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1. My 10 favorite Windows apps

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 27 October 2009

   I am agnostic to operating systems. I've used Mac OSes, I've used OS/2, I've used every version of Windows since version 1.0. I've used SuSE Linux. I liked SuSE Linux. It ran fiendishly fast on the Pentium ...

2. Opinion: Ditching Windows has never felt so good

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Wednesday, 21 October 2009

   ... choice but to adopt the howling beast known as Windows 95 if I wanted to play the next-generation of games. With a heavy heart and lighter wallet, I eventually purchased a new Pentium-based system that ...

3. Gateway takes on Apple's iMac

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 07 October 2009

   ... MSRPWindows 7 Home OS20-inch HD widescreen Ultrabright LCDResolution: 1600 x 900 resolutionIntel Pentium Dual Core Processor T4300 (2.1GHz, 1MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB)Intel GL40 Express ChipsetIntel GMA ...

4. Toshiba introduces ultra-thin laptop line

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 29 September 2009

   ... ($600) Intel Pentium SU4100 or SU2700 processor DDR3 RAM Starting at 250GB (5400 RPM) HDD 802.11b/g/n wireless and 10/100 Ethernet One eSATA/USB combo port with USB sleep-and-charge and two USB 2.0 ...

5. Intel adds virtualization tech to five processors

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 10 July 2009

   ... Pentium E5300 and E5400, as well as the Core 2 Duo CPUs E7400 and E7500. These new processors will be available on August 3. System vendors will have to use a BIOS update to make VT available to customers. ...

6. Intel moves straight to 32nm

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 18 June 2009

   ... CPUs to be phased out in the second half of this year or Q1 2010 include the Core 2 Extreme QX9775, Core i7 940 and several Core 2 Quad, Pentium and Celeron CPUs. Intel will issue a PDN for the Atom ...

7. Browser wars: When will the madness end?

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Monday, 15 June 2009

   ... by a couple of weeks. Intel then attempted to leapfrog the young upstart contender by launching a 1.1GHz Pentium III, which, rather tragically, didn't work. Anyway, our point was that measuring system ...

8. Bill Gates might have bought Buffalo Bill's ranch

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 04 June 2009

   ... ranch and once had a horse called the Pentium. Famously, Kicking Pat Gelsinger also of the Intel yard, once described the Pentium as the Pentium Princess. Dr Barrett was quick to point out that his hoss ...

9. Dinging Bing: 5 reasons why Microsoft’s new search engine will fail

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Tuesday, 02 June 2009

   ... idea, Microsoft, to have a pretty picture on the front page, but I was looking for Pentium III pictures today, why would I be interested in windmills in the Netherlands? A wasted effort. 4. Discount shopping ...

10. CE3100: Intel squeezes yet another chip out of the old Dothan core

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 25 May 2009

    ... TVs. And while this chip was announced back in August 2008, Kim just told us that it is based on the 90 nm Dothan core. Dothan was introduced in May 2004 as the second-generation Pentium M processor, which ...

11. Intel sued over Pentium name

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 15 May 2009

    A company called the Pentium Fund Limited has taken legal action against Intel, and is seeking a declaration that it can carry on trading under a name that's existed for thirty years.A company called the ...

12. Intel moves Larrabee into 2010

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 14 May 2009

    ... Radeon graphics cards.   Intel is very careful providing any information about its x86-based Larrabee. What we know, however, is that the device will be based on second-generation Pentium processor ...

13. Microsoft is hoist by its Windows petard

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Sunday, 19 April 2009

    ... much truer for software than hardware. Intel has made mistakes in the past by introducing microprocessors that aren’t exactly the bee’s knees – the Pentium 4 was not particularly advanced compared to the ...

14. Intel unleashes Nehalem-EP server CPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 30 March 2009

    ... the 5500 series will transform server processors in a similar way the Pentium Pro (which eventually turned into the Xeon series) did in 1995. Much about the Xeon 5500 is about performance. Offering 90 ...

15. Future Intel prices and products revealed

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Thursday, 19 March 2009

    ... E6300 -- $84 -- Celeron Dual-Core E1600 -- $53 --   July 19 Core 2 Quad Q8300 $183 $163 10.93% Core 2 Duo E7500 $133 $113 15.04% Pentium Dual-Core E5400 $84 $74 11.90% Pentium Dual-Core E5300 $74 $64 13.51% ...

16. Intel to pull x86 cross-licensing agreement with AMD in 60 days

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 16 March 2009

    ... and not hardware limitations). Following the 80386 came the 80486, and then Pentium (which was not delivered unto the world as 80586 because Intel lost a lawsuit which stated they could not patent numbers ...

17. Apple gets another secret Intel processor

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 03 March 2009

    ... down Intel and its slowpoke Pentium and Xeon processors in the early 2000s, the company surely must enjoy its two-year young partnership with Intel now and I am sure the company must be laughing all the ...

18. UPDATED: Intel's 8-core CPUs will have 2.3 billion transistors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 09 February 2009

    ... we remember that the firm’s first dual-core processor, the Pentium D 800-series with Smithfield core, was also rated at a TDP of 130 watts. Other news coming from Intel include the description of ...

19. Rambus taking another shot at mainstream memory technology

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 02 February 2009

    ... that Rambus memory, which was pitched by Rambus and Intel to become the standard memory for the Pentium 4 processor, as well as XDR - which the company hoped would make its way into graphics cards, but ...

20. Linus Torvalds' old company now officially dead

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 29 January 2009

    ... Crusoe processor in January of 2000, Curiously enough, that happened one day after Intel announced its first lower power SpeedStep processor, the Pentium III-M. The excitement for Transmeta did not last ...

21. Dr. Craig Barrett leaving Intel after 35 years, retiring in May

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 23 January 2009

    ... Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, Core, Core 2 and now Core i7 and Atom. Paul Otellini, Intel's current president and CEO said:"I want to thank Craig for his 35 years of tireless efforts ...

22. Netbook sales driving notebook prices down

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 19 December 2008

    Low-end notebooks are seeing pricing declines as a rise in netbook popularity begin to overtake the market. HP, Acer and Dell have all lowered low-end notebook prices with Pentium Dual-Core T3200, T2390 ...

23. Exclusive: First look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 RC1

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 15 December 2008

    ... difference between browsers is nevertheless interesting.) Using a dual-core Pentium 2.8 GHz system, the new build of IE8 scored 27.1 on our test system. By comparison, Firefox 3.1 beta 2 scored 104 (higher ...

24. AMD quietly launches first K10 dual-core CPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 15 December 2008

    ... to buy you a Core 2 Duo-class processor. Intel currently sells the Pentium Dual-Core E2220 (2.4 GHz, 65 nm) for $74 and the E5200 (2.5 GHz, 45 nm) for $84. The cheapest Core 2 Duo, the E7200, lists for ...

25. Intel Core i7 965 overclocked to 5.51 GHz

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Tuesday, 02 December 2008

    ... The machine ran a 190 MHz base clock with a 29x multiplier. The machine owner who set the world record is the same guy who, last year took a Pentium 4 model 631 to 8.18 GHz - also a world record.The TweakIt ...

26. Nehalem: Intel gives the industry exactly what's needed

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Tuesday, 18 November 2008

    Opinion - I have been very surprised reading the commentary from other websites regarding Core i7. Many of those authors believe Intel fell short with this Tock cycle, essentially stating they did not ...

27. Intel unleashes Core i7, beats itself

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 17 November 2008

    ... capability of Core i7 – which seemed to be mainly based on the fact that Core i7 is not quite as revolutionary when compared to Core 2 Duo as Core 2 Duo was when compared to the Pentium 4. X-bit labs ...

28. Intel spooks investors with profit warning

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 12 November 2008

    ... cut and downgrade was made by a Morgan Stanley Dean Witter analyst on November 10, 2000 – based on the expectation of sluggish PC demand and a challenging transition from the Pentium 3 to the Pentium ...

29. Pricewatch: Desktop processor bargains?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 13 October 2008

    ... about assembling a home entertainment center PC. A surprise on Intel’s side is the recently introduced Pentium E5200, a 45 nm-generation chip that already sells below its tray price.    Using ...

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

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 07 October 2008

    ... chip ends and the Supreme Court of California sides with AMD. 1995: K6 launches as Intel Pentium rival and first independently designed CPU. 1996: AMD acquires microprocessor company NexGen for rights ...

31. BCP lithography, self-assembling nanotechnology to build IC circuits from the bottom up

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 26 September 2008

    ... 800nm process. It followed the trend. The Pentium 4 was introduced in 2001 with 180nm process. And in 2008 we have 45nm still following the trend, but there is an end in sight. This pace cannot keep up ...

32. Taking Core to the Edge: Intel unveils 6-core Xeon CPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 15 September 2008

    ... dramatically – to 65 watt at Core 2 Duo’s introduction, down from 100 - 130 watts of the Pentium D series. Two years ago, we all wondered: How far can Core scale? Today we know that at least in clock ...

33. AMD issues dramatic price cuts for triple-core CPUs

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 08 September 2008

    ... since the launch in April, AMD has cut Phenom X3 prices nearly in half and has repositioned the chips to compete with Intel’s entry-level Core 2 Duos and dual-core Pentiums, which are mainly used for ...

34. Intel ships first halogen-free Xeon CPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 07 September 2008

    ... 65 nm Presler dual-core processors (released in late 2005 as Pentium D 900-series and based on the firm's Netburst architecture) that was rated at 130 watts at 3.4 GHz. The progress in power-efficiency ...

35. MSI announces three new notebooks

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Friday, 29 August 2008

    ... different tasks.The VR440 adopts Intel Pentium processors with a 14.1-inch LCD panel. More here at Digitimes.  ...

36. Gigabyte's monstrous 6 TFlops Core i7 prototype motherboard pictured

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 26 August 2008

    ... for single-precision applications (double precision will cause the performance to drop by 80 – 90%.) To put this performance into perspective, consider the fact that Intel’s 1997 Pentium Pro supercomputer ...

37. IDF Fall 2008: Intel un-retires Craig Barrett, AMD sets up anti-IDF camp

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 11 August 2008

    ... horses called Pentium and Itanium.   Actual product announcements besides Nehalem are scarce at this time. At least we know that Perlmutter has the honor of unveiling Intel’s first quad-core mobile ...

38. Nehalem = i7: Intel unveils new Core processor brand

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 10 August 2008

    ... for their products. AMD initially chose a strategy to describe its processors with a MHz-like number that was comparable to Intel’s Pentium chips (of course they did not admit that and said it was only ...

39. Intel teases new Larrabee details

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 03 August 2008

    ... fast communication between cores”. As previously reported, Larrabee x86 cores (each Larrabee core is actually a full x86 core) are based on a modernized dual-issue Pentium design with a short execution ...

40. Return of the Pentium: Larrabee to be based on P5 architecture

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 08 July 2008

    ... July 18), Stiller apparently found out that the Larrabee cores will be built on the P54C core – which was the code-name for the second-gen, 600 nm Pentium chip.   The first Pentium core (P5, 800 ...

41. AMD puts 5 TFlops in your PC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 15 June 2008

    ... – a performance that would have required 5000 Pentium Pro processors 12 years ago. Sunnyvale (CA) – We are at the beginning of a week with plenty of supercomputing announcements, most of which target ...

42. Nvidia Tesla powers an amazing ultrasound scanner

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 12 June 2008

    ... by Pentium M processors. Scanned results were available after 118 minutes. Using a 6-node cluster, the time increased to only 135 minutes, revealing that CPU scaling would not be the answer to the problem. ...

43. Eurocom assembles server notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 12 May 2008

    ... 12” model equipped with a Pentium MMX-166 MHz CPU that barely hit 90 minutes. 1 hour may not sound like much today, but consider a server (including display) that can run for 1 hour on a battery alone ...

44. Intel drops second quad-core CPU into the mainstream

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 21 April 2008

    ... GHz) as well as the Pentium E2200 (-12% to $74), the E2180 (-14% to $64), the Celeron 560 ( -20% to $107), the Celeron 550 (-20% to $86),  the Celeron 440 (-17% to $44) and the Celeron 430 (-23% to ...

45. Intel fires up new Atom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

    ... which is a re-animinated Pentium M processor with 90 nm Dothan core. Comparisons with the A100/A110 have been made already, and while they are interesting, these two chips are not related to each other. ...

46. MSI launches 13.3-inch notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Monday, 31 March 2008

    ... an Intel Pentium dual-core processor and Intel GL960 chipset, and can support DDR2 533/667 memory up to 3GB. More here at Digitimes.  ...

47. A new goldmine for Intel: The $6 Atom processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 28 March 2008

      Intel is gearing up to launch what may be its most important product since the Pentium processor: The Atom CPU targets key growth markets and could ship hundreds of millions units within a few ...

48. Larrabee and Dunnington to star at IDF

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 17 March 2008

    ... not different this time around, though we do have to say that all that buzz created by the marketing folks may be deserved. Three years ago, we wondered if all that Pentium overclocking and Intel’s direction ...

49. Intel's CPU+GPU for desktops and notebooks to arrive in Q2 2009

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 13 March 2008

    ... virtual dual-core approach that was introduced with the Pentium 4), which means that the processors will be able to handle four threads total. What makes Intel’s approach interesting is the fact that ...

50. Intel preps Atom for world domination

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 02 March 2008

    Intel today released the brand name of its Silverthorne and Diamondville processors for mobile devices – products the company has called its most significant product since the introduction of the Pentium ...