http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2008, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Sat, 17 May 2008 06:29:11 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/19603/What_You_Need_to_Know_About_Intels_Nehalem_CPU/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19603/What_You_Need_to_Know_About_Intels_Nehalem_CPU/ "Atom is the brand name for Intel's newly-launched ultramobile processor line, but it could just as well be the name for Intel's next-generation 45nm microarchitecture. This new core microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, forms the basic building block from which Intel will assemble the brains for everything from high-end servers to svelte notebooks. Insofar as Nehalem represents a lot more than just a new processor, it's a significant shift for Intel at almost every level. In this article, I'll give a general overview of Nehalem, focusing on the major changes and big new features that the architecture will eventually bring to Intel's entire x86 processor line. A more in-depth examination of Nehalem from me will show up later in the spring; for now, read on for the highlights. Here's what you need to know about Nehalem." Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19555/Intel:_We_Can_Transform_Single_Thread_to_Multithread/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19555/Intel:_We_Can_Transform_Single_Thread_to_Multithread/ Intel today revealed it can convert single threaded software to multithreaded mode without any code modification. The new 'speculative parallel threading' process monitors software and examines whether its processes can be run in parallel. If they can execute succesfully, the software can be recompiled to run as a multithreaded app. Intel says it has realised that programmers are going to need machine help to get software running as multithreaded. "We can't blame the programmers," an Intel spokesman said. "The industry has been complaining for 30 years about how difficult parallel programming is." Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:52:32 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 30 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News Dan Warne http://www.osnews.com/story/19416/Atom_Inside:_Intel_Announces_Ultramobile_Processor_Brand/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19416/Atom_Inside:_Intel_Announces_Ultramobile_Processor_Brand/ "Intel announced yesterday that its upcoming low-cost/low-power CPUs code-named Silverthorne and Diamondville will be sold under a single brand once the products launch. The MID-centric product family will hereafter be known as 'Atom'. Consumers are obviously meant to associate the Atom brand with objects of very small size, though Intel "Quark" would have a certain ring to it." Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:18:57 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19267/Intel_Shows_Off_Silverthorne_Tukwila/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19267/Intel_Shows_Off_Silverthorne_Tukwila/ Intel has unveiled a slew of details on its portable and enterprise processors, new memory technologies and wireless development, as part of a 14-paper onslaught on the 2008 International Solid-State Circuits Conference, which opened in San Francisco on Sunday. Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:24:47 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 0 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19252/Intel_Releases_IGP_Programming_Documentation/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19252/Intel_Releases_IGP_Programming_Documentation/ At the Linux.Conf.Au conference today, Intel has announced NDA-free programming documentation covering the 965 Express and G35 Express IGPs. Intel's display driver has long been open-source, but up until now, they have not been releasing the programming documentation for these products to the public. This move comes months after AMD announced their new open-source strategy and began releasing register documentation on their R500 and R600 GPUs. These newly released documents by Intel even cover 3D and video programming for their IGPs. Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:44:10 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 18 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News Michael Larabel http://www.osnews.com/story/18851/Intel_Launches_Montvale_Itanium_Chip/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18851/Intel_Launches_Montvale_Itanium_Chip/ Intel announced today its line of Itanium products for high-end computing servers. Codename Montvale, the chip is an update to Montecito, the Dual-Core Itanium 2 chip which was launched in July last year, Eddie Toh, regional platform marketing manager of Server Platforms Group for Asia-Pacific at Intel, told ZDNet Asia in an interview on Monday. Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:14:48 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 25 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News Dorka http://www.osnews.com/story/18571/Intel_Unveils_Tigerton_Quad-Core_Chip/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18571/Intel_Unveils_Tigerton_Quad-Core_Chip/ Intel has launched its new line of quad-core Xeon products for the multi-processor server market. Its much-awaited Xeon MP 7300 server platform comprises the new 'Tigerton' quad-core Xeon 7300 series chip, as well as the 'Clarksboro' 7300 chipset. Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:20:27 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News Zespra http://www.osnews.com/story/18525/A_Look_at_Intels_New_vPro/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18525/A_Look_at_Intels_New_vPro/ "Today's launch of the latest version of Intel's vPro platform is a much bigger deal than you might think, with implications for end users that extend far beyond the enterprise arena at which vPro is initially aimed. The 2007 version of vPro represents the culmination of two of Intel's most ambitious and important plans for the PC platform: the transformation of x86 into a fully virtualizable ISA complete with virtualized I/O, and the first fully-complete implementation of all the parts of Intel's controversial contribution to 'trusted computing' technology, formerly codenamed 'LaGrande' but now called Trusted Execution Technology. Let's take a look at the new vPro and what its new virtualization and 'trusted computing' capabilities mean for ordinary users." Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:00:22 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 18 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/18468/Intel_Research_Papers_on_Programmable_Multicore_Architectures/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18468/Intel_Research_Papers_on_Programmable_Multicore_Architectures/ Intel on Tuesday said it would release this week eight technical papers describing key findings from the company's work on future programmable multicore architectures. The papers will be published in the Intel Technical Journal and will provide details on how the company expects future microprocessors with simplified parallel programming models to evolve. Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:24:22 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 11 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News burnttoy http://www.osnews.com/story/18342/EU_Slaps_Intel_with_Formal_Antitrust_Charges/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18342/EU_Slaps_Intel_with_Formal_Antitrust_Charges/ "As suspected, the European Union formally lodged antitrust charges against Intel, accusing the CPU maker of using illegal methods to compete against its main rival AMD. "I can confirm the statement of objections has been sent," European Commission spokesperson Ton Van Lierop said in a statement given to Reuters. This action represents the culmination of years of antitrust investigation by the EU - and is likely beginning of a very unpleasant experience for Intel. While the exact Statement of Objection has not yet been made public, the EU charges that Intel used illegal methods to coerce OEM computer manufacturers to ship systems with Intel rather than AMD processors." Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:45:07 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 34 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News JK http://www.osnews.com/story/18323/Intel_Open_Sources_Multicore_Programming_Tool/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18323/Intel_Open_Sources_Multicore_Programming_Tool/ "Intel announced today that they're open-sourcing their cross-platform Thread Building Blocks 2.0 (TBB) template library. While the company contributes code to open-source project like the Linux kernel and drivers, the opening of TBB marks the first time that Intel has taken a commercial tool and open-sourced it, making it Intel's largest open-source commitment to date." Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:48:20 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 13 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News Moochman http://www.osnews.com/story/18274/Intel_Launches_Mobile_Linux_Initiative/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18274/Intel_Launches_Mobile_Linux_Initiative/ Intel has unveiled an ambitious project aimed at developing open source software for mobile devices. The Moblin project comprises a Linux kernel, UI framework, browser, multimedia framework, and embedded Linux image creation tools, along with developer resources such as documentation, mailing lists, and an IRC channel. Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:51:53 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 10 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News JK http://www.osnews.com/story/18262/Intel_OLPC_Kiss_and_Make_up/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18262/Intel_OLPC_Kiss_and_Make_up/ There's nothing like allegations of predatory conduct to bring two organizations together. Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project has decided to bring Intel on board as a partner and a possible future supplier, just a few months after Negroponte went on 60 Minutes and essentially accused the chip maker of trying to destroy his low-cost PC project. Intel has agreed to join the board of the OLPC and work with the organization on possible "collaborations involving technology and educational content," according to a press release Friday morning. Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:20:33 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 30 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/18232/Intel_Buys_Into_VMware/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18232/Intel_Buys_Into_VMware/ "Intel and VMware announced today that Intel Capital is taking a USD 218.5 million stake in virtualization company VMWare. Intel will purchase 9.5 million Class A shares at USD 23 per share, which, at the completion of VMware's forthcoming IPO, will give Intel about a 2.5 percent stake in the company. Because VMware's stock is split between Class A shares, which have less voting power, and Class B shares, Intel won't control that many votes in the company, but they will get a board seat." Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:00:42 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 22 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News _mikk http://www.osnews.com/story/18227/A_Brief_Hands-on_with_the_Linux_Intel_Classmate_PC/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18227/A_Brief_Hands-on_with_the_Linux_Intel_Classmate_PC/ "Ars Technica recently got its hands on the new Intel Classmate laptop computer, one of the new projects competing for a share of school-aged computer users in developing countries. I was able to survey this machine thanks to Helio Chissini de Castro of Mandriva. The unit I looked at was powered by a specialized version of Mandriva 2007, with customizations aimed at school-aged children." Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:41:13 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 5 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News AdamW