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1. Tilera challenges X86 architecture with 100 core-processor

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   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 ...

2. Intel shows off 22 nanometer, optimistic about future

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   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 ...

3. Semicon West opens its doors

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Ultra Mobility Group will deliver the keynote later today and TG Daily will be there to cover it. Topics for papers include a look at technology beyond ...

4. Intel targets future MID market with power-conscious Moorestown

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Intel has confirmed that its next-generation Moorestown processor will utilize platform power management (PPM) technology to facilitate a 50x reduction in idle power compared to current Atom-based ...

5. Intel’s Numonyx closes in on potential flash successor PCM

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Numonyx, a joint venture created by Intel and ST Microelectronics in 2008, said it has entered a license agreement with Ovonyx. The license enables Numonyx to access Ovonyx patents that affect Phase ...

6. Review: IE8 is no speed demon, but is most secure browser available

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... example, IE8 includes probably the best tabbed browsing implementation available at this moment. Its souped up address and search bars are now on par with Firefox's and Chrome's, both of whose intelligent address ...

7. Linux, Microsoft and Sun to discuss the future of operating systems, but where's Apple?

   (Software/Software Features)

   At the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco on April 8-10, 2009, a meeting of the great OS minds will take place. There, sponsored by Intel, will be assembled together the Linux Foundation, Sun Microsystems ...

8. Marvell's Plug Computer: A tiny, discrete, fully functional 5 watt Linux server

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   ... wrote in the press release, "There is no doubt that home networks needs to become more intelligent and easier to use by offering value added services for the consumer. We have created an open computing ...

9. Throw your hard drive away, Google's Gdrive arriving in 2009

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... but with more intelligence: Its service keeps your files seamlessly synced across desktop, web and mobile worlds. The latter client also allows you to access files from your desktop using a Windows ...

10. Apple's Mini DisplayPort to become a part of DisplayPort 1.2 specification

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... put forth by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). It is being pushed by Nvidia, AMD and Dell, which offer DP video cards and monitors. HP, Philips, Samsung, Lenovo, Nvidia, Intel, Microsoft ...

11. Microsoft opens 20,000 square foot retail demo center

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Microsoft's Press Release. OpinionIt's an interesting trend we're seeing. Large companies like IBM, Microsoft and Intel are producing prototypes for things relating to consumers when, in the past, this ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

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

13. Apple conspiracy theory: "Corporations" behind Psystar?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... On information and belief, the John Doe Defendants are various individuals and/or corporations who have infringed Apple’s intellectual property rights, breached or induced the breach of Apple’s license ...

14. iPhone now boots Linux, soon to boot Android?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... The ability to run a rival OS on Apple devices could be more important than the dual-boot ability of Intel-based Macs.  ...

15. Netflix opens Silverlight streaming beta

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... movie streaming service to a much wider audience using Microsoft’s Silverlight platform. For the first time, the technology called "Watch Instantly" will be available to owners of Intel-based Macs as well. ...

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

    (Software/Software Brief)

    ... 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 ...

17. Silverlight opens Netflix to Macs

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... next generation improvement of access and quality, on a broader range of platforms, including Intel Macs and Firefox.” The Watch Instantly feature provides Netflix subscribers with a choice to watch more ...

18. Pricewatch: Desktop processor bargains?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... is still growth in the processor market. AMD and Intel have to adjust to a changing purchase behavior as consumers are looking for cheaper computers. TG Daily took a closer look at the current desktop ...

19. Timeline: How AMD changed over the past 39 years

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... chips. 1970: AMD introduces the Am2501 logic counter, its first proprietary device. 1972: AMD goes public. 1975: AMD enters the RAM chip business, reverse-engineers the Intel 8080 microprocessor and ...

20. Dissecting Microsoft’s Seinfeld ad

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... of them being funny, some very intelligent, some controversial, some boring and some may even be considered very disturbing. Join us for a journey on taking this commercial apart, piece by piece.  ...

21. Larrabee, CUDA and the quest for the free lunch

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

      Opinion – Intel unveiled some key details about its upcoming Larrabee accelerator/discrete graphics architecture earlier this week, sparking speculation how this new technology will stack up to ...

22. Intel teases new Larrabee details

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      Siggraph is just around the corner, so it should not be too surprising that Intel is talking more seriously about Larrabee, a discrete graphics product due for launch in “2009 or 2010”. Intel ...

23. Psystar challenges Apple server with Xserve clone

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

24. The year 2020 according to Intel

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

      Analyst Opinion - Intel held its Lab showcase at the Silicon Valley Computer History Museum this week. While many of the things shown may not make it to market, it is enticing to look at a future ...

25. Why Firefox 3 matters

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... tweaks subtle enhancements that you may be noticing only over days of regular usage. To us, the interface looks like an intelligently, thoroughly improved product that offers much more fluid browsing experience ...

26. The visual computing clash: Nvidia CEO opens a can of whoop-ass for Intel

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      Nvidia and Intel are on a crash course: With Nvidia moving its GPUs into potential CPU territory and Intel tuning CPUs to take over GPU territory, you have a classic scenario for a confrontation ...

27. 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 ...

28. Do Intel's delays hint of 45nm woes?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Intel's recent minor slip of three quad-core processors from early in Q1'2008 to mid-to-late Q1'2008, coupled with some rumblings from under the surface, have caused a few to raise an eyebrow ...

29. Sun open-sources T2 processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... exposure. Realistically, as much praise as the T1 and T2 have received, the technology is locked into a niche today with limited opportunity for growth in an environment that is largely dominated by Intel’s ...

30. Background: Inside Intel's Tera-scale project

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Last week, Intel released eight technical papers providing details about its Tera-scale project. TG Daily had an opportunity to discuss the technology with Jerry Bautista, director of technology management ...

31. Tilera announces 64-core processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Silicon Valley startup Tilera today announced the Tile64, a processor with 64 programmable cores that, according to the company, houses ten times the performance and 30 times the power efficiency of Intel's ...

32. TG Daily Special: Virtualization Explored - Part 2

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... is that we currently have two disparate technologies moving forward in x86 space, AMD-V and Intel VT.   These technologies do the same basic thing, but they are not compatible.  Neither do they ...

33. 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 ...

34. Intel squeezes 1.8 TFlops out of one processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Intel today revealed more details about its 80-core research CPU, which likely is the most powerful floating point engine built to date. 200 of these processors achieve the same floating point performance ...

35. Analysis: Retail prices of AMD processors continue decline

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    AMD's processor prices remain under severe pressure: Caught between Intel's outgoing Pentium D series on the low end and the Core 2 Duo series on the high end, the X2 Athlons remain vulnerable ...

36. AMD aims for major 65 nm transition by mid-2007

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    In a briefing with journalists, AMD provided and updated outlook on its future processor and manufacturing plans. The firms 65 nm processors will be introduced in December. The company trails Intel by ...

37. Firefox 2.0 hits the Web

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Following on the heels of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla has released version 2.0 of its web browser. The software was released unofficially on Monday, a few days short of the browser's second ...

38. AMD to build massive 32 nm chip factory in New York

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... fields and about 21% larger than Intel's currently largest fab (D1D, 989,000 square foot) and about the same size as Intel's currently constructed 45 nm Fab in Kiryat Gat, Israel. AMD's new 300 mm facility ...

39. Intel opens third 65 nm fab, confirms 45 nm on track

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Intel expands the production capability of 65 nm and future 45 nm processors with the official opening of its third 65 nm facility. Leixlip, Ireland joins the Chandler, AZ, and Hillsboro, OR, factories ...

40. Apple cuts price of movie effects software Shake from $3000 to $500

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... elements ranging from smoke, sparkles and fire to sophisticated multi-plane 3D composites. As recent software releases, Apple promises that Shake will benefit from newer Intel-based Apple computers as ...

41. Apple's iPod countersuit against Creative opens legal hornet's nest

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Last Thursday, Apple launched a second round of intellectual property countersuits against Zen MP3 player producer Creative Labs, in a different location, over a separate set of issues. If Apple isn't ...

42. AMD HyperTransport innovation opens up CPU sockets to OEMs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... early days of Intel 387s. It's called Torrenza, and it represents the company's move to open up the HyperTransport link between processors to the outside world. As a result, according to Tom's Hardware ...

43. The Revolution will be...'Wii?'

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... Japanese market. "Wii" isn't the first home entertainment trademark to be introduced in the past 12 months with a strange name and a "double-I." In fact, "Wii" could almost be an anagram for "Viiv," Intel's ...

44. AMD to demo virtualization tech at Linux World

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... World will open its doors on 3 April. AMD trails Intel with the introduction of virtualization by a few months. Intel started late last year to spread virtualization support throughout its product portfolio. ...

45. CES 2006: Highlights of Thursday's coverage from TG Daily

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... forward steps toward its content delivery platform, while Intel extended its new Viiv umbrella brand to encompass existing PCs, media center PCs, and the back-end service that feeds them with downloadable ...

46. CES 2006 Preview: Will low-power, digital life, and rights management sell to consumers?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... of gadget news, including anticipated announcements from Sony on its forthcoming PlayStation 3 console, and from Intel on its new brand, new ad campaign, and new lines of chips and chipsets. We'll be looking ...

47. TG Daily complete wrap-up of CES 2006 coverage

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... a lot more Hollywood this year, as everybody wanted to be a content company all of a sudden. Top Stories Analysis: Core processor is Intel's ticket to Hollywood Intel CEO Paul Otellini's keynote address ...

48. Sun intros 8-core processor servers, open-sources T1 chip spec

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... servers can outpace Intel and IBM rivals, Sun claims. A new open source program is targeted to bring Linux and FreeBSD to the T1 platform. New York (NY) - In an effort to regain ground in the global ...

49. Unasked questions about Xbox 360: Microsoft's game plan to seize the high ground

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... its competition? David Cole, gaming analyst with DFC Intelligence, believes that by that time, what may distinguish one console from another - and what may drive its commanding market share - may not be ...

50. Sony BMG's DRM provider does not rule out future use of stealth

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... to music with the desire to protect intellectual property," he told TG Daily. "I think, at this point, it's very difficult to try to go back in time and turn CDs into a secure mechanism, because there's ...