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… Tweet This Post

IDC’s has released its market report for the second quarter of 2009, and it contains little in the way of good news for beleaguered PC vendors. Worldwide PC shipments are down 2.4 percent year-over-year, as businesses and consumers continued to hold off on upgrades and new purchases. Adding to the misery was serious margin compression—aggressive discounting [...]

When it comes to computers, four brains are better than one. And now, even mainstream consumers can afford these multiheaded beasts. Advanced Micro Devices is launching  new quad-core microprocessors for desktops priced at only $99, breaking a threshold that should lead to powerful computers at bargain prices during the holidays… Tweet This Post

Intel is expressing Moore’s Law anew as packing functions into fewer chips. New “Clarksfield,” “Arrandale” and “Jasper Forest” processors, among others, will showcase this theme later this month at the Intel Developer Forum. Intel Vice President Steve Smith discussed the highlights of annual marquee Intel event that will kick off September 22 in San Francisco [...]

Intel is expected to reveal a sweeping management change on Monday, according to people briefed on the company’s plans. Among other changes, the chip maker will announce that Pat Gelsinger, the senior vice president in charge of Intel’s enterprise group, is leaving Intel after 30 years in a variety of roles, these people said. Tweet [...]

A typical flow of people passed through the laptop section in the 20 minutes I was there. Toward the end, all of the remaining customers (a few men and women, each) were marveling at all the cute, inexpensive laptops. Cute, inexpensive laptops to them, Netbooks to us in the media who like cut-and-dried categories… Tweet [...]

Intel showed off a number of new computer systems and at least 40 new motherboards built by partners for new Intel microprocessors that officially launched on Tuesday, nearly a month after the chips were first spotted at computer markets in Taipei. The company launched three new quad-core processors formerly codenamed Lynnfield, and aimed at desktop [...]

Intel put itself far ahead of AMD technically last year with its Core i7 desktop CPUs, but the high-end prices for the Core i7 900-series made Intel’s most advanced chip architecture more of a luxury than an industry standard. Monday’s announcement of Intel’s new, more affordable Core i7 800-series chips, as well as an even [...]

Samsung Electronics surprised the world in 2002 when its market value surpassed that of Sony’s. It marked Samsung’s emergence as a truly important player in the electronics industry and its brand image has since improved consistently. Now the Korean electronics giant, which is the world’s second largest semiconductor maker after Intel, is within reaching distance [...]

At the recent Hot Chips conference in Palo Alto, AMD outlined its upcoming 12-core server processor, codenamed “Magny-Cours.” The new CPU will arrive in 2010, and will fit into the same power envelope as the existing six-core Istanbul processor. But to make that happen, AMD had to make some compromises. Tweet This Post

At Hot Chips this past week, Intel’s Rajesh Patel revealed more details of the chipmaker’s upcoming Moorestown platform. Patel, who is the lead architect of the platform’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) part, also made it clear that he really does believe that Moorestown is a bona fide “smartphone” platform that will give us the world’s first x86-based [...]

Intel is a bellwether for the tech sector; as goes Intel, so goes the industry. So if the company raises its third-quarter revenue forecast because of stronger-than-expected demand for its microprocessors and chipsets, as it did today, then the industry may truly be stabilizing… Tweet This Post