Intel today posted yet another soild quarter, boasting record revenue for the fifth consecutive time. Perhaps a year from now, ARM will have stolen away some of Intel's market share on the desktop and dipped into its profits, and maybe AMD's upcoming Bulldozer will do the same, but in the here and now, Intel is about as close as a company can come to legally printing money, without actually printing money[......]
Could the PCI Express interface beneft from a new, two-lane (x2) solution? That's the question Intel engineers are reportedly kicking around, according to VR-Zone.com's LG Nilsson. The reason is pretty simple[......]
Acer's U.K. [......]
The local arcade wasn't the place to score a date with the most popular girls from high school, but it was the place to bring a pocketful of quarters and immortalize your initials on classic titles like Pac-Man and Dig-Dug. You could also play these titles at home on your Atari 2600 console, and if you find yourself feeling nostalgic, as Intel is apparently feeling, you can relive those gaming moments on your Windows PC through the chip maker's AppUp center[......]
It's funny how as you get older your priorities begin to change. You may not have cared if your PC sounded like a jet engine as a teenager, and may have even reveled in the roar of the fans and shaking metal parts. And now? [......]
Intel on Wednesday showcased its latest cloud technologies with "the world's smallest cloud data center" demonstration tool. It's essentially the cloud stuffed into a box, that itself is small enough to be packed away in a suitcase, though we don't imagine actually doing that would be good for the hardware inside considering the lack of ventilation and all. [......]
Intel's research division Intel Labs recently released a pair of open source software packages, including a distributed scene graph package to increase the maximum number of participants in 3D Web applications, like virtual worlds, by more than 20 times, and an advanced offline ray tracing package to help speed up rendering of photorealistic images on Intel-based systems by 100 percent. [......]
In the latest issue of Maximum PC (August 2011, or Volume 16 No. 8), we highlight GPU-Z on page 54 as one of "49 Lil' Apps" that can be downloaded for free and are less than 3MB in size[......]
We know what you're thinking. With a 100-core processor, you can finally play Crysis with all the eye candy turned up and still have CPU cycles left over for Folding@home . [......]
Quick, what's the first thing you think of when you hear the word "Celeron?" Some of you will undoubtedly answer "overclocking" in reference to socket 478 Celeron chips from over a decade ago. That was a long time ago, and some of you are waiting for the day when Intel finally retires the Celeron brand. If that's you, you'll have to wait a little longer. [......]
Scientists have unveiled the world's first 'living laser', having coaxed an organic cell into emitting fluorescent light. It was the glowing jellyfish that illuminated the light bulb above the researchers' heads, and the lasing cell was engineered using the light-emitting protein found in the sea creature. It then requires a spot of light manipulation; the cell is immersed in a weak blue light, leaving the scientists with a "bright, directional and narrowband laser emission" as researchers Malte C Gather and Seok Hyun Yun so passionately put it[......]
If you're into the server scene, and in particular have a fetish for Supermicro Superservers, go ahead and cue the Tim Allen man grunt now. AVADirect, custom builders of high-end gaming desktops, notebooks, and workstations, just " added a whole new animal " to its server lineup based on Intel's socket 1366 Xeon Westmere-EX processors. AVADirect's Supermicro Westmere-EX 8-way Xeon Superserver is a 5U rack system with support for Intel's 8-core Xeon 7500 family and 10-core E7-8800 family of processors[......]
ARM has been flexing its muscle in the handheld mobile space seemingly since time began. [......]
Thanks to Intel's Sandy Bridge platform, it's finally possible to own a well spec'd notebook that doesn't weigh as much as a desktop. The latest example of this is Acer's redesigned Aspire TimelineX Series, a family of "sleek and stylish, thin and light" notebooks powered by Intel's second generation Core i5 and i3 processors in a refined form factor that's less than an inch thick all around. "The new Acer Aspire TimlineX Series is a best-in-breed notebook line that combines performance and portability in an incredibly beautiful and refined form factor," Acer explains. [......]
Last month, Intel increased the warranty period on solid-state drives in its SSD 320 range from the original three years to five years, making them the first consumer SSDs to have such a long warranty period. Now, Woodstock, Illinois-based Other World Computing (OWC) has taken a leaf out of Intel’s book and extended the warranty on its Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD line to five years. According to OWC, this move has made it “the industry’s first SandForce processor-based 6Gb/s SATA Revision 3.0 SSD offering an enterprise-class level 5 year warranty.”[......]
