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1. CE3100: Intel squeezes yet another chip out of the old Dothan core

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   During my most recent visit to Intel’s headquarters, I was able to catch up with Eric Kim, the company’s senior vice president of the digital home group and Intel’s third push into the consumer electronics market. ...

2. 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 ...

3. CES 2009: Nova Updates Rugged UMPC with New SideArm 2

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

     Nova Mobile Systems is presenting today at the Consumer Electronics Show a new Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) based upon the Intel Atom processor. It is being called the SideArm 2 and it will, depending upon ...

4. Five products Apple should build

   (Opinion/Opinion Features)

   ... such as Samsung or Asus to get this category right. While the UMPC was originally envisioned by Microsoft and Intel as a consumer device, it is now the MID that becomes the Internet companion the UMPC ...

5. Netbooks and MIDs need some Apple Magic

   (Opinion/Opinion Features)

   ... of Linux that look a lot like what Apple did with the Mac OS for the iPhone. Also, Intel is doing the Linux work and providing it as part of the package.   Of the devices that I have seen, the Lenovo ...

6. A 1-2-3-4 plan for AMD to beat Intel

   (Opinion/Opinion Features)

     Analyst Opinion - Intel had a surprisingly strong quarter. AMD went the other direction and is now taking a number of actions that probably should have come right after the ATI merger.   ...

7. National Semiconductor reinvents itself and goes solar

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... which created SunPower, IBM is working on JV to come up with thin film solar technology, Intel recently spun off its solar research into a company called SpectraWatt and Applied Materials has been buying ...

8. Panasonic unveils Atom-based Toughbook UMPC

   (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

   Panasonic today announced its latest device in the Toughbook series. The CF-1 comes in a UMPC form factor and promises to remain operable even in extreme environments. The device comes with an Intel ...

9. Apple and Palm new targets in touchscreen patent crusade

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

     Intellectual property (IP) company Typhoon Touch Technologies has “significantly” expanded its lawsuit that against numerous companies using touch screen technologies in their products. Following ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

11. 50% chance of a new multi-touch Apple device at WWDC, says analyst

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... another case of a product Jobs pulls out of his pocket? Let’s be honest: We all have been waiting for such a device for a while – her at TG Daily we suggested more than a year ago that Intel should talk ...

12. Via launches Nano processor, carves out CPU niche

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... continues to its strategy to be different than AMD and Via by offering a product that is difficult to compare to potential rivals. In a CPU world that is dominated mostly by Intel processors it is refreshing ...

13. Five reasons why an Apple tablet makes sense now

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... PCs (UMPCs). While it appeared to be a joint-effort between Microsoft and Intel, Project Origami was foremost excellent marketing that, however, forgot to check how the actual hardware looked like. Today's ...

14. Fujitsu announces Intel Atom-based UMPC

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Fujitsu has showcased its second generation 5.6-inch UMPC U2010 with Intel's 45nm Atom processor. The UMPC will focus on the high-end market with a price of $1295 and will be launched in Taiwan in ...

15. Intel fires up new Atom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      TG Daily In-Depth – Intel officially launched its new Atom processor, previously code-named Silverthorne (for Mobile Internet Devices) and Diamondville (for Netbooks and Nettops), which carries ...

16. A new goldmine for Intel: The $6 Atom processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      Intel is gearing up to launch what may be its most important product since the Pentium processor: The Atom CPU targets key growth markets and could ship hundreds of millions units within a few ...

17. Inside Intel's ray tracing research

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      Interview - Intel will soon be extending its product portfolio into visual computing. And while Nvidia isn’t publicly admitting that Intel is an increasing threat to the company, we know that ...

18. The HTC Shift + ThinkPad X300 + The MacBook Air = Perfect Notebook

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... to what the Mobile Internet Device experience will be in the next generation Atom (Silverthorne) systems that Intel has been talking about with even smaller devices.    In use, unless you have ...

19. 10 things you didn’t know about … Anand Chandrasekher

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    10 personal questions and 10 personal answers from Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Ultra Mobility Group. This group is responsible for low power Intel architecture ...

20. Tim Sweeney, Part 2: “DirectX 10 is the last relevant graphics API”

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... as Intel's research scientist] recently showed ray-tracing on a Sony UMPC, an ultraportable device equipped with a single-core processor. True, the resolution was much lower than on PCs of today, but it ...

21. Intel preps Atom for world domination

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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 ...

22. Has Lenovo created the “perfect” laptop?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... first look at the X300). So, what makes this X300 a better Macbook Air and what can we expect from this category in the long term. How will Intel’s Silverthorne, hybrid graphics, ready-boost/turbo memory/hybrid ...

23. Via readies Isaiah as Intel Silverthorne competitor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... be faster than Intel’s upcoming Silverthorne processors, while playing in the same power league. Chicago (IL) – Via-Centaur has completed the development of its new Isaiah core processors, which are expected ...

24. Asustek to push WiMAX-based notebooks in 2008

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Asustek Computer will cooperate with Intel and Sprint Nextel to push WiMAX technology by launching WiMAX-based notebooks in 2008, announced Asustek chairman Jonney Shih, at CES 2008. Asustek is planning ...

25. Intel pads MID launch with tiny solid state drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    We have no doubt, the Mobile Internet Device will turn out to be what the UMPC was intended to become – a mass market pocket computing platform. And Intel finally develops the components such a ...

26. Asus updates R2H UMPC with 3G

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... niche in which it will be competing with today’s tablet PCs. The mass market is much more likely to see cheaper (and less capable) mobile PCs that are based on Intel’s Mobile Internet Device ...

27. Is Kindle the next big thing after the iPod?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... to mind the Intel Mobile Internet Device, which we haven’t spoken of in awhile.  This device, which is typically seen as running an embedded operating system and doing a few things like showing ...

28. Taiwan handset makers reluctant to develop Intel MID products

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Intel has been soliciting Taiwan handset makers for cooperation on MID (mobile Internet device) products, but most makers, with the exception of High Tech Computer (HTC) and Qisda (the parent company of ...

29. Intel's Silverthorne processor to run at up to 1.7 GHz

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Clock speeds of Intel's processor for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and Ultra Mobile PCs have surfaced. Chicago (IL) – Clock speeds of Intel's processor for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) ...

30. Can we screw up WiMax, too?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ...  The message from WiMax World is that WiMax is real and that the hardware exists. We already knew about Intel's Echo Peak Wi-Fi/WiMax chipset, but there were also Motorola that had its WiMax consumer modems ...

31. Intel demos Echo Peak WiMax/Wi-Fi notebook

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Intel today demonstrated a functional notebook based on the Montevina platform, which will include the firm’s first integrated Wimax/Wi-Fi chipset codenamed Echo Peak. Chicago (IL) – Intel ...

32. Intel's goal for Penryn: "Ramp and win as fast as possible"

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    TG Daily had the chance to sit down with Mr. Banias himself, Mooly Eden, for a face-to-face interview at IDF 2007. And Eden took the opportunity to explain why he believes that Intel has the edge right ...

33. IDF: Intel to dump Microsoft as OS supplier for Mobile Internet Devices?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    The second day of IDF kicked off with an extensive presentation of the company's upcoming mobile products and Intel's Mobile Internet Devices – short "MID" – platform took ...

34. Nokia, Sprint to offer N800 tablet with Wimax capability

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... including major metropolitan areas, such as Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Salt Lake City, Seattle and Washington D.C. The N800 comes close to what Intel recently described ...

35. Can anyone get the connected home right?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... work together and are so hobbled by DRM that the experience just isn’t where it needed to be. We had Microsoft’s Media Center PC and Intel’s Viiv initiatives both with a lot of promise ...

36. Fujitsu introduces LifeBook U1010 UMPC

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    ... according to sources at Fujitsu Taiwan. The U1010 UMPC, or a so-called mobile Internet device (MID), is based on Intel's McCaslin ultra mobile platform, features an 800 MHz A110 processor and 1 GB ...

37. 10 things I have learned about the iPhone

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... comes darn close to what Intel recently described as a Mobile Internet Device (MID) – a product category that we once knew as “UMPC” (future UMPCs are likely to take the place of today’s ...

38. In praise of the iPhone with some rough seas ahead

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... validates the concept of the UMPC as Intel envisions it (the iPhone is more computer than phone and even runs a UNIX derivative).   Did the iPhone meet expectations? I doubt that was possible, but ...

39. Intel CEO compares AMD’s success to a “comet passing in the night”

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    During a recent forum discussion with employees at Intel’s Jones Farm production facility in Hillsboro Oregon, chief executive officer Paul Otellini said that AMD’s recent success in the microprocessor ...

40. Intel CEO: Silverthorne most important product since the introduction of the Pentium processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    In an interview with German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) Intel chief executive officer Paul Otellini compared the importance of its upcoming mobile processor “Silverthorne” ...

41. Intel mobile devices to get Peppered with Linux support

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... power, and responsiveness perspective," said Intel ecosystem director Pankaj Kedia.  The new platform, which will be available only for Intel-powered devices, will begin shipping to OEMs and ...

42. Computex Wars: AMD vs. Intel vs. VIA - and some unexpected implications

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    Analyst Opinion - At Computex this week we saw a new round of the battle of CPU manufacturers: Intel came out swinging hard, which further validated AMD’s ATI acquisition strategy. But AMD may have ...

43. A closer look at Asus’ $199 computer

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... Easy to work.  He joked with Intel’s Executive Vice President Sean Maloney saying the name was inspired by Nintendo’s Wii. The smaller 7-inch computer weighs 900 grams and will probably ...

44. Intel fires up upgraded mobile Core 2 Duos

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Intel today launched four new Core 2 Duo processors as part of the much anticipated “Santa Rosa” platform, which not only enhances the Centrino platform core components, but offers completely ...

45. Samsung launches Q1 Ultra UMPC in the U.S.

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ...  On the processor side, the Q1 Ultra is available with Intel’s A100 (600 MHz) or A110 (800 MHz) processor, which are essentially Pentium M CPUs with the 90 nm Dothan core. Combined with 1 GB of memory, ...

46. The UMPC dies. And no one notices.

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... radar as quickly as it surfaced.   Key slides from Intel's Spring Analyst Forum 2007 ...   Ok, let’s not be so dramatic. It really depends on your view if the UMPC is actually dead ...

47. Intel claims 2-year lead over AMD’s 45nm CPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Intel is betting large parts of its business for the next two years on its upcoming 45 nm process technology. At an analyst meeting today in New York, the company updated its vision on how to “return ...

48. IDF: Intel reanimates its 90 nm Pentium M CPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Intel began the second day of its Spring IDF with keynotes covering the firm’s mobile processors – including the upcoming Santa Rosa platform, the 45 nm mobile Penryn processor, the first ...

49. Flipstart compact PC goes on sale

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... CTRL+ALT+DEL is combined into one key. The 1.5 pound system integrates a 5.6” 1024x600 pixel LCD, which is fed by an Intel integrated graphics chipset and a Pentium M ULV 1.1 GHz processor. There’s ...

50. FlipStart shows off “super compact” computer

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... machine has a 5.6" screen and slew of wireless features and an additional ARM processor for lightweight operations.   See pictures of the Flipstart compact PC here...   An Intel Pentium-M ...