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- Intel: Penryn at the ready?
- Some signs are pointing to an effort by Intel attempting to bring out its 45-nanometer Penryn processors during the fourth quarter. (And no, I'm not just messing around with the office's Magic 8 Ball.)Normally, when Intel is planning to introduce a processor early in the coming year, it Intel begins...
- Tags: Uncategorized, semiconductors, quad-core processors, multicore processors, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Desktops, Dell, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- AMD and Intel: It takes a platform
- There's a story behind the story of AMD's Puma notebook PC platform, unveiled today. It's about behind-the-scenes collaboration. After hearing about Puma's development first hand, I believe that on both engineering and marketing levels, AMD has begun reshaping its approach to the PC market by taking advantage of the ability...
- Tags: AMD, Intel, multicore processors, notebooks, Nvidia, Power conservation, semiconductors, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- What's the plan, Hector?
- Intel and AMD have unveiled their latest plans for the future. AMD’s aim is to return to profitability, the company’s top executives told its shareholders at a meeting held yesterday. The company is looking to its quad-core Barcelona Opteron chip, due this summer, to help it become more competitive...
- Tags: Uncategorized, semiconductors, notebooks, multicore processors, Intel, Desktops, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Big impact lessons in email protection
- As massive storage becomes common, its importance growsTwo recent stories highlight the importance of massive storage and the people who manage it.Intel vs AMDAMD is suing Intel for anti-trust violations, claiming that Intel illegally used its market power to choke off AMD sales. During discovery, the legal process that is...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Not your father's Intel Architecture
- Intel is using this weeks Intel Developer Forum in Beijing to show the new direction in which it is taking its processors. The chipmaker has begun to shift away from designing and manufacturing monolithic or single function chips. Instead, it has begun to create silicon that pairs its Intel Architecture...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Servers, semiconductors, Semiconductor architecture, Power conservation, multicore processors, Intel, Data centers, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Intel (and Microsoft) in your hip pocket
- Intel could have UMPC Ultramobile PC news up its sleeve, or possibly in its hip pocket for next week. A number of news sources are reporting that the chipmaker is preparing to announce its latest UMPC ultramobile PC platform at its spring Intel Developer Forum, which will takes place in...
- Tags: semiconductors, Uncategorized, UMPC, notebooks, Intel, consumer electronics
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Intel heads out on the highway
- How much horsepower does it take to propel embedded chips into the market? We’ll soon see. Intel has commissioned a custom motorcycle from Orange County Choppers of American Chopper reality TV fame to commemorate the 30th anniversary of its entry into the embedded market, according to Internetnews (Link: here). Embedded,...
- Tags: multicore processors, semiconductors, Uncategorized, Intel
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Intel's good enough graphics
- Intel has been working to convince computer buyers that the graphics capabilities present inside its latest PC chipset, the 965G, are good enough. That is good enough for all the tasks that most people would possibly throw at them, even including some level of gaming. The chipmaker has said much...
- Tags: Chipsets, Games, Semiconductors, graphics, game, chipset, Intel Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Intel doesn't see much need to cut prices
- Digitimes is reporting that Intel is preparing to drop the prices on its Pentium 4 and Pentium D processors by 5-10% in April. (Link here.) There’s no real surprise in this, given that Intel has begun phasing out these processors.What’s more interesting is the relative lack of information, recently, about...
- Tags: AMD, Desktops, Intel, multicore processors, notebooks, processor price cuts, semiconductors, Servers, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- Intel 45nm backed by fab four
- Intel has had an up and down week of sorts when it comes to processor fabrication plants. The company’s ill-fated Austin, Texas, fab was demolished on Sunday morning. But on Monday afternoon it announced plans to refit its Fab11X in Rio Rancho, N.M. Fab 11X will become Intel’s fourth 45-nanometer...
- Tags: Desktops, multicore processors, notebooks, semiconductors, Servers, Intel, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Intel's 80-core concept car
- If Intel were to do a concept car ala General Motors or Toyota, an 80-core chip is exactly what it would build.The chipmaker’s Intel Research group, at this week’s International Solid-State Circuits Conference, unveiled more of the details behind its 80-core Teraflops Research Chip. The chip, which was first disclosed...
- Tags: chip, Intel Corp., Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- AMD accelerates toward 45nm
- Advanced Micro Devices is stepping on the accelerator when it comes to the deployment of its 45nm chip manufacturing technology. Douglas Grose, the company’s new manufacturing chief has told reporters that AMD could begin its first 45nm processor shipments as soon as the second quarter of 2008.If all goes well—and...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., chip
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- What Intel's 45nm chips mean to you
- Intels forthcoming 45nm processor manufacturing process has metal inside. The chipmaker, for the first time, will substitute certain materials that it—along with the whole industry, in fact—has been using since the 1960s to make transistors. The work at this most basic level of semiconductor design and manufacturing is necessary to...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Intel Corp., transistor, Penryn Chip
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Sun servers to get Intel inside
- Sun Microsystems has once again joined forces with Intel. After a hiatus of a little over two years, the computer maker will begin offering Intel-based servers and workstations again, starting in the first half of this year, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz said during a press conference today. Sun has pledged...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Intel Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- Intel versus the European Union
- The European Union’s investigation into Intel’s business practices may be coming to a head, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. The Journal report (a link to which can be found here, although it requires a subscription to read) says that EU investigators have recommended that Neelie Kroes, EU antitrust commissioner,...
- Tags: Uncategorized, rebate, Intel Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
- Intel earnings: Margins are the key to watch
- Now that we’ve had a few hours to digest Intel’s fourth quarter 2006 earnings, here is what stands out. Overall, I’ll call it a major improvement for the chipmaker. A better end to a bad year. But there are still some trouble spots. Intel reported revenue of $9.7 billion, $1.5...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Intel Corp., income, Intel&rsquo, s
- Blog posts 2007-01-17
- Intel to recast flash?
- Intel’s reorganization hasn’t happened in a flash. The chipmaker, which announced last September that it would cut 10,500 jobs, in addition to paring down its non-essential businesses to cut costs and become more efficient, continues to work through the plan. Now the company is preparing to unveil a new plan...
- Tags: Memory, Semiconductors, Intel Corp., Intel&rsquo, s, NAND
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
- Intel is inside the Apple iPhone
- There’s still plenty of mystery surrounding Apple’s new iPhone. Apple, which unveiled the new phone/music player/ultramobile computer on Tuesday, has said the iPhone is based on an Intel processor, according to Reuters. Naturally, the next question that follows is: Which Intel processor?Thus far, I don’t think that either Apple...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Intel Corp., iPhone, Apple iPhone
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- For Intel 2007 is the year of the quad
- Intel’s mainstream quad-core chip, the 2.4GHz Core 2 Quad Q6600, arrived yesterday with slightly less fanfare than I had expected. I guessed last Friday that the chipmaker would offer the Q6600 chip along with one or two additional quad-core processors for use in mainstream desktops. Intel often delivers new chips...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Intel Corp., chip, quad-core
- Blog posts 2007-01-09
- Intel reorg hits home in Hudson
- Intel’s reorganization continues. The chipmaker, which said it would cut 10 percent of its workforce—about 10,500 jobs—by mid-2007 as part of an effort to save money and become more agile and efficient, has been reworking its operation in Hudson, Mass., according to a new report in today’s Worchester Telegram &...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Hudson, Intel Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-01-05
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