Some cost-conscious server companies are beginning to use netbook hardware inside their machines to cut costs, according to The New York Times.
Intel's low-cost, low-power Atom CPU, which can be found in pretty much every netbook on ...READ»
We're all familiar with Intel's tiny, low-power Atom CPU--without it the netbook revolution probably wouldn't have happened. But Intel has just pulled the covers off its next-gen Atom system on a chip, and it has a new target device: ...READ»
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the future of mobile computing: The Smartbook. In the same way that a netbook filled a previously unknown need by being something between a laptop and a smartphone, a Smartbook device is halfway ...READ»
We may have proclaimed the netbook a phenomenon that was over and done, but Intel has just revealed its next-gen Pine Trail chips, and it looks like they might inject some new interest into the mini portable computers.
With ...READ»
Instead of tossing that bag of Doritos in the trash, consider sending it back to Frito-Lay. It might just get turned into a tote bag.
Frito-Lay has announced that it's opening 1,000 collection sites in the U.S. for used snack ...READ»
Intel's just unveiled two new chips in its ground-breaking Atom range of CPUs, one year to the day the first chip was launched. A cause for celebration for one main reason: Without the Atom we probably would not have netbooks. And ...READ»
Just a few weeks ago, Intel announced it would lay off thousands of employees due to the recession, but the company has just revealed another more positive tactic that it will use to beat the financial downturn: Innovation.
In ...READ»
I've always enjoyed watching the little twirling timer and Apple logo and hearing the "bing!" sound as my Mac boots-up (Windows users, you have your equivalent though it's not as pretty.) But now with a new chip breakthrough from ...READ»
Intel [INTC] may be the semiconductor industry titan, but new chips released today by AMD [AMD] suggest the company can compete with Intel technologically. AMD's stock is hovering around $2 a share. Are shares of AMD undervalued? ...READ»
Intel is making a bold move to try to inject some life into its CPU processor revenue stream: It's slashing prices of its chips, in some cases by 40%. It's a reaction to the lower consumer gadget spending that's been caused by the ...READ»
Solid-state drives are slowly taking over the PC data storage market--and for good reasons, with their reduced power requirement, resistance to knocks and potentially faster access times than regular hard drives. And the next step in ...READ»
So AMD's nose-to-nose battle with Intel in every corner of the CPU marketspace really isn't going to happen for netbook CPUs. News about AMD's low-power Neo CPU has arrived and it's not a direct rival to Intel's suite of Atom ...READ»
Gordon Moore's 1965 observation of increasing integrated circuit power paralleling shrinkage in size was originally tentatively phrased: "The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two ...READ»
Intel's [INTC] announced details of its next-generation chips, fabricated using a 32nm process, due to go on sale late 2009--the chip's transistors switch 22% faster and result in processors much smaller than the current 45nm ...READ»
AMD [AMD] has been struggling to hang with Intel [INTC] for a while now, but a string of buggy chips and unimpressive offerings have made the company nearly moot in the last few years. Now AMD has announced that it will be splitting ...READ»
Little was known about Intel's [INTC] purported new line of chips, called Core i7, until this morning. Price and architecture details have hit the Web in the form of leaks, and here's what they're saying. Intel itself hasn't ...READ»
While it's tempting to make a chip-related pun, I'll just go ahead and say that Intel [NASDAQ:INTC] announced a group of new processors this holiday week that should compete well with AMD's [NYSE:AMD] recently-revealed Phenom chips. ...READ»
It may be true that processors are not the most exciting doohickeys in the consumer electronics world, but when AMD [NYSE:AMD] does anything, it's time to pay a little attention. That's because the processor world is home to one of ...READ»
