processor

Intel's Everywhere: 75% of the Company's Business is Overseas

Ellen McGirt — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Brazil

Intel is working on stimulus projects in Brazil, one of its rapidly growing markets, and in Chile, Colombia, France, Greece, and Spain.

Taiwan

Intel's revenue from Taiwan was $9.87 bil-lion, making it the company's single largest international market in 2008.

Intel Inside ... More Than Computers

Ellen McGirt — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Windmills

Energy-efficient Celeron or Pentium processors control turbines at large-scale wind farms.

Entertainment systems

Shenzhen Hangsheng Electronics relies on Intel chips for its in-vehicle system.

Video

The camera-mounted LiveEdge device uses Atom technology to transmit video wirelessly.

Kiosks

Blockbuster's self-service installations -- and 90% of bank ATMs -- operate with Intel processors.

Will HDTVs Be Intel Atom-Powered?

Kit Eaton — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:40:57 -0400

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: Your TV.

Intel Buys Wind River, Wants More Intel Inside Your Mobile Devices

Kit Eaton — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:39:15 -0400

Intel, obviously not hurting too much from a recent $1.5 billion anti-trust fine, has just spent $884 million purchasing Wind River, which makes embedded systems software. Why would it do that? Because Intel wants it's "Intel Inside" stickers on more phones and mobile Internet devices, that's why.

Creative's 'Stem Cell' Chip: Media Supercomputing or Cell Processor Copycat?

Kit Eaton — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:06:30 -0500

Creative has been teasing a strange "stem cell" chip for a few weeks as part of its Ziilabs offshoot. Now we know that it's a crazy-powerful media-centred system on a chip, designed to be daisy-chained together into a "nano-sized" super computer.

AMD's Atom-Rival Neo CPU Isn't Really For Netbooks

Kit Eaton — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:58:18 -0500

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 processors, and their successors.

Intel Won't Require Graphics Chip Bundle For Atom

Kit Eaton — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 07:26:35 -0500

AMD Readies "Shanghai" Chip

Chris Dannen — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:12:57 -0400

AMD [AMD] has been having a mediocre year. Okay, an awful year. First, their quad-core chip, the Barcelona, couldn't find a market because of its reputation as buggy. Then the company announced a second quarter loss of over $1.2 billion. Now the AMD folks, constantly stymied by their colleagues at Intel [INTC], are putting their hopes on Barcelona's successor, Shanghai.