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Intel Chips 1971 to 2007, Plus a Timeline of the Transistor's 60 Years

As promised, here are stats for 20 different Intel chips from the past 35 years, most of which I included briefly in the Moore's Law video I made earlier, along with bonus factual tidbits I came across while looking over some Intel stuff today. Here you can enjoy it at your own pace (and without the music that some of you found not to your liking), but sadly the pics are not in any particular order, thanks to the way we serve up Flickr galleries. Enjoy it, but remember, it's only Intel's side of the story. Perhaps AMD would be kind enough to shoot over a similar dossier of fun facts. After the chip gallery is a timeline of transistor-related happenings from 1947 up to today. More »

7:00 PM on Mon Dec 10 2007
By Wilson Rothman
24,757 views, 18 comments

Latest by OtakuboyT: Oh 486 how I miss thee... more »

Fifteen years of the Pentium brand came to an end today when Intel formally announced the availability of its 3GHz quadcore Xeon X5365 processor, while quietly confirming the phase-out of the last seven Pentium 4 single-core and Pentium D dual-core chips. (Sniff.) [TG Daily]

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Pentium-Powered Coffee Warmer Warms Our Coffee and Soul

Put those old Pentium processors to good use by making you a nice warm cup of coffee in the morning. By the looks of it, all you have to do is hook up some wires from a USB cable to the processor itself and wait for the chip to heat up. Throw a cup of coffee on top and you're well on your way to a coffee-powered morning bender. More »

10:27 AM on Mon Dec 18 2006
By Gizloco
289 views, 9 comments

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Intel Gets More Aggressive, Pentium Prices to Plummet

Chip giant Intel Corp. took the gloves off yesterday, announcing that it's going to be able to cut prices on its older chips faster because of its implementation of more-efficient manufacturing technologies. As Intel moves into a fourth factory it's built, it will be easier for the company to quickly ramp up to more 65-nanometer Core architecture products by the end of the year. According to Intel spokesman Chuck Malloy,
"We have a more aggressive product and manufacturing ramp, so those older Pentium products will move down faster. It's not like we're cutting prices for the sake of cutting prices."
Although Intel wouldn't say how much of a price cut this would mean, analysts predicted that old-school Pentium chip prices could plummet by somewhere between 8% and 61% by late next month. This will make everything cheaper. – Charlie White More »

12:14 PM on Fri Jun 9 2006
By Charlie White
116 views, 9 comments

Latest by dalziel_86: Well, those P4 chips are a good 5 or 6 years old now, and the Pentium Ds have been out for over two years... That's a pretty long time in CPU design... more »

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Toshiba HD-DVD Player Dissected

Audio/Video nerd Lorin over at geeks with blogs bought himself a fancy new Toshiba HD-DVD player and prompty dismantled it without even plugging it into a TV. Even though we question his priorities, we do salute his DIY-ness in exposing the guts of the machine for all the internet to see. More »

9:46 AM on Wed May 3 2006
By Jason Chen
193 views, 1 comment