02/26/2010
EE Times
SAN JOSE, Calif. — You would think an x86 core would be a pretty hot item for a system-on-chip design. So why is no one biting on Intel Corp.’s offer last March to sell rights to an Atom core for SoCs made at TSMC?
Here’s some armchair speculation. Most of it comes down to one [...]
01/13/2010
IBTimes
London – Microprocessor maker Intel took a leap into the highly competitive smartphone market this month by unveiling BW990 an LG smartphone that is powered by its new processor Moorestown.
With Moorestown processor, Intel has thrown the gauntlet to the entrenched leader of smartphone processor maker Qualcomm.
However, Intel is confident of doing well as [...]
01/08/2010
eWeek
Intel president and CEO Paul Otellini used his keynote address at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to discuss a number of initiatives, including a much-rumored smartphone based on the company’s “Moorestown” Atom processor infrastructure, an online applications store for netbooks, and innovations in home entertainment, including 3D movie-making. Earlier on Jan. 7, [...]
12/04/2009
Fortune
The chip giant settled with AMD. But another rival is making noise about anticompetitive behavior.
Nvidia’s Huang is gunning for Intel. Photo: Nvidia
You’d think Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang would be happy.
After bumping along as low as $7 a share at the beginning of the year his stock is up near $14. Several months ago Apple (AAPL) [...]
12/03/2009
TheStreet.com
Intel(INTC Quote) will have no choice but to buy ARM Holdings(AIG Quote).
The first reason is that ARM controls the market for smartphone processors, and Intel won’t be able to knock it off that perch.
ARM CEO Warren East said the other day in an interview, “I’m sure that Intel are going to get their Atom designed [...]
12/03/2009
Financial Times – San Francisco Bureau
Data centres are the modern version of the original mainframe computers, taking up vast amounts of space, with racks and racks of servers delivering high-performance computing.
As any engineer will tell you, a mobile phone now has more processing power than a room-filling mainframe of old, with its cost and [...]
11/24/2009
CNET News.com
Intel is set to announce the biggest makeover for its Atom processor since it was introduced back in the spring of 2008. And PC makers are ready with new Netbook models, some due before the mammoth Consumer Electronics Show in January.
HP has stopped selling preconfigured Mini 5101 Netbook models directly as it readies [...]
11/19/2009
Computerworld
Brain waves will replace keyboard and mouse, dial phones and change TV channels
Sharon Gaudin
November 19, 2009 (Computerworld) By the year 2020, you won’t need a keyboard and mouse to control your computer, say Intel Corp. researchers. Instead, users will open documents and surf the Web using nothing more than their brain waves.
Scientists at [...]
11/12/2009
Computerworld
Researchers use distributed computing and robots to create programmable matter
By Sharon Gaudin
Computerworld – Imagine a day when you can make your cell phone smaller to fit more comfortably in your pocket, then make it larger so you can text more easily.
Now, imagine that you could make your cell phone take the shape of [...]
11/10/2009
EE Times
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Thirty-six years ago, Ben Foss conceived of a device that could read out text from printed pages to help him with his dyslexia. Tomorrow (Nov. 10) Foss will ship the product in his role as director of access technology for Intel’s digital health group.
The Intel Reader is a paperback-sized device [...]
