Intel 160GB SSD Gets Under Way

Intel is the latest company to deploy solid state drives this year. Computer manufactures are simply doing away with the traditional mechanical hard drives by using SSDs instead.

The arrival of the of Solid State Drives may replace traditional hard drives soon as Intel Corp rolls out its new 160GB Solid State Drive. The new SSDs are becoming more popular among laptops and notebooks.
"Unlike traditional hard disk drives, Intel solid-state drives have no moving parts, resulting in a quiet, cool, highly rugged storage solution that also offers faster system responsiveness," Intel said in a statement.
SSDs are perfect storage solutions for smaller computers such as notebooks because of their size and the ability to outperform mechanical hard drives. For example, Toshiba Corp released its new 512GB SSD as a primary storage device for its laptops. Intel's new SSDs are the 2.5 inch 160GB and the 1.8 inch for ultra portable laptops.
Intel says that its SATA SSDs are faster due to the faster read and write performances. The company also says that SSDs last longer than traditional hard drives.
"These drives also feature low write amplification and a unique wear-leveling design for higher reliability, meaning Intel drives not only perform better - they last longer," Intel said.
The likelihood that these new SSDs will replace hard drives is already here. The technology giants in the industry are all making their own Solid State Drives. The question is, are consumers ready for the switch? If it comes down to pricing, the SSDs are cheaper and provide better design as a storage device.

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Intel Unleashes Core 2 Quad Mobile for Laptops

Intel has introduced a new mobile quad-core processor which is available in the Acer Aspire 8930G-7665 laptop. The new Core 2 Quad Q9000 is also available separately for $348.

Intel Corp and Acer Inc have teamed up to launch a new laptop that's powered by the new Core 2 Quad processor. The new chip offers reduced power consumption and enables longer battery life. The low cost chip runs at 2.0 GHz.
"Optimized for the longest possible battery life without compromise to performance, Intel Core 2 Quad processors for notebooks allow you to stay unwired longer while running the most compute-intensive applications," Intel said in a statement.
Acer has started offering the new mobile quad core in its Aspire 8930G-7665 laptop. The multimedia laptop comes with 4 GB memory and the Nvidia GeForce 9700M GT graphics card with 512 MB of video memory.
Aspire also includes a Blu-ray disc playerand a 500 GB hard drive. Other features include a Webcam and buildt-in Wi-Fi support. The laptop runs on Windows Vista Premium and sells for $1,800.
The price for the Acer Aspire is actually good, considering it has the new Intel mobile quad-core processor. It is the first laptop to offer the Core 2 Quad Q9000. The price for the chip itself is $348.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 comes with 6MB of level 2 cache and 1066MHz FSB. The new chip is built on 45nm technology and offers clock speeds of 2 GHz.
"Intel Core 2 Quad processors are built on 45nm Intel Core microarchitecture enabling faster, cooler, and quieter mobile and desktop PC and workstation experiences," Intel said.

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Intel Moorestown To Debut On LG MIDs

Intel will soon release its Moorestown processor which LG Electronics plans to benefit for its mobile Internet devices. The two technology companies will make use of the Linux-based Moblin 2 software platform for smart phones.

Intel Corp and LG Electronics announced a collaboration on Monday to bring the new Moorestown processor to market in mobile Internet devices (MIDs). LG will be one of the first technology companies to introduce the next-generation microprocessor. The MID product line comprises of notebooks, netbooks, and smart phones.
"We chose Intel's next-generation Moorestown platform and Moblin-based OS to pursue this segment because of the high performance and Internet compatibility this brings to our service provider customers," Jung Jun Lee, executive vice president of LG Electronics and head of its Mobile Communications Business Division, said in a statement.
Moorestown has remarkable speeds for Mobile Internet Devices.
Intel Moorestown is derived from the Linux Moblin v2.0 platform and has remarkable speeds. It will be one of the most influential chips to run in MIDs. The Intel processor includes 45nm technology which can greatly increase battery life while contributing graphics, video and a full memory controller.
"We look forward to providing them some fantastic Intel products that will deliver the best Internet experience while dramatically reducing power –contributing to the development of ultra sleek devices that offer superb battery life," Intel Corporation senior vice president Anand Chandrasekher said in a statement.
The new Intel processor uses the newest Moblin v2.0 software version.
Moreover, the all-in-one platform also includes an input/output (I/O) hub, code named "Langwell," that embraces a wide range of mobile wireless solutions. In addition, the platform comes with the newest Moblin v2.0 software version and contains support for both PC and mobile voice capabilities. LG is currently working with Sony Ericsson to initiate a new 3G network for MIDs.
"Ericsson's unparalleled relationships with global service providers will be instrumental as we define plans with LG to take this MID to market across multiple geographies around the world," Mats Norin, vice president and head of Ericsson Mobile Broadband Modules, said in a statement.
Mobile Internet Devices is a growing market.
The MID market is warming up and there are growing signs of consumer demand. Large companies are beginning to meet that demand with new 3G networks and robust processors that are small enough to run in MIDs. The Moorestown platform will be available in early 2010.

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Intel Atom Z5xx Processors Target Internet Media Phones

Intel Atom Z5xx has emerged as a new powerful processor developed for media phones. The new chip is loaded with advanced eco-technologies including temperature options which are available for Windows and Linux.

Intel Corp announced the new Atom Z5xx processor on Monday which is aimed at additional markets. Some of these markets include in-car infotainment devices, media phones, eco-technologies and applications. The new series of products contain the most energy-efficient transistors to date.
"With the addition of these new products, we can bring the benefits of Intel processors to new applications, devices and customers who develop products used in unconstrained thermal environments with low-power in mind," said Doug Davis, vice president, Digital Enterprise Group and general manager, Embedded and Communications Group, Intel.
Intel Atom Z5xx is designed to offer a low-power solution while maintaining performance and graphics.
Intel Atom Z5xx includes new advancements in integrated 2-D and 3-D graphics. The chip has a built-in video accelerator and can support multiple operating systems including Microsoft Corp's Windows and Linux. The Atom processor was built to serve devices as a low-power solution.
Processors are getting faster, more powerful, and operating at cooler temperatures. The Intel Atom Z5xx is one example of these newer chips that are coming to market. The chip has eco-technology options for controlling its temperature.
Media Phone Reference Design facilitates new development of hardware solutions to market.
Analysts predict that newer chips, including the Intel Atom, will play a major role in the embedded Internet market. The market is expected to grow 15 billion devices by 2015. In addition, the company also introduced its new "Intel Media Phone Reference Design" that will facilitate development of hardware solutions to market.
Intel strongly believes that the Internet-based communications market is rapidly growing. The Atom Z5xx is designed for media phones and devices which provide services over IP. These devices offer a one-touch access to social networking, e-mail, text messaging, weather forecasts, and digital photo albums.
The new Intel Atom Z5xx will be available in the second quarter.

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Intel Targets Ultimate Green Mobile Phones

Intel is researching technology to harvest free energy for mobile phones from the environment. The idea is to create reusable energy from sunlight and body heat. This energy could be captured by tiny sensors to power personal devices such as cell phones.

Intel Corp is working with a group of researchers on ways to harvest free energy for personal devices such as mobile phones. The energy would come directly from the environment, such as sunlight and heat.
The technology isn't that far off. Today, homeowners can already buy outdoor light fixtures that recharge during the day from sunlight. The lights run energy free during the night.
Some manufactures that make wrist watches use tiny sensors from the sunlight. Theses sensors are known as ambient heat to store energy. There are battery-free calculators that only use an interior light to power on.
"Wouldn't it be nice if, in fact, you were able to go almost indefinitely without charging the battery, if you were able to scavenge enough free energy from the environment?" Justin Rattner, chief technology officer at Intel, said in a statement.
Mobile phones could use this same technic for harvesting energy from the environment. Personal devices could automatically charge and run from free energy.
Intel has not marketed such a way to recharge personal devices, but its research is still ongoing. It will only be a matter of time when the technology company does create sensors that can harvest free energy from light and ambient heat.

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Intel Discovers Silicon Photonics For Transmitting Data Using Light

Intel researchers have discovered an important breakthrough in silicon photonics. Intel is working on a new avalanche photodetector which can detect and amplify light signals. This discovery is the next step in developing ways to transmit data through light.

Intel Corp is working on new ways to transmit data by using light signals. The new discovery an important breakthrough in silicon photonics.
The business technology company is currently working on a new breakthrough which can detect and amplify light signals through avalanche photodetectors, or ADP. Intel says that the discovery is the next step in developing ways to transmit data through light.
"With APDs, we have an opportunity to develop very high-speed optical links with the ability to drive faster and lower-cost technology in and around the platform," Mario Paniccia, an Intel Fellow and director of the company's Photonics Technology Laboratory, said in a statement.
The purpose of photonics is to replace more conventional electrical interconnects that use copper wiring with on-chip components that use light to transmit data. This type of technology offers greater bandwidth and amplification abilities. Intel researchers are searching ways to build these types of photodetectors for less money.
Intel wants to see the technology developed first for desktop PCs. It wants to create an affordable solution first before deploying it in data centers for mainstream use.
What makes the avalanche photodetector different from other photodetectors is the sensor. For instance, the avalanche photodetector is a sensor that both detects light pulses and amplifies them as light is directed into the silicon. The APD, or avalanche photodetector, can absorb and then amplify the light pulse and produce tens or hundreds of electrical signals.
Intel CTO Justin Rattner said he expects silicon photonics to enter the market as early as 2010.

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Intel Develops New 32 nanometer Chip

Intel has developed a new 32 nanometer chip for desktop PCs, laptop computers, and servers. The chip maker plans to launch the new microprocessor in 2009.

Intel Corp said Wednesday it has finished the development step of a new 32 nanometer chip. The chip vows to be more energy-efficient with higher performance than its current generation of microprocessors.
Technical specifications on the new 32nm will be put on display at the International Electron Devices meeting (IEDM) next week in San Francisco.
"Our manufacturing prowess and resulting products have helped us widen our lead in computing performance and battery life for Intel-based laptops, servers and desktops," Mark Bohr, Intel Senior Fellow and director of process architecture and integration, said in a statement.
The technology company is aiming to produce new micro architecture each year. Intel is on track to deliver the new chip which is a production unmatched in the industry.
"As we've shown this year, the manufacturing strategy and execution have also given us the ability to create entirely new product lines for MIDs, CE equipment, embedded computers and netbooks," Bohr said.
Intel plans to ship the new 32nm microprocessor next year. It will mark the fourth consecutive year which Intel has met its objective.

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Intel Shares Upgraded Despite Growing Concerns

Intel shares were upgraded on Thursday by a ThinkEquity analyst. The chip maker still has a rough road ahead and has lowered its fourth-quarter projections.

Shares of Intel Corp were upgraded Thursday from sell to accumulate by ThinkEquity analyst Vijay Rakesh. However, the chip maker still has rough road ahead.
The analyst expects additional revisions to take sales expectations down to a 20 percent quarter-over-quarter level. The period includes the three months ending in December and the first quarter of 2009.
"While we expect downside revisions, we believe the magnitude of the revisions will be much smaller in the context of the bearish sentiment," Rakesh said in a statement.
Even though the Intel shares were upgraded, Rakesh said the company is "starting to mirror a lot of the bearish sentiment and slowing information technology spending for 2009."
Intel revealed on Wednesday it has finished the development step on a new 32 nanometer chip. The new chip promises to be more energy-efficient with higher performance than its current generation of microprocessors. The company plans to release the new 32nm in 2009.

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Intel Ex-Chief Urges Company To Make Electric Car Batteries

Former Intel chairman Andrew Grove is urging the chip maker to manufacture advanced batteries for electric cars. Grove says the market to mass-production is wide open in the United States.

Former Intel Corp chairman Andrew Grove is urging the chip maker to make advanced batteries for electric cars. Grove says the market to manufacture the batteries is open in the United States.
Intel already has investments in battery-related companies, but it would be a fundamental step if the chip maker shifted into the electric car business. Grove wants to further diversify the company and senses a niche in the market to create electric car batteries.
However, some experts say that Chinese and Japanese companies, including BYD Motors, Panasonic Corp and Sanyo Electric Co Ltd, have already positioned themselves to dominate the developing industry.
Grove told the Wall Street Journal that Intel's "strategic objective is tackling big problems and turning them into big businesses" and he maintains that the company could find ways to dominate the new industry with its $12 billion in cash.
It's unclear whether Intel executives intend to follow Grove's advice.
"We consider battery technology important and we look at a lot of things. But whether we will do anything more, we can't say at this time," an Intel spokesman said in a statement.

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Intel Partners With Ericsson To Offer Mobile High Speed

Intel has partnered with mobile wireless company Ericsson to offer HSPA high speed mobile data technologies. The chip maker will use its Moorestown series to power the new platform for the mobile Internet devices.

Intel Corp and Ericsson announced plans to team up in an effort to bring High Speed Packet Access to increasingly popular Mobile Internet Devices.
The Ericsson HSPA data solution is targeted with the launch of Intel's new Moorestown platform. The mobile platform is scheduled for release in late 2009.
Ericsson is extending its 3G mobile broadband technology from laptops down to mobile Internet devices. Some of these products include small laptops and smart phones.
Intel plans to make its Moorestown platform compatible with Ericsson's HSPA technology. Intel's new chip is the successor to the Atom chip. The new mobile chip is aimed directly at the Mobile Internet Device market which will include built-in graphics and video capabilities.
Intel says that Moorestown does a much better job addressing Atom's problem with power usage. The new chip will consume about 10 times less power at idle.

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Intel partners with Cray to developer HPC systems

Intel has partnered with Cray, which currently uses AMD processors, to build a new range of high-performance computer systems.

Intel Corp. and Cray Inc announced a partnership on Monday to develop new supercomputer technologies which is described as a range of high-performance systems.
Cray, which currently uses AMD processors, has three machines in the top 10 on the latest list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, behind only IBM Corp., which has four.
"We're excited at the potential of bringing together Intel's powerful silicon expertise and Cray's industry leadership in scalable HPC systems," said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray.
Ungaro said that he expects the first of these jointly developed HPC systems to hit the commercial market in either 2011 or 2012.
Cray said this deal was not a reaction to AMD's struggles getting out four-core versions of the Opteron chip, though the supercomputer maker was forced to delay the release of recent systems due to AMD's woes. So, it must be comforting to bring Intel on as an option.
AMD has been lagging lately in the performance race with Intel. However, its latest four-processor Opteron chip is winning good reviews in the supercomputer community, in part because it offers an efficient technology for retrieving data from memory chips.
Supercomputers are used heavily by government agencies for data-crunching and weapons development, while universities and private companies use them to conduct scientific research and model complex financial transactions.

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Intel Delays Centrino 2 Laptop Chips

Intel said it was forced to delay the launch of their Centrino 2 chips for laptops.

Intel has pushed back the launch of its Centrino 2 mobile processors and the first chipsets for the platform, code-named Montevina, from June to mid-July, an Intel spokesperson said Tuesday. The full platform won't be released until early August, the Intel spokesperson added.
It wasn't immediately clear how the delay would affect Intel, which hasn't suffered a major setback on a product launch in some time, but on Tuesday there was a growing buzz in the technology press that Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia could be beneficiaries.
AMD, Sunnyvale, Calif., is scheduled to launch its own notebook platform, code-named Puma, in just a few days and will have the freshest mobile product on the block for longer than it had any right to expect, while Nvidia, Santa Clara, Calif., could enjoy a boost in sales of its chipsets for Intel processors due to the delay, analysts said. Both Intel rivals could see some pickup in sales of discrete graphics as well.
Montevina, Intel's fifth-generation Centrino notebook platform, was originally scheduled for release at the June 3-7 Computex event in Taipei, Taiwan. However, now Intel has targeted July 14 for the release of the new Montevina processors and discrete graphics chipsets, said Bill Kircos, head of Santa Clara-based Intel's consumer and enterprise communications group.
Kircos said technical issues with the Intel 4 Series Express chipset, code-named Cantiga, and a paperwork setback on the basic Wi-Fi chip included in the newly branded Centrino 2 platform means those portions of the platform won't be released until early August.
The admission confirms reporting by American Technology Research analyst Doug Freedman last Friday, who said Intel had "a misstep in the completion of FCC certification" for support of the 802.11n Wi-Fi standard and, separately, that the new chipset's integrated graphics were causing failures on OEM notebooks.
"We ran into two issues prelaunch. We had to rescreen the integrated graphics chipsets and we didn't dot all the ' i's' and cross all the 't's' on the certifications for the wireless products," Kircos said.
"We apologize for any problems this may cause with our partners and customers," he added.
The processors that form the foundation of Montevina are its improved socket P mobile chips, second-generation Intel Core 2 Duo 45nm chips that bring the previous generation's front-side bus from 800 MT/s to 1066 and reportedly will range in clock speed from 2.26GHz to 3.06GHz.
Consuming between 25W and 29W, the new chips promise longer battery life than their predecessors, the 34W Merom and first-generation Penryn chips featured in the current Centrino package, code-named Santa Rosa.

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Intel Subpoenaed for Illegal Business Practices

Intel and rival AMD have been subpoenaed by the US Federal Trade Commission.

Intel Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc have been subpoenaed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in possible anticompetitive behaviour in the microprocessor market.
The Federal Trade Commission has launched a formal investigation in a series of legal challenges facing Intel, the world's largest computer chip maker. Antitrust investigations of Intel have been launched in several countries, including the U.S., based on complaints by AMD of unfair business practices that have stalled its growth.
Intel is already fighting antitrust charges in the European Union and was fined $25.4 million this week by South Korea's antitrust regulator.
AMD alleges that Intel has maintained its dominance in microprocessors, the electronic brains of personal computers, by illegally threatening computer manufacturers with higher prices if they don't use Intel chips exclusively.
Intel has maintained that its business practices are fully legal, despite AMD's intensifying legal challenges over the past several years.
Intel has nearly 80 percent of the worldwide market share for microprocessors. AMD has roughly 20 percent and claims it has been crippled by Intel's illegal practices.

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Intel Centrino 2 Chip Includes WiMax for Faster Transmissions

Intel has launched the next-generation of its Centrino wireless chip that with newer wireless technologies for faster data transmissions.

Intel Corp on Tuesday launched the next-generation of its Centrino wireless chip that it hopes will provide a new revenue stream amid a broader push into mobile technologies.
The new Intel Centrino 2 processor arrives after a delay of several months and was decidedly lower key than the launch of the first Centrino chips in 2003.
Centrino 2 combines wi-fi capability, which is only usable within about 100 meters of so-called "hot-spot" transmitters, with a newer wireless technology called WiMax, which allows for high-speed data transmission over much bigger distances and can be used to blanket entire cities.
The new processors are intended for notebook computers, as the PC industry moves to more mobile devices with new lighter technologies and development of new wireless networks.
"Notebook computers will be the main industry driver in the future, and notebook sales already outnumber desktop sales in many countries," said Stanley Huang, director of advanced technical sales and services for Intel Asia Pacific.
Taiwan is in the process of constructing six WiMax wireless networks, and is also the world's top contract PC producer, with sector leaders Quanta and Compal Electronics manufacturing for Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Sony, among others.

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Intel Employee Steals Chip Secrets for AMD

A former Intel employee is charged with stealing top business secrets. The ex-design engineer took a new job at rival computer chip maker AMD. Advanced Micro Devices denies any wrongdoing.

A former employee working for Intel Corp has been charged in stealing company secrets. Ex-design engineer Biswahoman Pani is accused of stealing documents before taking a new job with AMD.
Advanced Micro Devices denies any wrongdoing. AMD is currently working and complying with officials.
Pani was a design engineer at an Intel plant in Boston. FBI officials filed the affidavit against the ex-designer in a Boston court. Officials found 13 files containing over 100 pages of top secret documentation at Pani's house in July.
Among some of the files discovered were Intel property drawings. Some of which were based on future Intel processors.
Intel was tipped off by another company employee. The employee ordered a log of Pani's network access after learning that he planned to work at rival chip maker AMD.
While reviewing the logs, Intel discovered that Pani copied the company files onto a corporate laptop. Log files unveiled dates when Pani was on vacation and logging into the network from a remote location.
"Intellectual property is a critical asset for Intel," said company spokeswoman Claudine Mangano in a statement. Mangano said Intel notified the Department of Justice and asked the FBI for help.
The investigation found no evidence that Advanced Micro Devices had encouraged or knew of Pani's espionage.
AMD issued a statement saying they are fully cooperating.

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Intel Releases Xeon 7400 Series With Six-Core Chip

Intel unveiled seven new processors for the Xeon 7400 series. The new chips have up to 16 MB shared L3 cache. The giant chip maker said the 7400 series will increase performance by 50 percent.

Intel Corp released seven new Xeon 7400 Series chip processors on Monday. One of the chips includes the first six-core processor. The giant chip maker said the new products will deliver performance increases of nearly 50 percent.
The Xeon 7400 is formerly code named Dunnington. It has up to 16 MB shared L3 cache. The six-core chip runs at 2.13 GHz and is listed as the Xeon L7455. The price is 2,729.
Intel is focused almost entirely of virtualization advantages of its newest Xeon family of processors.
"With new features such as additional cores, large shared caches and advanced virtualization technologies, the Xeon 7400 series delivers record-breaking performance that will lead enterprises into the next wave of virtualization deployments," said Tom Kilroy, VP and GM of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group.
The new Xeon series chips come in both quad-core and six-core flavors. They are based on 45nm process technology. The Xeon 7400 include a low-voltage 50W version for blade configurations.
The six-core product is described as the fastest chip in the 45nm Xeon 7400 Series.

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Intel and Oracle Partner to Offer Cloud Computing

Intel Corp and Oracle Corp announced that they're teaming up to offer cloud computing for corporate businesses. The collaboration effort will help to improve efficiency and network security for pushing programs into virtual clouds. A new XEON processor will also be available to provide a 17 percent performance increase.

Intel Corp and Oracle Corp announced they will partner to let business technology customers deploy applications for virtual cloud computing. The announcement was made on Tuesday at the Oracle OpenWorld 2008 conference.
"Oracle understands that enterprises would like the flexibility of choosing to run their enterprise systems in either private or public clouds, but in order to do that, cloud computing needs to be highly efficient, secure and standards based," Robert Shimp, Oracle's technology business unit group vice president, said in a statement.
The business technology giants have been partners for 15 years. The two will work on network security and flexibility for migration between private and public clouds.
Enterprises can now license Oracle's Database 11g, Fusion Middleware and Enterprise Manager over Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). It also introduced a secure backup module for Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3).
Oracle is itself leveraging virtualization heavily within its own infrastructure, and recently announced its VM Templates suite, which combines Oracle Database 11g, Enterprise Manager 10g, Siebel CRM 8 and Enterprise Linux, with all the applications pre-installed and pre-configured.
Intel also announced that the chip maker will go into production in the fourth quarter with the Nehalem chip for desktops and workstations. It will offer a product for database servers which will be available from its hardware partners in the first quarter of 2009. Nehalem was the code name for the processor when it was in development, but the official name is the Core i7.

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Intel Criticizes AMD Split Over Patent Worries

Intel Corp on Tuesday said that the AMD manufacturing split could violate its patents. The chip giant expressed concerns with AMD's latest efforts to outsource its factories and creating a new foreign company. Intel licenses its x86 chip architecture to AMD.

Intel Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc are again fighting a new potential legal war. Intel said it has serious questions about a deal that will allow AMD to spin off its manufacturing business to a new overseas company.
"Intel has serious questions about this transaction as it relates to the license and will vigorously protect Intel's intellectual property rights," Intel spokesmen, Chuck Mulloy, said in a statement.
Intel said that the deal violates its patents. The business technology giant said it will defend its rights. The two chip makers have a cross-licensing agreement under which AMD pays royalties to Intel.
AMD has not responded to Intel's concerns. However, its company split doesn't involve any changes which depend on the x86 licenses. The licenses are used to design its product line which includes the Athlon, Geode, Opteron, Phenom and Turion. The licenses also reference mainboard chipsets.

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Intel Mobile and Ericsson to Offer HSPA for Mobile Internet Devices

Intel Corp teams with mobile networks company Ericsson to offer HSPA high speed mobile data technologies. Intel mobile chip Moorestown will be the new running platform for the mobile Internet devices. Ericsson is extending its 3G mobile broadband technology from laptops to MIDs.

Intel Corp and Ericsson on Monday announced plans to team up in an effort to bring High Speed Packet Access to increasingly popular Mobile Internet Devices.
The Ericsson HSPA data solution is targeted with the launch of Intel's new Moorestown platform. The mobile platform is scheduled for release in late 2009.
Ericsson is extending its 3G mobile broadband technology from laptops down to mobile Internet devices. Some of these products include small laptops and smart phones.
Intel plans to make its Moorestown platform compatible with Ericsson's HSPA technology. Intel's new chip is the successor to the Atom chip. The new mobile chip is aimed directly at the Mobile Internet Device market which will include built-in graphics and video capabilities.
Intel says that Moorestown does a much better job addressing Atom's problem with power usage. The new chip will consume about 10 times less power at idle.

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Intel Partners With Hitachi To Develop SSD Memory Devices

Intel and Hitachi will jointly develop solid state drive memory devices. Intel plans to manufacture the SSDs while Hitachi will sell the devices. The SSD memory devices serve as an alternative to hard disk drives.

Intel Corp and Hiatchi Ltd announced plans to jointly develop solid state drive memory devices. The new SSDs are set to be an alternative to hard disk drives.
SSD memory devices are currently used in some laptops. Laptop makers prefer the memory devices because they absorb shocks and consume less power than ordinary hard disk drives. The new solid state drives will also offer a number of architectural breakthroughs and performance improvements.
"Hitachi GST will continue to provide customers with a proven set of products tailored to meet the high-performance, high-reliability requirements of today's data center," Shinjiro Iwata, executive vice president of strategic business operations at Hitachi, said in a statement.
While the new technology does threaten the existence of hard disk drives, it actually complements it. The SSDs are intended for use in storage applications that require extremely high performance and power efficiency. However, large enterprise solutions will probably favor SSDs more than hard disk drives.
Intel plans to manufacture the SSDs while Hitachi GST will sell the devices. The first shipment of the new solid state drive memory devices will be in 2010.

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Intel, Micron Announces High-speed NAND Chip

Developed by Intel and Micron, the new NAND flash chip can read and write data 5 times faster.

Intel and Micron say they have developed a NAND flash chip that reads/writes data 5x faster than conventional NAND flash chips.
The 8Gb single-level cell chip, designed with 50nm process technologies, sports read and write speeds of 200MB/s and up to 100MB/s, respectively, vs.40Mb/s and <20MB/s for conventional SLC NAND. It leverages the ONFI 2.0 specification and a four-plane architecture, according to the companies.
The international companies explained various benefits of high-speed NAND that includes 2-4x faster data read/write speeds in hybrid hard drives vs. conventional hard drives, and 5x faster transfer of high-def movies in digital video cameras and video-on-demand services. Also, high-speed NAND will better support the new USB 3.0 interface that aims to achieve 10x bandwidth of USB 2.0, or 4.8GB/s.
NAND chip samples are now at OEMs and controller manufacturers, with Intel and Micron working with partners to build and optimize corresponding system technologies that eventually take advantage of its improved performance capabilities.
Production is slated for Summer 2008.

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Intel Atom Processor

Intel Unveils Atom for Mobile Internet Devices.

The new Intel Atom processor has joined the Intel family of low-power processors designed specifically for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and a new class of simple and affordable Internet-centric computers arriving later this year.
Using the Intel Atom processor as its foundation, the international company said the Atom represents a significant new opportunity to grow the overall market for Intel silicon.
The chip-maker also announced the Intel Centrino Atom processor technology brand for MID platforms, consisting of multiple chips that enable the best Internet experience in a pocketable device.
"This is our smallest processor built with the world's smallest transistors," said Intel Executive Vice President and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Sean Maloney. "This small wonder is a fundamental new shift in design, small yet powerful enough to enable a big Internet experience on these new devices. We believe it will unleash new innovation across the industry."
The Intel Atom processor is based on an entirely new microarchitecture designed specifically for small devices and low power, while maintaining the Intel Core 2 Duo instruction set compatibility consumers are accustomed to when using a standard PC and the Internet. The design also includes support for multiple threads for better performance and increased system responsiveness. All of this on a chip that measures less than 25 mm, making it Intel's smallest and lowest power processor yet.
These new chips, previously codenamed Silverthorne and Diamondville, will be manufactured on Intel's industry-leading 45nm process with hi-k metal gate technology. The chips have a thermal design power (TDP) specification in 0.6-2.5 watt range and scale to 1.8GHz speeds depending on customer need. By comparison, today's mainstream mobile Core 2 Duo processors have a TDP in the 35-watt range.
With personal computing increasingly going mobile and the computer industry rapidly developing new classes of chip products to connect the next billion people to the Internet, the Intel Atom processor offers customers the unique ability to innovate around the new low-power design.

Intel said the Intel Atom processor has great potential for future revenue opportunities in consumer electronic devices, embedded applications and thin clients.

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Intel Six Core Processors

Intel announced that it will officially release six-core processor during the second half of this year. The chip maker also plans to start final production of its Nehalem chips in the fourth quarter of this year.

The Intel six core processor comes with 1.9 billion transistors, 16MB of Level 3 cache, the six-core chip, code-named Dunnington and will be built with Intel's new 45 nanometer technology.
"The big cache and six cores will give customers a nice bump in performance," Pat Gelsinger, a senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group said.
Intel also announced today that it plans to start producing 32nm chips in either 2009 or 2010. Gelsinger said the first 32nm chip is slated to be a shrunken version of Nehalem, an upcoming four-core chip. The 32nm chips are code named Westmere.
The chip maker also plans to immediately start final production of its Nehalem chips in the fourth quarter of this year. The 45nm Nehalem chips will include an integrated memory controller, eliminating the need for a front-side bus. Gelsinger explained that the new Nehalem architecture is modular, which means Intel should be able to build a chip using different building blocks that should be able to scale from two to eight cores.
The Nehalem chip is also being designed to have been two-way, simultaneous multithreading, to use Intel's QuickPath interconnect, and to have a three-level cache hierarchy.
Gelsinger said more information on the Nehalem specs and the Dunnington will be disclosed at the IDF.

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Intel Classmate PC Unveiled Technology News

Intel's Classmate PC is a new low cost budget laptop is designed for poor school children in developing markets.

The new budget "Classmate PC" was announced by Intel on Wednesday which will allow US and European consumers to buy $300 laptops. The new PCs is designed for poor school children in developing international markets.
Classmate PC, which as a low-power version of the Celeron M processor and a 7-inch screen, is the latest super low-cost laptop headed for retail sale in the developed world.
PC manufacturers will produce it like other personal computers using Intel chips. Intel is also working on a second version of the Classmate PC, earlier revealing plans to use its upcoming Atom processor in the new laptop. Detailed specifications of the device have yet to be revealed.
The budget laptops, depending on how they are configured, are expected to cost between $250 and $300 when they hit the market later this year.
"During the last quarter, we have seen tremendous interest in the Classmate PC from customers outside education," said Tom Rampone, an Intel vice president and general manager of the company's Channel Platforms Group.
It will compete with Taiwan's $399 Windows Asustek Computer Eee PC, which has flown off store shelves from Asia to North America since it was launched last year, and the XO Laptop, a computer that runs on the Linux operating system.
Intel has conducted pilot tests of the devices in the United States and Australia, but declined to name the schools where they are being tested.
Analysts suggest that this move by Intel and its competitors will cause rival laptop prices to adjust.

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Intel Numonyx Technology Announced

Intel and STMicroelectronics combine their flash memory businesses into a new semiconductor company called Numonyx.

Intel Corp. and STMicroelectronics announced an official deal on Monday to combine their flash memory businesses into a new semiconductor company.
The new company, named Numonyx, will occupy one of Intel's flash memory buildings in Folsom, California. More than 400 employees working at Intel's Flash Memory Group have officially joined Numonyx on Monday.
The migrated company will lease the building for at least a year while an impending decision is made to either rent space from Intel, or build or lease a separate building in the region.
The company is the third-largest non-volatile memory provider with a combined annual revenue of $3 billion and $3 billion in assets following Samsung at No. 1, Toshiba at No. 2.
Non-volatile memory is semiconductor memory that retains its data once the power is switched off.
Numonyx is focused on offering memory technology for customers that make a variety of consumer and industrial devices, including cellular phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, ultra-mobile computers and other high-tech equipment. The startup company begins as the leading provider of NOR flash memory, most commonly used in cell phones.
The company also has a considerable lineup of NAND technologies, which is found in iPods, and Numonyx is the first company to ship a new technology, called phase change memory, to customers for sampling. PCM is new technology that has fast read and write speeds at lower power than conventional flash.

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Intel Atom Compliments Mobile Internet Devices

The Atom processor, Intel's smallest and fastest chip under 3 watts, is targeted for Mobile Internet Devices and Centrino technology for portable devices.

Intel Atom is aimed at Mobile Internet Devices and the Intel Centrino Atom technology for portable devices for longer battery life.
The international chip maker has announced five new Atom processors as well as the Intel Centrino Atom technology for portable devices, which includes a single-chip with integrated graphics dubbed the Intel System Controller Hub that gives mobile devices PC-like capabilities.
The Intel Atom processor, which is energy efficient, is the company's smallest and fastest chip under 3 watts and smaller in size.
The Intel processors for Mobile Internet Devices (MID) will begin shipping this summer. However, consumers are already buying devices that are internet enabled, with portable devices such as the iPhone and other smartphones already finding a niche market. Intel though is expecting the Atom processors to be used in next-generation, internet-based portable video players and navigation devices.
"Mix in the incredible innovation coming from our fellow device makers and software vendors, and we will change the way consumers will come to know and access the World Wide Web. These forthcoming MIDs, and some incredible longer-term plans our customers are sharing with us, will show how small devices can deliver a big Internet experience," Anand Chandrasekher, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Ultra Mobility Group, said.
The new Intel chips may prove to be an additional source of revenue for the company, which was forced to revise its gross profit margin forecast for the first quarter in March. It blamed lower prices for flash memory chips for the reduction, saying it was soon expecting its first quarter gross profit margin to be 54 percent, plus or minus a percentage point, compared with mid-January's forecast of 56 percent.
RealNetworks has also announced that it will release a new RealPlayer optimized for Intel-based mobile devices. The new player will include a simplified business model that covers licensing, royalties and reports. The application also has bundled codecs and the essential ability to play browser content or use the application as a stand-alone media player.

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Intel Posts $9.7 Billion Q1 Earnings

Intel recorded Q1 revenue of $9.7 billion, up 9% year over year, gross margin up 4 points and operating income up 23%.0

Intel Corp announced that its Q1 revenue hit a record high of $9.7 billion, with operating income of $2.1 billion, net income of $1.4 billion and earnings per share (EPS) of 25 cents.
Nasdaq tech stocks saw a boost Thursday afternoon.
"The first quarter marked a very good start to 2008, driven by strong industry demand for our leading edge processors and chipsets. Our revenues grew 9 0.000000rom the first quarter of last year while operating income improved by 23%.0 Our improved financial performance and strong balance sheet allowed us to pay a record dividend in the quarter, announce a dividend increase, and buy back $2.5 billion worth of stock -- decisions we made to increase returns for our shareholders," Intel CEO Paul Otellini said.
The chip maker noted a particularly strong demand for 45 nm products and said it is continuing to ramp that process rapidly, both in terms of volumes as well as in the breadth of product offerings.
Intel said the company saw all regions grow over last year with North America standing.
The complete supply/demand equation for processors and chipsets appears to be healthy and in balance, while the server business had a particularly strong quarter, turning in an all-time record in revenues.
"First, we saw notable strength in the high-end, multi-processor segment, particularly in North America. This is due to the ramp of our Caneland MP platform. Second, in the higher volume dual processor category, we saw quad-core shipments continue to grow and now represent a majority of our Xeon DP shipments. And lastly, we saw our total Xeon processor shipments cross over to 45-nanometer based products during the quarter, further extending our leadership in this high volume segment," Otellini said.

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Intel Core 2 Quad, Xeon Price Cut by 50 Percent

Intel Core 2 Quad and Xeon processor prices are reduced by 50 percent in an effort to clear out 65nm inventory and to offer a low-price alternative to rival AMD.

Intel announced on Sunday that it has reduced its price on a number of processors, by up to 50 percent, in an effort to clear out 65nm inventory.
The Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 (2.66 GHz) has been reduced to $266, down from $530. Likewise, the Intel Xeon X3230 (2.66 GHz) was also reduced down to $266. The Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 was also cut from $266 to $183. Intel's Celeron 430 dropped down to $34.
"We're transitioning from 65nm to 45nm," said Patrick Ward, a spokesman for Intel. "We're in the process of refreshing our line. If you see a 65nm, it's older technology and we're moving on from it."
The chip maker has been crowned in the industry from both high-end and low-end products while remaining competitive with AMD. Intel's latest move to reduce prices of some of its top selling CPUs is also adding pressure to AMD, which is finding it difficult to compete.
AMD announced on Friday that it will ship its first 45nm processors in the fourth quarter. The company will still be about a year behind Intel's technology when those CPUs are shipped.

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Intel Mash Maker Makes Web Browsing Fun Again

Intel Mash Maker creates a toolbar in your Web browser which can suggest different pre-made visualization tools that you can view on different Web pages.

Intel Corporation has announced a new product, dubbed Mash Maker, which will allow users to pin widgets to a Web page from their Web browser.
The Mash Maker Widget API allows you to easily create your own Widgets. These widgets can visualize data, add data to the page, communicate with other widgets, import data from other sources, and generally do interesting things with web pages.
Since there are only a finite number of pre-made tools, Intel's other big selling points is that you can design your own mash-ups. You can also use the expert controls to reload the configuration file, change the sharing status, or delete a previously registered widget.
The settings panel runs in a different iframe to the main widget iframe, but use the Widget API to share settings information. If one frame calls setSettings then the settings are passed to the other frame using the mashmaker_widget_settings entry point.
Yahoo allows users to create their own mash-ups of RSS feeds using Yahoo Pipes, and users have created some useful things such as custom hot deal finders, Flickr filters and Twitter search functionality.
Mash Maker is a big departure for Intel, which is known mainly for it hardware, and it's also not completely clear yet how it will stand out from the similar Greasemonkey, the popular Firefox add-on.

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Intel Makes Biggest Transistor Advancement

The new processors incorporate 420 million transistors for each dual core chip.

Intel has unveiled sixteen new chips incorporating 45nm Hafnium-based high-k metal gate transistors that are smaller, faster and low-power than previous generations. Intel declares the breakthrough as being the biggest transistor advancement in 40 years.
The new processors incorporate 420 million transistors for each dual core chip and 840 million transistors for each quad core chip - nearly double the transistor density of previous models. The Intel Core 2 Extreme and Xeon processors are also the first to be manufactured on the 45 nanometer scale, boosting performance and lowering power consumption.
The international company is set to produce billion-transistor processors by 2010.
The breakthroughs pave the way for Intel to design suitable products that are 25 percent smaller than previous models, as well as the essential ability to pursue new ultra mobile and consumer electronics “system on chip” opportunities in 2008.
The 12 new quad-core processors boast clock speeds ranging from 2GHz up to 3.20GHz, with front side bus speeds of up to 1600MHz, and cache sizes of 12MB. The three new dual-core chips feature clock speeds of up to 3.40GHz, a front side bus speed of up to 1600MHz, and cache sizes of 6MB. The 45nm Hi-k Intel Xeon processors are compatible with server platforms using the Intel 5000 chipset family.

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