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1. Nokia, Apple suit reeks of desperation

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   ... talking about redefining what's happening."A law suit could certainly redefine what's happening but as watchers of the continual litigation between Intel and AMD know, these kind of court cases take years ...

2. Intel, ASML bring cheer to the chip market

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   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 ...

3. 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 ...

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

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

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

5. Intel comes under pressure from ARM

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   The biggest contract manufacturer of electronics is putting muscle behind ARM technology rather than Intel chips to create laptops at a premium price.The biggest contract manufacturer of electronics is ...

6. Intel forecasts better times ahead

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   On the back of better-than-expected demand, Intel says it now expects third quarter revenue to hit $9 billion, half a billion more than expected.Santa Clara, CA - On the back of better-than-expected demand, ...

7. Desktop PCs are not quite dead yet

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... casts serious doubt on the future of the desktop PC. According to the report, chip giant Intel recently held a summit in mainland China in an attempt to form a strategy that will revive the market. It ...

8. Archos takes an Atomic PC tablet

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... way for netbooks in the future by unveiling a tablet machine running Windows 7, and possibly the Android OS. The machine won't be out until later this year, and will use a 1.2GHz Intel Atom Z515 processor. ...

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

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... 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, ...

10. Intel + Nokia: In search of relevance

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    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. ...

11. Top 100 bosses just don't blog

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... distant, disinterested and disengaged."The Fortune list is here. Uberceo is here. Where's Paul Otellini of Intel? ...

12. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 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 ...

13. National Health Service embraces Intel tech

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Intel's move into health care kicked off around four years ago and now it seems it has something of a success on its hands.Intel's move into health care kicked off around four years ago and now it seems ...

14. Wind River: Intel is aiming another big gun at Apple, ARM

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Opinion – Intel isn’t kidding about the embedded and mobile market. Today’s acquisition is yet another sign that the company isn’t playing for second place and is trying to replace ARM, MIPS and ...

15. Dell suffers catastrophic profit fall

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... quarter on quarter, year on year. Earlier this week, figures from IDC showed that the lucrative X86 server market is flagging. Both Intel and AMD have warned that sales to corporations and large organizations ...

16. Intel still going after Apple’s iPhone business

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Apple may be working on its own processor and chipset for the iPhone, but that does not mean that Intel has given up on winning Apple as a customer for its next-generation smartphone. And as far as ...

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

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    ... 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 ...

18. Chinese officials told they must smoke

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... 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, ...

19. Golden Goose continues to lay Microsoft eggs

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... PCs - a pattern that's familiar to  Intel, AMD, and the other snug-as-a-bug-in-a-rug PC players. Microsoft, incidentally, said dents in its Windows division revenues weren't affected by booming ...

20. AMD optimistic although future is murky

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... does AMD anticipate it will lose market share in Q2 to Intel. AMD’s forecast is not to lose share, but the economy is still so weak that it’s being ultra cautious. On average selling prices (ASPs) are ...

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

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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 ...

22. Microsoft: Spam level now at 97%

    (Security/Security Features)

    It seems that Bill Gates’ 2004 prediction that there would be no spam anymore within a couple of years was wrong. According to Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence Report, the number of spam messages ...

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

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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 ...

24. AMD demos live machine migration across three CPU generations

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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  ...

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

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    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 ...

26. Review: Mozilla Labs extension refreshes Firefox tabs

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... also gets intelligent buttons which automatically offer to map addresses, search for terms and visit copied URLs. While other browsers simply bring up thumbnails of the most-visited sites in general, ...

27. Chip industry suffers painful fourth quarter

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... market intelligence services, for iSuppli. “Many of these suppliers are focused on semiconductor segments that performed poorly during the year, including memory, Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), analog ...

28. Freescale promises $200 netbook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... majority of netbooks on the shelves. Freescale wants to deliver the product by summer. The new netbook would prove to the world that an Intel Atom platform is not the only way to go. The company's ...

29. UPDATED: AMD never did hold the highest 3DMark record

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

      Opinion - An Intel employee and well-known overclocker contacted TG Daily to point out that AMD actually never did hold the 3DMark record. FutureMark's website shows the 45474 3DMark AMD machine result ...

30. IBM brings cloud computing to universities

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... done in conjunction with the Computational Intelligence Research Group at the University of Pretoria, is using cloud computing for next-generation medical research. Students, said IBM, hope to find "ways ...

31. AMD announces new low-power quad-core Opterons

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... power supply, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 SP2 64-bit. Intel configuration: 2 x Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors Model L5420 (2.5GHz) in Supermicro 6025W-NTR+ motherboard, 16GB (8x2GB DDR2-667 Low-Power ...

32. Overclock: Asus motherboard takes Intel Core i7 to 5.6 GHz!

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

      Hot Hardware has posted a screenshot showing how an ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution workstation motherboard took an Intel Core i7 CPU 3.2 GHz Extreme 965 45nm Socket 1366 LGA CPU to 5,611.22 MHz (5.61 GHz). ...

33. Big News Around CES That Got Little Coverage

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    There were some interesting things that happened during CES that were game changers which didn't get a lot of coverage because so many of us were focused on things like the Palm Pre which attracted ...

34. CES 2009: AMD releases Phenom II X4 and Dragon desktop platform

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... a new numbering convention. The 940 model relates more directly to Intel's number scheme, and runs at 3.0 GHz. The quad-core Phenom II X4 is built on a 45nm process technology, Deneb core, contains 758 ...

35. Intel and Adobe team up for TVs with Flash

    (Software/Software Brief)

    San Jose (CA) - Intel and Adobe are teaming up to bring Adobe's Flash technology (the browser plug-in, not SDD storage) to Intel's upcoming Media Processor CE 3100 for TVs. The first products are expected ...

36. Update - U.S. students showing an increase in mathematic aptitude

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... were allowed to participate in a special study which allowed their scores to be ranked as though they were independent countries. These states demonstrated outstanding intelligence levels and outperformed ...

37. HP demonstrates unbreakable flexible active matrix displays

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... technology and manufacturing ecosystem to support this market." HP's Intellectual Property Licensing Group (HP-IPLG) holds the license to SAIL technology, which can also be applied to other industries ...

38. CPU prices post huge drops in 2008, Intel delays CPU+GPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      Baird analysts sent out a research note earlier today, telling customers that Intel will delay its Havendale CPU+GPU processor by one quarter into 2010, while average CPU pricing for both AMD and Intel ...

39. UPDATE: AMD Shanghai versus Intel Nehalem at 45nm

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Anandtech.com posted an article last week comparing Intel's Nehalem to AMD's Shanghai on the Linpack 9.1 benchmark. While running the same binary on both systems, the Core i7 2.66 GHz with HyperThreading ...

40. PC 3.0: Visions from the Phoenix Technology Annual Conference

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... is Wireless USB, formally known as Ultra Wideband, which can handle everything including displays, with the exception of the power part. The other is an intelligent pad that could do everything but likely ...

41. Scientists create strained silicon model, could increase performance

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Research engineers and physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a method to measure how varying degrees of strain affect electronic structures in silicon, which in turn affect ...

42. Malware on PCs on the rise, but there is good news as well

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

      Microsoft released another edition of its Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (MSIR), one of the most comprehensive reports on current global malware trends. Microsoft’s analysts point out ...

43. Atom pushes Intel past 87% market share mark for mobile PCs

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

      The global x86 processor market showed strength in the third quarter of this year, posting 15.8% growth in terms of unit shipments. The big winner of the quarter was Intel’s Atom processor, market ...

44. Microsoft market cap drops below $200 billion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... during this shaky month. Especially chip companies were once again in the crosshairs of traders with Nvidia, AMD, Seagate and Intel showing visible declines. Microsoft also was hit with a substantial ...

45. Intel’s shows off second-gen MID platform Moorestown

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      Intel demonstrated the successor of the current Menlow platform, which is based on the Atom processor with Silverthorne core, at Developer Forum currently held in Taiwan. Other than Menlow, the ...

46. VMware: Potentially the world's most powerful low-level debugging tool

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... are hard-coded to 0xb0000 through 0xb7fff for both text and graphics, and therein lies its awesome utility for debugging. I had developed a low-level graphical debugger called Debi (DEBugger for Intel). ...

47. Asus announces quad-core gaming laptop

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... mobile quad core CPU.  ASUS has announced their upcoming G71 gaming notebook that uses the Intel QX9300.  The monstrous notebook sports a 17-inch screen that can display 1920 by 1200 pixes ...

48. AMD set to release nine 45 nm processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... in the launch of its Shanghai processor at least one full month, which probably has been motivated by Intel’s strong showing in the 2-way and 8-way segments. If Shanghai in fact is as good as AMD claims ...

49. Cray launches deskside Wintel supercomputer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      Cray surprised the hardware community today with the launch of a Intel-Microsoft based supercomputer system, which according to the manufacturer, is the “most affordable supercomputer” the company ...

50. Apple submits voice, finger, gaze and facial recognition patent application

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... designed to improve the accuracy and intelligence of multi-touch interfaces and enable more complex and detailed gestures than what is supported by today's technology. By feeding the system with information ...