With Advanced Micro Devices Inc. pushing out a slew of new products this month, its long-chilled chip war with Intel Corp. may just be heating up again, analysts say.
After struggling with delayed products and bad market and mind-share woes through 2007, a lot of industry pundits started writing off AMD. And while AMD struggled, […]
Intel Corp. demonstrated computers running forthcoming microprocessors based on the Nehalem micro-architecture at Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, China. This is the first public demonstration of the new central processing units that is supposed to clearly indicate that Intel is on track to start shipments of new chips towards the end of the year.
The first […]
DailyTech reported earlier this morning that Microsoft is in a bit of a pickle with regards to end-of-sale date for Windows XP and the rise of low-cost sub-notebooks. Microsoft needs an operating system to combat the various iterations of Linux that come pre-installed on these machines and Windows Vista won’t suffice given current hardware requirements.
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Next month heralds the 2008 Spring Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, China. Pre-show briefings opened up with a quick mention on the status of Larrabee, Intel’s upcoming graphics core.
Larrabee differs significantly from AMD’s Radeon and NVIDIA’s GeForce processors. For starters, Larrabee is based on the x86 instruction set found in CPU architecture. […]
Intel Corp on Sunday unveiled its new vPro chip technology aimed at making business personal computers more secure, as the world’s largest chipmaker seeks to solidify its brand.
Since then, under Chief Executive Paul Otellini, the company has moved from selling and branding discrete processors and chipsets to selling them together as related technologies, or […]
Intel has extended its top of the line processing power to the mobile space with the launch of its Core 2 Extreme Mobile processor, the X7800. This 2.6-GHz part marks a 200 MHz increase over Intel’s previous Core 2 Duo mobile high, the 2.4-GHz Core 2 Duo T7700, which debuted in May along with Intel’s […]
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) announced its latest round of desktop processor price cuts on Monday, and rival Intel Corp. is expected to follow the move later this month.
AMD slashed prices on its top-of-the-line desktop PC microprocessors on Monday to US$599 per pair for the 3GHz version from US$799, making it the same price as […]
The One Laptop Per Child program and Intel said Friday that the chip maker would join the board of the nonprofit and contribute funding.The nonprofit effort — known as the “$100 laptop” because of the low price it hopes to reach with mass production — has been trying to line up governments in several countries […]
Intel Corp., the world’s largest maker of microprocessors, has disclosed several details concerning its project code-named Larrabee. Apparently, the latter, despite of certain media reports, has no direct relation to Intel’s graphics processing unit’s development, but is a part of Intel’s Tera-Scale initiative, under which the company develops chips for special-purpose computing.
Intel’s code-named Larrabee processor, […]
With perhaps a month to go before launch, the next big computer chip remains a bit of a mystery, and so every shift in strategy by longtime rivals Intel and Advanced Micro Devices is being teased for hints of the battle to come. AMD has yet to disclose the performance specifications for its new chip, […]