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 [...]
11/09/2009
IDG News Service – Singapore Bureau
After keeping operators and users alike waiting for nearly a year, Intel has begun production of a wireless chipset, called Kilmer Peak, that will support three versions of WiMax, 2.3GHz, 2.5GHz and 3.5GHz.
Intel’s current WiMax chipsets only support the 2.5GHz version of WiMax, which is used markets like Japan, [...]
11/09/2009
CNET News.com
Despite persistent rumors, Nvidia’s chief executive says the graphics chip supplier is not working on an Intel-compatible chip.
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang
(Credit: Nvidia) CEO Jen-Hsun Huang was asked about the possibility of Nvidia coming up with its own x86 (Intel-compatible) chip technology during in an interview Thursday, after the company reported strong third-quarter [...]
