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1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. Government anti-leak document leaked

   (Security/Security Features)

   Monday, 05 October 2009

   ... scandal over expenses claims. According to  the Daily Mail, the security manual which sets out tactics for preventing Chinese and Russian intelligence services from using blackmail or hi-tech gadgets ...

5. AMD talks up graphics as Nvidia kicks off GPU conference

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 30 September 2009

   It’s an unwritten rule of marketing that when your competition is holding a mega event, you should try to get some publicity off the back of it. Hence we saw AMD dragging Intel Developer Forum delegates ...

6. Humbled Psystar hopes to 'coexist' with Apple

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 28 August 2009

   ... along with a keyboard and mouse. The entry level Rebel 19" - which includes a 2.33 GHz Intel Quad Core processor and 500 GB hard drive - is priced at $900. The higher-end 22" is priced at $1300 and offers ...

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

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 19 June 2009

   ... 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 ...

8. Nine out of 10 US adults annoyed by cellphones, says Intel

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Wednesday, 17 June 2009

   Ninety percent of US adults are frustrated by others' etiquette - or lack of it - when using laptops, netbooks and phones, says a Intel survey. Santa Clara, (CA) - Ninety percent of US adults are frustrated ...

9. Supermicro releases Atom-based blade server

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 08 May 2009

   If power consumption is what counts in a blade server environment, then there is a new option on the market: Supermicro launched a Atom-based product using 4 watt and 8 watt Intel Atom processors, ...

10. Intel helps Vietnam bring education to the masses

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 09 April 2009

    Today, Dr. Nguyen Thien Nhan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Training (MOET), Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and Dr. Craig Barrett, Intel Corporation Chairman, signed an agreement ...

11. AMD releases graphics toolset for gaming performance analysis

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 25 March 2009

    ... can contact AMD at PerfStudio.Beta@amd.com. See AMD's press release. Note also that Intel launched a similar program today for $299, called Graphics Performance Analyzer (GPA).  ...

12. Intel releases graphics performance analyzer

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 25 March 2009

    On Monday, Intel released a Graphics Performance Analyzer (GPA) suite of software tools designed to help game makers optimize graphics on Intel's Visual Adrenaline developer program. The application allows ...

13. Will Apple lose its power to drive market trends?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Tuesday, 24 March 2009

    ... up in many ways and I am wondering whether Apple is losing its edge. It struck me that Apple has largely seized market leadership from Microsoft and Intel in many, though clearly not yet all, areas and ...

14. Surfboard: VIA releases new platform for mini-notebooks

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 20 March 2009

    ... power-efficient low-end of mini-notebook space.VIA is a long-time producer of alternate x86 CPUs for the extreme low-end. Prior to Intel's 45nm technology, VIA's CPUs could compete very well on power savings. ...

15. Who needs Steve Jobs, anyway?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 06 March 2009

    ... wasn't enough, Apple also unveiled a new Mac Pro which runs Intel's "secret" Nehalem processor, something you'd expect only Steve Jobs could pull off. What is different though is Apple's PR style. Just ...

16. Updated Mac desktops arrive March 24, as does a "pleasant surprise"

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 02 March 2009

    ... overdue updates to the Mac mini and iMac are just three weeks away, along with a major Mac Pro refresh that brings Intel's Nehalem CPU and ATI Radeon GPUs to the table. There's also a "pleasant surprise" ...

17. Adobe: The GPU is not a universal app accelerator

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 19 February 2009

    ... Leopard OS: The GPU cannot be a universal app accelerator, at least not yet. And even more, we learned that Intel’s Larrabee graphics card may have a long way to go. Chicago (IL) - So we are all ...

18. UPDATED: Intel still decisive on Moorestown and WiMAX

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 17 February 2009

    Over the past week, Intel's Taiwan partners have raised concerns over the extent to which Intel is actually committed to WiMAX and its WiMAX-centric device -- Moorestown. InformationWeek ran an article ...

19. UPDATED: AMD: Three new Socket AM3 chips, two are Phenom II X3

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 09 February 2009

    ... a full 30 watts lower for the CPU alone, and is less than Intel's 125 watt TDP. The DDR3 memory has shown better throughput. DDR2-1067 5-5-5-15, for example on Xbit Labs page 7, shows 12.37 GB/s in ...

20. Dr. Craig Barrett leaving Intel after 35 years, retiring in May

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 23 January 2009

      Dr. Craig Barrett joined Intel in 1974. During his time there, he's moved up through the ranks starting at technology development manager, then VP, Senior VP, Executive VP, COO, President, CEO from 1998 ...

21. Intel closing plants, shifting thousands of workers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 22 January 2009

      Intel announced yesterday that they would close some older facilities in Malaysia, the Philippines and the United States. Workers there will either face lay offs or be shifted to other Intel facilities ...

22. Qualcomm buys AMD's handheld graphics and multimedia assets

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 20 January 2009

      Qualcomm Incorporated announced today that it has "acquired certain graphics and multimedia technology assets, intellectual property and resources that were formerly the basis of AMD's handheld business." ...

23. Where are the WOW! products?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Sunday, 18 January 2009

    ... - it‘s all the same. It seems like the only truly revolutionary ideas we even see any more come from infomercials. Why don't we have corporate monsters like Intel, Google, IBM and Samsung, who ...

24. Intel, Cisco and Microsoft look to improve global education

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Wednesday, 14 January 2009

    London (England) - Yesterday, Intel, Cisco and Microsoft announced a collaborative effort designed to assess global education, transforming global educational assessment methods for the purpose of improving ...

25. CES 2009: AMD releases Phenom II X4 and Dragon desktop platform

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 08 January 2009

    ... a new numbering convention. The 940 model relates more directly to Intel's number scheme, and runs at 3.0 GHz. The quad-core Phenom II X4 is built on a 45nm process technology, Deneb core, contains 758 ...

26. Intel and Adobe team up for TVs with Flash

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Tuesday, 06 January 2009

    San Jose (CA) - Intel and Adobe are teaming up to bring Adobe's Flash technology (the browser plug-in, not SDD storage) to Intel's upcoming Media Processor CE 3100 for TVs. The first products are expected ...

27. Nvidia updates CUDA, adds Tesla support for Windows Vista

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 21 December 2008

    ... and AMD, but by Intel’s upcoming Larrabee graphics card as well.  ...

28. OCZ's 35 GB/s triple channel memory for Core i7

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 19 December 2008

    Sunnyvale (CA) - Today, OCZ releases its Blade Series Triple Channel Memory kit designed for Intel's Core i7 processor and its low-voltage, triple channel needs as supported by the X58 Exprss Chipset. ...

29. Survey shows 65% of American adults need daily Internet access

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 16 December 2008

      Intel published the findings of a recent survey conducted on 2,119 Americans aged 18 and over. When asked question regarding the significance of daily Internet access in their lives, 65% of respondents ...

30. Intel honored by China Corporate Citizenship Forum

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 25 November 2008

    Beijing (China) - Intel has been honored by the China Corporate Citizenship Forum, who recently presented two awards to Intel China Ltd. for "outstanding contributions toward the country's earthquake relief ...

31. Sun releases Solaris 10 10/08 with Intel optimizations

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Sunday, 02 November 2008

    ... among Solaris systems and reduce the administrative overhead necessary to move a container between unlike system configurations. Sun also said that Solaris 10 supports Intel's latest Intel Xeon [7400 ...

32. Tool developed to measure reality of virtual worlds

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 29 October 2008

    ... we will see a major push toward perfecting the technology? And how far away are we today? Virtual influence Several recent technology events including those with major hardware designers like Intel ...

33. Asus releases Ares desktop PCs, G50 gaming notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 22 October 2008

    ... provided by Asus, namely the 9700M GT Nvidia GPU. Best Buy lists the notebook with a 9800M GS graphics processor – and an Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 (2.26 GHz) processor, 4 GB of memory and a 320 GB hard drive. ...

34. Intel appeals EC antitrust findings

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 14 October 2008

    Intel said it has filed an appeal with the Court of First Instance (CFI) in Europe in response to the European Commission’s Statement of Objections (SSO) issued in July of this year. In that SSO, the ...

35. Seagate SSD release date slips into 2009

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 10 October 2008

    ... is a range of new competitors, most importantly Intel, that are offering SSDs and aren’t likely to settle for second place by default. While SSDs are still expensive, 64 GB media have just undercut the ...

36. Rumor round-up: New Apple laptops

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 10 October 2008

    ... changes are expected to focus on Intel’s Montevina platform with a new "Socket B" logic-board to accommodate second-gen Penryn processors with a 1066 MHz front-side bus and clock speeds between 2.26 GHz ...

37. BCP lithography, self-assembling nanotechnology to build IC circuits from the bottom up

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 26 September 2008

    Scientists at UC-Santa Barbara have engineered a new nano-construction process capable of assembling integrated circuits. Five companies helped fund the research, including giants Intel and IBM. A patent ...

38. VMware releases Fusion 2.0 virtualization for Macs

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 16 September 2008

    ... simultaneously, including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Vista, all in 32-bit or 64-bit modes. Notably absent from the supported technologies list is Firewire. This new release is available for Intel-based ...

39. Spore gone gold, arrives on September 7

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Friday, 15 August 2008

    ... play around with the creature creation feature. When starting a new game, users can only play with single-cell animals, which, however, can be evolved to intelligent beings that conquer other planets. ...

40. Microsoft releases SQL Server 2008

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Thursday, 07 August 2008

    ... the only major database to include comprehensive, tightly integrated functionality for data management, as well as advanced business intelligence out of the box. Read the complete story here.  ...

41. Surprise: Apple sues Mac-clone maker Psystar

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 15 July 2008

      Apple is no longer putting with a small Florida business that has hacked Mac OS X Leopard to run on cheap Intel-based PCs: Psystar made headlines by offering "cheap Mac alternative", teasing Apple ...

42. OCZ releases memory for Montevina notebooks

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 08 July 2008

    Intel's next generation Centrino 2 notebook platform is still not ready, but at least we have received word that OCZ has put the finishing touches on enthusiast DDR3 SO-DIMMs for the new platform. OCZ ...

43. Apple releases OS X Leopard 10.5.4 update

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 30 June 2008

    ... also released the Security Update 2008-004 for Mac OS X Tiger and Tiger Server (both Intel or PowerPC). These updates replicate the security fixes featured in 10.5.4 Leopard updates so that both systems ...

44. Outrage over physics drivers: Is Nvidia guilty?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 25 June 2008

    ... with three X1900XTX graphics cards. September 2007: Intel buys Havok and Nvidia/AMD open negotiations with Ageia. AMD did not want to pay for Ageia and decided that the role of physics on a GPU should ...

45. Psystar challenges Apple server with Xserve clone

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 23 June 2008

    ... are offered in 1U or 2U rack-mount versions, mostly matching Xserve in terms of hardware, and topping it in software. The OpenServ 1100 integrates Intel’s 2.5 GHz quad-core Xeon processors with 45 nm ...

46. Firefox 3 impressions: Bigger and better in every way

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 17 June 2008

    ... manager would look great within Firefox in our opinion. Also noteworthy is the “intelligent” address bar that learns from what you are typing. Firefox monitors my entries and organizes websites in a ...

47. Apple's Boot Camp adds support for XP SP3

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 25 April 2008

    Apple has updated its "Boot Camp" software, which allows users to run Windows operating systems on Intel-based Mac computers, to version 2.1.1  The main change to the software upgrade is support ...

48. AMD releases ‘fixed’ triple-core Phenom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 23 April 2008

      AMD is serious about winning back market share in the mainstream desktop computing segment from Intel – and it has become clear that AMD’s strongest weapon will be triple-core processors. Today, ...

49. PNY releases Quadro FX 5600 SDI card with 1.5 GB of video memory

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 11 April 2008

    ... for the broadcasting industry. And yes, Nvidia, AMD and Intel are there, but we have to acknowledge that AMD and Intel take the  second and the third spot in visualization technologies for the broadcasting ...

50. Intel to invest $500 million in China

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 11 April 2008

    Beijing (China) – Intel Capital, the investment arm of processor-giant Intel, will invested $500 million into Chinese firms.  The investment adds to a $200 million fund that Intel pumped into the ...