Intel sees rush to Netbook app store
As Intel and PC makers prepare to launch an app store for Netbooks in 2010, the emphasis is on speed. “We have a lot of developers right now jumping all over this and writing apps and getting them ready,” Scott Apeland, director of Intel’s Developer Network, told CNET Wednesday. “Today, you can actually submit applications [...]
Intel: Initial Larrabee graphics chip canceled
Intel said Friday that its Larrabee graphics processor will initially appear as a software development platform only. This is a blow to the world’s largest chipmaker, which was looking to launch its first discrete (standalone) graphics chip in more than a decade. “Larrabee silicon and software development are behind where we hoped to be at [...]
Intel hopes 48-core chip will solve new challenges
SAN FRANCISCO–Pushing several steps farther in the multicore direction, Intel on Wednesday demonstrated a fully programmable 48-core processor it thinks will pave the way for massive data computers powerful enough to do more of what humans can. The 1.3-billion transistor processor, called Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC) is successor generation to the 80-core “Polaris” processor that [...]
Intel sees opportunities in wind, electric cars
Technology giant Intel is seeing big opportunities in wind forecasting for power generation, and in information management for electric vehicles, John Skinner, Intel’s director of marketing for its Eco-Technology division, said Tuesday. Intel already sells microprocessors to wind turbine manufacturers and this would be an expansion of that business. Adoption of wide-scale wind power would [...]
HP Envy eclipses the Apple MacBook
The Hewlett-Packard Envy 13 offers an excellent example of what a cutting-edge ultraportable should be–and it moves past the Apple MacBook Air in some important respects, despite its overly ambitious price tag. First, let me say that I use a MacBook Air as my main machine and am well aware of its merits. That said, [...]