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Notebook Makers Want Intel to Delay Superfast Nehalem Mobile Chips

Here’s another severe warping of the spacetime continuum caused by the financiapocalypse: Notebook makers want Intel to delay its crazyfast Nehalem-based mobile CPUs and chipsets. In other words, they want notebooks to be slower, longer. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-why-intels-core-i7-processor-is-a-beautif-5099060 The Calpella platform is scheduled for launch in July or August, just like Montevina (aka Centrino 2) did earlier…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jan 5

Sweet, Sweet Flash Coming to Your HDTV, via Intel

When it was announced, it wasn’t clear why anyone would really want the Intel Media Processor TV system. Now we know: Flash support. In other words, Hulu, NBC, YouTube and Megaporn, on your TV. https://gizmodo.com/intels-latest-system-on-a-chip-is-for-web-enabled-tvs-5039692 Adobe and Intel aren’t being coy about their intentions, saying that their partnership—set to bear fruit by the middle of…

Television John Herrman Jan 5

Intel Wants Netbooks to Keep Sucking

Digitimes reports Intel’s pissed that Nvidia’s trying to muscle into the Intel-dominated netbook niche with their new Ion platform that combines the Atom processor with Nvidia’s GeForce 9400m which makes netbooks fully HD capable. Updated. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-ion-supercharges-netbooks-with-5x-faster-graphic-5111999 So, Intel is reiterating to PC makers that the Atom processor only comes bundled with their own chipsets and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 24

Hands On With The Intel Convertible Classmate

After playing with a prototype of Intel’s Convertible Classmate, it more or less confirmed what I had suspected: there are some neat ideas at play, but there’s a reason why it’s aimed at schools. https://gizmodo.com/next-gen-classmate-tablet-surfaces-at-intel-developer-f-5039689 From the outset, Intel’s goal with the Classmate line was to create a cheap, durable laptop that could be useful…

Tech News Adrian Covert Dec 19

Nvidia Ion Supercharges Netbooks With 5X Faster Graphics and Full HD Video

Netbooks are pathetically weak machines. So Nvidia is infusing Intel’s Atom with its GeForce 9400M to make netbooks suck less. Or at the very least, let you play Call of Duty 4. On a netbook. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-why-does-the-new-macbook-pro-have-two-gra-5063832 Nvidia calls its new platform—Atom + GeForce 9400M (the same chipset as the aluminum MacBooks—Ion. Performance-wise, Nvidia is promising…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 17

Early Hands-On of Intel Convertible Classmate

Laptop Mag scored a hands-on with a pre-production unit of the upcoming Intel Convertible Classmate. And they seemed to like it. The touchscreen sequel to the original Classmate, the Convertible Classmate will pack the typical netbook 1.6 GHz Intel Atom, 60 GB hard drive, and Windows XP. Its touchscreen is 8.9 inches. https://gizmodo.com/classmate-pc-intels-sub-400-laptop-204400 Laptop liked…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 16

Intel Survey: Internet Almost as Important as Sex

Intel released survey results that attempt to measure the place of Internet access in both men’s and women’s lists of priorities, and found that it’s more important than any other nonessential purchase. This is one of those reasonably meaningless polls that ends up saying what we already knew: people like their Internet access. In this…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Dec 13

Fusion-io ioDrive Is The Fastest Storage Device in the World

The ioDrive is a PCI Express storage card that can write at up to 368 MB/s and read at 473 MB/s to its NAND flash memory-or, for the layman: really, really damn fast. To put it into perspective, that’s nearly 2x the read speed of Intel’s already fast SSDs, and roughly 5x the write speed.…

Tech News John Mahoney Dec 11

Ericsson and Intel Developing Laptop Remote Kill Switch

There’s nothing worse than the thought of someone stealing your laptop, other than that person kicking up their feet while they browse through your digital life. Now Ericsson and Intel are developing a solution. The two companies are working on a remote kill switch for laptops. Loaded with both HSPA and GPS, the laptop can…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 11

Nvidia Bringing GeForce 9400M to Atom Netbooks to Make Them Suck Less

Digitimes says that Nvidia is bringing its GeForce 9400m chipset (from the new MacBooks) to Atom-based netbooks, which would markedly boost graphics performance. Netbooks that don’t totally bite balls performance-wise, holee crap. [Digitimes] https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-why-does-the-new-macbook-pro-have-two-gra-5063832

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 9

Intel Developing Power Harvesting for Personal Devices, Could See It in as Little as Two Years

At a summit today in San Francisco, Intel CTO Justin Rattner discussed some of Intel’s R&D plans on creating components that were more self-sufficient, eco-friendly and helpful in the fight against global warming. The most interesting part of Rattner’s presentation was his discussion of power harvesting, and how they’re looking at ways to incorporate free,…

Tech News Adrian Covert Dec 5

Eee Box Upgraded With HDMI and Discrete Graphics

There was nothing wrong with the Eee Box, a PC not so dissimilar to the Wii, except that it lacked any real reason for existence with processing no more powerful than a netbook. https://gizmodo.com/asus-eee-box-b202-our-first-look-plus-official-specs-394563 The new Eee Box B204 and B206 look to beef up the line’s capabilities into something worthy of HTPC application. While…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 3

Windows 7 Will Run Fully Accelerated Graphics From Your CPU

Adding to the already impressive pile of Vista-deflating features we’re expecting to see in Windows 7 is WARP, a tech which will allow your PC’s CPU to act as a graphics accelerator, possibly doing away with the need for integrated graphics hardware to render user interfaces and low-end games. Not-so-seductively described as a ‘fully conformant…

Tech News John Herrman Dec 1

Giz Explains: Why Intel’s Core i7 Processor Is a Beautiful Monster

Last week, you probably noticed new computers from Dell, Gateway and others using a brand new, bizarre-sounding chip from Intel: the Core i7. You might have even seen some benchmarks and features showing that this is a real beast of processor. Well, we’re pretty excited about the Core i7, so here’s a quick guide to…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 26

Lenovo Lets You Disable Your Stolen Laptop With a Stern Text Message

In the next couple months Lenovo will be rolling out a BIOS update for its Montevina laptop users which enables remote shutdown and subsequent encryption via text message. The tech relies on the laptop having a WWAN connection and activates when a custom string, defined by the user and sent from a single, paired phone,…

Privacy & Security John Herrman Nov 25

Falcon Northwest Mach V: Fastest PC Yet Runs Crysis at 60FPS

According to Cnet test labs, the Falcon Northwest Mach V is the fastest PC on the planet, beating the Alienware Area-51 ALX. How fast you ask? How about being the first PC ever to hit 60 frames per second running Crysis on the highest graphics preset? Yes. That fast. Cnet says that the Falcon Northwest…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 18

Intel Core i7 Motherboards, Systems On Sale Now (Again)

Need yourself some hot Intel Core i7 motherboards? Need ’em now? Well, Fast Eddie don’t have none for ya today, but Newegg’s got a bunch and they’re available now! Prices range from about $400 to $1,070. Full Core i7 systems are also available at Amazon. [Newegg via I4U]

Commerce Jack Loftus Nov 16

Replica 4004 Calculator Features First Intel Microprocessor Used by Mankind

Long before we dissected new Apple MacBooks or worried about whether or not a PC had that “Intel Inside” sticker on the case, there was this little ditty called the Busicom 141-PF printing calculator. The iconic piece of tech (the first thing to actually have “Intel inside”) turned 37 this week, and to commemorate the…

Tech News Jack Loftus Nov 16

Microsoft Lowered Vista Hardware Requirements to Appease Intel

The class-action lawsuit against Microsoft for its misleading “Vista Capable” marketing let loose another scandal when emails between Microsoft and Intel execs surfaced (PDF link), suggesting Microsoft cut Vista’s hardware requirements to help out Intel. Originally, Intel’s 915 series chipsets didn’t qualify for the important “Vista Capable” sticker, but after a scheduling mix-up, Microsoft decided…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Nov 15

AMD Has No Interest in Netbooks, None

You may be wondering why every netbook we write about seems to have the same Intel Atom processor. Some of it has to do with Intel’s prominence in the entire processor market at the moment (which makes competition from Via little contest), and some of it has to do with AMD not stepping up to…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 14

Notebook Makers Want Intel to Delay Superfast Nehalem Mobile Chips

Sweet, Sweet Flash Coming to Your HDTV, via Intel

Intel Wants Netbooks to Keep Sucking

Hands On With The Intel Convertible Classmate

Nvidia Ion Supercharges Netbooks With 5X Faster Graphics and Full HD Video

Early Hands-On of Intel Convertible Classmate

Intel Survey: Internet Almost as Important as Sex

Fusion-io ioDrive Is The Fastest Storage Device in the World

Ericsson and Intel Developing Laptop Remote Kill Switch

Nvidia Bringing GeForce 9400M to Atom Netbooks to Make Them Suck Less

Intel Developing Power Harvesting for Personal Devices, Could See It in as Little as Two Years

Eee Box Upgraded With HDMI and Discrete Graphics

Windows 7 Will Run Fully Accelerated Graphics From Your CPU

Giz Explains: Why Intel’s Core i7 Processor Is a Beautiful Monster

Lenovo Lets You Disable Your Stolen Laptop With a Stern Text Message

Falcon Northwest Mach V: Fastest PC Yet Runs Crysis at 60FPS

Intel Core i7 Motherboards, Systems On Sale Now (Again)

Replica 4004 Calculator Features First Intel Microprocessor Used by Mankind

Microsoft Lowered Vista Hardware Requirements to Appease Intel

AMD Has No Interest in Netbooks, None

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