Intel has announced it’s 6 core Xeon high performance processors based on it’s 45 nm process technology. The Intel® Xeon® Processor 7400 Series, code-named Dunnington, will support up to 6 cores with 16 MB of shared cache memory. The processors come in frequencies up to 2.66 GHz and power consumption as low as 50 watts. [...]
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Dell unveils Inspirion Mini UMPC: both Windows and Linux options!
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 opens doors to USB 3.0
Intel Corporation has announced the availability of the Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) draft specification revision 0.9 in support of the USB 3.0 architecture, also known as SuperSpeed USB. The xHCI draft specification provides a standardized method for USB 3.0 host controllers to communicate with the USB 3.0 software stack.
The Intel xHCI draft specification revision [...]
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Intel’s first Nehalem CPU’s to be branded as “Intel Core i7″
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 [...]
Intel Larabee details surface
Early details on Intel’s Larabee GPU, the nVidia killer, were unveiled today by Intel. The company is presenting a paper in SIGGRAPH on August 12th. The paper details a new approach to the software rendering 3-D pipeline, a many-core (many processor engines in a product) programming model and performance analysis for several applications.
The first product [...]
Pig in the clouds!
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 [...]
AMD reports results, CEO changed
AMD (NYSE:AMD) today reported second quarter 2008 revenue of $1.349 billion, a 7% decrease compared to the first quarter of 2008 and a three percent increase compared to the second quarter of 2007. As part of its previously communicated review of its non-core businesses, AMD decided to divest its Handheld and DTV product businesses, and [...]
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Intel Posts Record Second-Quarter Revenue of $9.5 Billion
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 [...]
July 15th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedDreamWorks Animation moves from AMD to Intel
DreamWorks Animation SKG, known for their animation movies such “Kung Fu Panda”, “Shrek”, “Bee movie” and “Medagaskar”, has chosen Intel to supply the processors for the creation of stereoscopic 3D movies, replacing the AMD chips the movie studio has been using for the last three years. DreamWorks plans to make all its movies in 3D [...]
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WiFi+WiMax coming to a laptop in stores near you
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 [...]
June 22nd, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
AMD unveils teraflop processor
AMD today announced the AMD FireStream 9250, a stream processor that will break the Teraflop barrier for single precision performance. The new chip is meant for complementing the General Purpose CPU and aid in running critical workloads such as financial analysis or seismic processing dramatically faster than with CPU alone, helping potential applications to address [...]
June 16th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
Intel and Micron announce breakthrough flash technology
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 [...]
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Intel and Google to invest in WiMAX venture - Clearwire
WiMAX got a major boost with the creation of a new mobile broadband venture combining industry leaders from the field of communucations, entertainment and technology. Sprint and Clearwire Corporation have combined their next generation wireless broadband business creating a New Mobile Broadband Company.
The new company, which will be named Clearwire, will be focused on expediting [...]
Cray to use Intel Xeon processors on their supercomputers
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 [...]
Intel Mash Maker beta now available for IE
Intel just announced the availability of Mash Maker beta for creating your favorite web mashups. The product currently supports both Firefox and Internet Explorer. Apple MAC users can run this on firefox 1.x or higher. Users can customize their browser to create mashups of their favorite websites for a simpler and easier browsing experience.
Popular [...]
Nvidia taking a swipe at Intel?
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 [...]
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