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1. Global Foundries will bash up Intel's process lead

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Strides'r'us The chief technology officer of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has claimed that the spun-off division that makes its microprocessors will outpace Intel in the foreseeable future. Joe Macri ...

2. TSMC yield problem to affect Nvidia, ATI

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   The Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) said it had problems with making chips using its 40 nanometer process and yields are not up to scratch.The Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing ...

3. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

   ... stupid, we'll point it out. When it does something good, we might even praise them a bit. And so it is that, unlike most IT sites, we don't have a news agenda. We're not pro Intel or AMD, for Microsoft ...

4. 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 ...

5. AMD makes loss, but profits from it

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) reported its third quarter results. It made a profit. Although on paper it made a net loss of $128 million, things are on the up.Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) reported its ...

6. 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 ...

7. ARM, Globalfoundries sign strategic partnership

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... Intel will soon have reason to fear ARM  ...

8. AMD bullish about server market

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   Chip firm AMD is holding an alternative event just a block away from the Intel Developer Forum and wheeling in stray hacks off the street, briefing them about the stuff it makes.Chip firm AMD is holding ...

9. Intel shows off 22 nanometer, optimistic about future

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   A senior Intel executive opened up this year's Intel Developer Forum this morning. Usually it's Pat Gelsinger who opens the show. Intel has thoughtfully provided white boards for people to write messages ...

10. Elektrobit upgrades MID design with haptic technology

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Intel Developer Forum 2009 - Elektrobit has upgraded its MID reference design with support for 3D, plasma desktop and haptic technology. Intel Developer Forum 2009 - Elektrobit has upgraded its MID reference ...

11. Intel's talking about my g-g-g-generation

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    IDF FALL 2009 - UPDATED - There's a two day countdown to the Fall Intel Developer Forum (IDF) being held at the Moscone - pronounced Mosconay and not Mosc One - and already the busy bees at the Santa Clara ...

12. What's at the heart of HP’s Laptops and Lenovo’s Best Student Tablet

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... It is very thin and can be had with AMD or Intel processors, LED backlit screen, and discrete graphics.   Less than an inch thick and with a 4.2 pound carry weight this isn’t the thinnest or ...

13. AMD aims at simplicity for the tech generation

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... about what the speed of a CPU is, nor do they particularly need to know about the number of cores a processor has. What they do need to know is what a machine does. Intel, she thinks, still concentrates ...

14. Twitter makes you dumb, says psychologist

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Facebook users can boost their intelligence, while microbloggers are tweeting their brain cells away, says a Scottish scientist. Guildford, England - Facebook users can boost their intelligence, while ...

15. Semi market stutters all the way through this year

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... players like TSMC. Rank Company CEO 1 Intel Corporation Paul Otellini 2 Samsung Electronics Kim-Hee Lee 3 Toshiba Semiconductors Shozo Saito 4 Texas Instruments ...

16. Intel lets Facebook users put spare time to good use

    (Software/Software Features)

    As if Facebook users didn't already have far too much time on their hands, Intel has teamed up with GridRepublic to launch a Facebook application that allows the spare processing power in their PCs ...

17. EA preps Warhammer MMORPG for the Mac

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... Engine developed by TransGaming. The engine reportedly acts as "wrapper" around the software, which allows the title to run "seamlessly" on Intel-based Macs. However, Warhammer will not run on PowerPC ...

18. Irish eyes not smiling at Intel

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Despite the fact that it published pretty good financial results last week, chip maker Intel has been telling its Irish staff that there is little demand for the products they are making. Leixlip, Ireland ...

19. Intel makes loss because of Europe. Really.

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      Chip giant Intel said it made a loss for its second quarter and it blamed Europe for the loss. Chip giant Intel said it made a loss for its second quarter and it blamed Europe for the loss. Although ...

20. Netbooks start to flatten notebook sales

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Intel had better hope it gets sufficient volumes from its Atom CPUs because according to a major research company, sales of notebooks are starting to flatten while netbook shipments will double this ...

21. Google's a threat to you, not Microsoft

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... and down and demanding that Google backs off. If Microsoft and Intel are bogeymen, Google is the devil incarnate. If you're not very worried indeed about Google, you probably suffer from learning difficulties. ...

22. Nokia, Intel partnership to deliver first gadget in September

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    When Nokia and Intel held a press conference love-fest a week or so back, the presentations, though heavy on management speak and super, super excitement, were noticeably lacking in any detail whatsoever ...

23. The death of the netbook

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    ... cases to $0 with the monthly LAN charges).  Most have single-core processors and Intel integrated graphics, which makes them a little slow for many to use as their primary machine. What netbooks ...

24. Teardown reveals thin profit margin on Mac Mini

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Mini is $376.20, a number that climbs to $387.14 when manufacturing costs are added. Everything beyond that, including the cost of intellectual property, royalties and licensing fees, software, software ...

25. Windows 7 is a better Windows than Windows, yeah right

    (Software/Software Features)

    Opinion - Microsoft seems to have developed an astonishing ability to forget the past with its introduction of Windows 7, an amnesia that is matched only by its long time partner, Intel.Opinion - Microsoft ...

26. Intel makes stab in the dark with Nokia deal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Opinion - It's almost a truism and it's certainly a tradition that chip giant  Intel has tried many times to diversify its business by making non X86 chips, all to little or no avail. Opinion ...

27. HP 5101 netbook thinks it's a notebook

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... lighter weight, or a six-cell version which is claimed to give a pretty astonishing eight hours of battery runtime. Based around the Intel Atom processor, the machines comes with 7,200RPM hard drive ...

28. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... PC or Mac running iTunes •    One internal 640 GB hard disk drive; provides room to expand using one of the four USB2.0 ports •    Intel® Atom 1.6 GHZ processor with 1 GB ...

29. Is AT&T just a drag for Apple?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... difficult to question AT&T’s ability to keep pace with the innovation in mobile devices, which seems to be accelerating every month. And we haven’t even seen Intel’s next-generation Atom platform, ...

30. Wind River: Intel is aiming another big gun at Apple, ARM

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Opinion – Intel isn’t kidding about the embedded and mobile market. Today’s acquisition is yet another sign that the company isn’t playing for second place and is trying to replace ARM, MIPS and ...

31. Intel still going after Apple’s iPhone business

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Apple may be working on its own processor and chipset for the iPhone, but that does not mean that Intel has given up on winning Apple as a customer for its next-generation smartphone. And as far as ...

32. Nvidia boss lashes out at Intel

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The pugnacious CEO of graphics chip firm Nvidia has decided to take another pop at chip giant Intel.The pugnacious CEO of graphics chip firm Nvidia has decided to take another pop at chip giant Intel. ...

33. 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 ...

34. 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 ...

35. AMD: EU’s Intel decision is not about the money

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    AMD is riding the wave of the EU’s $1.45 billion fine imposed earlier today on Intel – with good reason: The fine resulted from a complaint AMD filed about nine years ago. But AMD also knows that even ...

36. 10 million ultra low voltage notebooks to ship in 2009

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Chip firm Intel is fiercely pushing consumer ultra low voltage processors (CULV) machines during 2009 in a bid to prevent the cannibilization of its lucrative notebook range by pesky cheap Netbooks and ...

37. Applied makes loss for second time running

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... consecutive loss for its financial quarter. The company, which makes kit for companies like Intel, AMD and other chip companies, made a net loss of $255 million on sales of $1.02 billion. In the same ...

38. Globalfoundries hires TSMC exec

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... giant TSMC and was one of the key people behind the recently announced TSMC/Intel deal.Chicago (IL) – AMD’s spun-off manufacturing arm, Globalfoundries, will announce a new interesting employee tomorrow, ...

39. Windows 7 widows Windows XP

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... lines. Meaning that every time Intel designed a new microprocessor - or AMD for that matter - Microsoft felt compelled to create more software so that everything was just slow enough that eventually ...

40. AMD posts controversial virtualization value math

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Opinion – AMD has its hands full to counter Intel’s Xeon 5500 processor, which is considered the highest performing server processor these days. Intel’s chip has some obvious weaknesses which AMD could ...

41. Google is a monster, it's true

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... takes a selection of those 25,000 stories and ranks them - the perfect place for a journo's story to be is on the top. As I write this, in google.com/news the top story in the tech section is Some Intel ...

42. AMD’s Globalfoundries to ramp with 22 nm chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Back then, in June of 2006, AMD was flying high with its Opteron and Athlon X2 processors that took over market share from Intel almost at will. AMD’s market share gains were limited by its production ...

43. Intel buys into equipment manufacturer

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Chip firm Intel said it has taken a four percent share in ASM International, a firm which makes equipment and tools used in semiconductor manufacturing. Santa Clara, CA - Chip firm Intel said it has ...

44. Intel talks crystal balls

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Up and coming semiconductor maker, Intel, whipped out its crystal balls in London last week in a bid to tell us what we'll all be buying in ten years' time. LONDON, UK - Up and coming semiconductor ...

45. HP dv2: Better than a netbook?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    ... from HP was a Mini 8.9” netbook, arguably one of the best portable computers HP has ever built for travel purposes. It runs Windows XP, has an Intel Atom N270 CPU and 8 GB SSD storage (extended with 2 ...

46. Golden Goose continues to lay Microsoft eggs

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... PCs - a pattern that's familiar to  Intel, AMD, and the other snug-as-a-bug-in-a-rug PC players. Microsoft, incidentally, said dents in its Windows division revenues weren't affected by booming ...

47. Microsoft is hoist by its Windows petard

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    ... proving somewhat problematical for Intel as well as Microsoft. The netbook category is selling like hotcakes and there’s always the danger that sales of these things will cut into sales of its notebook ...

48. Analyst gets excited about Apple, raises target price by 27%

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... will hit a cap of more than $135 billion, which would put the company in the same neighborhood of IBM, which currently stands at $133 billion. In comparison, Intel currently has a market cap of about $88 ...

49. Intel shows off next-gen Atom processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Intel used the first day of the Spring IDF in Beijing to show off its Moorestown integrated processor, which is expected to replace the current Atom CPU and chipset later this year or early 2010. The ...

50. Acer Revo: The perfect desktop for an imperfect world

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    ... at the same time. In addition, the best performance parts for a product for this mixed up market comes from Intel which has the Atom platform, and Nvidia, which has Ion. The problem is that Intel hates ...