Though Apple's taken a pretty conservative line with the hardware refresh for its iMac desktop PCs, it turns out that the guts of the machines harbor some juicy secrets.READ»
"Never work before breakfast," the saying goes. "If you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first." And while you do that, read iFive for the early news:READ»
Apple's new MacBook Pros are now official, after a high-profile leak. The specs teach us a couple of things: The Light Peak/Thunderbolt data link is here, but otherwise Apple seems to be playing it safe. READ»
Intel's 2012 CPUs will have baked-in support for super-speed USB 3.0, the tech that Steve Jobs just noted isn't taking off due to...lack of Intel support. What's going on?READ»
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»
AMD's Brad Burgess is the chief architect behind the company's future low-power/portable device Bobcat CPUs. We spoke to him about them, but also about the future. READ»
Chip-making giant Intel has been a bad company during various parts of its life, waging an anticompetitive war against its rivals. The FTC's been investigating in the U.S. and has just settled with the company. READ»
AMD hasn't given up its fight in the CPU battle against rival Intel: It's now reaching for the next computing revolution--the cloud. A slew of new powerful but cheap AMD chips are out. They also prove desktop supercomputing is en ...READ»
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»
In a culimation of talks that began in spring '08, Intel has just agreed to pay $1.25 billion (cash, due in 30 days) to its biggest rival chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) and agreed to a set of "business practice ...READ»
AMD recently announced that it would cease to market its chips based on technical specs like speed ratings and cache, effectively withdrawing it from the arms race that has been dominated by Intel since time immemorial. AMD will opt ...READ»
Theoretically, Apple's Mac OS X can be installed on nearly any machine running an Intel processor, and even AMD-based machines--including netbooks, laptops and desktops. But the process of installing OS X on these devices gets ...READ»
“Customers… are making purchase decisions based upon companies' behaviors. When companies do find the things that are important to their customers and go above and beyond with regard to the corporate responsibility that the ...READ»
Imagine the scene. 200 game-makers, along with academics, funders, and journalists convening for two days to explore how to create and use digital entertainment – video games - to address the most critical issues of our day, from ...READ»
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»
When a big technology company begins gathering a specialist group of experts together, in some cases poaching them from key posts in other successful outfits, it's a strategic maneuver. In this case, it's the famously secretive ...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»
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»
