Market research firm iSuppli declared a "microprocessor stalemate" between Intel and AMD, neither of which was able to wrestle any significant share from the other in the third quarter. Intel's global microprocessor share dropped ever-so-slightly from 80.4 percent in the second quarter to 80.1 percent in the third, while AMD went from 11.5 percent to 11.3 percent. In other words, both chip makers barely budged[......]
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is just around the corner, and that means so is the official launch of Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture. If you've been waiting for one of these chips in mobile form, you'll be rewarded with four cores of computing muscle right off the bat, CNet reports . "Quad-core goes live in January, dual-core goes live in February," CNet quotes an industry source involved with Sandy Bridge as saying[......]
Rugged PCs don't always excite us. It's not that we don't appreciate being able to take a notebook or a small form factor PC into the field and subject it to the elements, but all too often these so-called rugged rigs lose our attention when we find out they're rocking an anemic Atom processor or wimpy Celeron chip inside[......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews One year ago, Google gave the world its first look at Chrome OS , a project taking a new approach to thin clients and terminal computing. The long and the short of Chrome OS is: if the browser is the most-used application on a PC, why would you load it down with anything else? Chrome OS focuses on computers that are permanently connected, where all apps, data, and user identities and desktops are stored in the cloud. [......]
Intel is expected to reveal launch information for its upcoming Sandy Bridge architecture at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, 2011, but it appears someone has already let the cat out of the bag. [......]
Before you go maxing out the available balance on your credit card picking up Intel's Core i7 980X processor, you may want to hang tight for a couple of months. According to news and rumor site Fudzilla, the Santa Clara chip maker will introduce its new flagship part, the Core i7 990X six-core chip, to the market in the first quarter of 2011[......]
Maybe the toughest part about being the world's No. [......]
Slowly but surely, solid state drive (SSD) pricing continues to come down, and according to DigiTimes, Intel and A-DATA in particular have been making concerted efforts to reduce the cost of entry. In the second half of 2010, the two firms have dropped prices by about 10-15 percent. Meanwhile, hard drive makers have been flirting with price increases for mechanical HDDs so far in the fourth quarter. [......]
An all-in-one liquid-cooler with a built-in display As one of the few players in the all-in-one liquid-cooling market—which marks the midpoint between air-coolers and custom water-cooling loops—CoolIT’s coolers have to compete with Corsair’s Asetek collaborations as well as both other categories of coolers. CoolIT’s Eco A.L.C. cooler (reviewed June 2010) performed to within a few degrees Celsius of our champion air- and liquid-coolers, but its single fan was noisy and it didn’t significantly outpace our category leaders[......]
Motherboard makers have high expectations for Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture and expect the platform to account for 20 percent of Intel's total desktop processor shipments in the first quarter of 2011, DigiTimes reports . That's a lofty figure considering Sandy Bridge will likely launch at CES in January[......]
Most of the tablet PCs we're likely to see in the coming months will be running on ARM-based CPUs. In fact, most mobile devices use these chips. The mobile CPUs from companies like Qualcomm and Samsung are often based on ARM designed cores. [......]
A new agreement with the FTC settles antitrust complaints against Intel and paves the way for the world's largest chip maker to ship its Oak Trail Atom platform without the required PCI Express interface, eWeek reports . The original complaint dates back to December 2009, in which the FTC alleged that Intel abused its position as a market leader to bully the competition from doing business with AMD, VIA, and Nvidia by offering special discounts and rebates. [......]
If you're having trouble deciding between a notebook or a tablet, Gigabyte's T1125 might be just what you're looking for. Netbooknews.com had a chance to spend some hands-on time with this tri-purpose device, and it certainly looks promising. You'll notice we called this a tri-purpose device and not a dual-purpose notebook[......]
News and rumor site Fudzilla is reporting that Intel is on the cusp of releasing a new low power Core i3 part, the Core i3 2100T. Built around Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture, the Core i3 2100T (where the "T" stands for Power Optimized Lifestyle) comes rated at just 35W TDP[......]
