Caught between the mobile wave that may swamp its boat and the slowing PC market that may leave it marooned, Intel has set up a new Mobile and Communications Group to chase after ARM and its minions and crack the smartphone and tablet markets. The unit combines four existing divisions: netbooks and tablets, ultra mobility [...]
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There hasn’t been a really good server fight since Intel freaked out over the AMD Opteron and that was way too long ago. Tilera, the many-core general-purpose chip start-up, however, is promising some gladiatorial entertainment for those into blood sports. It thinks it can kick Intel in the shorts and out of the cloud business [...]
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Intel Wednesday disclosed that it has perfected – and will be able to mass produce – a new kind of transistor for the first time in the 50-odd years since the computer’s basic building block was invented. It said the breakthrough, which basically puts a fin-like second story on the humble transistor, promises power reduction [...]
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Intel is preparing micro servers against the day ARM can deliver a low-power server chip to the cloud people. It’s already got new single-socket 20W 2.2GHz E3-1220L and 45W 2,4 GHz E3-1260L Xeons in production, with a 15W Sandy Bridge promised in the second half that are supposed to scratch the itch ARM may have [...]
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Intel launched its long-in-coming Light Peak widgetry Thursday, renaming the new high-speed bi-directional 10 GBps connection technology Thunderbolt. By comparison UBS 3.0 tops out at 5 Gb/s and the more common UBS 2.0 can only do 480 Mbps. As widely bruited, Apple is its earliest adopter, sporting a Thunderbolt port complete with a lightning icon [...]
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In a surprise move Intel is buying McAfee for $7.68 billion, a whopping great 60% premium that will be slightly dilutive for the semiconductor giant initially. It is Intel’s biggest acquisition ever by a factor of three. CEO Paul Otellini said during a conference call Thursday morning that the purchase “transitions Intel from a PC [...]
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Intel has started laying the groundwork for what it says will eventually be at least a 50-core x86 co-processor called Knights Corner based on a newfangled Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture. It says the widget, the first of a family of Knights, will create HPC platforms running at trillions of calculations a second without sacrificing [...]
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Intel and IBM both wheeled out their latest high-end chips Monday. Cute how they do that isn’t it. In Intel’s case it’s the two-billion-transistor Itanium 9300, a k a Tukwila, the device once known as Tanglewood, only about, oh, say, three years late – the thing has been redefined, renamed, tweaked and diddled so many [...]
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Intel has canceled Larrabee, its vaunted many-core graphics retort to Nvidia and the ATI side of AMD, because it wasn’t competitive enough to best them. The chip, Intel’s first standalone discrete graphics chip and a test of its multi-core prowess, was already late, and hardware and software development had fallen behind schedule. Intel swears it’s [...]
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Intel has built an experimental fully programmable 48-core chip that it’s nicknamed the Single-Chip Cloud Computer (SCC) and means to build at least a hundred more to pass out to industry and academic partners to use to develop new software applications and parallel programming models. Microsoft, ETH Zurich, the University of California at Berkeley and [...]
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