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1. Google rolls out Chrome OS source code

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... with speed goes all the way down to the metal. We are specifying reference hardware components to create the fastest experience for Google Chrome OS." See Also Intel collaborated with Google on Chrome ...

2. Nvidia remains "committed" to gaming industry

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... reports 3Q revenue jump 
Nvidia: Our nForce chipsets are "better" than Intel's  ...

3. AMD to use Intel cash to pay off debt

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   $1.25 billion should keep the wolf from the door for a bit AMD says it plans to reduce its level of debt by $1.4 billion, using a large wedge of the $1.25 billion it received from Intel in exchange for ...

4. Nvidia and Asus tout 3D Vision notebook

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... jump 
Nvidia may be moving into X86 market 
Nvidia: Our nForce chipsets are "better" than Intel's  ...

5. Adobe upgrades Flash player with improved HD support

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   ...  Microsoft takes on Adobe with Silverlight 3 AMD says Fusion will knock Intel for six. Or five  ...

6. Intel would like to give AMD a Glaswegian kiss

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   Opinion Nothing's really changed When AMD and Intel held their journalist conference calls last week, the contrast between the two companies could not be greater. AMD talked as though the $1.25 billion ...

7. Intel claims it's driving supercomputers. Not AMD

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   And announces Nehalem-EX Chip firm AMD is blowing its own trumpet by saying its Jaguar system is the world's supreme supercomputer. But AMD's new friend Intel is not going to take that lying down. It ...

8. AMD powered Jaguar wins supercomputer race

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... capabilities and multi-threading capacity with up to 16 dedicated cores. The complete Top500 list can be viewed here. See Also AMD says Fusion will knock Intel for six. Or five AMD claims TV couch ...

9. Nvidia CEO says he is "all" Apple

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 13 November 2009

   ... for you with the exception of what Intel allows us to use. That’s not their promise. And that's why I'm all Apple! At home it's just Macs everywhere. It's Nvidia's technology in all of them, but I use ...

10. Intel-AMD deal doesn't end the bitter war

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    Analysis: Broad agreement to establish industry ground rules Updated: God alone knows how much lawyers have benefited from the latest spat between AMD and Intel. Today the two companies announced a settlement ...

11. Intel settles antitrust dispute with AMD

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    Breaking Intel pays AMD $1.25 billion Intel said that it and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) have settled all outstanding legal disputes between them - including litigation and patent disputes. A joint ...

12. Bill Gates says people get paid too much

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... So what do top execs earn? Intel's Paul Otellini earns $1,000,000 a year and also collected a bonus of $3,873,300.  Steve Ballmer, the successor to Gates as CEO, has a salary of $665,833 and a bonus ...

13. How TG Daily is put together

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... to Win7, Aero Peek would let people see through them while you were in the shower [10:05:11] Evil Spinola: Which would obviously be horrible. For them. [10:05:42] Good Spinola: do you have an intelligent ...

14. Microsoft: Windows 7 "looks and feels" like Mac OS X

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... and we've made it faster and slimmed down the code to make it more effective." See Also Opinion: Ditching Windows has never felt so good Windows 7 sales outpace Vista adoption Intel: Windows 7 offers ...

15. AMD says Fusion will knock Intel for six. Or five

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    The graphics bone connected to the CPU zone At a reviewers’ day at the Lone Star facility in Austin TX last week, AMD chief technology officer Joe Macri waxed large on Fusion and the potential it has ...

16. Marvell employee accused of profiting in Galleon case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... not been charged, and declined to comment on Far's allegations. See Also Wall Street Journal (subscription needed) Ruiz quits Global Foundries Otellini: Intel knew nothing about Galleon insider trading ...

17. 55 inch B&O TV a snip at $18,700

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... by one-touch operation from a Bang & Olufsen remote control, presumably operated by the owner's butler. "BeoVision 7-55 is the cornerstone in the intelligent home as it is a fantastic hub for combining ...

18. Nvidia: Fermi production schedule remains on track

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    ... on track. "Nothing's changed on this since the (October 2009) GPU Technology Conference," said the spokesperson. "We'll be in production in the next couple of months."See AlsoNvidia taunts Intel with cartoon ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    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 ...

20. Apple reverses Atom Snow Leopard ban

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    OS X on a netbook Hackintosh Apple has reportedly restored support for Intel's Atom processor in the latest Snow Leopard build. "Atom appears to have resurrected itself zombie style in 10C535," confirmed ...

21. New York sues Intel for antitrust behavior

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    The Attorney General of New York accused Intel of antitrust behavior today. The Attorney General of New York accused Intel of antitrust behavior today Andrew Cuomo alleged that the Santa Clara company ...

22. USB 3 turns into handbag fight between Intel and Nvidia

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    Intel and Nvidia might not be the best of chums at the moment, but it seems that the USB3  standard is turning into a handbags at dawn fight between them. Intel and Nvidia might not be the best of chums ...

23. AMD discovers several Fusion mantras, disses Larrabee

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... The GPU gives the best performance per watt per dollar, he said. “We’re totally focused on the platform now and we have all the essentials.” Intel and Nvidia don’t give Bergman any nightmares, or if they ...

24. AMD culls Phenoms

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... has socket AM3 packaging.  It also has six 512KB L2 cache, 6MB L3 cache, and a core frequency of 2.8GHz. Meanwhile, Intel's CEO Paul Otellini has been seen wining and dining several China-based graphics ...

25. Karmic Koala displays bad karma

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... ATI graphics not working properly, Compiz performance very poor, wireless dropping out, wireless not always picked up." "I liked Intrepid, I was annoyed at the Intel fiasco in Jaunty, and now it seems ...

26. The NSA's Latest Listening Post

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 02 November 2009

    ... Utah. Once completed it will store trillions of phone conversations, e-mail messages and whatever other private communications the secret intelligence agency can snag from around the world. And, if history ...

27. Nvidia: Our nForce chipsets are "better" than Intel's

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    Nvidia has claimed that its nForce chipsets are "better" than Intel's. A company spokesperson also criticized the chip manufacturer for allegedly postponing USB 3 introduction until 2011.Nvidia has ...

28. TSMC yield problem to affect Nvidia, ATI

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    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 ...

29. Intel sues news service over Intel name

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    Chip giant Intel filed a case in a California district court alleging that a news service specializing in news about Mexico has infringed its trademark. Chip giant Intel filed a case in a California ...

30. Intel, Numonyx trumpet phase change memory breakthrough

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    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. ...

31. Graphics market shows signs of recovery

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ...  18.4% 30.2% 20.6% 3.1% Intel 52.7% 51.1% 25.2%  ...

32. 10 reasons why analog is better than digital

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... it was wearing seven league boots. But quite often, it doesn't seem to quite grasp the nuances of the analog voice. 7. Artificial intelligence is the realm of the digital. But it's also analog too. So ...

33. Intel: Windows 7 offers "improved" performance and stability

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    An Intel spokesperson recently told TG Daily that Microsoft Windows 7 offers "improved performance and stability" compared to Vista and the veteran, yet aging XP operating system.An Intel spokesperson ...

34. Control your enthusiasm

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... those consumers, wizened by the experiences of the past year, will spend a bit more and “buy up” but cautiously and intelligently. This is a good thing for the consumer, for the industry, and for the ...

35. Ubuntu bug subjects TG Daily hack to wrath of fanbois

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... side" radio button line was missing entirely, and the manual option didn't show either the sda or the sdb SATA disk drives (intel chipset). It looked normal on a system with only 1 SATA drive." So there ...

36. Ex AMD CEO named in insider trading scandal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... Intel, IBM and Google. If the SEC finds that AMD's internal procedures preventing insider trading are at fault, legal action against the company could be taken, say Wall Street insiders. Globalfoundries ...

37. MSI plans Tegra e-book, talks up notebook shipments

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... 20 percent of notebook shipments in the first half of 2010 and 30 percent in the second half as Intel starts to ship dual-core CPUs for the segment later this quarter. Gigabyte says that while it will ...

38. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

39. Kingston accelerates Windows with 40GB SSD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... score of 13,883, while a standard 7200RPM hard-disk only managed to rack up a score of 3,708.  The test system comprised an Intel DG45ID desktop motherboard, Core 2 Duo E6550 desktop process @ 2.33 ...

40. The future of 4G is murky

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Sunday, 25 October 2009

    ... will seek to obtain the technology either by acquisition or by licensing if they are not developing it themselves." Qualcomm, he said, has "made an art of acquiring intellectual property" relevant to future ...

41. Tilera challenges X86 architecture with 100 core-processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 25 October 2009

    Tilera has launched an advanced line of TILE-Gx processors that reportedly offer "ten times better" compute efficiency than Intel's next-generation Westmere chip. The processors - fabricated in TSMC's ...

42. Geeks Are Losers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    ... grateful he'll never be able to rule the world. Another frightening example comes from Rick Hodgin's exceptional essay on this site last year on Intel's vPro technology, a microprocessor system that ...

43. Nokia, Apple suit reeks of desperation

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    ... talking about redefining what's happening."A law suit could certainly redefine what's happening but as watchers of the continual litigation between Intel and AMD know, these kind of court cases take years ...

44. Disney's Keychest unlocks movies for any platform

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ... includes five major studios, has support from Intel. ABC has also persuaded an insider at Disney to talk. "Packaged goods will co-exist with digital platforms," he said, adding that Disney is in talks ...

45. SSDs inch toward the desktop

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... just pages into memory in the blink of an eye. As such, SSDs are also silent. In addition, prices for SSDs are also coming down to earth. Sort of. Crucial sells a 256GB SSD for $779 and Intel offers ...

46. Apple refreshes iMac lineup with 21.5 and 27-inch displays

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    Apple has refreshed its iMac lineup with 21.5 and 27-inch widescreen displays. The new iMac line - starting at $1,200 - features a wide range of Intel processors, including the Core 2 Duo, Core i5 ...

47. Otellini: Intel ‘knew nothing’ about insider trading probe

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    Intel CEO Paul Otellini says the company knew nothing about the insider trading investigation into Galleon Group, which implicated an Intel executive, until the Feds turned up. Intel CEO Paul Otellini ...

48. AMD optimizes Athlon II processors for Windows 7

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... benchmarks - and offered savings of $400 compared to the Intel Core 2 Duo E7400. Similarly, the AMD Athlon II X3 435 processor offers savings of over $1005 while providing up to 75 percent better media ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 16 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

50. Intel thinks it has a sense of humor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    Chip giant Intel has a new advert. Anyone get the joke? Chip giant Intel has a new advert. Anyone get the joke? ...