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1. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... it had made of customers at a local Best Buy store just a few days earlier. They were asked if they had heard of SysMark, BAPCO and the like and it’s obvious that although these were intelligent users ...

2. Intel, ASML bring cheer to the chip market

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Unexpectedly good results for Intel's third quarter combined with ASML turning in a profit for its third quarter is bound to bring some hope that the semiconductor industry is on the turn.Unexpectedly ...

3. EU publishes lurid details of Intel antitrust ruling

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   The European Commission has finally gotten around to publishing a non-confidential version of its Intel Decision, dating back to 13 May 2009 that found Intel broke EC Treaty antitrust rules by engaging ...

4. NSF asks for $555 million increase in U.S. scientific research budget

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   ... for military organizations. If we look at the technology knowledge transfer to other countries, the fact that companies such as Intel have been hiring more Phd’s in China than in the U.S. for years, there ...

5. Google goes HAL with CADIE in April Fool's prank

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   A brief press release posted at 11:59:59pm last night has ignited a slew of controversy. Google's announcement was of a new artificial intelligence named CADIE, which stands for Cognitive Autoheuristic ...

6. AMD demonstrates OpenCL-based Havok physics

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... this technology later this year. Interestingly, when AMD announced its collaboration with Havok (which is owned by Intel), it said that it would focus on physics processing via multi-core CPUs. But what ...

7. AMD to make x86 cross-license public, if Intel drops secrecy hold on anti-trust evidence

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Yesterday, Intel offered AMD the option of making the terms of the x86 cross-licensing deal public. AMD agreed, but with one caveat of their own: They want Intel to lift the secrecy demand on all antitrust ...

8. HP demonstrates unbreakable flexible active matrix displays

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... technology and manufacturing ecosystem to support this market." HP's Intellectual Property Licensing Group (HP-IPLG) holds the license to SAIL technology, which can also be applied to other industries ...

9. Timeline: How AMD changed over the past 39 years

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... chips. 1970: AMD introduces the Am2501 logic counter, its first proprietary device. 1972: AMD goes public. 1975: AMD enters the RAM chip business, reverse-engineers the Intel 8080 microprocessor and ...

10. Dissecting Microsoft’s Seinfeld ad

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... of them being funny, some very intelligent, some controversial, some boring and some may even be considered very disturbing. Join us for a journey on taking this commercial apart, piece by piece.  ...

11. Hynix demonstrates DDR3 R-DIMM using MetaRAM technology at IDF

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    At the ongoing Intel Developer Forum (IDF) (August 19-21) in San Francisco, Hynix Semiconductor announced that it is using MetaRAM's new DDR3 technology in its next generation R-DIMMs, including ...

12. Nvidia demonstrates interactive real-time ray-tracer

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... and real-time rendered voxels, Intel is busy working on its own ray-tracer, and now we are seeing much more obvious ray-tracing material from Nvidia as well. Anaheim (CA) – Ray-tracing is one of the ...

13. Eco Ego: Teaching environmental responsibility early

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    ...  The goal of the game is to reward players with intelligent, environmentally friendly choices such as turning off the lights in the household, using alternative transportation methods, eating a balanced ...

14. All-In-One PCs going mainstream: Will Apple or Microsoft get multi touch first?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... folks really didn’t want to buy an All-in-one PC (interestingly, more and more companies, including Intel, are referring to consumer desktop PCs as all-in-one PCs anyway), because it made no sense to them ...

15. Ubisoft deal for exclusive Tom Clancy rights sealed

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... operating income of a minimum of 5 million Euros per year," said Ubisoft in a statement earlier this month when it announced its intent to buy lifetime rights to Clancy's intellectual property. ...

16. Touch screen devices the trend in future tech

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... he realized.  Since then, several upcoming portable touch screen devices have been seen on product roadmaps, including a very similar looking product from Intel at IDF 2007 called Moorestown.   ...

17. IDF: Tera-Scale project and petascale challenges

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    Opinion - As you walk along the three levels of West Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco, you’ll eventually come across five areas Intel has provided at IDF 2007 which relate directly to the ...

18. Follow-up: Has Intel found the key to unlock supercomputing powers on the desktop?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    Opinion – Last week we published an article that described Intel’s idea how to make upcoming processor technologies much more accessible to developers. We received quite some feedback – ...

19. Apple demonstrates “near final” Vista beater

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... while maintaining support for 32-bit applications. According to the manufacturer, the operating system also provides easy multi-core optimization and scheduling to take advantage Intel’s dual-core ...

20. Analyst opinion: Dell’s and Gateway’s gaming strategies compared

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... about Intel’s mobile product launch) and continues to have what is arguably some of the best OEM monitors in the segment, their 24” being their flagship.  On top of that, they are now ...

21. AMD introduces 65 nm processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    AMD fired up the third stage of a series of announcements this morning and announced a first batch of 65 nm desktop dual-core processors. Almost one year behind Intel, the new X2 family CPUs launch as ...

22. AMD demonstrates first native quad-core CPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Intel was first out of the gate with a quad-core processor, AMD will offer the first native quad-core chip - four processors that are integrated in one piece of silicon. The company today offered a first ...

23. How the 'freeze-the-field' rule led to NASCAR's Mobile Technology Center

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... and they needed it yesterday. Its technology partner was AMD. Its national IT general manager, Steve Worling, was already a veteran server administrator, but his background was with Intel-based systems. ...

24. Microsoft to offer "bridge" to ODF in Office 2007

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... ODF "focuses on more limited requirements" and fills "key gaps such as spreadsheet formulas, macro support and support for accessibility options." Of course, the supporters of ODF, mainly Adobe, IBM, Intel ...

25. Intel Core 2 Extreme demonstrated with 3.5 GHz

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Intel today gave yet another glimpse of the capability of its soon-to-be-launched Core microarchitecture. While the processor will launch at 2.93 GHz, Intel shows the CPU already running at significantly ...

26. TG Daily Video: Intel demonstrates Core 2 Duo performance gains

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Of course the Electronic Entertainment Expo is about games, but several hardware companies also show up. Intel gave us a sneak peak at an upcoming entertainment PC and you can see in our video how their ...

27. Intel: 40% performance claim applies to Core 2 Duo, not yet to Extreme

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    While Intel expects a significant performance gain for its new Core 2 Extreme processor, over its predecessor Pentium Extreme, the company warned us late yesterday that the 40% numbers that had been quoted ...

28. Ubisoft announces new FPS: Haze

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... ground-breaking new intellectual property and to work with the best shooter developers on consoles," said John Parkes, director of marketing at Ubisoft EMEA. "With HAZE, Ubisoft demonstrates its profound ...

29. Dual-core not enough? What about 16 cores?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... each. The AMD version supports Opteron 200 processors up to 64 GB of system memory; the Intel version Pentium 4 or Pentium D chips and up to 32 GB. Given its performance capability the desktop cluster ...

30. Can Xbox 360 succeed as a mainstream consumer electronics gadget?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... be offset by some of the cost savings. They have to put that in there because the PS3 will have Blu-ray support, and they really want to be competitive." Along with Intel, Microsoft is a major supporter ...

31. Intel builds SRAM on 65 nm process

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Intel currently demonstrates its next-generation 65-nanometer semiconductor process and claims that it is first rolling out the industry's first high-volume 90nm production of SRAMs. Intel currently ...

32. Startup demonstrates 10G-Bit over copper

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

      An Intel-backed startup, SolarFlare Communications, said Monday that it has developed a working prototype of a chip that will permit 10G-bps communications over standard CAT5e copper wiring. An ...

33. TI announces first PCI Express architecture physical layer

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... discrete PCI Express physical layer (PHY) chip, enabling PCI Express instrumentation and test equipment applications. TI demonstrates the technology at the Spring 2004 Intel Developer Forum (IDF). The ...

34. Intel Demonstrates 65-nm Chip

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Reveling in the basic technological truth that smaller is better, Intel has demonstrated a 65-nanometer chip that would be one-half the size of chips currently in use and, when adopted by the mainstream, ...

35. Intel Demonstrates the Mobile P4, Pitches Wireless, Promises the Moon

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      It was only about a month ago that we saw the Mobile P3 at a demo in San Francisco and yesterday, at IDF, we saw Intel show off the new Mobile P4. Well, not all the news today is about Intel. ...

36. JNI Demonstrates Native 133 MHz PCI-X Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter at IDF

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... II (series 821) single processor Intel Celeron/Pentium III Coppermine motherboard based on Intel's 815E chipset. AMI says the single-processor Olympus II embedded motherboard can be used in a range of ...