High Tech - News, Reviews and Tests
Filters
- Your selection
- intel
- Remove all
- News
- Review
- Round-Up
- Reference
- How To
- Your selection:
- tag intel
- Remove all
-
-
Motion C5: Mobile Technology Helping Real PeopleDec 5, 2007 - in News
Motion and Intel have teamed up to deliver the health care industry a powerful piece of machinery. Driven by Windows XP Tablet PC edition, or Vista Business, this amped up Tablet PC brings us to the brink of contextual aware software interfacing through a usable, integrated hardware package.
-
Intel Adds Low-end Member To 4 Series ChipsetsDec 5, 2007 - in News
Intel is planning to add one more member to its 4 series (Eaglelake) chipsets which will be launched in the second quarter of 2008, according to sources at motherboard makers.
-
Intel shipping classmate PCs to emerging marketsMar 23, 2007 - in News
Intel has announced that Intel-powered classmate PCs are shipping in volume to emerging markets.
-
Intel answers rumors of Core 2 Quad price cut... sortaMar 16, 2007 - in News
The Internet is abuzz with rumors of a massive price cut in Intel's Core 2 Quad processor later this year. According to HKEPC.com, the price of the 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Quad will plunge 70% from its current price of $851 to $266 in the third quarter. Such a massive price drop would make the quad-core chip cost less than what most dual-core chips are selling for now, but are the rumors true? Intel's Public Relations Manager Dan Snyder pretty much gave us the standard corporate answer.
-
Eight-core Mac Pro advertisement leakedMar 13, 2007 - in News
The eagle-eyed folks over at MacRumors spotted an advertisement on Apple's UK store that showed an eight-core Mac Pro desktop. Presumably the Macintosh would use two Intel Quad-core chips. Apple has since removed the ad from the store website.
-
Did Intel rig its integrated graphics chip demo against AMD?Mar 12, 2007 - in News
Intel's demonstration of its G965 integrated graphics chip at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose was impressive, but was it a true comparison against AMD's discrete graphics cards? Now AMD is claiming that the test of video playback against the company's ATI discrete X1600 graphics card could have been misconfigured. AMD representatives told TG Daily that their graphics card should have performed much better and offered several explanations.
-
Intel to improve video, vertex shading in its IGCsMar 8, 2007 - in News
Intel is trying to convince entry-level gamers to accept integrated graphics with a new hardware vertex shader for its G965 graphics chip. At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the company showed off some demos of popular first person shooters on the chip and also challenged journalists to pick out the integrated graphics-powered computer against a computer running a discrete card.
-
Intel upgrades entry-level Core 2 Duo chipsetMar 2, 2007 - in News
Intel will be offering a slightly upgraded version of its 945GC integrated graphics chipset for Core 2 Duo, Pentium D and Pentium 4 HT processors beginning in early April of this year.
-
Shuttle announces SD39P2 barebone XPCMar 1, 2007 - in News
Shuttle announced on February 27 the XPC SD39P2 barebone, the company's atest small form factor PC supporting Intel's socket 775 processors, including the Intel Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme series models.
-
AMD challenges Intel with its first integrated graphics chipsetFeb 27, 2007 - in News
AMD today announced its RS690 chipset which is not only AMD's first-ever integrated graphics chipset solution, but also the first product that takes advantage of technologies from both AMD and ATI. The 690 will attack Intel's dominance in the high-volume mainstream market of desktop PCs and position the chipset as a product that is superior to Nvidia chipsets.
-
Legacy rolls out certified 4 GB FB-DIMMsFeb 27, 2007 - in News
Legacy Electronics is offering a 4 GB DDR2-667 fully buffered dual in-line memory module (FB-DIMM) with certification for Intel chipsets and Computer Memory Test Labs (CMTL) requirements.
-
Intel Crestline chipset will run DirectX 10Feb 23, 2007 - in News
Intel is currently finalizing its new notebook platform, code-named "Santa Rosa." Sources told TG Daily that the platform is on track for a May release and it looks like that it will come with a quite capable graphics engine. We hear that the Crestline chipset, core of Santa Rosa, will be DirectX 10 compatible.
-
Intel to prevent overheating laptops with lightFeb 20, 2007 - in News
Intel plans on fighting overheating laptops with a little bit of light. The chip giant has patented a new technology that uses sensors to detect heat-sensitive color-changing material inside the laptop. If certain parts of the laptop get too hot, the laptop will throttle back the power to cool down.
-
Intel to bring back Hyperthreading with Nehalem coreFeb 13, 2007 - in News
AMD is preparing the rollout of its first quad-core processor, an Opteron processor based on the Barcelona core. Meanwhile, Intel is developing an answer to Barcelona: The company is lining up 45 nm server and desktop processors and will revive Hyperthreading in 2008 with the Nehalem core.
-
Intel squeezes 1.8 TFlops out of one processorFeb 11, 2007 - in News
Intel today revealed more details about its 80-core research CPU, which likely is the most powerful floating point engine built to date. 200 of these processors achieve the same floating point performance as today's most powerful supercomputer. But don't get excited just yet: The CPU won't come to market and the number of cores isn't everything to future CPU design, Intel said.
-
Players in the embedded market see opportunity for x86 system-on-chipFeb 9, 2007 - in News
Major chipset makers such as Intel, AMD and VIA have begun to target the x86 based system-on-chip (SoC) market, according to sources from embedded platform makers.
-
AMD expected to post 20% share of embedded processor market in 2007Feb 7, 2007 - in News
Even though Intel currently has a 70% share of the x86 embedded processor market, AMD is expected to raise its market share in the sector to over 20% in 2007 after it has begun adding dual-core processors to it's embedded processor lineup, according to Taiwan-based IPC makers.
-
P.A. Semi challenges AMD, IBM and Intel in power efficiencyFeb 4, 2007 - in News
P.A. semi, a fabless chip design company today said that its debut processor has entered the sampling phase and is shipping in small numbers to customers. The company claims that the 2 GHz dual-core processor is four to five times more power efficient than any other processor in its class.
-
Intel Bearlake chipsets set to arrive in MayJan 31, 2007 - in News
Intel will launch the first of its Bearlake series chipsets, the P35 and G33 in May of this year, and the chip giant will also cut back on its shipments of its 945 chipsets at that time, according to Taiwan-based motherboard makers.
-
Intel's Santa Rosa-supporting CPUs to be available in MayJan 31, 2007 - in News
Intel is preparing to release new Core 2 Duo mobile CPUs with 800 MHz front-side bus (FSB) speeds optimized for its upcoming Santa Rosa platform in May, according to sources at Taiwan notebook makers.
-
Intel to focus on 2-way servers on 65nm processors throughout 2007Jan 31, 2007 - in News
Intel will position its 65nm-based Dual-Core Xeon 5100 sequence (Woodcrest) and Quad-Core Xeon 5300 sequence (Clovertown) series processors as the main force in the 2-way server market in 2007, and will not begin introducing its 45nm-based quad-core (Harpertown) and dual-core (Wolfdale) processors until 2008, according to sources familiar with Intel's plans.
-
Intel moves up schedule for Pentium E2000 and Celeron 400Jan 30, 2007 - in News
According to sources familiar with Intel's plans, the company plans to move forward its production schedule for the 65nm Pentium E2000 dual-core series and Celeron 400 series (430 and 440) processors from the third quarter of this year to the second quarter, and Intel will increase its 65nm processor production ratio to over 90% by the end of the year.
-
With Intel increasing its technology lead, will AMD become more creative?Jan 29, 2007 - in News
On the heels of Intel announcing breakthroughs in transistor design, Taiwan-based motherboard makers indicated that Intel should be able to increase its technology lead over AMD, and in order not to further endanger its market position, AMD should look to develop innovative solutions instead of competing head to head with Intel.
-
Intel to push development of Mini-ITX form factor mini PCs, say sourcesJan 23, 2007 - in News
Intel plans to push the market for mini PCs by promoting sales of motherboards based on the Mini-ITX form factor developed by VIA Technologies, starting in the second quarter of this year, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers.
-
Intel to upset the balance in high-capacitance MLCC market?Jan 12, 2007 - in News
Intel plans to change part of the high-capacitance multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) for supporting its dual-core CPU from 0402 X5R 1 μF to 0402 X5R 2.2μF, and the move will affect supply of other MLCC series, making Japan-based MLCC providers hesitant to support the plan, according to sources in the channel.
-
Alienware announces desktop PC with Intel's latest quad-core processorJan 11, 2007 - in News
Alienware said it "will" launch Intel's second quad-core desktop processor, the 2.4 GHz Core 2 Quad Q6600, on its Area-51 7500 desktop system.
-
CES 2007: Eat this, Quad FX: Here's an 8-core desktop!Jan 8, 2007 - in News
You didn't think that Intel would leave all that dual-socket fame for itself, did you? At CES, Intel showed off an 8-core desktop system build on a 2P workstation board with two quad-core processors. Intel claims that the system trumps AMD's fastest Quad-FX by 61% in one key benchmark. And yes, we do have pictures of this beast.
-
CES 2007: Intel rolls out new quad-core processor Core 2 Quad Q6600Jan 8, 2007 - in News
Intel is enjoying its lead in the current microprocessor market and today announced more CPUs with four cores. There are three new quad-cores altogether, one desktop processor and two chips for entry-level servers.
-
STI accelerates Cell CPU to 6 GHz, Intel bumps 80-core chip to 4 GHzJan 4, 2007 - in News
Integrated circuit designers will come together next month in San Francisco to get updates on hardware developments at the annual IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). Among the more visible presentations will be a next-generation Cell processor as well as AMD's quad-core Opteron and Intel's 80-core Teraflop processor.
-
AMD Live! to support Blu-ray and HD DVD in Q3 2007Dec 28, 2006 - in News
AMD Live! will start supporting Blu-ray and HD DVD in the third quarter of 2007 in line with AMD's hopes to take a bigger share of the multimedia market, according to industry sources.