http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2010, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:46:51 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/22741/Intel_Fires_Back_in_FTC_Suit/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22741/Intel_Fires_Back_in_FTC_Suit/ Intel has responded to the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust investigation, unsurprisingly challenging the FTC's allegations as well as criticizing the agency for what the company calls an attempt "to turn Intel into a public utility". Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:02:45 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 1 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22708/Intel_Updates_Wind_River_VxWorks/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22708/Intel_Updates_Wind_River_VxWorks/ "Among the most widely deployed embedded operating systems on the planet is Wind River's VxWorks real-time OS. This week, Intel's Wind River division is updating VxWorks to version 6.8, providing new multi-core and 4G wireless capabilities. The new VxWorks release comes as the competitive market for embedded operating systems is changing, with the acquisition of rival MontaVista software by chip maker Cavium. MontaVista develops an embedded Linux operating system release that Wind River competes against, with both VxWorks and Wind River's own embedded Linux release." Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:23:09 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 0 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22641/Intel_Reveals_Next-Generation_Atom_Details/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22641/Intel_Reveals_Next-Generation_Atom_Details/ "Intel has revealed the launch specs for the first-ever line of x86 products that contain both a GPU and CPU on the same die. Pine Trail, the next-generation Atom platform, will pave the way for future integrated CPU/GPU parts from both Intel and AMD." Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:43:09 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22571/Intel_Shows_Off_48-Core_Chip/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22571/Intel_Shows_Off_48-Core_Chip/ "Intel's experimental 48-core 'single-chip cloud computer' is the latest step in multicore processing. Intel officials say such a chip will greatly improve performance and efficiency in future data centers, and will lead to new applications and interfaces between users and computers. Intel plans to have 100 or more chips in the hands of IT companies and research institutes next year to foster research into new software. Intel, AMD and others are rapidly growing the number of cores on a single silicon chip, with both companies looking to put eight or more cores on a chip in 2010." Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:25:52 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 22 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22551/Intel_Roadmap_Leak_Shows_Desktop_Core_i3_i5_i7_Plans/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22551/Intel_Roadmap_Leak_Shows_Desktop_Core_i3_i5_i7_Plans/ "Intel's plans to overhaul its desktop processors early next year have been detailed almost entirely in a roadmap published today. The lineup is now believed to be headlined by low-powered S versions of the Core i5-750 and i7-860 that will run all four cores at 2.4GHz and 2.53GHz respectively; they should use just 82W of power versus 95W or more and fit into tighter spaces. Each will have 8MB of Level 2 cache, though the Core i7 chips will scale up to 3.46GHz where the Core i5 will stop at 3.2GHz." Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:42:15 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 5 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22320/Interview_Intel_Talks_Moblin_Netbooks_Windows_ARM_More/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22320/Interview_Intel_Talks_Moblin_Netbooks_Windows_ARM_More/ "Imad Sousou is the director of Intel's Open Source Technology Centre, which is behind the Moblin project aimed at providing optimized Linux technology for netbooks and mobile Internet devices. ZDNet Asia's sister site ZDNet UK caught up with Sousou at the Open Source In Mobile 09 event in Amsterdam last month to discuss the nature of Moblin and the hardware on which it will run." The interview also covers Intel's views on the netbook and MID market, Windows 7, ARM as a competitor, and Google's Chrome OS and how Intel is working with Google. Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:12:43 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jordan Spencer Cunningham) Intel 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22222/Intel_Unveils_Light_Peak_10Gbps_Optical_Interconnect/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22222/Intel_Unveils_Light_Peak_10Gbps_Optical_Interconnect/ "USB 3.0 might be one of the big stories here at IDF, but Intel just showed off a glimpse of the future: Light Peak, an optical interconnect for mobile devices that can run as fast as 10Gbps. That's fast enough to do everything from storage to displays to networking, and it can maintain those speeds over 100-meter runs, which is pretty astounding. Intel says the idea is to drastically reduce the number of connectors on mobile devices, which should allow them to get even smaller - but the demo was on a huge Frankenrig, so don't expect to see Light Peak devices shipping any time soon." Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:12:48 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/22213/Intel_Aims_for_World_Domination_x86_Everywhere/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22213/Intel_Aims_for_World_Domination_x86_Everywhere/ The Intel Developer Forum is currently in full swing, but it kicked off with a speech by Intel CEO Paul Otellini. Well, there's bad news for those of us who long for a time where lots of different architectures compete with one another, ensuring that technology is moved forward. Otellini's plans for Intel basically come down to one thing: x86 everywhere. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:54:42 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 45 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22212/How_Intel_s_Supercomputer_Almost_Used_HP_Chips/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22212/How_Intel_s_Supercomputer_Almost_Used_HP_Chips/ More than a decade ago, Intel ran into an issue trying to deliver what was to be the world's top-ranked supercomputer: it looked possible that its new Pentium Pro processors at the heart of the system might not arrive in time. As a result, the chipmaker made an unusual move by paying Hewlett-Packard $100,000 to evaluate building the system using its PA-RISC processors in the machine, said Paul Prince, now Dell's chief technology officer for enterprise products but then Intel's system architect for the supercomputer. Called ASCI Red and housed at Sandia National Laboratories, it was designed to be the first supercomputer to cross the threshold of a trillion math calculations per second. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:20:34 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 17 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21923/The_Story_Behind_Intel_s_Atom_Processor/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21923/The_Story_Behind_Intel_s_Atom_Processor/ Intel had to hustle to catch up with competitors in developing chips for mobile devices like smartphones, but the effort led to the development of the highly successful Atom chip, an Intel exec has revealed. Intel kicked off the Atom project in 2004, when it was doing work on developing Arm chips in parallel. At the time the company was "running like crazy" to develop a chip for mobile devices to catch up with the fast evolution of wireless devices, especially voice services, which were peaking at the time. Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:53:17 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 4 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News caffeine deprived http://www.osnews.com/story/21880/Intel_Appeals_Massive_EC_Antitrust_Fine/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21880/Intel_Appeals_Massive_EC_Antitrust_Fine/ In a statement to Betanews this afternoon, a spokesperson for Intel confirmed that the company has filed an appeal of last May's European Commission ruling, in which the company was fined the equivalent of $1.4 billion for what it found to be antitrust violations. According to spokesperson Chuck Mulloy, Intel's theory for its appeal is that the EC was prevented from seeing critical and possibly exculpatory documents, on account of an order of the court trying AMD's civil case against Intel in Delaware. Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:01:40 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Intel 1 http://www.osnews.com/topics/25 News 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