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1. Wintel alliance fires first shots of OS war

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 02 September 2009

   The old Wintel alliance is going strong again with both Intel and Microsoft taking the stand to peddle Windows 7. San Francisco (CA) - The old Wintel alliance is going strong again with both Intel and ...

2. Intel and AMD may be radically changing the future of the PC

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Thursday, 14 May 2009

   ... computing model.  However, that begs a change on the client as well and interestingly enough, I was at Intel this week for an update on their Digital Home initiative and think this is the best effort ...

3. Evolved Machines fires up Nvidia Tesla supercomputer

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 09 April 2009

   ... represents the 84th fastest supercomputer in the world, beating Germany’s IBM BladeCenter HS21 Cluster, which runs on 3424 Intel Xeon 2.83 GHz cores.   ...

4. 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).  ...

5. Apple fires up new MacBook Pro

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 14 October 2008

   ...  According to Jobs, the 9400M runs "up to 5 times faster than Intel Integrated graphics," with a real world performance being "3 to 8 times" faster than what Intel offers. Apple adds the GeForce 9600M ...

6. Artifical Intelligence key to teach helicopter robots to fly

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Tuesday, 02 September 2008

   ... result was a textbook example of “apprenticeship learning” - an artificial intelligence system that replicated and eventually improved the actions of the pilot and the tricks performed. The stunts were ...

7. Lenovo fires up 17” mobile workstation

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 12 August 2008

   ... equipped with Intel’s upcoming Q9100 and Q9300X mobile quad-core processors, up to 8 GB of memory, dual hard drives with RAID 0 or RAID 1 configurations as well as a Blu-ray drive. What makes the W700 ...

8. Clearspeed squeezes 96 GFlops out of 12 watts

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 16 June 2008

     Clearspeed has been one of the pioneers in the floating point acceleration arena, a battleground that today also includes Nvidia, AMD and soon Intel as well. Clearspeed’s new CSX700 processor-based ...

9. ATI Radeon 4800 launch details: Meet (Terry) Makedon and Trojan (Horse)

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 14 May 2008

   ... According to our sources, the 4850 will come with single-slot cooling; CrossFireX is supported with up to four boards in a single system (if you have the appropriate board based on AMD 790FX, 790GX, Intel ...

10. Intel and Nvidia co-sponsors in parallel programming initiative

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 01 May 2008

    ... And no, that headline is no mistake: The initial group of sponsors includes a colorful mix of rivals and partners: AMD, Nvidia, Sun Microsystems as well as Intel, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, showing first ...

11. Intel to build supercomputers with Cray

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 April 2008

      Intel is taking its supercomputer efforts to the next step and established a R&D partnership with Cray, which has been using mainly AMD’s processors for its supercomputers in the past few ...

12. Intel builds Atom CPU for $8, sells it for up to $135

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 04 April 2008

      We were able to digest Intel’s Atom announcement this week, but for some reason, much of the focus on this new CPU remains on its price. Last week, TG Daily received first information for how ...

13. Intel fires up new Atom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

      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 ...

14. Inside Intel's ray tracing research

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 24 March 2008

      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 ...

15. Larrabee and Dunnington to star at IDF

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 17 March 2008

      Intel is gearing up for its Spring Developer Forum, which will open its doors on April 2 in Shanghai. Senior vice president Pat Gelsinger gave a first outlook what attendees will be able to see ...

16. Intel churning out 100,000 45 nm processors every day

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 06 March 2008

      While AMD is currently planning to ramp its 45 nm production in the first half of this year, and volume launch 45 nm processors for the second half, Intel is already ramping down 65 nm quickly, ...

17. Alienware fires up new flagship notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 15 January 2008

    ... model which is used to highlight the differences between the two companies. Intel’s Core 2 Extreme 2.8 GHz processor is only available in the new Alienware, as is Nvidia’s GeForce Go 8800M ...

18. AMD refreshes math library to include 128-bit Barcelona support

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 11 November 2007

    ... function to intel's VTune, though with a lesser set of comprehensive abilities.  It is also available for free download.  AMD first released their ACML in June, 2003.  Version 4.0 includes ...

19. ARM fires back at Intel

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 12 October 2007

    In response to Intel's recent attempts to favorably compare its processor architecture with that of leading handset IP provider ARM, Philip Lu, president of ARM Taiwan, highlighted the advantages ARM ...

20. Intel fires up upgraded mobile Core 2 Duos

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 09 May 2007

    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 ...

21. Nvidia scores dramatic gain in graphics chip market share

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 06 December 2006

    ... to Nvidia in several segments. On the desktop, ATI's overall share dropped from about 26% in Q2 to 22% in Q3, while Nvidia jumped from 24% to 25% in the same time frame. Intel, due to its dominance in ...

22. Velocity Micro announces first pre-configured Geforce 8800 PC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 08 November 2006

    ... 8800 GTX cards, an EVGA-built Nforce 680i motherboard, Intel's Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor, four 150 GB WD Raptor hard drives in RAID configuration, as well as a 18X and an 16x DVD burner. A monitor ...

23. Nvidia fires away with new Geforce 8800 GPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 08 November 2006

    ... various devices, including discrete processors (Ageia), CPUs (Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700) and graphics chip (Nvidia SLI physics, ATI Crossfire physics).According to Nvidia, the 8800 has much more physics ...

24. Dell lines up new quad-SLI gaming PC, portable desktop

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 31 May 2006

    ... The XPS M1210 comes with a 12.1" screen and comes standard with a dual-core Intel processor, 1 GB of memory and a 60 GB hard drive. Pricing starts at about $1300 with top-of-the-line models crossing the ...

25. Microsoft didn't really pioneer open source...did it?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 11 April 2006

    A TG Daily article last Friday on Microsoft's new open source software laboratory, and the blog devoted to it, opened by saying Microsoft may have pioneered the open source movement. Whenever there's ...

26. GDC 2006: Day One fires up gaming fans, price tags, and physics

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 23 March 2006

    ... machine features hand-painted flames on the case, a 4.26 GHz Intel Pentium D 965 Extreme Edition CPU, and four GeForce 7900 GTX video cards in quad SLI mode. Read more... Ageia announces "PhysX" physics ...

27. Microsoft's Origami UMPC: What were they thinking?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 14 March 2006

    ... if you'd like to download the SDK, and a free copy of Visual Basic Express, and come up with one. Six days after the official announcement of the Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) from Intel, and five days after ...

28. Anti-Viiv: AMD fires back a "Live" round, with its own digital home media platform

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 04 January 2006

    Aiming squarely for the territory Intel had hoped to claim at this year's CES, AMD has jumped the gun and announced its own digital home media reference platform, AMD LIVE!, one day earlier than anticipated. ...