Intel has announced that it has secured the services of Rohit Verma, formerly Lead SoC Architect for Discrete GPUs at AMD. Verma is set to become the Lead Product Architect at Intel's Accelerated Computing Group. This is a high profile acquisition for Intel as Verma was a Senior Fellow at AMD.To get more intel latest news, you can visit shine news official website.

The news (via Tom's Hardware) comes as Intel is hard at work putting the finishing touches on its 1st generation Arc Alchemist range of graphics cards. Verma won’t have any significant input just yet, but with second, third and fourth generation Arc cards being planned, there’s a need for big brains in order to challenge the dominance of Nvidia and AMD in the GPU and high performance computing markets.
This isn’t Verma’s first stint at Intel, having previously worked as the Lead SoC Architect from 1999 – 2013. This happens to coincide with much of CEO Pat Gelsinger’s time at Intel and they are surely well known to each other. It’s likely that Gelsinger himself was involved in reacquiring Verma’s services. No doubt with an open cheque book too!

The news is just the latest in a string of aggressive Intel moves. It’s not just staff acquisitions, but company acquisitions, huge capital investment and a willingness to move outside of Intel’s traditional markets.

There’s the just announced buyout of Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 billion, investments in production capability, both in the USA and abroad, the plan to open its foundries to 3rd parties and even the possibility of licensing the x86 architecture. Intel really is on a roll and with Pat Gelsinger shaking things up, there’s sure to be further high profile staff acquisitions in the months to come.
At this year’s International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Intel shared tech details for its first-generation “Bonanza Mine'' (BMZ1) blockchain accelerator chip, which it recently started taking orders for.

The computing giant also unveiled a new 3,600-watt mining rig comprising 300 BMZ1 chips.The first thing to note about the BMZ1 chip is that it’s an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), meaning it’s designed to carry out specific tasks – in this case, mining Bitcoin – with a performance that’s purportedly a thousand times better at mining, per watt of energy, than a GPU.

In sum, the BMZ1 is expected to save a ton of energy. And stacking 300 of them into a 3,600-watt mining rig produces a machine with a system hash rate of 40 terahashes per second (TH/s).

That’s not quite as powerful as the 198 TH/s claimed by Bitmain’s 5,445-watt liquid-cooled miner, out this summer, but Intel also said that its miner’s underlying BMZ1 chips are the cleanest and most powerful on the market. Intel’s BMZ1 has already received several high-profile preorders, notably from Jack Dorsey’s payments company Block (formerly known as Square) and cloud mining pool Argo Blockchain.

But while everyone is still talking about BMZ1, there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that Intel is already blazing full steam ahead with a second-generation model. A recent S-4 filing from Ohio-based Bitcoin mining startup Griid, which plans to go public via a $3.3 billion SPAC merger, indicates the startup has already signed a deal with Intel that would include orders of the chip manufacturers BMZ2 chips this year.

Details on the BMZ2s are thin on the ground at present. But if they perform as well as they’ve been pitched, they could put a major dent in Bitcoin’s energy concerns.