http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:55:15 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/21690/Intel_Unveils_New_Processor_Brand_Structure/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21690/Intel_Unveils_New_Processor_Brand_Structure/ Personally, I've always been very confused by Intel's processor branding. Core Duo and Core Solo were pretty straightforward, but not long after we were dealing with Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad, which is anything but marketing friendly. Apparently, Intel agrees with us and has announced a fairly massive branding overhaul. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:36:31 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 27 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21486/EU_Fines_Intel_for_1_06_Billion_EUR/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21486/EU_Fines_Intel_for_1_06_Billion_EUR/ As was already revealed by eWeek earlier this week, the EU has imposed a massive fine on Intel for abusing its monopoly position. The fine is larger than the one given to Microsoft: 1.06 billion EUR, or 1.44 billion USD, opposed to the 899 million EUR fine imposed upon Microsoft. Wed, 13 May 2009 10:23:59 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 55 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21472/Intel_Nokia_Announce_Open_Source_Telephony_Project/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21472/Intel_Nokia_Announce_Open_Source_Telephony_Project/ Something I bumped into on Maemo-developers mailing list: "Intel and Nokia are pleased to jointly announce the oFono project, an open source project for developing an open source telephony solution." The full announcement is available at the oFono website. It's GPLv2, but not really hampered by the license because the API is exposed through DBus. Mon, 11 May 2009 21:43:10 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Intel 4 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News vivainio http://www.osnews.com/story/21468/Source_Intel_To_Be_Found_Guilty_of_Monopoly_Abuse/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21468/Source_Intel_To_Be_Found_Guilty_of_Monopoly_Abuse/ Microsoft isn't the only company in the technology industry with a monopoly. Its partner in crime, Intel, has often been accused of monopoly abuse as well, and is currently under scrutiny by the same European Commission who fined Microsoft. Sources have told eWeek (which generally has a good track record) that Intel will indeed be found guilty this week of abusing its monopoly position to stifle the competition. Mon, 11 May 2009 08:46:23 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 50 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21286/Intel_Aims_for_2_Second_Boot_Time_with_Moblin_Linux_Platform/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21286/Intel_Aims_for_2_Second_Boot_Time_with_Moblin_Linux_Platform/ At the Linux Collaboration Summit in San Francisco, Intel Open Source Technology Center director Imhad Sousou discussed the company's plans for the next major version of its Linux-based open source Moblin platform. The aim of Moblin, Sousou says, is to improve the quality of the Linux user experience on Atom-based devices. For Intel, this is a broad mandate that reaches deep into the platform and will require improvements at many different layers of the stack. One especially important aspect of Intel's platform improvement agenda is to reduce overall startup time. Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:12:34 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 11 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21282/Intel_Details_Moorestown_Platform_Two_New_Atom_Chips/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21282/Intel_Details_Moorestown_Platform_Two_New_Atom_Chips/ At the Intel Developer Form in Beijing this week, Senior Vice President Anand Chandrasekher introduced and detailed Intel's 'Moorestown' - the next generation of the Intel Atom-based MID platform. In addition, Intel used the anniversary of the introduction of the Atom processors to offer two new Atom chips: the Z550 and Z515. These two new Atom processors are designed with gaming and small form factors in mind. Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:28:12 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 1 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21225/Performance-Testing_Intel_s_Nehalem/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21225/Performance-Testing_Intel_s_Nehalem/ InfoWorld's Paul Venezia put Intel's new Nehalem to the test and found the technology a "game-changing development". Using an HP ProLiant DL580 with four quad-core Intel Xeon X7350 CPUs running at 2.93GHz per core as a baseline, Venezia's Nehalem system - which ran two quad-core Intel Xeon W5580 CPUs at 3.2GHz per core with HyperThreading enabled - performed roughly 60 percent faster across a battery of tests, including gzip compression, WAV-to-MP3 encoding, MPEG-4 to Flash Video conversion, and mysql-bench. Even more impressive, Venezia found, was that the Nehalem system did all that while serving double-duty as his workstation. "At the same time the Nehalem was executing my battery of tests, it was driving a 30-inch and a 24-inch monitor off an Nvidia Quadro FX 5500, playing an MPEG movie in full-screen on the 30-inch monitor, and running more than 500 processes across four virtual desktops, including dozens of terminal sessions, Firefox browser sessions, Java applications, and streaming audio â€" and it still put up these numbers." Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:17:22 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Intel 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News snydeq http://www.osnews.com/story/21210/Intel_Details_Future_Graphics_Chip_at_GDC/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21210/Intel_Details_Future_Graphics_Chip_at_GDC/ On Friday, Intel engineers are detailing the inner workings of the company's first graphics chip in over a decade at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco - sending a signal to the game industry that the world's largest chipmaker intends to be a player. During a conference call that served as a preview to the GDC sessions, Tom Forsyth, a software and hardware architect at Intel working on the Larrabee graphics chip project, discussed the design of Larrabee, a chip aimed squarely at Nvidia and at AMD's ATI unit. Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:32:16 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 16 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21199/Intel_Moblin_v2_Alpha_2_It_Boots_Even_Faster_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21199/Intel_Moblin_v2_Alpha_2_It_Boots_Even_Faster_/ "Back in January Intel had pushed out its first alpha release for Moblin V2. This Intel-optimized Linux distribution targeting systems with Intel Atom hardware was quite unique and offered a number of advantages for being a netbook-oriented operating system. Particularly special about Intel Moblin V2 was its boot-time, which was extremely fast when using a Solid-State Drive. Intel has now put out a second alpha release for Moblin V2, which we are briefly exploring today." Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:56:02 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News Michael http://www.osnews.com/story/21161/Intel_s_SIMD_Accelerator_Gives_Better_Graphics_Saves_Energy/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21161/Intel_s_SIMD_Accelerator_Gives_Better_Graphics_Saves_Energy/ Details are sparse, but Intel has let out word of a spiffy new graphics accelerator designed for mobile devices. This SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) accelerator renders graphics more efficiently than any other available component in that it renders them faster and at higher quality and-- here's the kicker-- it consumes ten times less energy than similar available components, providing longer battery life. Again, there's not much to go on at the moment, but Intel says that these lovely little buggers will definitely be showing up in future mobile devices be they MIDs, UMPCs, or netbooks. Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:50:17 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jordan Spencer Cunningham) Intel 3 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21071/Intel_Unveils_New_Atom_CPUs/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21071/Intel_Unveils_New_Atom_CPUs/ Not only has Intel teamed up TSMC to produce Atom CPUs, the company has also unveiled four Atom chips that will go into devices such as entertainment systems for cars, videoconferencing devices, robots and interactive kiosks. "The Z500-series Atom processors are integrated chips the size of a penny that draw little power and do not require fans to operate. The chips draw 2.5 watts of power or less and run at speeds of between 1.10GHz and 1.6GHz. They offer integrated 2D and 3D graphics and will be manufactured using Intel's existing 45-nanometer process." Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:21:26 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Intel 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News caffeine deprived http://www.osnews.com/story/21068/Intel_Outsources_Atom_Production_to_TSMC/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21068/Intel_Outsources_Atom_Production_to_TSMC/ The Atom processor, the only bright spot on Intel's balance sheet, will soon no longer be manufactured by Intel itself (CNet has more). Intel has signed an agreement with the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), outsourcing the production of the successful chip to Taiwan. While it's not the first time Intel outsources production of its silicon, it is still an unusual move for the company to outsource the production of such a major chip. Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:49:27 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 10 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/20955/First_Ever_32nm_Processor/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20955/First_Ever_32nm_Processor/ Intel demoed the world's first 32-nanometer processor today, showing it off in several test desktop and laptop configurations. There aren't any hard-set specifications or benchmarks just yet, but here's the scoop on the upcoming processors, according to Intel: The 45nm desktop and laptop processors (the Clarksfield and Lynnfield) with four cores will transitionally be replaced by dual core alternative 32nm processors (the Clarkdale and Arrandale) that also have an integrated graphics processor all with the same form factor as the 45nm chips. Two exciting side-notes: The first, Intel will be investing over $8 billion into the 32nm era (alright, so not immensely exciting, but definitely interesting, especially in this economy where money isn't shouldn't be thrown around without a mighty good cause). The second bit, according to one of Intel's charts, apparently there will be a 32nm high-end desktop processor (the Gulftown) that will have six cores. The good news? Parts of the platform will be going into production in 2009 for sure. The bad news? They said "parts." Be warned: that Core i7 you have your eye on will be a thing of the past come the newer and higher-end quad-core 32nm beauties. Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:51:18 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jordan Spencer Cunningham) Intel 13 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/20890/Moblin_2_Alpha_Available_Get_Out_the_Trusty_Netbook/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20890/Moblin_2_Alpha_Available_Get_Out_the_Trusty_Netbook/ Intel just announced the Moblin 2 alpha release available to the public for testing. Get out the good old netbook and have a go with the release; it's confirmed to work relatively well with the Acer Aspire One and the Dell Mini 9. Those of you with bitty Eee netbooks aren't completely left out in the cold-- you'll just have to go without wireless for the time being. Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:25:52 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Intel 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News weildish http://www.osnews.com/story/20865/Intel_to_Take_a_Cut_of_the_Mobile_Market/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20865/Intel_to_Take_a_Cut_of_the_Mobile_Market/ Sure, Intel's been raking it in with the Atom that is powering so many netbooks being sold in these economically challenged times, but now the chip company is hoping to take a cut of an even more mobile market-- that of MIDs, or mobile Internet devices. Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:11:27 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Intel 3 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News weildish