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pcs

Ditch the Plasma and Hang Six PCs on the Wall

Every yup on the block has a fancy TV on their wall, but not too many folks can claim they have six PCs clustered in a render farm, glowing with eye-searing blue LEDs through a wall-mounted, oversized metal and acrylic frame. Installed at the Fredrik Perman design studio, the wall behind the system houses the firm's entire server room which can be accessed from the terminal beside the monster PC. Construction shot: More »

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3:20 PM on Fri Sep 26 2008
By Mark Wilson
21,964 views, 42 comments

Latest by merebito: This has to be louder than my tv. Besides, it would be way more awesome to have that six computer farm WITH a giant HD tv. Seriously! more »

Come, ye Pilgrims

Silicon Valley's Birthplace of the Semiconductor: Now a Fruit and Vegetable Stand

We all owe a lot to this place. The birth of the world's first silicon chip happened here, and now, it's a nice place to pick up some fresh produce. Bits has a great history of the site—now known as the Fiesta Super Market at 391 San Antonio Road in Mountain View (home also to the big G). It used to be the world's first semiconductor lab, established by the American physicist William Shockley and where the founders of Fairchild and Intel got their chops. But now? Just a couple of marks on the sidewalk indicate its past, among all the fine fruits and veggies. More »

10:00 AM on Fri Sep 12 2008
By John Mahoney
2,871 views, 15 comments

Latest by Zencyde: Er... it should be noted that the integrated circuit was actually invented in Texas at Texas Instruments. The first commercially viable integrated circuit was invented in Silicon Valley. :) Be careful with your attributions, Giz. Us Texans can be quite ornery. more »

spies

FBI Alleges Intel Employee Stole Secrets Before Leaving to AMD

Biswahoman Pani worked for Intel. Claiming to miss his wife, he requested a transfer from California to Intel's Hudson facility where she worked. That same day, when the request was granted, Pani turned in his resignation and announced that he'd be taking vacation for his last two weeks at the company. His new job would be with a hedge fund.

But as an FBI document reports, Pani wasn't going to a hedge fund. He was actually hired to work at AMD. And he spent the next two weeks with his Intel-networked laptop collecting confidential designs.

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9:40 AM on Fri Sep 12 2008
By Mark Wilson
12,485 views, 31 comments

Latest by Worf: I'm surprised no one noticed, this, but the guy joined AMD while still employed at Intel. He started September 2nd, and turned in his resignation September 10th. So for a week, he was under the employ of both, which raises a lot of questions. Non-competes are one thing. But getting employment at more »

ssds

Intel 80GB Solid-State Drives Get Official (and High) Price Tag, Are Blazing Fast

Intel's slightly delayed leap into the SSD game is now official, with the company announcing a $595 pricetag for an 80GB SSD, which comes in 1.8-inch (X18-M) or 2.5-inch (X25-M) sizes for the same price, with 160GB versions coming later this year. While that's a considerably higher price-per-gigabyte ratio than what can be found on more generic SSDs, Intel will hopefully bring the performance standards so badly needed in the SSD world, where actual real-world performance can vary greatly from what's stated (take everyone upset about the MacBook Air's SSD, for instance). Intel's SATA drive is rated for 250MB/s reads and 70MB/s writes, with 85-microsecond latency. Full details follow. More »

12:19 PM on Mon Sep 8 2008
By John Mahoney
5,535 views, 20 comments

Latest by diabolusunknownTheSecond: @Vastad: I would still keep the page file on the drive since it will make paging faster. Just dont keep anything at all critical on your SSD. Make it entirely your OS drive. And keep OS backups on traditional drives. Besides, even if you had the page file stored on it, it more »

intel

Intel's Six-Core Xeon 7400 "Dunnington" Processor Shipping on September 15th

According to CNET sources, Intel's six-core "Dunnington"processor will begin rolling out to servers on September 15th under the Xeon 7400 series. The new chip is Intel's first foray beyond four cores as well as their first to fuse multiple cores on a single die. It also features 16MB of L3 cache to help boost performance. The design is the last of the Penryn-class, and if the rumors hold true, we should see Core i7 (Nehalem) by the end of the year. [CNET via Electronista]

1:36 PM on Thu Sep 4 2008
By Sean Fallon
3,891 views, 13 comments

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olpc

OLPC Origin: Bittersweet Success and Future of the XO Laptop

When I met with Nicholas Negroponte not long ago, he laughed at the coverage he'd received through the past few years, including our own portrayal of Intel chairman Craig Barrett and him as Beavis and Butthead. Far more hurtful have been the admonitions of his own former staffers who feel he has mismanaged the OLPC project. Nearly every one of the original staff had abandoned the project by 2008, often in disgust. But Negroponte remains stalwart: "My elephant skin is the thickness of steel," he told me. Perhaps his resistance to criticism has been one of the project’s fatal flaws. More »

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2:40 PM on Thu Aug 28 2008
By Wilson Rothman
10,108 views, 23 comments

Latest by cmonkey: I am impressed by the quality of this series. This is one of the few decent stories I've seen about OLPC; not the usual FUDfests you get from most blogs and the mainstream media. It may not be within the scope of what the series was going for, but it more »

olpc

OLPC Origins: US and Taiwan's Hardware Lovechild

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12:30 PM on Wed Aug 27 2008
By Wilson Rothman
6,263 views, 16 comments

Latest by jrghoull: @Charbax2: "but if it wasn't for Intel's dirty tricks, there would have been 400 million children in the third world and developing countries with Internet access by now and not 400 thousand." lol you are giving intel way too much credit. they're responsible for disrupting olpc, stealing away some customers, and also more »

question of the day

Question of the Day: Would You Ever Consider Using a Palmtop MID?

At the Intel Developer Forum last week, a lot of the buzz on the demo floor was around new Atom hardware. There were the requisite netbooks and EeeClones floating around, but it seemed like peculiar little quasi-computers, or palmtop Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) stole the show. Sure, it's impressive to see a full, net-connected Vista or Ubuntu desktop running on something the size of a Sega Game Gear, but who exactly is supposed to use these? More »

6:40 PM on Mon Aug 25 2008
By John Herrman
7,974 views, 80 comments

Latest by basab: I would consider it if I wasn't "legally" blind as a bat.so much tech is in accessable to me and many others.. more »

intel

Intel Opens Door for Army of MacBook Air Clones

Muffled by the cacophony of like a million netbooks and the wireless power that'll power our cyborg brains at the Intel Developer Forum was the low-key introduction of Intel's next-gen 45nm dual core chips for ultra-thin notebooks—i.e., the dwarven chips that made the MacBook Air possible. Now that everybody can snag them, expect a surge of similarly limber notebooks that can suck in their gut to fit into narrow pockets of ugly paper. More »

1:30 PM on Fri Aug 22 2008
By matt buchanan
6,786 views, 24 comments

Latest by Crash Override 777: There maybe a lot of thin notebooks coming out but the question remains the same will it have a OS making it worth a buy? more »

intel

Intel Explains In What Year We'll Be Cyborgs But Terminators Will Kill Us Anyway

2050. That's the year that you'll plug your brain into a toaster. Intel doesn't know how, precisely, but according to Intel CTO Justin Rattner's recent keynote at the Intel Developer Forum, they're working on it. From Intel's summary of the event: More »

9:45 AM on Fri Aug 22 2008
By Mark Wilson
12,773 views, 69 comments

Latest by distortedloop: @brutek: What's really amusing is that I suspect many of the "real" cyborgs out there (ie., older folks with pacemakers) don't even know what a cyborg is! My mother never watched Star Trek:TNG or Six Million Dollar Man or the like, and I assume much of her generation did not as more »