Intel Archive

Photos of Intel’s Red Flag Linux Mobile Internet Device

Submitted by danwarne 2007-04-17 Intel 8 Comments

APC has obtained a leaked document showing the technical details of Intel's Red Flag Linux software stack, as well as photos and screenshots of the suser-interface. On a related note, Transmedia plans to announce that its Glide productivity suite and media sharing environment for desktop and mobile devices is available for Linux users.

Intel To Launch Linux-Powered Mobile Internet Device

Submitted by george 2007-04-16 Intel 35 Comments

Intel is developing its own take on the mini-tablet, with a new ultra-mobile PC platform to be announced at this week’s Intel Developer Forum in Beijing. The big surprise? It’s based on Linux. In the meantime, Intel announced new details of its forthcoming Santa Rosa PC platform, including a significant revision of the Core 2 Duo chip.

Unheralded Larrabee Plots AMD, Nvidia Takedown

Submitted by borker 2006-12-08 Intel 26 Comments

A shadowy organization called Larrabee Development Group has set a most ambitious goal: unseating AMD/ATI and Nvidia as the largest producers of high-end graphics chips. And it might just succeed. It may seem unfathomable for an unknown such as Larrabee to knock off two of the most powerful processor companies. That is until you realize that Larrabee is little more than a weak disguise for Intel. The chip giant has, in fact, ramped up its graphics efforts in recent weeks to create a product code-named Larrabee theoretically capable of besting AMD and Nvidia's best kit.

Intel’s USD 400 Flash-Based Laptop Alongside the OLPC

Submitted by Flatline 2006-12-06 Intel 7 Comments

Intel said Tuesday its diminutive low-cost laptop will be evaluated in Brazil next year alongside a cheaper alternative from a nonprofit group seeking to bring computers to poor children worldwide. The company said it would donate 700 to 800 of the USD 400 (EUR 300) 'Classmate PC', to the government for a large-scale evaluation in schools. Intel has already tested the computers on a smaller scale with students and teachers in a poor neighbourhood of Campinas, near Sao Paulo.

Intel Completes Design of Penryn Chip

Submitted by Arielf 2006-11-30 Intel 17 Comments

Intel has completed the design of Penryn, a 45-nanometer chip that will be out toward the end of next year. The company is also in the midst of making its first Penryn samples. "They aren't out of the fab yet, but they are in the fab," said Mark Bohr, director of process technology at Intel.

Intel Orders Rival to Stop Making CPUs

Thom Holwerda 2006-11-24 Intel 59 Comments

CPU maker Intel is pressuring smaller rival Via Technologies to exit the CPU market, industry sources in Taiwan claim. In exchange, Intel will allow Via to continue making PC chipsets which use Intel's patented technology, say the sources at PC mainboard manufacturers, who do not wish to be named.

Intel Officially Launches Quad-Core Processors

Submitted by Ken Mahan 2006-11-14 Intel 29 Comments

Intel today formally launched its first set of quad-core processors, which officials say should give the chipmaker a comfortable headstart on archrival AMD (AMD quad-core offerings will not be due until the release around mid-2007). A review of one of these quad-cores has also been published.

Intel GMA 3000 Linux Graphics Performance

Submitted by Michael Larabel 2006-10-21 Intel 26 Comments

In August Intel had announced their new Linux graphics driver website as well as announcing the immediate availability of open-source display drivers for the 965 Express Chipset. This Chipset offers fourth-generation Intel graphics architectures in the form of the GMA 3000 and GMA X3000. Phoronix ran some tests on the Q965 Chipset and GMA 3000 graphics with their open-source drivers, and have their results to share today under GNU/Linux.

First Look at Quad-Core Performance

Submitted by Jeremy 2006-09-28 Intel 21 Comments

ExtremeTech was able to get an exclusive peak at Intel's newest quad core processor, the Core 2 Extreme Quad E6700. After running through the gauntlet of 3DMark and content creation tests, among others, the quad core CPU boasts impressive performance results, particularly in video and 3D tests. According to the article, video creators and 3D animation artists should probably start saving up.

Intel Pledges 80 Cores in Five Years

Submitted by Jasen Bulio 2006-09-27 Intel 34 Comments

Intel has built a prototype of a processor with 80 cores that can perform a trillion floating-point operations per second. CEO Paul Otellini held up a silicon wafer with the prototype chips before several thousand attendees at the Intel Developer Forum here Tuesday. The chips are capable of exchanging data at a terabyte a second, Otellini said during a keynote speech. The company hopes to have these chips ready for commercial production within a five-year window.

Intel: Quad-Core Is Just the Beginning

Thom Holwerda 2006-09-26 Intel 26 Comments

Quad-core processors are only the beginning of what a revitalized Intel has to offer, the company's top executives said here Sept. 26. The chip maker will deliver in November its first quad-core processors - chips that incorporate four processors each - for both desktops and servers, said CEO Paul Otellini here, in an opening keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum. The quad-core chips themselves will offer up to 70 percent greater performance in desktops and 50 percent in servers.

Intel Sheds More Lights on Plans for Quad-Core Processors

Submitted by Ish Pfierman 2006-09-26 Intel 9 Comments

Intel's planning its own version of 'Quadrophenia' for this week's Intel Developer Forum. It has already revealed the code names for the server and desktop versions of those chips: Clovertown and Kentsfield. Those models will be constructed by combining Intel's two newest dual-core processors in those categories in a multichip package. Intel also announced low-end Xeons.

Intel Builds New Laser Based Processor

Thom Holwerda 2006-09-19 Intel 21 Comments

Researchers with the University of California at Santa Barbara, working in conjunction with Intel, announced Monday the next step in their joint plans to produce an entirely solid-state photonic processor assembly - a chip which processes data as light waves, without the need for microscopic, yet movable, parts.

Intel to Introduce CSI to Counter AMD’s HyperTransport

Submitted by Mica Schunarez 2006-09-11 Intel 29 Comments

Intel is getting ready to introduce a chip communications technology called Common System Interface (CSI) and also an integrated memory controller that mirrors an approach central to recent successes of rival Advanced Micro Devices.

Preview: Tom’s Hardware Benchmarks Intel’s First Quad-Core

Thom Holwerda 2006-09-10 Intel 21 Comments

Intel's first quad-core processor 'Kentsfield' has found its way into the Tom's Hardware test lab. Weeks before Intel will provide evaluation processors to the press, Tom's Hardware was able to obtain a qualification sample: The chip was sent through the test parcours, showing impressive performance.

Itanium Gets Back on the Horse

Thom Holwerda 2006-09-07 Intel 3 Comments

"In July, Intel released the dual-core Itanium 2 processor, formerly code-named Montecito, and announced that the new chip is capable of double the performance of its predecessor while consuming 20 percent less electrical power. eWEEK Labs' tests of a server based on the newest Itanium 2 platform show promise but also limitations."

Intel Lowers the Boom on Marketing, IT Departments

Thom Holwerda 2006-09-05 Intel 21 Comments

Intel announced plans Tuesday to lay off thousands of workers over the next year after a strategic review designed to prepare the company for life with a smaller share of the chip market. The layoffs primarily hit the marketing and information technology departments. The company said it will have 10500 fewer employees by the middle of 2007, as compared to its headcount at the end of this year's 2nd quarter.

Mobile Intel Core 2 Duo: What You Need to Know

Submitted by DigitalDame 2006-08-29 Intel 8 Comments

"For months now, all we really knew about the new Core 2 Duo mobile processor was its code name: Merom. Given the blazing speeds that the desktop Core 2 Duo processors exhibited, we could only imagine what was in store for laptops. Now, Intel completes the architectural upgrade of all its processors with the release of its mobile Core 2 Duo mobile. And we tell you if it was worth the wait."

Intel: Optimize Applications for Multicore

Eugenia Loli 2006-08-28 Intel 19 Comments

Intel is expected to release on Monday development tools designed to help programmers at software companies take advantage of the added computing power available on multicore systems.

Demand for Intel chips Creates Shortage

Submitted by Mitarai 2006-08-21 Intel 7 Comments

A spike in PC demand has created a new shortage of Intel chipsets, potentially reviving an issue blamed for causing the company to lose market share to rival AMD last year. Demand for new PCs spiked after the two microprocessor makers slashed prices for desktop chips in late July, but the sharp rise in purchases has caused component makers to scramble to keep up, said Sunny Han, director of marketing at Asustek, the world's largest motherboard maker.