Topic: Intel Corporation

The Economics of Intel

PC processor revenues are expected to grow 7.5% this year, to a record $32.8B. Intel dominates market share with 79.7% and its closest rival, AMD, has 19.7%. Intel's global shipments were up 20.8% in Q2 of 2008, compared ...READ»

• Reinventing the Atom

A Laptop in Every Pot

Not even a seemingly noble cause can distract Intel from the developing-world marketing efforts we wrote about in "Intel's Amazon Ambitions" (February). After long dismissing the efforts of the One Laptop Per Child foundation to give ...READ»

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Intel Wants to be Inside the Smart Grid

Everyone is angling for a piece of the smart grid's multi-billion dollar pie, and Intel plans on taking the biggest slice. Wind turbine manufacturers already use the Intel's embedded chips to control turbine vane pitch, rotation, ...READ»

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Cellscope Diagnoses Diseases from Your Cell Phone

What if you could diagnose an ear infection with your cell phone? That might be possible thanks to an innovation from University of California, Berkeley professor Daniel Fletcher. The professor's "Cellscope: Telemicroscopy for ...READ»

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»

• The Fast Company 50 - #6 Intel
• Intel Atom: Intel Makes Its Smallest Chip Ever

Intel v. ARM: The Battle to Run Your Smartphone and Netbook

Intel and ARM used to live in peaceful coexistence. ARM designed small chips for a litany of inexpensive devices--mobile phones, disk drives, game systems, anti-lock brakes, washing machines--while Intel's forte was ...READ»

Intel's Phone-Media Hub Mash-Up is a Curiously Dated Idea

Intel doesn't think that the home phone is dead--despite some pretty compelling evidence that more and more people are using cellphones as their main telecommunications systems. And it wants to combine a home phone with another ...READ»

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»

Is Intel Gunning For the iPhone?

Many devices have been labelled "iPhone killer"--the BlackBerry Storm and T-Mobile G1 among them. And now, even Intel has its sights on bettering Apple's all-in-one media player smartphone? "iPhone killer" is a description that ...READ»

How Intel Puts Innovation Inside

Everybody worships at the altar of innovation. But it takes a company such as Intel to distill the very essence of innovation and turn it into a set of learnable, repeatable practices.READ»

Intel Atom: Intel Makes Its Smallest Chip Ever

A completely reimagined computer chip from Intel drinks 10 times less power -- and puts the full Internet in the palm of your hand.READ»

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Intel Won't Require Graphics Chip Bundle For Atom

Last week Nvidia made some news with its Ion chipset for netbooks, which bundles an Atom processor together with an integrated Nvidia GeForce 9400M graphics chip. Machines with this bundle inside would be both cheap and powerful ...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»

EU Punishment For US Companies

After  Microsoft and Intel who else would be the next candidate for being punished? Will the other US companies be targeted?  Will  it be Google? Just wondering.READ»

Intel's Woes Worsen: U.S. May Follow E.U. in Antitrust Rulings

Intel's just landed itself a financial penalty of nearly one and a half billion dollars in an E.U. antitrust ruling, but now there are suggestions that the company's problems may be just starting--U.S. lawmakers could follow with ...READ»

E.U. Slaps Intel With Record $1.45 Billion Antitrust Fine [Updated]

Intel has been found guilty of anti-competitive behavior by European lawmakers, as rumors earlier this week suggested. The size of the fine--$1.45 billion--is the most astonishing among the punishments meted out to the chip-maker ...READ»

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»

Inside Intel's Mentoring Movement

Forget everything that you've ever learned about mentoring, especially the idea of hitching your wagon to a rising star. Here's how Intel is reinventing the old approach to mentoring to teach, inspire, and reconnect its employees.READ»

Rock Star Engineers Debut in Intel's New Advertising Campaign That Focuses on the Future

When Intel decided to retool its largest advertising push in years, the chipmaker wanted to make a familiar statement: "our products make everyday life possible." But Santa Clara-based advertising firm Venables Bell ...READ»

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»

Asus Confirms 10-inch Eee PC Announcement

The rumor mill has been confident for quite some time that Asus [TPE:2357] would follow up its successful line of Eee PCs with even larger screen models, and the official word is in. According to Cnet UK, which got its dirt directly ...READ»

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»

Intel Announces SSD Drives for Netbooks

Microsoft has just announced that it will expand that functionality to work with its Windows Mobile platform, placating the numerous Windows power-users who've been following rumors of the crossover for months.READ»

AMD and NVIDIA Teaming Up Against Intel?

In something akin to a corporate cat-fight, AMD [NYSE: AMD] and NVIDIA [NASDAQ: NVDA] have decided that Intel has not been adequately forthcoming with its specifications for the next iteration of the USB interface, USB 3.0. The ...READ»

AMD and NVIDIA Teaming Up Against Intel?

In something akin to a corporate cat-fight, AMD and NVIDIA have decided that Intel has not been adequately forthcoming with its specifications for the next iteration of the USB interface, USB 3.0. The danger, of course, is that ...READ»