Archive for the ‘Intel’ Category
Oh what a start to the week! Lots of good news stories came in today and we had a really hard time picking the ones we thought were most important for your consumption, dear readers! But we’ve come up with the following 5 that we thought were big. Enjoy.
Nvidia has upped the stakes in the graphics card game once again, this time by launching the mid-end 8800 GT card. It consumes 80W less power than it’s elder sibling, the 8800 GTX, and runs considerably cooler as a result. The card also sports a thinner profile and will be available for between $199 and $249. [Via DailyTech]In continuing good news for Intel, its new Penryn processors have been getting the thumbs up from reviewers all over the interwebs. The quad-core desktop processors have been described as the fastest processors out there for any task imaginable. The speed can be attributed to the blazingly fast 1333Mhz FSB and 45nm architecture. Pricing should be revealed very soon. [Via
I4U News]
On the other hand, in continuing bad news for Sony, the PS3 losses could climb as high as $1 billion this fiscal. While Sony has been selling a lot more PS3s since the price drop, demand is lower than the other systems. Sony hopes to reach the break-even point by the second half of this fiscal. We think that ain’t gonna happen. [Via GameDaily BIZ]
Samsung is now shipping a 16x dual-layer DVD burner, which it claims is the world’s fastest dual-layer burner. It can write at 20x on regular DVD media. It’s available for $80 and also features enhancements such as LightScribe. [Via TG Daily]
Lenovo’s first consumer-oriented notebook went on sale in the US today. The Lenovo L3000 Y410 (who comes up with Lenovo product numbers?) features a 14.1″ display, Core 2 Duo T5450, X3100 integrated graphics, 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD, Vista and integrated 1.3MP webcam. The laptop starts at $699. [Via Laptoping]
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- By Vivek on Oct 30, 2007
Hello again to our daily news post. Another slow news day unfortunately, but we do have a couple of interesting stories! And another recommended reading at the end of the post. Today’s reading is from HowStuffWorks.com and is on nanotechnology.
It’s time for some earnings reports! On one hand, you have Microsoft whose entertainment division is finally making some money thanks to Master Chief. On the other, you have Sony whose PS3 continues to be a major loss maker. Of course, as always, Nintendo is still laughing all the way to the bank. [Via GameDaily BIZ]
SanDisk is suddenly feeling trigger happy as it just sued 25 (!) companies for patent infringement over USB mass storage device, or flash drives. Among others in the crosshairs are biggies LG, Kingston, and Corsair. The reason given by SanDisk is that it wants to protect those companies that already license its technology. Sounds to us like they want to get these 25 to pay up license fees to fill up SanDisk’s coffers. [Via CNET]
Nvidia could be gearing up to announce a new high-end laptop graphics chip – the 8800GTX which will essentialy be a mobile-optimized version of the desktop 8800GT. It would come in 256MB and 512MB flavors and the announcement could be coming November 19. [Via Electronista]
Finally, some good news for AMD. The company managed to increase its market share at the expense of rival Intel in Q3. Intel lost 0.4% of its market share to AMD during Q3 to end at 76.3% while AMD went up to 23.5%
This doesn’t quite count as news, but the buzz around the interwebs is that Leopard is awesome. It comes out today for the general public. In 16 hours 31 minutes as of this post.
Recommended Reading: How Nanotechnology Works
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- By Vivek on Oct 26, 2007
If you’re among those unlucky users who have 965 boards and have been waiting for nearly a year for the graphics drivers promised by Intel to improve performance, then you’re in luck. As long as you use Windows XP, the drivers are up for download. Follow the download link below to grab the new drivers. If you use Vista, then your wait is not over yet. No, we won’t diss you.
Download Drivers
CNET News
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- By Vivek on Aug 19, 2007
It seems that Intel has finally realized that the plethora of names for its processor and CPU products was confusing tech babble to the average consumer and will go in for an overhaul starting January 1, 2008.
The Core 2 Quad, Duo, and Solo line with be renamed to just the Core 2 family leaving the Core 2 Extreme name unchanged. Also falling in the no change category are the Xeon family and the Celeron family. Receiving an unfortunate downgrade is the Itanium 2 processor which be called just the Itanium processor. If you think that’s bad, the Pentium Dual Core and Pentium D lines will be simply called Pentium. Wow, talk about being sent back into the nineties.
If you want more info on what the changes will be, hit the DigiTimes links below.
DigiTimes
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- By Vivek on Aug 6, 2007
Intel is being accused of abusing its market position to prevent rival AMD from selling their processors in the EU. The allegations include Intel paying up manufacturers to not use AMD chips or delay using them, offering substantial rebates to manufacturers who sourced their x86 chips from Intel and selling chips below price to server customers.
These are some pretty serious allegations and Intel might have some explaining to do as all these moves are seen as being part of a single anticompetitive strategy designed to exclude AMD as far as possible.
Yahoo! News
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- By Vivek on Jul 27, 2007
DigiTimes is reporting that Intel will launch the first 45nm processor later this year. According to their sources, the first processor will be a quad-core Core 2 Extreme model with a 3.33GHz clock speed, 1333MHz FSB, and a whopping 12MB of L2 cache. It will be priced at $999. Following close on the heels of this initial model, Intel will launch two more 45nm processors with the same FSB and L2 cache as the first one.
After that, sources suggest that Intel will launch four more 45nm processors. Three of them will come with 1333MHz FSB and 6MB L2 cache while the fourth one will have a 1066MHz FSB and 3MB L2 cache.
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- By Vivek on Jul 19, 2007
The price war with AMD has taken a bit of a toll on Intel’s latest earnings report. Revenues were up 8 percent from Q2 2006 but net income was up 44 percent. However, compared with Q1 2007, net income was down 22 percent. In fact, all the numbers were down when compared with Q1 2007 and up when compared with Q2 2006. Hit the Read link to learn more about the numbers that Intel released
Read: BusinessWire
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- By Vivek on Jul 18, 2007
Well, well, well. After crying hoarse about Intel’s own cheap laptop project, the OLPC project is now letting Intel join the board, throwing into doubt the involvement of rival chipmaker AMD. What do you have to say on this development AMD?
The apparent change of heart by Intel is welcome. AMD is sure they can make a positive contribution to this very worthy project for the benefit of children all over the world. As one of the founding members of the non-profit organization, AMD will remain committed to OLPC and to the goals of our 50×15 Initiative, whose mission is to enable 50 percent of the world’s population with affordable, accessible Internet and computing capabilities by the year 2015.
Intel obviously wants a larger piece of the sub-$400 computer pie and hence is joining the OLPC project. Let’s see what happens next!
Read: DigiTimes
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- By Vivek on Jul 17, 2007
As previously reported, Intel has announced the Core 2 Extreme X7800 processor for laptops. Clocking in at 2.6GHz, the new processor features a 4MB L2 cache and an 800MHz FSB. Weighing in at $851, the processor is not exactly cheap but it will be the highest performing mobile processor out there. Also, the processor can be overclocked by manufacturers if they so please. So, gamers rejoice! And save money.
CNET News
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- By Vivek on Jul 16, 2007
Laptoping reports that Intel has announced the Core 2 Extreme for laptops at Computex in Taipei. There is no information yet on clock speeds however the chips will be based on Santa Rosa so they will feature 800MHz FSB speeds. Apparently, Intel claims it won’t kill battery life while offering the highest performance for laptops. Word is that the first Extreme chip will be X7800 and run at 2.6GHz with 4MB L2 cache. Expected price for 1000 is going to be $795 per chip. Quite expensive if you ask us. But then again, gaming hardware rarely comes cheap. These chips should find their way into laptops by the third quarter of this year.
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- By Vivek on Jun 6, 2007
