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1. Nvidia auctions "ultimate" gaming system on eBay

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... GeForce GTX 295 graphics cards in SLI, Nvidia 3D Vision glasses and a Samsung 2233RZ 3D Vision Ready Display," said Burke. "[The machine also boasts] an Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition CPU, 12GB ...

2. 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  ...

3. 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 ...

4. Weekly hardware roundup

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 14 November 2009

   ... for Intel's Atom processor in the latest version of Snow Leopard. AMD: Fusion is the future AMD chief technology officer Joe Macri: "Fusion is the combination of many decades of computing. It's the ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. Nvidia reports 3Q revenue jump

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 06 November 2009

   ... of total revenue. Sales of chipsets designed for Intel- based desktop and notebook PCs were up 33 percent sequentially. However, sales of chipsets for AMD desktop PCs were down 27 percent due to an AMD ...

8. 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 ...

9. Apple sued over camera patent by litigant with a past

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 29 October 2009

   ... 5,138,459 is a sample of the patent.The action is being brought by St Clair Intellectual Property Consultants, and it's provided a battery of previous litigation that's resulted in success in the courts.For ...

10. 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 ...

11. 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 ...

12. 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 ...

13. ARM multicore chip challenges Intel's hegemony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    Microprocessor design company ARM said it has introduced the Cortex A5 MPCore CPU, a low power chip designed to make the internet available on a wide range of devices. Microprocessor design company ...

14. 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 ...

15. 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 ...

16. Intel, ASML bring cheer to the chip market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    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 ...

17. Sun and Fujitsu upgrade SPARC processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... Oracle is "committed" to SPARC architecture Intel: Xeon 5500 servers are "cash machines"  ...

18. Nvidia accuses Intel of 'improper claims,' pulls out of chipset development

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 08 October 2009

    Nvidia says it is "postponing" further chipset investments for Intel DMI CPUs. However, the GPU company will continue to "innovate integrated solutions" for Intel's FSB architecture. Nvidia says it is ...

19. Intel: Xeon 5500 servers are "cash machines"

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    Former Intel CTO Pat Gelsinger once predicted that Nehalem-based Xeon 5500 servers would act as "cash machines" for the IT industry. Although Pat recently left the company to pursue other opportunities ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

21. Adobe brings Flash to future phones

    (Software/Software Features)

    Sunday, 04 October 2009

    ... Screen Project today and will bring Flash Player to BlackBerry smartphones. The Open Screen Project has nearly 50 partners including Google, Intel, Nokia, NTT Docomo, Palm, LG, HTC, ARM, the BBC and  ...

22. ARM changes name of the netbook game

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 30 September 2009

    Analysis: While GlobalFoundries and ARM are not yet ready to discuss the full deal between them, the news is significant, not just for those two companies, but for the Intel Corporation too.Analysis: ...

23. 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 ...

24. ARM confirms it's chatting to GlobalFoundries

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    ... are in deep congress over cooperating on semiconductor production.Bloomberg chatted to an ARM vice president of marketing who confirmed the company has Intel in its sights and wants 15 percent of the mini-notebook ...

25. Apple plus graphics gurus = semiconductor mystery

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Saturday, 26 September 2009

    ... foundries. Compelling evidence emerged at this week's Intel Developer Forum that there's certainly no smoke without fire. Because Apple has recruited not just one chief technology officer formerly with ...

26. Oracle and Sun showcase 'world's fastest' database machine

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    ...  Intel Xeon (Nehalem) processors 600 GB SAS Disks at 6 Gigabits/second DDR3 memory 72 Gigabytes (memory) per database server 40 Gigabits/second InfiniBand Raw disk capacity of 100 TB (SAS) or 336 TB (SATA) ...

27. Microprocessor diversity threatens X86 hegemony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

    Intel has managed to expand its lead in the struggling global microprocessor sector by capturing 80.6 percent of the segment's revenue during the second quarter of 2009. However, the company's traditional ...

28. Intel confirms top management shakeup

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

    UPDATED: Despite officially denying anything untoward was happening earlier today, chip giant Intel today confirmed that Pat Gelsinger and Bruce Sewell are leaving the company. Despite officially denying ...

29. Channel thinks Windows 7 won't help a lot

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 10 September 2009

    ... include TSMC, Samsung and Intel. ...

30. Server sales continue to plummet

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 01 September 2009

    ... waiting for the latest AMD Istanbul and Intel Nehalem server CPUs to ship.  ...

31. ARM and Intel prepare for mobile fisticuffs

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 18 August 2009

    Intel and ARM are preparing to slug it out to win business in the mobile chip market but there's unlikely to be a clear winner for very many rounds. Intel and ARM are preparing to slug it out to win ...

32. AMD takes lead in discrete mobile graphics

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 17 August 2009

    ... of the market, behind Intel on 51.2 percent and Nvidia with 29.2 percent.  It should also be remembered that the vast majority of notebooks come with integrated graphics rather than discrete.  ...

33. Semi market stutters all the way through this year

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 11 August 2009

    ... 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 ...

34. Time Magazine develops time machine

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 10 August 2009

    ... late last month, when the Ann Arbor News followed the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Rocky Mountain News into bottom of the birdcage of destiny. A2 News took the decision to replace the daily print ...

35. Computing power 'limited by economics, not the laws of physics'

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 30 July 2009

    ... never be recouped. Intel is spending $7bn upgrading seven US fabs, while Global Foundries is spending roughly the same amount on its new fab in upstate New York - helped by more than a billion dollars ...

36. Samsung debuts 1GHz "iPhone" processor

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 27 July 2009

    ... processor on the market - and will likely pose a formidable challenge to Intel's nascent Moorestown. "Not only is [Hummingbird] the fastest available Cortex-A8 processor in an LP technology on the market, ...

37. Updated: Intel formally appeals $1.45 billion antitrust fine

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 22 July 2009

    Intel has formally appealed a $1.45 billion fine imposed by the EU (European Union) in response to various antitrust violations. The EU leveled the hefty fine in May after ruling that the Santa Clara-based ...

38. IBM sued over DRAM patents

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 17 July 2009

    ... alleging that IBM has breached a number of patents relating to dynamic random access memory (DRAM). The suit, filed on the 13th of July, by Mosaid, a Canadian intellectual property company which has a ...

39. Sun sets on Sun Microsystems in prophet warning

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    ... been pretty good buddies. They have enemies in common, which include in no particular order IBM and Microsoft and sometimes Intel too. Sun was always a target for the demonized Intel Corporation. It always ...

40. AMD launches five new 6-core processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 12 July 2009

    ... side, AMD aims its SE processors at Intel’s Nehalem chip, and, at least in 4-way, 24-core configurations, the green team appears to have an advantage over Intel at this time, if we believe the official ...

41. Sony falls to Netbook fever

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 07 July 2009

    ... decided to bite the bullet and release one anyway. The 10-inch screen machine, dubbed the Vaio W, will debut in August and uses Intel's 1.66GHz "Atom" N280. What sets it apart from the Netbook competition ...

42. The death of the netbook

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Wednesday, 01 July 2009

    ... 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 ...

43. Update: Firefox 3.5 is fast, but still behind Chrome and Safari

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 30 June 2009

    ... similar to those published in this article. Our test system was an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600-based system with 4 GB of memory.   The software versions were Safari 4.0.530.17, Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18783, ...

44. Apple shows more interest in Imagination

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 26 June 2009

    ... can then be manufactured by Samsung. But Apple isn't the only US company interested in Imagination. Intel licenses its technology and owns 16 percent of the firm. Shares of Imagination rose on the ...

45. 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 ...

46. IBM extends chip agreement with Japanese giants

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 17 June 2009

    ... alliance does not include Intel, which pursues its own process and fab plans, and is shifting to 32 nanometer technology later this year.  ...

47. Nvidia’s boss aims for computing hegemony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 17 June 2009

    ... his punches and you wouldn’t want to get into a street fight with the guy. Earlier this year he’s said some pretty controversial things about Intel, for example.But at a technical conference for financial ...

48. Moore’s Law to die at 18 nm, analysts predict

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 16 June 2009

    iSuppli most certainly will initiate yet another discussion whether Moore’s Law, a forecast made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double ...

49. Browser wars: Is Safari as fast as Apple claims?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 15 June 2009

    ... Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600-based system with 4 GB of memory. Round 1: Acid 3 This is a standard test that takes browsers through a web standards compliance test. The focus is focused on the Document Object ...

50. Moblin and netbook make an interesting pair

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 09 June 2009

    I’ve wanted to get my mitts on a netbook for quite a while and have recently got pretty interested in Moblin, the version of Linux that Intel is pushing for all it's worth.I’ve wanted to get my mitts on ...