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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 showcases Fermi-based Tesla GPUs

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   ... into X86 market Nvidia: Our nForce chipsets are "better" than Intel's Nvidia: Windows 7 "dramatically improves" GPU performance  ...

3. 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  ...

4. 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 ...

5. Intel sues Silicon Valley partner

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 01 October 2009

   Chip giant Intel started a law suit in a California district court alleging that Intelop - an IP developer and engineering design services firm in Silicon Valley breaches its trademark name.Chip giant ...

6. 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 ...

7. Apple App Store downloads pass two million mark

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Monday, 28 September 2009

   ... device, and our users are clearly loving it." In related news, the iPhone was today voted the coolest consumer brand by UK market intelligence outfit CoolBrands, knocking Aston Martin off the top spot ...

8. Intel Developer Forum was a bishop’s egg

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 28 September 2009

   ... week’s Intel Developer Forum (IDF) – let us rather describe it as a bishop’s egg – the only bad part about it being the shell that covers the interior. Or maybe IDF was an onion – there are many different ...

9. Settlement looks likely in AMD-Intel civil case

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Sunday, 27 September 2009

   The word on the chip strasse is that Intel and AMD may well reach a settlement before the long-running civil case between the companies comes to court in spring 2010.The word on the chip strasse is ...

10. Intel will soon have real reasons to fear ARM

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Saturday, 26 September 2009

    ... world, is getting a little rattled. A GlobalFoundries deal with ARM would bring an awful lot to the party. During this week's Intel Developer Forum, senior executives at the chip company outlined their ...

11. 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 ...

12. GameTree ports PC-based content to HD television sets

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 25 September 2009

    GameTree has partnered with Intel to offer an on-demand gaming platform for HD TV. The platform - known as GameTree.tv - is expected to run on Intel CE media processor powered set-top boxes and other ...

13. Microsoft confirms no Windows 7 restrictions for netbooks

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 25 September 2009

    ... or business features. The three application limit isn’t there anymore." Microsoft's reassurance follows heavy hints dropped earlier this week at Intel's Developer Forum in San Francisco. The Starter ...

14. Intel outlines future of interactive television

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 24 September 2009

    Intel has introduced the CE4100 SoC. The 45nm chip - expected to encourage the development of interactive television content and applications - is fully compatible with Blue-ray, Digital TV and other ...

15. Intel and Apple are at the crossroads

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 23 September 2009

    ... be the last truly great Intel CEO. It is amazing how companies seem to lose their way once a founder that has been so instrumental in driving the company to success departs.  Microsoft just ...

16. MCCI showcases 270MB/s USB 3.0 system

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    ... - is capable of achieving a blazingly fast transfer rate of 270MB per second. Intel Developer Forum - MCCI and Symwave are showcasing the world's "highest performing" USB 3.0 system at IDF 2009. The next-generation ...

17. AMD bullish about server market

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    Chip firm AMD is holding an alternative event just a block away from the Intel Developer Forum and wheeling in stray hacks off the street, briefing them about the stuff it makes.Chip firm AMD is holding ...

18. Intel accidentally previews Larrabee, Gulftown

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    Intel has inadvertently offered a sneak preview of its afternoon keynote speech. Copies of the keynote to be delivered by Sean Maloney somehow appeared in the press room early this morning. Intel has ...

19. Intel shows off 22 nanometer, optimistic about future

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    A senior Intel executive opened up this year's Intel Developer Forum this morning. Usually it's Pat Gelsinger who opens the show. Intel has thoughtfully provided white boards for people to write messages ...

20. Elektrobit upgrades MID design with haptic technology

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 21 September 2009

    Intel Developer Forum 2009 - Elektrobit has upgraded its MID reference design with support for 3D, plasma desktop and haptic technology. Intel Developer Forum 2009 - Elektrobit has upgraded its MID reference ...

21. SGI introduces Octane III 'personal' supercomputer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 21 September 2009

    ... a "new era" of innovation in strategic science, research, development and visualization. Intel Developer Forum 2009 - SGI has introduced a "personal" supercomputer capable of accommodating up to 80 high-performance ...

22. SuperSpeed controller to boost adoption of USB 3.0

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 21 September 2009

    ... Intel Developer Forum. Demonstrations will include an Asus X58 motherboard exchanging data with a LucidPort USB mass storage device, the latter running the USB Attached SCSI Protocol (UASP). There will ...

23. Seagate 2TB Barracuda drive features 64MB cache

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 20 September 2009

    ... with a number of companies, including Intel, Microsoft, Asus and Marvell, to ensure the success of Sata 6G. The Barracuda XT - which is fully compatible with legacy SATA 1.5Gb/s and SATA 3Gb/s - is currently ...

24. Intel's talking about my g-g-g-generation

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 20 September 2009

    IDF FALL 2009 - UPDATED - There's a two day countdown to the Fall Intel Developer Forum (IDF) being held at the Moscone - pronounced Mosconay and not Mosc One - and already the busy bees at the Santa Clara ...

25. Point Grey debuts USB 3.0 digital video camera

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Friday, 18 September 2009

    Point Grey has announced plans to showcase the "world's first" SuperSpeed USB-enabled digital video camera at the 2009 Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco. Point Grey has announced plans to ...

26. USB 3.0 gets public viewing

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 17 September 2009

    The USB Implementors Forum said it will show off a number of USB 3.0 applications at the Intel Developer Forum next week.The USB Implementors Forum said it will show off a number of USB 3.0 applications ...

27. Kingston, Rambus claim multicore thread shows speed boost

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 17 September 2009

    ... as often as in conventional modules meaning a 20 percent reduction in power required. Rambus will show off the prototype at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, next week. There's no word yet when ...

28. To lose one Gelsinger is careless. To lose three is an Intel catastrophe

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

    ... decided to tidy up his desk and move his caravanserai to storage company EMC. But we can certainly make some educated guesses. Gelsinger was an Intel man through and through - Intel ran through him as ...

29. Intel sampling Jasper Forest chips with built-in I/O hub

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 13 September 2009

    Chip giant Intel has started sampling the latest iteration of its Nehalem processors, codenamed Jasper Forest. Chip giant Intel has started sampling the latest iteration of its Nehalem processors, codenamed ...

30. Intel's Pat Gelsinger leaves for EMC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 13 September 2009

    UPDATED: A report said that Pat Gelsinger, a senior vice president at the Intel Corporation, is to leave the company after 30 years in harness to join storage company EMC.A report said that Pat Gelsinger, ...

31. Google takes aim at Microsoft with new OS

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 07 July 2009

    ... of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates." The move will have implications for Intel as well as Microsoft. The chip giant has been putting a lot of energy into a Linux based OS called ...

32. Intel + Nokia: In search of relevance

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 25 June 2009

    Analyst Opinion - Intel  and Nokia announced a strategic relationship this week, a relationship that would point to a cooperation targeting the development of next-generation communicatiosn devices. ...

33. EU gangs up with Microsoft rivals to fight the Evil Empire

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 11 June 2009

    Opinion: The European Union, which clearly views successful US companies such as Microsoft and Intel as the spawn of the devil, is ganging up with their less-successful rivals to fight the forces of ...

34. Is AT&T just a drag for Apple?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 09 June 2009

    ... difficult to question AT&T’s ability to keep pace with the innovation in mobile devices, which seems to be accelerating every month. And we haven’t even seen Intel’s next-generation Atom platform, ...

35. 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 ...

36. Google tells developers to "bet on the web"

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 27 May 2009

    ... partners have already begun to leverage the components to build new business intelligence apps so that users can quickly generate reports and dashboards that provide them with new insight to their data." ...

37. Vendors show off USB 3.0 at work

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 20 May 2009

    ... - the Superspeed USB Developers Conference in Tokyo - used prototype software from Intel to show different devices working together. Data transfer is slated to work 10 times faster than USB 2.0, and ...

38. AMD’s Globalfoundries to ramp with 22 nm chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 05 May 2009

    ... Back then, in June of 2006, AMD was flying high with its Opteron and Athlon X2 processors that took over market share from Intel almost at will. AMD’s market share gains were limited by its production ...

39. Chinese officials told they must smoke

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Monday, 04 May 2009

    ... of the population. Indeed, when we went to Shanghai last year to cover the Intel Developer Forum, we were taken by the existence of large shops which displayed the local cigarette wares with their strength, ...

40. Intel bolsters cooperation with Israeli companies

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 01 May 2009

    Intel and the Israeli Office of the Chief Scientist have agreed to provide local software companies with equipment, technology and access to distribution channels. According to Intel spokesperson Christos ...

41. Dozens of companies sued over Android name

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 01 May 2009

    ... Atheros, Broadcom, Ericsson, Intel, Marvell Semiconductor, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Sirf Technology, Synaptics, Texas Instruments, Asustek, IITC, Huawei, LG Electronics, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, ...

42. Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty Jackalope' release on April 23

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 13 April 2009

    ... Matt Cutts shows us how fast JJ can load using an Intel X25-E Etreme Single-Level Cell (SLC) SDD. The X25-E has a 75 microsecond latency, and up to 250 MB/s read speeds, and 170 MB/s write speeds. From ...

43. Upscale your DVDs to HD quality with GPU-accelerated software

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 01 April 2009

    ... upscale in real-time, ArcSoft reports 80% CPU utilization on an Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 at 2.2 GHz and an Nvidia GeForce 9600 video card with 2 GB of memory when upsampling a DVD to HD using their algorithms ...

44. HP and Asustek testing Google's Android OS for sub-$500 netbooks

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 31 March 2009

    ... and are traditionally less expensive as well, though Intel and VIA have been looking to challenge the low-end netbook market with very inexpensive, high performance x86-based CPU architectures, including ...

45. AMD demonstrates OpenCL-based Havok physics

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 26 March 2009

    ... this technology later this year. Interestingly, when AMD announced its collaboration with Havok (which is owned by Intel), it said that it would focus on physics processing via multi-core CPUs. But what ...

46. 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).  ...

47. 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 ...

48. The next iPhone looms on the horizon

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 25 March 2009

    ... why Apple should build its own iPhone system-on-a-chip Apple acquires 3.6% of Imagination to secure graphics tech for future iPhone Intel increases share in Imagination to 3.06%, countering Apple's ...

49. AMD demos live machine migration across three CPU generations

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 24 March 2009

    ... close relationship with Microsoft -- you may remember Microsoft began working with AMD on an x86-64 version of Windows even before Intel announced Yamhill (their x86-64 extension). See AMD's press  ...

50. AMD ready to demo Havok physics on its graphics cards

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 23 March 2009

    About nine months ago, we learned that AMD was partnering with Intel acquisition Havok to enable physics acceleration on its graphics processors. Now it seems that the company is ready to show what ...