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Windows XP users face an upgrade conundrum
CommentI can see no reason on earth to spend an awful lot of money on an Ultrabook – especially considering the fact that I've every reason to suspect the Intel platform isn't particularly good. I asked Intel if I could have a look at a machine some months ago – the answer was "no -
Oracle delays Itanium trial citing 'free speech'
Oracle has managed to delay its trial with HP, which is looking into whether it breached a contract over software support for servers running Intel's Itanium microprocessors. -
Intel ships Haswell with USB bug
Intel's "Haswell" chip is now shipping to major PC makers, despite the fact that it has a bug which causes your USB drive to disappear. -
Microsoft begs XP users to upgrade
Microsoft is kindly asking users of Windows XP to upgrade to something a bit less ancient, again. XP has been around for a decade and it is still used on 15 to 20 percent of PCs, depending on who you ask. -
Top US tech companies face class action
According to Electronics Weekly US judge Lucy Koh has paved the way for a class action lawsuit against Intel, Apple, Google, Pixar, Adobe, Lucasfilm and Intuit. -
Paul Otellini earned $19 million last year
Outgoing Intel CEO Paul Otellini had a rather good year for himself. His total compensation in 2012 increased 8.6 percent to $19 million. However, 2012 was Otellini's last year at Intel and he should be stepping down in a couple of months. -
Quarter of wafer capacity dedicated to sub 40nm processes
Intel is already at 22nm, while other foundries are still at 28nm, although TSMC and Globalfoundries are rather upbeat when it comes to their 20nm transition. -
Intel spruces up integrated graphics
While Intel has seen a dollar in making integrated chip and graphics packages, so far the video quality has been a much lower standard than the chips it sells them with. This means that those buying the i7 chips have had to buy an external graphics card. -
IdeaPhone scores points in Intel's ARM wrestle
Anyone who thought that Intel might take years to catch up to ARM on the mobile front might want to think again. -
Windows RT prices plummet
Vole released Windows RT for ARM-based devices and Windows 8 for Intel-based devices in October last year. Normally prices would not be expected to fall at this point, but Windows RT devices were not in demand, and prices fell. -
Intel denies Haswell delays
Fashion bag maker Intel has denied that there will be delays to its Haswell chip, after JMP Securities started to believe that it would be late. -
Dell sees the writing on the wall
Dell issued an SEC filing late Friday that underscores the challenges it faces. And it also underscores the challenges Intel, Microsoft, and other companies that made their pile in the X86 market face too. -
Nvidia’s CEO approached by Intel headhunters
It’s an unlikely thing, we know, but we don’t do April Fool’s jokes. Sources at Intel Santa Clara have assured us that the CEO of Nvidia, Jen-Hsen Huang was approached by headhunters seeking for a replacement for Paul Otellini, who stands down at the chip giant at the end of May. -
Intel needs an extra ARM licence
Robin Saxby, a co-founder of ARM, at the GSA Entrepreneurship Conference at the British Museum, channelled the late Kenneth Williams and told Intel to stop messing about. -
NAND flash market hits record high
Samsung and Toshiba lead the pack with a 37 and 31 percent market share respectively. Micron is in a distant second, with 14 percent of the market, followed by SK Hynix and Intel, at 11 and seven percent respectively. All the other players accounted for just three percent. -
Oracle sparks up its Sparc server chips
But such high end servers are not for mid range systems – a market dominated by Intel’s Xeon X86 microprocessors. Even though Oracle also produces X86 servers, it hasn’t achieved a great deal of traction against similar systems produced by HP and others. IBM still produces X86 servers too. -
Intel Xeon Phis are out in May
A leaked Chipzilla roadmap has appeared on the world wide wibble which indicates that Intel is planning to release two new Xeon Phi co-processor cards in May. -
Dell talks up Stampede supercomputer
TACC also has what is currently the largest configuration of Intel Xeon Phi parallel coprocessors, managing just over seven petaflops of performance.
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