Intel

There are a few case designs that are very nice looking, and accomplish all the things that a case is designed to do. The case is designed to hold all the components, without letting them flex too much, become dusty, or overheat.
That last part is becoming harder all the time, as people try to stuff [...]

It has not been a good time for makers of custom PCs, as the economy makes all but the most mundane of purchases look extravagant. Also, there hasn’t been lots of talk about the cottage industry of high performance computers since the purchase of Alienware by Dell. Though Alienware still survives (barely), Dell seems to [...]

The release of Windows 7 in no small way has pushed the graphics board market ahead, when the the computer market is just now waking from the long sleep induced by the economy.
In an effort to supply a better Aero graphics experience, many users not otherwise upgrading hardware have purchased new add-in boards, and manufacturers [...]

All litigation between AMD and Intel has been settled, including any upcoming litigation, which has not yet seen the inside of a courtroom. The story is a strange one, because there has been litigation between AMD and Intel for the better part of my life; how strange it will be to not have any to [...]

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 [...]