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) Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:35:42 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 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 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