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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Despite agreeing to pay AMD $1.25 billion in hush money, which sounds like an admission of guilt, Intel claims it’s done nothing wrong and never did – and such a position is memorialized in the 20-page deal it signed with AMD Wednesday. Intel CEO Paul Otellini claims it would have been improvident for Intel to [...]
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Cisco and EMC Tuesday kicked off a cloud-chasing joint venture called Acadia that includes VMware and Intel as minority investors. Presumably they took the name from the ancient Greeks who used the word to mean a refuge or idyllic place and not the uprooted and deported North American Acadia captured in Longfellow’s magnificent tear-jerker “Evangeline,” [...]
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Tukwila, the next Itanium chip – which once upon a time was supposed to be out in, oh, let’s see, 2006/2007, and was just delayed this past February until some time around the middle of this year – has been delayed yet again, this time until the first quarter of 2010. Intel is mumbling something [...]
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Intel and Dell have moved to snuff out the trademark claims of Psion Teklogix, the Ontario-based Anglo-Canadian concern that has been sending cease-and-desist letters to PC manufacturers, retailers, the media and bloggers since right before Christmas maintaining that it owns the word “netbook.” Psion complained to Google on January 29 and ever since then Google [...]
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by Maureen O’Gara Wanna bet that Intel has found a way to get AMD to drop its cherished antitrust suit against the semiconductor giant – and that AMD handed Intel the six-gun to blow it away like in a Sam Peckinpah movie? It all revolves around AMD’s so-called asset light strategy and the fact that [...]
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