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Why Intel Tapped Two Quirky Chinese Wedding Photogs For Its Latest Ad Campaign

Kitty and Lala are Chinese wedding photographers and bloggers who are introducing a playful, modern angle into fuddy-duddy Chinese wedding photos. They're also part of Intel's global campaign to promote its new-gen Core 2 CPUs. The pairing makes sense on a number of levels--but will it resonate with American audiences? READ»

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Intel Debuts a Vision for MacBook Air's New CPU

A cluster of future CPUs from Intel have just been announced, and among them are mobile chips that may (or may not) power the rumored, smaller MacBook Air upgrade. Thing is, there are two candidates.READ»

ARM's A15 Chip Means Your 2013 iPhone Will Be Astonishing

ARM only just revealed its Coretex A9 chips, it seems--dual-core madness that'll make next-year's smartphones and tablet PCs serious competitors to laptops. And now here's the A15. With four cores. And speeds up to 2.5GHz.READ»

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Samsung Just Revealed Apple's Next iPhone Super-Chip

Samsung just pulled the veil from its dual-core Orion low-power chip, based on ARM Cortex A9 designs. It's powerful, impressive. It may also be the secret behind Apple's next iPad/iPhone CPU.READ»

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Intel Expands its Empire: Buys McAfee for $7.7 Billion

Intel has just announced it's going to buy one of the most well-known PC security firms, McAfee. It's going to be handing over $7.68 billion to seal the deal, too.READ»

Google's Power-Hogging Server Farms Versus SeaMicro's Super-Efficient Supercomputers

The computer server industry may not sound like a hotbed for innovation to you, but SeaMicro thinks differently. It's just rocked the server world with a super-computer-like product that's smaller and more power-efficient than any ...READ»

ARM's Smart Meter Market Stirs Apple-ARM Speculation

The Smart Grid's eco- and money-saving powers may be a bit of a media-darling topic at the moment, but did you ever ponder what tech makes this all work? ARM is leading the game. Which may mean Apple could play too. Here's why.This ...READ»

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Intel Profits From PC Sales Boost, Sails Serenely Through the Recession

Intel's just reported its fourth quarter earnings for 2009, and they are impressive--with a headline $10.6 billion in revenue. It seems Intel's profited from fab investments, and the netbook boom. Oh, and suppressing the ...READ»

Meet the Smartbook: For Everything Your Smartphone and Netbook Can't Do

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»

Can Intel's New Atom Chips Liven Up Netbooks?

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»

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Is The Netbook Phenomenon Over? In a Way, Yes

New research by IDC points to falling sales of the chip that drives the majority of netbook PCs--Intel's Atom CPU. One suggestion is that the first quarter 33% drop is a sign that the netbook's rise to fame is on a down trend. In ...READ»

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Microsoft and Intel Fight E.U. Lawsuits Just as Antitrust Policies in the U.S. Get Tougher

The European Union's taking a strict line on anti-competitive behavior by two giants of the computing industry: Intel and Microsoft. This week, Microsoft is wriggling to try and fend off an E.U. ruling against it, while the chip maker ...READ»

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Intel Ensures Better Next-Gen Netbooks With New Atom Chips

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»

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Freescale Targets $200 Netbooks With New Chips

You probably haven't heard of Freescale--the company doesn't grab many headlines in the CPU world dominated by Intel. But the U.S. company recently announced big plans for netbooks: It wants to put its CPUs inside more of them, and ...READ»

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Intel Plans to Beat Downturn by Innovating

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»

Intel Cuts Chip Prices Dramatically

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»

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Future Chips To Get More Powerful, Research Shows Plenty of Life in Moore's Law

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»

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Intel's Next-Gen 32nm Chips Need Less Power for More Speed

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»

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Speculation Increases That ARM-Powered Apple Netbook is On the Way

While he said Apple [AAPL] had some "interesting ideas" about netbooks, Steve Jobs squashed thinking that his company would be entering the netbook market when he spoke at Apple's last quarterly earnings call, saying there are "not a ...READ»