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1. Intel, Numonyx trumpet phase change memory breakthrough

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Intel and Numonyx say they've achieved a breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a non-volatile memory technology bringing together the benefits of a range of different memory types. ...

2. The best IT vendor CEO of the decade is...

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   ... be easily overlooked include Intel's Craig Barrett and Paul Otellini, whose tenure at the top of the microprocessor giant overlapped during the decade. Even their combined genius was not enough to lead ...

3. High tech won't save the economy this time

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   ... Stagnation and recession were global conditions. But in Silicon Valley unemployment was only 7.5 percent. At the time mid-size companies there like Intel, AMD, Apple, and countless others who have since ...

4. Nvidia teams up with Microsoft for HPC

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... applications that can be optimized for the GPU. The two companies say they are looking at applications such as data mining, machine learning and business intelligence, as well as scientific applications ...

5. SuperSpeed controller to boost adoption of USB 3.0

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... Intel Developer Forum. Demonstrations will include an Asus X58 motherboard exchanging data with a LucidPort USB mass storage device, the latter running the USB Attached SCSI Protocol (UASP). There will ...

6. Point Grey debuts USB 3.0 digital video camera

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Point Grey has announced plans to showcase the "world's first" SuperSpeed USB-enabled digital video camera at the 2009 Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco. Point Grey has announced plans to ...

7. Intel sampling Jasper Forest chips with built-in I/O hub

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Chip giant Intel has started sampling the latest iteration of its Nehalem processors, codenamed Jasper Forest. Chip giant Intel has started sampling the latest iteration of its Nehalem processors, codenamed ...

8. Expect some Superspeed USB products this year

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... by the USB Promoter Group, which consists of Intel, HP, Microsoft, NEC, ST Ericsson and Texas Instruments. USB 3.0 is expected to deliver 10 times the data transfer rate of Hi Speed USB and bring better ...

9. AMD launches 40W six-core Opteron processor

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... manufactured by the competition [Intel Xeon], our six-core EE Opteron retains certain, much-loved features that are consistent with AMD's HE iteration. For example, we have not reduced the memory speed, ...

10. Google's Schmidt quits Apple board

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... and Google have mutually decided to call it a day. Intel's CEO, Paul Otellini, is a member of Google's board, but so far there doesn't seem to be any conflict over his position there. Indeed, Intel recently ...

11. WD offers two terabytes for $299

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... features a number of technologies beginning with the word 'Intel', which begs the question of whether WD is in receipt of any legal documents from attorneys based in the Santa Clara area. IntelliSeek, ...

12. Civil liberties group files landmark gene patenting case

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... the Harry T Ice Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, who specializes in intellectual property law and biotechnology, said the patents held by Myriad are vulnerable, but that this ...

13. Nvidia claims Tesla will open up China

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... consumption for running and cooling servers in data centers is a major portion of operational expenses. But its GPU based cluster give much higher performance than CPU only clusters. We guess Intel would ...

14. Intel responds officially to Nehalem power concerns

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Earlier today, TG Daily ran an article entitled Intel attacked over Xeon 5500's power-efficiency. Shortly thereafter, Intel contacted TG Daily's owner, Wolfgang Gruener, to address some concerns over ...

15. Study finds brain speed linked to intelligence

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... set of intelligence exams. After that they began examining their brains and comparing genetic markers. The study revealed a very clear link between intelligence and brain speed. Said Dr. Thompson, "These ...

16. Is innovation enough for Cisco’s new servers to succeed?

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    ... the blade server is certain to make datacenter managers rethink their hardware strategy. Based on Intel Nehalem Xeon processors, the devices will consolidate access to storage area networks, local area ...

17. Director of Federal Cybersecurity resigns over NSA dominance

    (Security/Security Features)

    The Director of Federal Cyber Security has resigned after being on the job for a period of less than a year. His position was created in an effort to protect military, civilian, and intelligence networks. ...

18. UPDATED: AMD never did hold the highest 3DMark record

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

      Opinion - An Intel employee and well-known overclocker contacted TG Daily to point out that AMD actually never did hold the 3DMark record. FutureMark's website shows the 45474 3DMark AMD machine result ...

19. Obama Truth Tracker website includes technology promises

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... science research over 10 years." Page 20, No. 395, "Strengthen antitrust enforcement." Page 20, No. 396, "Protect American intellectual property abroad." Page 20, No. 397, "Update copyright and patent ...

20. Virtual worlds more effective than web conferencing, soon more so than real life?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... to expand, introduce characters and produce virtual presentations are also easily applied logical extensions of the base technology. Companies like Intel and Microsoft have also embraced the idea of online ...

21. Up next for Apple: An ultrathin, ultralight $600 multitouch Mac netbook?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

      Also known as “sub-notebooks” or “mini-laptops”, the Intel-coined term "netbook" is now predominantly used to refer to low-power, low-priced, lightweight laptops that seem to be all the rage this ...

22. Australia: Concerns over energy may slow Internet growth

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... on Ultra-Broadband Information Networks, ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks & Information Processing, The Australian Computer Society, Melbourne Engineering Research Institute, ...

23. Michael Dell to present keynote at Supercomputing Conference 2008 today

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... Intel to develop a custom engineered co-processor which runs alongside an Intel Xeon, executing the same instruction stream in the same physical and virtual memory space - just like the way the old 8087/80287/80387 ...

24. IBM sues former executive for his move to Apple

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Unit which was responsible for selling computers for corporate data centers. The company stated that Papermaster was one of its top 300 managers, who had access to many of the company’s intellectual property ...

25. 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 ...

26. Intel launches McCreary vPro platform

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Intel today launched a new version of its business/enterprise desktop platform called vPro. Previously code-named “McCreary” the platform consists of Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo processors, the Q45 chipset ...

27. Why the SSD will kill the HDD

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... the mainstream. Depending on the company you talk to, you may get a different answer what mainstream may mean for the SSD and when the mainstream PC market will be affected by the SSD. Intel, for example, ...

28. Dell’s cloud computing trademark application criticized

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... David Frink, a Dell spokesman, told Computerworld that Dells motivation to register “cloud computing” as a trademark is based on the “intent to protect [Dell’s] intellectual property in [Dell’s] growing ...

29. IBM gets cloud computer fever

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      IBM, on the heels of an announcement earlier this week by HP, Intel and Yahoo to build a huge cloud computing playground for researchers, reached deeper into its pockets to invest in new cloud ...

30. HP, Intel and Yahoo build a cloud computing playground

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... most cloud services available could be considered transitional services at best. HP, Intel and Yahoo are now taking a lead role in this trend and are building a huge cloud computing playground for researchers ...

31. NSA spills its guts on TEMPEST attacks

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... were able to decrypt a stunning 75% of secret transmissions from 80 feet away. The demonstration caused the US intelligence community to mandate a 100-foot diameter of control around crypto centers, but ...

32. Technology bias: Can you avoid it?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... everywhere, and the flame wars quickly follow.  Whether it is Intel vs. AMD, HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray, Nvidia vs. ATI, Ford vs. Chevy, or even Evolution vs. Intelligent Design, there are far more opinions ...

33. From the PMC to the iPhone and beyond: The evolution of the MID and Linux’ big break

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

      Analyst Opinion - Last week, I was in China and witnessed the launch of the first generation Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform products based on Intel’s new Atom processor. This got me thinking ...

34. IBM watercools successor of record-breaking Power6 supercomputer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... are coming to life in these professional grade products. Now, if we only could get Intel and AMD to make overclocking CPUs packaged for Direct-2-Die cooling? Imagine an 8-core Skulltrail system without ...

35. An inside view: The $20 million Intel/Microsoft multicore programming initiative

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... become increasingly inefficient as the number of cores in CPUs grows. Intel and Microsoft try to solve this problem with what undoubtedly is one most fundamental and fascinating research projects in ...

36. Better late than never: Intel and Microsoft tackle multi-core software problem

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      Intel and Microsoft today launched a $20 million initiative to fund Parallel Computing Research Centers at two key U.S. universities, which the companies hope will come up with tools that will ...

37. Virtual character with child-like reasoning abilities enters Second Life

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... memories; believe things, want things, remember things.” Bringsjord’s group believes such characters can only be created with logic-based artificial intelligence and computational cognitive modeling techniques ...

38. Nvidia enters CPU market

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... at least on the very high end. Handheld device manufacturer now have another platform choice for 2009 next to Texas Instruments (OMAP3) and Intel (Moorestown). We are still waiting to see what Qualcomm ...

39. UPDATE: Who wants to buy AMD?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... technology to the world in a major way.  The new Samsung Athlon, Opteron and Phenom lines could, for the first time, truly compete both in volume and price with Intel.  Also, by taking some of ...

40. A greener gauge: data center efficiency metrics proposed

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... APC, HP, Sun, IBM, Intel, Spraycool, VMware and more.  Their first paper was published in February, 2007, entitled "Green Grid Metrics: Describing Data Center Power Efficiency".  Their ...

41. UPDATE #3: Ubuntu founder: Ubuntu replacing Windows

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... better.  He's relying upon AMD or Intel to make the kernel more efficient with multi-core processing.  The central focus for the Ubuntu team has been to address all of the would-be-switcher's ...

42. UPDATE #2: Scientist to create new lifeform from artificial DNA

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... alone take that knowledge to the masses with a generic cure.  And now we believe we're intelligent enough to create life?  Even life on such a small scale as a simple bacteria? ...

43. Wireless USB 1.1 to support 6+ GHz frequencies

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... base of seven which essentially lead and direct the group:  HP, Intel Corporation, LSI Logic, Microsoft Corporation, NEC Corporation, NXP Semiconductors, and Samsung Electronics.  The conference ...

44. Skulltrail shows off some 45nm Penryn prowess

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    At Fall IDF 2007, Intel extended TG Daily an invitation to preview some upcoming 45nm Penryn computing. From notebooks to exteme macines, 45nm was on display. San Francisco (CA) - At each IDF there some ...

45. TG Daily Coverage: AMD's Barcelona launch event

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... has enjoyed with AMD.  He also indicated that the reason they've had a five year relationship now was because they went to Intel first.  And after much discussion, Intel's answer apparently ...

46. A comparison of next-gen display interfaces

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... redefined to move data in this way, but are not currently. Supporters Intel, Compaq, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, IBM, NEC and Silicon Image Hitachi, Matsushita, Philips, Silicon Image, Sony, Thompson, Toshiba ...

47. Bill Gates sees processor clock speeds to top out at 10 GHz

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... 10 GHz, “but not much further” (…) “even 5 to 6 years out.” Interestingly, Gates mentioned only Intel by name as a partner in the approach to deliver fine-tuned, parallel ...

48. SDSC to make on-demand supercomputing available

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... forecasting damage from biological or radiological events is also of extreme importance. The OnDemand engine at SDSC is comprised of 256 2.33 GHz processors (64 Intel-based dual-socket, dual-core nodes). ...

49. NCSA: A look inside one of the world's most capable supercomputer facilities

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... comprised of 1200 Dell PowerEdge 1955s blades. Each blade sports two 2.33 GHz Quad-Core Xeons (Clovertown core) on a 1333 GHz FSB operating in Intel64 mode (true 64-bit computing). That's 2400 physical ...

50. Scientists double the capacity of rechargeable lithium batteries

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    New research results presented today could bring companies such as Intel much closer to that goal of offering notebooks that achieve a battery running time of 8 hours and more. Chicago (IL) – New ...