Rumor: Intel Cutting Core i7 950 Price by Nearly 50 Percent
Before you go dropping $600 on Intel’s Core i7 950 processor, take a step back and see if the latest Web chatter proves reliable. The alternative is to grossly overpay for a part that could soon be worth half as much. At least that’s what Digitimes’ “sources from mother makers are saying,” who claim Intel [...]
Intel to Release Faster Mobile Celeron Chip in Fourth Quarter
We already know about the new Arrandale-based Celeron P4500, a 1.86GHz dual-core part with 2MB of cache and aimed at the value sector. According to Fudzilla, there’s at least one more mobile Celeron chip on tap for 2010, the faster clocked P4600. The P4600, also a dual-core part, will come clocked at 2.0GHz. It won’t [...]
Intel: 1 Million PCs Built and Shipped Every Day
During Intel’s 2010 investor meeting today, company CEO Paul Otellini said PC shipments are now over a million each day, and growing rapidly. “In 2010, for the first time, PCs cross a million a day. A million PCs a day — built, shipped, and sold in the industry,” Otellini said. “By 2014, that number basically [...]
Where are Intel’s 10GHz Processors Hiding?
Ready for a bold prediction? By the year 2011, processors will have broken the 10GHz barrier. So says Intel, but there’s a caveat: The Santa Clara chip maker made this prediction nearly 10 years ago, long before the company ditched its Netburst architecture like a crazy ex-girlfriend (we’ve all been there, right?). At the time, [...]
Intel Ready to Tackle Smartphone, Tablet Markets with New Atom Platform
Atom chip sales might be down, but defintely not out. With the release of Moorestown, Intel will try to reinvigorate its low power processor platform, making a hard push for high-end smartphones and the emerging tablet market. “Intel has delivered its first product that is opening the door for Intel Architecture [IA] in the smartphone [...]
Intel Reconsiders Atom Chip Strategy
It’s been a wild ride in the netbook market, with plenty of highs and not many lows. But things have started to level out and netbooks are no longer flying off of store shelves at the same pace as before. Are underpowered Atom processors to blame? According to a study released by IDC, Intel’s Atom [...]
Intel Preps Another Mobile Core i7 Processor
In the coming months, Intel will begin fleshing out is mobile Core i7 processor line, starting with the Core i7 660UM. This one will come clocked at 1.33GHz and ramp as high as 2.4GHz with Turbo Boost technology. This will be followed up by yet another mobile chip in the fourth quarter of 2010, the [...]
Intel to Spend $177 Million Expanding Guadalajara Design Center
Over the next 3 years, Intel will pump some 2,300 million pesos (US$177 million) into GDC expansion efforts, Intel CEO Paul Otellini announced. Intel’s Guadalajara Design Center (GDC) is the chip maker’s largest site in Mexico and is the location where all its technology development activities in Mexico are based. “As a global computing leader, [...]
Intel Preps Another Six-Core Processor
Slowly but surely, the six-core revolution is getting under way. Intel kicked things off with the release of its Core i7 980X, followed by a flurry of six-core chips at the ready from AMD, and within the next few weeks, Intel will release a slightly lower clocked (and lower priced) followup to the 980X. According [...]
Intel Thriving, Reports “Best First Quarter Ever”
Intel on Tuesday reported robust earnings for the first quarter of 2010, calling it the best first quarter the chip maker has ever had. “The investments we’re making in leading edge technology are delivering the most compelling product line-up in our history,” said Paul Otellini, Intel president and CEO. “These leadership products combined with growing [...]
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