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Up Close with Nikiski, Intel’s Concept Laptop of Tomorrow
Although Intel doesn’t build laptops, the chip maker showed off a bit of design flare at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with Nikiski, a concept notebook that folds up into a touchscreen virtual …
Meet Intel’s Crazy 50-Core ‘Knights Corner’, World’s First 1 TFLOPS Processor
Intel announces world’s first 1 teraflops processor—the power of a supercomputer on a single chip.
Intel Core i7-3960X Review Roundup: It’s Full of Expensive
Intel’s latest uber-powered, ultra-expensive CPUs are available now, so do they offer enough oomph to warrant draining your bank account?
Steve Jobs: The iPad Almost Had Intel Inside
When Apple switched to Intel chips back in 2006, reality almost imploded, and when Steve Jobs launched the iPad without an Intel microprocessor, you could almost feel the ripples through the time-space continuum. What you probably didn’t know, is that the iPad almost had an Intel chip under the hood.
And here’s the kicker: The guy …
Intel Bets Big on Small with Google Mobile Partnership
Intel is betting big on small, announcing a deal with Google to get future Android-based devices running on Intel chips, along with a plan (not involving Google) for much more efficient power management features for thin-and-light ultrabooks that’ll be hitting the market soon.
The company has been chasing after the mobile segment for …
WATCH: AMD Breaks 8GHz World Record with Daring CPU Overclock
Today’s Intel Developer Forum fastest processor in the world gold star goes to Int—I mean, AMD?
That’s right, AMD, Intel’s least-favorite chip-making rival, who apparently managed to jam prototype processing tech, incantations from a book of magic, a sacrificial dove and a bag of gilded runestones into a box to coax an AMD FX …
Windows-Based MacBook Air Competitors May Be Pricier than Anticipated
The promise of Windows-based “ultrabooks” is an intriguing one. They’re coming later this year and they’ll sport super-thin, super-light designs similar to those found in Apple’s MacBook Air line of notebooks.
As Windows machines, there may have been an expectation that they’d cost less than similarly-outfitted MacBook Air models. …
Next in Notebooks: Super Thin ‘Ultrabooks’ to Cost Under $1,000
Not that it should be a huge surprise by any stretch of the imagination, but notebook computers will continue to get thinner, lighter and less expensive.
So says Intel, which outlined what it’s calling “Ultrabooks”—portable computers that’ll measure well under an inch thick and run atop Intel’s latest line of “Core” processors:
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Surprise! Intel Wants Its Netbook Business Back
A couple years ago, Intel was keen on steering people away from netbooks. The chip maker asked retailers to warn consumers about what netbooks can’t do, and created the “ultra-thin” category to provide a more powerful — and more expensive — alternative.
My, how things have changed.
According to DigiTimes, Intel will offer its …
Rumor: Apple Plans Processor Switch for Laptops
The Apple rumor du jour is a juicy one: the company might switch computer processor architectures again, ditching Intel in favour of ARM.
Apple already uses ARM-designed chips inside its mobile devices. The question is, will Apple start putting ARMs inside its computers too?
According to semiconductor gossip site (yes, there is …
Intel Trades Over 50 Years of Chip Design for ‘3D’ Processors
From Avatar‘s tawny-eyed, blue-skinned aliens to high-def Blu-ray movies to Nintendo’s totable 3DS, everyone’s hip to 3D, and the latest company to hop onboard looks to be–wait a second, Intel?
Yep, Intel, as in Intel 3D microprocessors. No, you won’t need dorky glasses to run your next computer, but using sophisticated 3D …