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1. AMD to use Intel cash to pay off debt

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   $1.25 billion should keep the wolf from the door for a bit AMD says it plans to reduce its level of debt by $1.4 billion, using a large wedge of the $1.25 billion it received from Intel in exchange for ...

2. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 05 November 2009

   ... it had made of customers at a local Best Buy store just a few days earlier. They were asked if they had heard of SysMark, BAPCO and the like and it’s obvious that although these were intelligent users ...

3. AMD calls for more realistic notebook benchmarks

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 03 November 2009

   ... She said that focus groups show that there’s a delicate balance between explaining technology and reassuring people they don’t have to fully understand that technology. She continued: “Intel has made ...

4. Apple sued over camera patent by litigant with a past

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 29 October 2009

   ... 5,138,459 is a sample of the patent.The action is being brought by St Clair Intellectual Property Consultants, and it's provided a battery of previous litigation that's resulted in success in the courts.For ...

5. Intel sues news service over Intel name

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 29 October 2009

   Chip giant Intel filed a case in a California district court alleging that a news service specializing in news about Mexico has infringed its trademark. Chip giant Intel filed a case in a California ...

6. Sun and Fujitsu upgrade SPARC processor

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 13 October 2009

   ... Oracle is "committed" to SPARC architecture Intel: Xeon 5500 servers are "cash machines"  ...

7. Apple threatens Woolworths over new logo

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 05 October 2009

   ... organisation tasked with regulating intellectual property, bans Woolworths' trademark on the grounds that ‘consumers may not be able to differentiate between the two brands’ and claims the grocery chain ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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 ...

10. ARM confirms it's chatting to GlobalFoundries

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    ... are in deep congress over cooperating on semiconductor production.Bloomberg chatted to an ARM vice president of marketing who confirmed the company has Intel in its sights and wants 15 percent of the mini-notebook ...

11. 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 ...

12. 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 ...

13. Intel has ambitious plans for i5, i7 CPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 16 September 2009

    It looks as though Intel wants to ship a million Lynnfield Core i5 and Core i7 microprocessors by the end of this year, according to a report.It looks as though Intel wants to ship a million Lynnfield ...

14. What's at the heart of HP’s Laptops and Lenovo’s Best Student Tablet

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    ... It is very thin and can be had with AMD or Intel processors, LED backlit screen, and discrete graphics.   Less than an inch thick and with a 4.2 pound carry weight this isn’t the thinnest or ...

15. AMD aims at simplicity for the tech generation

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 09 September 2009

    ... about what the speed of a CPU is, nor do they particularly need to know about the number of cores a processor has. What they do need to know is what a machine does. Intel, she thinks, still concentrates ...

16. Intel comes under pressure from ARM

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 08 September 2009

    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 ...

17. Nokia to put Microsoft Office on its cellphones

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 11 August 2009

    Microsoft and Nokia will today announce a deal that will allow Microsoft's Office suite to work on Nokia cellphones. Microsoft and Nokia will today announce a deal that will allow Microsoft's Office suite ...

18. IBM, Cisco, Nokia others sued over network security

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 04 August 2009

    ... called Intelligent Network Security Device and Method, and another patent, 6,304,975B1. The patent was granted to inventor Peter Shipley on September 12, 2000. Shipley has assigned the patent to Enhanced ...

19. Snapdragons snap at Intel's heels

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 03 August 2009

    Analysis - Intel may not be too happy about this, but if reports are true, a large number of Taiwanese manufacturers are set to introduce smartbooks based on ARM Snapdragon and ARM Tegra technology.Analysis ...

20. Update: Intel runs out of Atoms - report

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 30 July 2009

    Demand for netbooks is so high that Intel isn't accepting orders for its Atom Z microprocessor any more, according to a report.Demand for netbooks is so high that Intel isn't accepting orders for its Atom ...

21. Global Foundries has a fighting chance

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 29 July 2009

    ...  IBM Semiconductors at East Fishkill is just down the road from the fab GF has started in New York State. And never let us forget that sometimes arch rival Intel fabs chips too - it is still making DEC ...

22. Global Foundries wants firms to delay moving to larger wafers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    ...  The over-cynical might say that the reason it had to move so fast is because its competitor, Intel, had already started manufacturing using the 45 nanometer process and is already preparing to move its ...

23. New York Times wants your money

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 10 July 2009

    ... model. Both the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Christian Science Monitor shut down their print operations in a bid to survive in digital form.  ...

24. Atom MID sells for $57, reader ahead

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 09 July 2009

    ... by the end of 2009. And it's not stopping there. It is also likely to produce electronic readers using 3.5G technology. Intel is quoted as saying telecomms firms are likely to subsidize these types of ...

25. Google's a threat to you, not Microsoft

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 08 July 2009

    ... and down and demanding that Google backs off. If Microsoft and Intel are bogeymen, Google is the devil incarnate. If you're not very worried indeed about Google, you probably suffer from learning difficulties. ...

26. Sony falls to Netbook fever

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 07 July 2009

    ... decided to bite the bullet and release one anyway. The 10-inch screen machine, dubbed the Vaio W, will debut in August and uses Intel's 1.66GHz "Atom" N280. What sets it apart from the Netbook competition ...

27. God is out on whether Google is good or evil

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 29 June 2009

    ... to think that it's just a minnow compared to giants like Microsoft and IBM. Interestingly, it doesn't include Intel in the figures - Paul Otellini, Intel's CEO is on Google's board.One key message Google ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    ... 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 ...

29. 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, ...

30. Patent trolls live under the bridge

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 04 June 2009

    ... question here is who is doing the trolling. Large vendors like Microsoft, Intel and others have phalanxes of lawyers that can be more or less instantly deployed to contest patent infringement cases and ...

31. Intel gets its thin kicks trailing the lonely Pine

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 03 June 2009

    Chip firm Intel made much of its next generation Atom chip earlier this week at Computex. Chip firm Intel made much of its next generation Atom chip earlier this week at Computex. Senior VP Sean Maloney ...

32. Sony, Nvidia sued over graphics technology

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 02 June 2009

    ... injunct both Sony and Nvidia, and to give it damages, costs and the like.This isn't the first time Biax has attempted to enforce its patents - it has previously sued Intel, as well as Sun Microsystems, ...

33. Intel just can't lose

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 13 May 2009

    Opinion - Chip giant Intel has swept all before it by a combination of aggression, execution and sometimes bullying,  and it's hard to see the Santa Clara gravy train ever hitting the buffers.Opinion ...

34. 10 million ultra low voltage notebooks to ship in 2009

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 12 May 2009

    Chip firm Intel is fiercely pushing consumer ultra low voltage processors (CULV) machines during 2009 in a bid to prevent the cannibilization of its lucrative notebook range by pesky cheap Netbooks and ...

35. 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, ...

36. Nanya hopes for DRAM rebound

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 30 April 2009

    ... wants the government of Taiwan to chip in to the extra share offering, according to the Taipei Times. There is some evidence that the situation in the semiconductor market is improving. Intel said there ...

37. AMD, Intel others sued over CPU execution

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 29 April 2009

    Chip firms Intel and AMD have found themselves in the company of seven other semiconductor giants and are being sued by a Georgia company for allegedly infringing a patent. ATLANTA, GEORGIA - Chip firms ...

38. HP dv2: Better than a netbook?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Sunday, 26 April 2009

    ... 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 ...

39. AMD pushes Phenom II to 3.2 GHz, you can push it further

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 23 April 2009

    ... have taken the chip to 3.8 GHz, and with some luck, you may get more. First reviews from Tom;’s Hardware or Anandtech, for example, indicate that it is a formidable gaming CPU, but it can’t touch Intel’s ...

40. The netbook-killing HP DV2

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 14 April 2009

    ... served by an inexpensive platform that better serves the graphics needs better then Intel does. You'll see AMD build on the foundation they have created with this bundle of GPU and CPU with future products ...

41. Acer Revo: The perfect desktop for an imperfect world

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Wednesday, 08 April 2009

    ... at the same time. In addition, the best performance parts for a product for this mixed up market comes from Intel which has the Atom platform, and Nvidia, which has Ion. The problem is that Intel hates ...

42. Chipset battleground: Nvidia accuses Intel of breach of contract

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 27 March 2009

    The chipset license dispute between Nvidia and Intel seems to get a bit more interesting as Nvidia now wants to terminate Intel’s license to Nvidia’s patents. Right now, it seems more like a flexing ...

43. 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 ...

44. Clara County: x86 cross-license dispute

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 18 March 2009

    Welcome to Clara County, a comic strip portraying a fictional representation of real-world companies. It's a hub of activity and you never know who's going to pop up. In this installment, we meet Inteligencia ...

45. AMD's lawyer claims Intel wants them dead

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 18 March 2009

    Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Intel Corporation are currently in a dispute regarding a potential x86 cross licensing agreement breach. Earlier in the month AMD and its partner Advanced Technology Investment ...

46. AMD to make x86 cross-license public, if Intel drops secrecy hold on anti-trust evidence

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 17 March 2009

    Yesterday, Intel offered AMD the option of making the terms of the x86 cross-licensing deal public. AMD agreed, but with one caveat of their own: They want Intel to lift the secrecy demand on all antitrust ...

47. Apple's new firmware enables remote disk sharing on wireless base stations

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 06 March 2009

    ... the AirPort Client Update 2009-01 update, the firmware fixes issues with roaming and network selection in dual-band environments. It is currently available only for Intel-based Macs running Mac OS X ...

48. Intel declares war

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 03 March 2009

    Analyst Opinion - On the surface, the cooperation between Intel and TSMC seems like a routine cooperative partnership announcement. Yet with this one action, if managed effectively, Intel has almost ...

49. Microsoft working on Bob 2.0? Meet Laura the talking head

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 03 March 2009

    ... resource and compute intensive. According to Vance, "Laura requires a top-of-the-line chip with eight processor cores to handle all of the artificial intelligence and graphics work needed to give the system ...

50. Freescale promises $200 netbook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 18 February 2009

    ... 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 ...