Advanced Micro Devices has announced a reorganization of it’s operations. The manufacturing plants that produce all it’s processors will be spun off as a separate company.
AMD has been going through troubling times as it’s acquisition of ATI has yet to result in synergistic products that can give it an edge over its competitors. Also, AMD’s [...]

Dell has finally unveiled it’s Ultra Mobile Personal Computer, the Inspirion Mini 9. Michael Dell was spotted carrying one of the early versions of the UMPC at the D-conference a few months back. The device is now official with Dell’s announcement today.
The Mini 9 is small and weighs just 2.28 lbs. It comes with a [...]

Intel Corporation announced today that desktop processors based on the company’s upcoming new microarchitecture (codenamed “Nehalem”) will be branded “Intel® Core™ processor.
The first products in this new family of processors, including an “Extreme Edition” version, will carry an “i7″ identifier and will be formally branded as “Intel® Core™ i7 processor.
The Core name is used in [...]

HP, Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. today announced the creation of a global, multi-data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research and education. The goal of the initiative is to promote open collaboration among industry, academia and governments.
The HP, Intel and Yahoo! Cloud Computing Test Bed will provide a globally [...]

Revenue up 9 Percent Year-over-Year
Operating Income up 67 Percent Year-over-Year
Net Income $1.6 Billion; EPS 28 Cents

Intel Corporation today announced record second-quarter revenue of $9.5 billion, operating income of $2.3 billion, net income of $1.6 billion and earnings per share (EPS) of 28 cents. That was 3 cents per share higher than what analysts surveyed by [...]

Intel has obtained WiMax certification for their 2.5 GHz WiFi/WiMax - Intel® Wi-Fi/WiMAX Link 5350 ( code named Echo-P ). The module is an integrated WiMAX + Wi-Fi mini card module designed to be embedded into notebooks and potentially other mobile or CE devices, and is the industry’s first integrated Wi-Fi/WiMAX module with advanced multiple [...]

Intel Corporation and Micron Technology, Inc. have just introduced the industry’s first sub-40 nanometer (nm) NAND memory device, unveiling a 34nm 32 gigabit (Gb) multi-level cell chip. This process technology was jointly developed by Intel and Micron and manufactured by the companies’ NAND flash joint venture, IM Flash Technologies (IMFT). It is the smallest [...]

Intel and Cray signed a multi year agreement to use Intel Xeon processors in Cray supercomputers for the HPC market. The two companies agreed to collaborate on developing innovative multi-core and advanced interconnect technologies for future designs.
Cray servers have been designed around processors from AMD, arch rival to Intel. AMD has been struggling to keep [...]

Nvidia recently launched their “Optimized PC” campaign and took a swipe at Intel, the microprocessor industry leader. Claiming that over half the PC’s shipped today have an underpowered GPU, nVIDIA suggests customers should use a functional CPU and are better of by leaving their complicated computations to a GPU for a variety of OS, games [...]