At the Computer History Museum last Wednesday, Intel CTO Justin Rattner unveiled more than 70 futuristic projects and concepts underway in Intel’s labs in the areas of the environment, healthcare, visual computing, wireless mobility and more, reflecting areas where the company is investing some of its annual $6 billion in research.
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has join hands with Havok, an Irish company acquired by Intel, to optimize its award winning Havok Physics engine for AMD processors.
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NEC Corporation of America, headquartered in Texas, USA has launched two new fault tolerant servers featuring Intel Xeon processor.
It is a subsidiary of NEC Corporation Japan which provides information technology (IT) and network solutions to business enterprises, communications services providers and government.
The Korea Fair Trade Commission, South Korea’s antitrust regulator has fined Intel US $25.4 million for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the local chip market.
Bruce Sewell, general counsel Intel, criticized the ruling and told that the company will appeal against this judgement.
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is all set to launch Puma laptop chip platform at Computex trade show in Taiwan on Wednesday.
It’s a part of AMD’s mobile platform that competes with the Intel Centrino platform in the segment to gain more marketshare.
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IM Flash Technologies LLC, a joint venture between Intel and Micron has made world’s first sub-40nm Nand memory device.
This 34nm 32Gb multi-level chip which is due this year is the smallest Nand process geometry on the market.
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A German website has reported that Apple plans to use Intel Atom processor in iPhone. According to the report Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer has confirmed it.
The Atom will be used in Mini-Tablet iPhone a bigger model with 720×480 display.
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Is this some kind of new experiment by Google? Only time will tell but what we can confirm at the moment is that Google plans to switch some of its servers over to solid-state drive-based (SSD-based) storage.
Solid-state disks use flash memory instead of spinning magnetic platters to store data.
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Advanced Micro Devices has announced the availability of low-power quad-core Opteron processors for server systems.
These are B3 versions of its low-power Quad-Core Opteron processors which AMD first showed in September 2007.
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Apple will soon launch new model of iMac it is learned. It is expected that the iMac will hit market next week some where around Tuesday with slightly new features from previous one. There will be no major changes like a completely new system from ground up. The desktop will feature Intel’s latest Penryn processors […]
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