08/14/2011
Computerworld Hong Kong – Online
Intel recently said it would invest US$300 million in companies that develop new technologies for Ultrabooks, a class of thin and light laptops promoted as an alternative to tablet PCs.
The Intel Capital Ultrabook Fund will invest in companies developing hardware and software in areas such as sensors and touch, longer [...]
06/06/2011
IDG News Service – New York Bureau
First tablets with Intel’s Oak Trail processor ship
Fujitsu’s Q550 and Motion Computing’s CL900 tablets have Intel’s Z670 processor and Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system. The tablets have 10.1-inch screens and provide eight hours of battery life.
Working prototypes of Oak Trail tablets made an appearance in January at [...]
04/28/2011
Forbes
Intel recently reported its Q1 2011 earnings and based on continued growth in server market and adoption of Sandy Bridge chips, we have upgraded our price estimate for Intel’s stock to $28.68. Below we discuss a few key takeaways from the earnings. Intel competes with Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia in the microprocessor and graphics [...]
04/18/2011
Let’s be frank: AMD’s processors aren’t as good as Intel’s, by and large. Intel’s processors have offered better total performance and better performance-per-watt ever since the days of the Core 2 Duo, with few exceptions. If we set the way-back machine to 1999, the story is different. Intel’s dominance was seriously challenged when AMD released [...]
03/14/2011
Thomson Reuters – Helsinki
HELSINKI, March 14 (Reuters) – Intel Capital and International Finance Corp (IFC) will invest $12 million into Irish firm Altobridge, which specialises in making telecom network equipment for remote areas of emerging countries.
“We see a huge potential market there,” said Marcos Battisti, director at Intel Capital, venture arm of the world’s [...]
02/28/2011
Giga Om
SeaMicro has introduced its second high-density server that uses 256 dual-core Atom chips crammed into a box in oder to deliver power efficient computing at about a fourth of the power consumption of a traditional rack of machines. But the biggest news about this server is pretty small, namely the dual-core Atom chip that [...]
02/24/2011
Wall Street Journal – San Francisco Bureau
Intel has vowed to replace the ever-proliferating number of computer cables with a superfast substitute. On Thursday, tech-watchers are likely to get an update on its progress, perhaps preceded by a key endorsement by Apple.
A Light Peak module, with laser light added for illustrationThe technology is called Light [...]
16/2011
ZDNet News
At Mobile World Congress, the chips that power mobile devices are getting as much attention as the gadgets themselves. Over the past week Broadcom, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments have announced new chips that look more like PC processors.
Mobile World Congress, the mega-conference taking place in Barcelona this week, is all [...]
02/17/2011
Thomson Reuters
LONDON, Feb 17 (Reuters) – Chipmaker Intel Corp (INTC.O) said it would look for new partners for the MeeGo mobile operating system after partner Nokia chose to focus on Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform. [ID:nLDE71A0DG]
Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini said in a meeting with analysts in London, accessed by Reuters via conference call, that [...]
02/07/2011
Associated Press (AP)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Intel Corp. has resumed shipments of a chip with a known flaw. But in order to get it, computer makers must promise not to use it in designs that trigger the serious performance problem.
Intel stopped production of the faulty “chipset” last month, after discovering that it would cause [...]
