All Entries Tagged With: "Intel"
Intel Announces Record Profits
Santa-Clara-based chip-maker Intel has released figures for 2011, reporting record revenues of $54 billion, up from $43.6bn in 2010. That’s a pretty commendable 24% increase in profits. Net income climbed 13% to $12.9bn , some of which will hopefully go into research to bring you and me ever faster components. Intel’s results for Q4 were [...]
ARM CEO Criticizes New Intel Medfield CPUs
Mobile chip heavyweight ARM has criticized Intel new Medfield architecture Atom Z2460 as only ‘roughly good enough for mobile phones’, even though it is will soon appear in Motorola and Lenovo smartphones. However ARM sees Intel as ‘a serious competitor’ according to CEO Warren East, speaking at CES earlier this week at CES 2012. Mr. [...]
Intel Sets Out Ultrabook Roadmap
Intel announced today that up to 60 slender ultrabooks will come to market this year and praised the combination of convenience and performance offered by the ultrabook format. The ultrabook form factor follows a tight set of criteria, including quick boot times, a full keyboard, svelte dimensions, and initially they were required to bear Intel [...]
Intel Rolling Out Thunderbolt in 2012
The Thunderbolt socket delivers data transfer at a speed of 10Gb/s (roughly equivalent to a full-length HD movie transferred in less than 30 seconds). Thunderbolt’s dual channel interface is bi-directional, so the 10Gb/s transfer speed is available in both directions simultaneously. That compares with USB-3′s maximum transfer speed of 5Gb/s. Intel new Thunderbolt technology launched [...]
New prototype Intel smartphone
A few cynics murmured that Intel would never launch a smartphone and that the Medfield line of processors would never reach the market. Not so. Technology Review magazine from MIT had a hands-on review of a new prototype smartphone featuring Intel’s newest mobile CPU, the Medfield. The phone runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread and although approximately [...]
Intel Concentrates Mobile Forces
Intel has decided to merge four of its mobile computing divisions into a ‘Mobile and Communications’ super-unit. Intel’s netbook and tablets, ultra-mobility, mobile communications and mobile wireless divisions will in future work as one in an attempt to make up lost ground on Qualcomm and NVidia, who currently produce the lion’s share of processors in [...]
Intel Suffering From Hard Disk Shortage
Intel predicts the current hard drive shortage will cost it $1 billion in lost revenue . Flooding in Thailand, where more than 40% of the global hard drive production is located, has already LED to a leap in prices, and analysts now estimate that the shortage could drag on until the third quarter of next [...]
Windows On ARM Delay Predicted
Microsoft promise to make Windows 8 run on ARM and moderate specced hardware has a catch – ARM-based devices will have to wait until 2013, because developers want to concentrate on Intel and AMD x86 devices. Mid-2013 is the new target date, apparently because programs written primarily for x86 devices must be laboriously re-written for [...]
30 new ultrabooks this winter
Much like Acer, Asus, Apple and other companies Toshiba had jumped onto the promising ultrabooks bandwagon with their price conscious Portege Z835. It’s a start up line of ultra thin notebook run by 1.4 GHz, Core i3 processor with 13.3-inch display of 1366 x 768 pixel resolution. Toshiba Portege Ultrabook sells at BesBuy for $799.99 [...]
Steve Ballmer – We’ll Be Back
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has made a surprise appearance at Microsoft’s LA Build conference, in which he proudly announced that half a million copies of Windows 8 Beta had already been downloaded within 24 hours of its release. The Microsoft boss conceded the OS was still far from complete, and stressed the importance of Windows [...]
