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Intel’s 10G 'Romley' server to spur Ethernet switch growth

Posted February 13, 2012 - 5:28 pm

When Intel ships its long-awaited 10G-enabled server platform later this quarter, it's expected to have a significant impact on the Ethernet switching market.
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Thunderbolt: One year later

Posted February 12, 2012 - 7:07 am

It's been almost 12 months since Thunderbolt made its debut on the 2011 MacBook Pro. In that time, just a few dozen Thunderbolt products have shipped, to the disappointment of users eager to take advantage of the fast connection.
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New York attorney general settles case against Intel

Posted February 9, 2012 - 5:00 pm

The New York Attorney General settled an antitrust case it brought against Intel in 2009, the chip maker announced on Thursday.
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Review: Intel's new 'Cherryville' SSD 520 drive

Posted February 6, 2012 - 2:22 pm

Intel today started shipping its fastest solid-state drive to date, the 520 Series SSD, sporting its smallest 25nm NAND flash memory and SandForce's SATA 3.0 controller with 500MB/sec-plus performance.
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Silicon Valley anti-poaching pact lawsuit goes forward

Posted January 27, 2012 - 9:35 am

Apple, Google and five other tech companies must face a class-action suit filed on behalf of employees who claim the firms illegally agreed not to recruit each other's employees.
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Impact of Thailand floods continues to bite tech industry

Posted January 25, 2012 - 12:01 am

Nvidia lowered its revenue forecast Tuesday for the quarter ending Jan. 29, citing the impact of the hard disk drive (HDD) shortage caused by the Thailand floods on its mainstream GPU business.
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When a 'gentleman's agreement' looks like collusion

Posted January 20, 2012 - 12:37 pm

Recently released Justice Department evidence shows a half-dozen Silicon Valley tech firms had 'no-poaching' deals, despite a 2010 settlement in which the companies admitted no wrongdoing.
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This week in pictures: Microsoft's CES swan song

Posted January 13, 2012 - 4:39 pm

Also: Apple gets egged, ICANN defends new gTLD plan, SOPA-type Web blocks start in Finland, and Intel fakes IvyBridge demo.
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Intel's Ashlee Simpson moment at CES

Posted January 12, 2012 - 11:44 am

An Intel executive demonstrated a "live" game on the company's Ivy Bridge ultranotebook to an audience at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. But it wasn't quite live.
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Your cheat sheet to CES' notable mobile happenings

Posted January 11, 2012 - 11:30 am

Here’s a short list of the things worth talking about at CES in 2012, at least in the mobile realm.
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Intel fakes demo of graphics-star IvyBridge with video instead of 3D game

Posted January 10, 2012 - 3:24 pm

The newish ultrabook category of laptops -- ultralight, powerful enough to run video and video games well -- took a body blow yesterday when Intel demonstrated the Ivy Bridge CPU/GPU chip combination not with a live demo, but with a video. Why? Is there no middle to that bridge?
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CES: Intel touts touchscreens, voice recognition on future Ultrabooks

Posted January 9, 2012 - 3:51 pm

Intel showed off voice recognition, touchscreen controls and advanced graphics on Ultrabooks during its CES press conference on Monday.
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CES 2012: Intel demos DX11 on Ivy Bridge based Ultrabook

Posted January 9, 2012 - 3:08 pm

Coming clean in the end, Intel attempted to demonstrate DirectX 11 running on an Ivy Bridge based Ultrabook. It was recorded, rather than live game play though.
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Lenovo adds new Core chips, Thunderbolt to ThinkPads

Posted January 5, 2012 - 12:05 am

Lenovo on Thursday announced ThinkPad laptops with cutting-edge technologies including Intel's upcoming third-generation Core processors and the Thunderbolt interconnect, which is currently found only on Apple laptops.
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Intel Ivy Bridge chips launching early April 2012

Posted December 30, 2011 - 8:06 am

Intel may unveil its next generation of processors--nicknamed "Ivy Bridge"--in April, according to the latest reports. The Ivy Bridge chips for desktops and laptops promise a 37 percent performance increase over the current generation of Sandy Bridge processors.
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Intel's mobile chip 'Medfield' specs and benchmarks leaked

Posted December 29, 2011 - 6:59 am

Intel's first system-on-chip, codenamed "Medfield," may outperform other chips designed for tablets and smartphones--at least according to performance numbers from the Caffeinemark 3 benchmark tool.
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Intel is entering the Android market, for better or worse

Posted December 21, 2011 - 5:47 pm

Intel is ready to show off a more efficient mobile processor in Android phones and tablets. Will that help or confuse the Android ecosystem?
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Report: Google, Intel among Chinese hacker targets

Posted December 14, 2011 - 8:10 am

Cyberspies from China have hit 760 companies, research institutions, ISPs and government agencies over the past decade, according to a Bloomberg article published Tuesday.
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Life without microprocessors would suck, Intel says

Posted December 12, 2011 - 3:02 pm

The microprocessor has been around for more than 40 years now, and to help celebrate this, Intel has produced a fun video showing what life would be like without this key invention.
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Will the ARM chip punch out Intel's x86?

Posted November 29, 2011 - 12:04 pm

Two questions: will a tablet become your PC one day soon? And when you buy a Windows 8 system, will that PC or tablet run on an ARM processor?
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The creepiest video ever about data centers

Posted November 29, 2011 - 2:02 am

Intel wants to create a video about data center cooling efficiency, but in a fun and eye-catching way. What do they do? Show a bunch of half-naked guys walking into the "Intel steam room". OK.
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Oracle: HP paying Intel to keep Itanium going

Posted November 21, 2011 - 2:15 am

Hewlett-Packard has secretly contracted with Intel to keep making Itanium processors so that HP can maintain the appearance that "a dead microprocessor is still alive", and make money from its locked-in Itanium customer base and take business away from Oracle's Sun servers, Oracle said in a court filing on Friday.
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Google, Microsoft, Intel, Verizon among new cloud-security registry members

Posted November 17, 2011 - 5:27 pm

Google, Verizon, Intel, McAfee, Microsoft and Savvis are joining a voluntary program set up by the Cloud Security Alliance that provides public information about whether contributors comply with CSA-recommended cloud-security practices.
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Small businesses stuck in IT ‘dark age’ claims Intel report

Posted November 2, 2011 - 2:12 pm

A shortage of money, combined with a lack of technical expertise, is keeping half of small businesses in a technology “dark age”, according to a large survey.
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Intel releases SSD Toolbox 3.0 to optimize drive performance

Posted October 27, 2011 - 4:56 pm

Intel on Thursday released the third generation of its solid-state drive monitoring and management firmware SSD Toolbox 3.0, which offers many of the same tools as previous versions but with a simpler interface.
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