The Intel-AMD war has been going on a long time, and I hope it will be going on longer. The last few years have been hard on the underdog, however, with huge growth by Intel in both the low-power and high-performance sectors. The Core 2 Duos excelled, as did the Core i* series, and its most recent consumer series, the Sandy Bridge update to the i*s, is a monster[......]
One thing Intel has never been very good at is keeping its roadmaps under lock and key. Perhaps that's by design, or perhaps not. Either way, yet another roadmap belonging to the Santa Clara chip maker has been leaked to the Web, this latest one detailing the company's plans in the SSD space for the rest of 2011 and on through next year. [......]
One of the highlights so far at CEATEC 2011 has been the HAL robot walker . Made using Intel tech – and unsurprisingly shown off at the Intel press conference – the robot walker has been created by Cyberdyne, a Japanese company whose CEO is professor Yoshiyuki Sankai[......]
Just how influential is Intel? If the fact that the company owns over 80 percent of the global microprocessor market doesn’t do anything for you, how about this: Intel’s upcoming Ivy Bridge line haven’t even been released yet – that’s why they’re “upcoming” – but manufacturers have already begun offering motherboards capable of utilizing the PCIe 3.0 slots supported by the chips.[......]
When it comes to microprocessors, Intel’s the 800 lb. gorilla stomping around the room. [......]
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin is building a world-class supercomputer called "Stampede." It's scheduled to power on in 2013 and will solicit 20 percent of its performance from Intel's Xeon E5 series processors, and the other 80 percent from Intel's "Knights Corner" co-processors based on Intel's Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture. Stampede is expected to be one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. It will deliver 10 petaflops of performance, giving Intel certain bragging rights at a time when supercomputer design is starting to shift more rapidly towards GPUs. [......]
We already know Intel is planning to build a better GPU for Ivy Bridge than what's currently available in Sandy Bridge, but just how much better it will be is the question. Intel provided a partial answer at this year's IDF event by detailing parts of the next-generation GPU, which the Santa Clara chip maker says will support up to a 4Kx4K (Quad HD) screen resolution. [......]
If you’re a PC hipster who loves his quad core CPU we have bad news for you, Intel has officially declared that multi-core processors have gone mainstream . The announcement was made by Intel’s chief technology officer Justin Rattner, to a captive audience at their annual Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco last week. According to Rattner the end result of so much excess computing horsepower will be that the future of computing will be accelerated. [......]
One of the many awesome things coming out of this year's Intel Developer Forum (IDF) is a new DRAM concept Intel claims will deliver a 7-fold improvement in energy-efficiency over today's DDR3 modules. It's called Hybrid Memory Cube and Intel is working closely with Micron to turn this concept into a shipping product. [......]
Microsoft’s been tripping over itself to show ARM some love and develop a tablet version of Windows 8 that can run on the developer’s low-powered processors. But don’t think the giant in Redmond is smitten just because of all the batted eyelashes and blown kisses; Intel was busy showing off Windows 8 on a tablet at the IDF yesterday, and to top that off, Microsoft’s VP of cloud and servers said that the company isn’t developing an ARM-powered version of its upcoming Windows Server 8. When VP Bill Liang was asked flat-out whether an ARM-based build of the operating system was in the cards, he didn’t mince words – too much[......]
How could Intel let IDF pass by without announcing a new solid state drive? Turns out it couldn't, and while the event wraps up, the Santa Clara chip maker rolled out a replacement SSD series for its existing single-level cell (SLC) X25-E Extreme drive. Taking the X25-E's place is Intel's new 710 SSD, a purpose-built multi-level cell (MLC) drive for data centers[......]
Things are about to heat up in a big way in the handheld mobile space, a sector that's currently dominated by ARM. [......]
By itself, Intel's 20GB 311 Series "Larsen Creek" solid state drive commands around $115 street. [......]
Ultrabook: Intel's $300 million plan to beat Apple at its own game : In an effort to blunt the (ARM-based) tablet threat, Intel wants PC makers to crank out thin and light "Ultrabook" laptops with its chips inside—and it has a $300 million warchest set aside to make it happen. But this is going to be harder than it sounds. How an omniscient Internet "sextortionist" ruined the lives of teen girls : A paraplegic 32-year old hacker terrified teen girls from his neat ranch home in Santa Ana, California by invading computers, taking over identities, controlling webcams, and listening in on computer microphones[......]
HP's PC business may be up in the air right now , but that doesn't mean we won't see any more HP notebooks. The company today announced the updated DM1 ultraportable laptop with a new, fresher look. [......]
