Intel

Lots of stories have been written about the Sprint and Clearwire buildouts of WiMAX in spots around the country. A while back there was a story about the actual performance in a semi-random test in Chicago, with promising results.
The only thing that was not being talked about was the wait that was being experienced by [...]

Intel doesn’t like to be talked about in a disparaging way. After a long time of no delivery on a product, effectively making it vaporware, a new amount of work is going into the Larrabee project, and the actual product may be materializing.
This morning, which is odd enough, as not much news in the computer [...]

It’s more than a slogan for a salt company. It’s an old saw that means when bad things happen, they tend to come in droves.
That could be the forecast for Intel, as we have news that the Federal Trade Commission might jump on the dogpile that is forming on Intel. The suit expected to come [...]

It is truly amazing when you find that someone who has been on the wrong side of every court case they bring to the fore, finally gets one right. I suppose you could say it’s all in the odds, but the attorney general of New York has been on a tear, being on the wrong [...]

After attending a Microsoft Windows Launch Event yesterday, along with a Developer’s Track, I can see how much change there is in Windows 7 that has largely been ignored by the press.
Though I still hate the lack of the hierarchical menu system, I can see that the changes to the taskbar are many, and again, [...]

While there is no news at the high end, which continues to be dominated by Intel, AMD seems determined to remove any chance of Intel eking out a profit at the low end, or making a claim of having the most energy efficient processors there.
This morning has a number of processors released in the 45W [...]

The famous company from Santa Clara, and the really famous one from Cupertino, are both a bit beleaguered these days, with AMD having problems fighting off the gains in CPU marketshare of Intel, and Apple fighting off the onslaught of the many PC companies, all eager to take a bite out of the Apple pie.
One [...]

Larrabee, as most power users know, is the ‘answer’ to the question “Why does Intel always make graphics that suck?” It is to be the Core to AMD’s Barcelona, in the war of the big guns in computing.
Anyone who has used onboard Intel graphics, or was unlucky enough to purchase one of the older i740 [...]

Yesterday, in a column on ZDNet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes put forth the idea that nVidia might be on its last legs, as the market is not what it once was.
While I don’t think that is the case, it might be a good thing for the folks at nVidia to get a scare, as they have been [...]

As I speak with people I know, they tell me things about their technology lives. The conversation always gets around to what they like and don’t with what they use, what they are looking forward to, and what it would be nice to see happen in the future.
Many are very happy with Windows XP, and [...]

This may be a small change, but it seems that more and more of Intel’s workforce is being found outside of California. The Republican party in California would have you believe that it is because of the unfriendly tax structure in the state, but if that was the case, many companies could simply move to [...]

The Larrabee chipset, Intel’s GPU that is supposed to take on the likes of ATi and nVidia, was shown at IDF 2009, taking it out of the vaporware category.
That’s the good news.
The not so good news is that it was not much more than a working sample, with less emphasis on the working, and more [...]

Last week the news of a couple of Intel long-term employees leaving the company was being played off as a simple, change of routine thing, but now, from a story on Bright Side of News, we find that it’s a problem where the parties in question were screwing up, not providing the results needed.
The screw [...]

Not content to launch i5 by itself, Intel plans to take the processor design strategy, and processor wars, up another notch, with the introduction of the newest piece of silicon from Santa Clara, the i9.
A story from Bright Side of News gives quite a few of the specifics for the new processor, including the fact [...]

From Bright Side of News, revealed is the fact that, though they have no motherboards to accompany them, the Intel i5 (codename Lynnfield) processors are available now. This has been confirmed to be inside the brick and mortars, as well as online.
The first processors are the i5 750’s and are on sale for $205. The [...]