internet and the role that CDNs have like this service in it. Then, we will tell you why a fall or lock of the service makes half the Internet seem to fall. What is cloudflare and how it works Cloudflare is a CDN, a Content Delivery Network either Content distribution networkthat in Spanish is Content distribution network. It’s about a network of servers distributed throughout the world destined to help better distribute Internet content and make you can quickly and safely access the content of a website. To understand its operation you must first understand how the Internet works. A web page is housed on a server, and simplifying it a lot, when you enter it you connect your computer to that server, to access the contents of a website. The same happens when you want to enter any online service or web application, you have to connect to your server. The problem is that perhaps the server of my application is in a country far from the computer from which someone wants to connect. So, that distance makes the connection speed very slow, or that even from some countries cannot be entered. The same happens if the web or the service you are going to access had a single server. Then, having thousands of users entering that single server would make everything slower because I would have to work more and for more people. It is here where the CDNs and their networks of servers come into play. When a website, an online service or application resorts to them, is as if they had copies of the content and cache distributed all over the world to be able to connect in a faster and more efficient way. There will always be a server close to you, and traffic can be distributed by the hundreds of servers. Thus, if I connect from Spain to an American service, I will not join a giant user queue wanting to enter a single server that is also far away, something that would make the connection slow. Simply, I will connect to the nearest server of the CDN network that is using that service. Everything will go faster, and the traffic that accesses the service will be more distributed. Cloudflare is one of the most used CDNs of the world. There are many web pages that resort to this company, because in addition to a very wide network of servers, it also offers protection against various types of online attacks that could collapse access to the contents. This way, Cloudflare is an intermediary between a customer or user and the content of the website or the online service they want to access. It is a network that houses copies of a service so that you always have geographically close, technologically safe access, and less traffic collapsed. Why if Cloudflare Failure Middle Internet does it When you stop accessing this network of servers, you can access its content. This means that if your Internet operator blocks you access to Cloudflare or if this service has a failure, stop being able to enter most web pages. There will be no network that distributes traffic and access to these websites, and simply connect to one would be too slow or you would be too far. For practical purposes and simplifying it a lot, Not being able to access Cloudflare means not being able to access many servicesand that those who use it and are not fallen simply go extremely slow. This is so for The dependence of Cloudflare. Being one of the most popular CDNs in the world, many important and top -level services access it. And these services that use it, depend on their servers network to work properly. In this PDF You can see the services and websites used Cloudflare, such as X, Bluesky, Microsoft, Mozilla, Snapchat, Temu, Efe, Github, Wikimedia, Facua, CaixaBank and many more. All these services will stop working or work extremely slow if the Cloudflare network stops working. When a website or online service fails, it is sure that there is a problem with the infrastructure of the server network that provides you with access to it. So Errors like the 502 Bad Gateway indicating this problem. If the one who cannot access a website, app or service is due to this, all you can do is cloudflare or the CDN to use the error. When an operator blocks access to cloudflare Or some other concrete CDN, the problem is that your IP cannot access this network of servers, although it works correctly. In these cases solving it is easyand you just have to use one VPN to access from a different IP that does not have access. In Xataka Basics | CG-NAT: What is it, what problems can cause and how to know if you have it in your Internet connection

I have detected the exact moment in which things in Marvel began to fail and that has culminated in ‘Captain America’

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Until the weekend, when the public’s opinion begins to fly over the Internet (which in the end is the one who pays and the one that interests Disney, since the consensus of criticism and public they generated ‘Infinity War‘ and ‘Endey me‘It is unlikely to be repeated again), we will not know if’Captain America: Brave New World‘It is a failure or a triumph. What we can analyze is at what point in the history of MCU Things began to twist. The majority opinion. We can all be more or less agree that there is an MCU stage with a more or less positive balance (which goes from acceptable to the glorious, according to the fan’s enthusiasm) that begins in ‘Iron Man’ and extends until ‘ Endgame ‘. And from there, things began to twist, with stages 4 and 5 mainly disastrous that led to the first Marvel box office failures, to a possible “Superheroic fatigue“And at the time of current uncertainty. But there are nuances. Matiz one: Not the whole field is oregano. 23 films, which is said soon, make up the MCU from ‘Iron Man’ to ‘Endgame’ (well, to ‘Spider-Man: Far from home‘). It is statistically impossible for all to be round, and we cannot even agree on our appreciations. For example, for the signer ‘Iron Man 3’ it is one of the peaks of the MCU, many would say the opposite, and I think it was a mistake that Marvel did not continue to cultivate that way. And there are a multitude of bland films, which are celebrated just because they are in the context of very grossing productions and well considered: ‘Iron Man 2’, ‘Thor: The dark world’ or ‘Avengers: the era of ultron’ are some of them . Matiz two: Not everything is horrible from phase 4. And on the contrary, there are innumerable films (and series) to celebrate from ‘Endgame’: ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of madness‘It is hilarious, and the generally hated’Quantumanía‘ either ‘The Marvels‘They are failed films but with a very claimable personality. And of course, there are multiple remarkable moments in ‘Wandavision‘,’Knight Luna‘ either ‘Agatha, who if not?‘ The authentic problem. The drama of phases 4 and 5 is that they do not have that very pleasant style of the first three stages of going in one direction and with a purpose. Perhaps it became like this, perhaps not, but the feeling that ‘Endgame’ is designed from the first appearance of the Avengers is there, and that does not exist in phases 4 and 5. Of course, there are threads that connect everything, like The theme of the multiversos, but there are many films (‘Shang-Chi‘,’Thor: Love and Thunder‘,’Wakanda Forever‘), which seem to air shots, as looking for new charismatic heroes that replace the Avengers. And as in ‘Brave New World’, the feeling that is a useless effort floats. The movie hinge. And Marvel’s first failure, ‘Eternals‘It is the key point. Marvel had loose films previously, and possibly any did not give up at the box office as they expected, but ‘Eternals’ is the first one that forced them to go back. They wanted the group to become a new avengers, but a team capable of supporting the weight of several films: they raised sub -brains that would last in other films, and new characters seen fleetingly, such as Starfox, of which we did not return namely. Marvel reculled in his plan, and the worst thing is that he saw that he could reculate and the public accepted it, which multiplied the test movies, the ideas that were isolated in a film and the failed experiments. A world that played the mirage of being compact and coherent became one where neglect and carelessness predominates. Header | Disney In Xataka | The first trailer of ‘The fantastic 4: first steps’ reveals the key ingredient for Marvel’s future: its villain

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