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1. Weekly hardware roundup

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ... (ORNL) - features six-core AMD Opteron processors that deliver 2.3 petaflop/s theoretical peak performance and 1.75 petaflop/s performance on the Linpack benchmark. As expected, Intel responded to AMD's ...

2. 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 ...

3. EA preps Warhammer MMORPG for the Mac

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 30 July 2009

   ... 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 ...

4. Apple eats its own dogfood

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 14 July 2009

   ... to avoid paying Intel to use its designs in the product. See Also Apple preps tablet for October launch  ...

5. The race to kill the MacBook Air is on

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 11 February 2009

   ... in the netbook category -- which is evident by its choice of Intel Atom processor as opposed to special-run Intel Core 2 Duo chip that runs inside MacBook Air. This leaves Dell's Adamo Thirteen as the ...

6. Intel preps mobile processors for higher clock speeds

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Thursday, 23 October 2008

     Intel is transitioning seven small-package Core 2 Duo CPUs as well as one Celeron M processor to new steppings, which will include “speed enhancements” for the Montevina notebook platform and ...

7. Intel preps more dual-core CPUs, Ibexpeak ready in Q3

   (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

   Friday, 17 October 2008

   Intel is planning to launch five 35 watt desktop Core 2 Duo processors on December 28 this year: the T9800, Q9000, P9600, T9550 and T8700, with prices set at $530, $348, $348, $316 and $241 in thousand-unit ...

8. Fusion IO announces monster SSD for gamers

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 03 October 2008

   ... to 200 – 250 MB/s on the high end – which would include Intel’s recently announced 80 GB SSDs that sell for $595. If it is performance you are looking for and if you have a few extra dollars to spend, ...

9. Apple preps Macbook upgrades and a mysterious "Brick"

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Monday, 15 September 2008

   ... from 80 GB), Intel’s Penryn processors and more SSD storage capacity. It will be interesting to see which way Apple will go: Will it stay with companies such as Samsung and go all the way to 128 GB or ...

10. AMD preps Atom rival, Intel to launch dual-core Atom next month

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 10 September 2008

      A reader pointed us to AMD slides, which provide some evidence that AMD will be aiming to compete at least in certain markets that is targeted by Intel’s Atom processor, by using one of its existing ...

11. Apple preps fifth Leopard update with more than 80 patches

    (Software/Software Features)

    Sunday, 03 August 2008

    ... graphics library that may be addressed in subsequent betas. "Do not install on the following machines: MacBook Air, MacBook, Mac Mini, iMac (with Intel integrated graphics)," Apple wrote in the software’s ...

12. Asustek preps launch of Ultimate and Pro Fashion Eee PCs, prices to hit $700 or more

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Thursday, 31 July 2008

    ... (MID) markets will offer substantial business potential in the future generating demand as high as one billion units based on forecasts by Intel. More here at Digitimes.  ...

13. Toshiba preps 1.8” 160 GB hard drives for PCs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 10 June 2008

    ... and one or the other compact PC. You won’t be seeing these drives in Intel-based MID devices as the Atom processor and its SCH chipset only support a PATA interface and not SATA. Toshiba said that the ...

14. Product news roundup Tuesday, March 25

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 25 March 2008

    ... that caught our eyes to day - Intel Diamondville surfaces, a new Toughbook and Xerox tells you if your office is as green as you believe it is. Rather than making you click through several news items, ...

15. Atom processors to affect both VIA and SiS as Intel preps own-brand mobos for embedded markets

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 06 March 2008

    Amid the announcement of Intel's new low-power processors, Atom, and corresponding platform for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and Internet-centric computers, sources at Taiwan motherboard makers have ...

16. Intel preps Atom for world domination

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 02 March 2008

    Intel today released the brand name of its Silverthorne and Diamondville processors for mobile devices – products the company has called its most significant product since the introduction of the Pentium ...

17. Caneland & Tigerton: Intel preps for battle against AMD’s 4P Opteron

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 24 July 2007

    Intel today disclosed more details about its final Core microprocessor product – the Tigerton processor: The CPU will go head to head with AMD’s 4P+ Opteron processors, which have dominated ...

18. Intel preps DP server boards for 45 nm arrival

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 17 July 2007

    Intel has informed system builders that it is about to refresh its entire Xeon DP motherboard line product line in order to support the upcoming 45 nm Wolfdale (dual-core) and Harpertown (quad-core) processors. ...

19. Toshiba preps release of Satellite HSDPA PDA phone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 30 May 2007

    ... offering to date. The G900 will be sold under a brand that Toshiba so far has limited to its notebooks - Satellite – and will offer a slide-out keyboard. At its core, the phone will run an Intel-developed ...

20. AMD preps 65 nm Turion X2 processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 03 May 2007

    ... ground on Intel in the notebook market, especially in the entry-level segment and notebooks around or below the $1000 mark. According to statements from executives in the latest two quarter conference ...

21. IDF: Sun preps first Intel-based servers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 17 April 2007

    Intel and Sun demonstrated a Xeon 5100-based server running Sun’s Solaris operating system. Beijing (China) – Intel and Sun demonstrated a Xeon 5100-based server running Sun’s Solaris ...

22. AMD and Intel: The battle for processor price segments

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 06 April 2007

    ... our price/performance charts, it is no secret to you the competition between AMD and Intel in the retail market is reaching new heights almost every week. Time to recap what happened in the past half year ...

23. Intel preps fourth 45 nm factory

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 26 February 2007

    Intel is lining up the fourth factory that will be producing the companies new 45 nm processor generation, which is scheduled to go into mass production in the second half of this year. Santa Clara (CA) ...

24. Intel preps five 45 nm dual- and quad-core processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 26 January 2007

    Intel shows off its tech horsepower, revealing more details about its upcoming 45 nm CPU generation: Penryn, a processor core that will replace the current 65 nm Core 2 processors, uses a new transistor ...

25. AMD demonstrates first native quad-core CPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 30 November 2006

    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 ...

26. AMD launches 4x4 platform Quad FX

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 30 November 2006

    ... about AMD's 4x4 platform, which has received the commercial name Quad FX. While Intel's recently released quad-core chip Kentsfield is a straightforward quad-core upgrade for enthusiasts who have used ...

27. AMD aims for major 65 nm transition by mid-2007

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 17 November 2006

    In a briefing with journalists, AMD provided and updated outlook on its future processor and manufacturing plans. The firms 65 nm processors will be introduced in December. The company trails Intel by ...

28. AMD previews 4x4 platform

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 10 November 2006

    ... aren't ready yet to talk about the firm's answer to Intel's quad-core CPU. AMD confirmed at the event that 4x4 will be introduced with an Nvidia chipset and prices around $1000. Munich (Germany) - AMD ...

29. Marvell completes Xscale acquisition, preps release of Monahans CPU

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 09 November 2006

    Marvell today said that it has completed the acquisition of Intel's Communications and applications processor business, which mainly consists of the Xscale processor platform for handheld devices. Santa ...

30. AMD preps launch of three FX processors for 4x4 platform

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 03 November 2006

    AMD remains very secretive about its two-processor 4x4 platform, which aims to decrease the performance gap to Intel's dual-core and upcoming quad-core processors on the very high-end of the enthusiast ...

31. Samsung readies 4 GB flash drive for Windows Vista PCs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 25 July 2006

    ... Boost apparently will be intelligent enough to prepare a user's favorite applications and data in the background: ""When a user requests that data, rather than being limited to servicing 100-200 requests ...

32. Intel aims for 32 cores by 2010

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 09 July 2006

    Five years ago, Intel envisioned processors running at 20 GHz by the end of this decade. Today we know that the future will look different. CPUs will sacrifice clock speed over core count: Intel's first ...

33. Intel's Robson flash technology is impressive, when it works

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 14 June 2006

    Intel is promising that its "Robson" technology will cut down computer boot times to as much as half of what they currently stand at. Based on NAND flash memory technology, Robson essentially holds the ...

34. Intel preps 65 nm "Tavor" processor for cellphones

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 26 April 2006

    With all the buzz surrounding Intel's upcoming Core microarchitecture, one could almost miss what is happening in the firm's other business groups. And if our well-informed sources are correct, the Intel ...

35. Intel preps quad-core mobile chip, new CPU architecture for 2008 - analyst

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 14 April 2006

    Intel is running its development and manufacturing resources at full speed to roll out its "Core" architecture later its year. In-Stat analyst Jim McGregor believes that the company will not take any ...

36. Gateway preps $800 dual-core media center desktop

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Saturday, 01 October 2005

    ... price drop of Intel's dual-core Pentium D processors and their rapid movement into the mainstream and even entry-level segment. The system will offer the low-end Pentium D 820 with a clock speed of 2.8 ...

37. Intel preps 2MB L2 Pentium 4 6xx line?

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 31 August 2004

      Intel's plan to ship a Pentium 4 Extreme Edition with 2MB of in-core L2 cache - as opposed to 2MB of on-chip L3 cache - is to be followed up by a version pitched at mainstream desktops. Intel's ...

38. Intel preps new "extreme edition" chips for Socket 478, Socket 775

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 02 August 2004

    ... in it. Intel may release a 3.6 GHz P4, 3.6 GHz P4 EE, and even maybe a 3.8 GHz P4 for the the socket 478. Read the complete story here.  ...

39. Intel preps i925XE chipset with gigahertz FSB

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 28 June 2004

      Intel will later this year offer an updated version of its recently released i925X 'Alderwood' that supports a 1066MHz frontside bus. Intel will later this year offer an updated version of its ...

40. Intel preps Nocona 32/64 bit processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 22 June 2004

      Intel will next week change the face of volume computer systems by releasing its first EM64T chips, which combine full 32bit performance with 64bit capabilities, and by introducing support for a ...

41. Intel preps Xeon chipset with discrete memory manager

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 12 March 2004

      Intel's upcoming 'Twin Castle' chipset separates the memory controller from the North Bridge chip to yield a three-chip product rather than the usual two-chip set-up. Intel's upcoming 'Twin Castle' ...

42. Intel Preps Launch of Prescott Processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 30 January 2004

      Despite the hubbub surrounding 64-bit computing in the market, Intel Corp. Despite the hubbub surrounding 64-bit computing in the market, Intel Corp. will assert that the world still operates ...

43. IBM Preps Next-Generation EXA Chipset

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 19 January 2004

    ... Intel Corp.'s Xeon chips. IBM engineers are looking to add high-end virtualization, greater scalability and enhanced I/O capabilities into the next generation of the company's chipsets that run in many ...

44. Intel preps 2.8GHz, 3GHz Prescotts for Q1 2004

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 14 August 2003

      Intel's plans to drive its 90nm 'Prescott' processor - the successor to the Pentium 4 - quickly down-market into the PC mainstream as well as establish it at the top-end of its desktop CPU line-up. ...

45. Intel preps Banias-based Celerons for Q1 2004

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 21 July 2003

      Intel will roll out Mobile Celeron processors based on the Pentium M, aka Banias, early next year in a bid to push down the prices of wireless-enabled notebooks. Intel will roll out Mobile Celeron ...

46. AMD preps Hammer chipsets

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 21 February 2002

    ... needs evolutionary chipset building blocks (evolutionary is AMD code for backwardly compatible with x.86/ in contrast to Intel's Itanium). Combine the two and you get a "massive improvement in overall ...

47. Via preps Samuel 2 core for battle

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 22 March 2001

      Via Technologies will show off its second generation CPUs this month at CeBit in Hannover, Germany and WinHEC in Anaheim, California. Intel Corp. is shipping a new Xeon chip line aimed at high-end ...

48. Intel preps 1 GHz mobile P3s

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 11 October 2000

      Threatened by the attention and business that Transmeta has gained in the mobile sector, Intel is aiming to hold onto to its share of the lucrative mobile chip market by introducing high-performance ...

49. Compaq preps AMD Sledgehammer servers

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 25 July 2000

    ... answer to Intel's Itanium processor, which was originally scheduled for a second half release but was pushed back to the fourth quarter. The story can be found at www.theregister.co.uk. Meanwhile, an Intel ...

50. Sun preps MAJC for 2000 release

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 25 April 2000

    ... faster than Intel's 1GHz chip, company officials said. Sun has said that the MAJC chips could eventually include as many as 1,024 processors on the same chip. More details can be found at www.zdnn.com. ...