Intel

and be sure you were getting the best deal, the rumors come out about the newest desktop sensation from AMD. It seems that the Dragon (Attack) is beginning before the product announcement, as unsubstantiated specifications are emerging, making it look as though AMD might be on the rise, perhaps wresting the performance crown from Intel [...]

Intel announced today that it was overly optimistic in its projections from a few weeks ago. The chip giant is starting to feel the hard times that the rest of the country is getting used to just now.
Poor Intel . The company will only have revenues of 9 billion dollars for the fourth quarter. [...]

Just a couple of days ago I had another opportunity to curse the operating system that we all love to use, and hate.
I had had one of those times when something happens to Windows to ‘grunge’ more files than can be recovered using recovery console, or by using the emergency start-up disk. Thus, after saying [...]

Intel CEO Paul Otellini spoke to Nightly Business Report, giving his perspective on the performance increases coming down the pike vis-a-vis the reduction in revenue and consumer expenditures.
Otellini spoke of how Intel is not completely recession proof, but since 75% of its sales are now outside the United States, in the so-called emerging markets, the [...]

A not so unexpected announcement from Intel comes today, telling us what we already knew – the speed race, in GHz, is over.  The chips of today are close to their limits already – there will be no amazing 6GHz chips just over the horizon.  Oh sure, there are those apocryphal tales of old style [...]

It’s very funny how the tongues wag about some things. Several sources reported that Intel is staying with Windows XP, and along comes Ed Bott, of ZDNet, Vista’s chief apologist, with the news that Intel was this way during the transition of Windows 2000 to XP – they waited quite a while before moving to [...]

from NetworkWorld
Intel plans to establish a new company called SpectraWatt to develop solar energy technology and produce solar cells, the chip giant said Monday.
Intel will transfer all technology related to converting sunlight to energy into the new company and lead its first round of investment. The chip maker will join several other companies, including [...]

and remember that one standard is why USB was so successful. Unlike other standards that really weren’t, USB has had Intel forging the specifications all along, like the hardy blacksmith that turns out perfect horseshoes every time because of the practice he’s had.
If AMD and nVidia threaten to move on their own standard, either because [...]