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.
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Apple has, as expected, lavished some upgrade love on several of its products: The Mac Pro, the iMac and the Cinema Display lineups have all been tweaked to improve their specs. The Mac Pro even got a 12-processor core ...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»
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»
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»
Laptop enthusiasts are finally getting that holy grail of processing power that only their desktop-tethered counterparts had hiterto enjoyed: quad-core processors from Intel [NASDAQ:INTC]. Intel is citing the power-managment ...READ»
Intel revealed a few details about a new chip the other day--not surprising news, you may think, as Intel's been doing lots of future-facing PR recently. But this chip is different, super in fact: It's got 50-CPU cores on a single ...READ»
The Computex trade show in Taiwan is the venue of choice for new processor announcements from Intel and Qualcomm. Intel's includes the world's thinnest netbook platform, and Qualcomm's announces the company as the smartphone chipmaker to beat.READ»
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»
Yesterday, Intel announced it has produced a batch of their new processor featuring two processor cores on a single chip. This Pentium Extreme Edition will support four "threads" using Intel's Hyper-Threading. The chip is still not ...READ»
Apple looks set to shun the next-generation 4G technology, LTE, for its first year in the U.S. Can it still retain its title as the most advanced smartphone, in the face of strong competition from Windows 7 and Android phones?READ»
OS X Snow Leopard seems to do nothing really new. And yet, it could be their most important OS since 10.0.0.
Snow Leopard, as a follow up to Leopard, is almost absurdly insubstantial at first glance. The new operating system takes ...READ»
Today AMD made official its line of "Puma" notebook processors, which are AMD Turion X2 Ultra dual-core mobile processors with ATI Radeon HD 3000 graphics baked in. That's a mouthful, sure, but it translates into a ...READ»
The FTC is suing the chip-making giant for monopolistic market abuses. "Intel has engaged in a deliberate campaign to hamstring competitive threats to its monopoly," said Richard A. Feinstein, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition. READ»
Asus intends for gamers to use the docking station as an intermediary between their notebook and a large-screen monitor, the higher resolution of which might tax the notebook's graphics chipset.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»
In its continual quest to become a household name, computer components maker Asus (TPE: 2357) has announced a gadget they're calling the ROG XG – a “VGA and multimedia docking station” for notebooks. In what Asus describes as a ...READ»
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»
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»
The smartphone and tablet revolution is propelled along by clever designs, but also by clever hardware, and Marvell's just revealed a 1.5GHz, triple-core mobile CPU that delivers the kind of processing power your current-gen phone merely dreams of.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»
The latest grist from the Apple rumor mill comes with some believable specifications about new iMacs and Mac Minis, as well as a potential timescale: Today.
The Mac Mini rumors have been going for months. And with good ...READ»
In which Jeff, our hero, learns everything you'll need to know about buying a new computer -- a classic tale of boy meets PC, boy loses PC, and, well, read and find out.READ»
Apple pulled the wraps off a suite of new hardware today--all upgrades to its desktop computing line, with both the iMac and Mac Mini getting some modernization. Although what Apple is doing might be better labeled ...READ»
