At the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, Eric Kim took stage to not only award the winner in the Intel Core 2 Challenge and announce that a new challenge would be issued to PC designers soon, he also shared the [See the full post…]

The day 1 keynotes at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing featured CTO Justin Rattner and Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president of the Digital Enterprise Group. They talked about new developments at the company. Rattner filled in some detail around [See the full post…]

At the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, Intel’s Eric Kim handed out a $700,000 check to Park Il-whan, CEO of Korea-based Trigem Computer. Their living room ready black stereo-like PC won the Intel Core 2 Challenge. As soon as the [See the full post…]

Last week four judges–IDEO Founder David Kelley, former PC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Michael Miller, GQ Associate Editor Kevin Sintumuang, and Intel CEO Paul Otellini–gave the finalist PCs in the Core 2 Challenge a once-over. A few designs that made the top [See the full post…]

The Intel Developer Forum shifts to Beijing China this spring where the company plans to say more about its products and strategies, especially in areas like 45 nanometer chips, mobility and gaming. One new wrinkle: the world’s largest chip maker [See the full post…]

At the Intel Research Labs in Berkeley, Calif., Alan Mainwaring told PodTech’s Jason Lopez that technologies such as steerable antennas can give the poorest people in third world regions access to wireless services. Steerable antennas help reduce the cost of [See the full post…]

Part if Intel’s research involves investigations into things that may never become products but will help guide the creation of them. Hullabaloo is a case in point. It seems like an installation one might find at MOMA, but it’s actually [See the full post…]

Intel Researcher Nina Taft says she was inspired by a newspaper article on how diversity in nature helps organisms thwart the threat of viruses. Her application of principles of biodiversity and her investigation into personalizing security, user by user, could [See the full post…]

Intel unveiled the next stages for its new 45 nanometer process technology. The new microarchitecture is code-named Nehalem and represents a major shift in design. The technology is aimed partly at the requirements of next-generation media services over the Internet. [See the full post…]

Last September at the Intel Developers Forum, Intel announced the Intel Core Processor Challenge, a design competition aimed at pushing desktop design far beyond its traditional “beige box.” To compete for a $1 million bounty, more than two dozen designers [See the full post…]

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett says Silicon Valley IT companies are in the right place at the right time to help the United Nations address the world’s health, education, and economic problems. Barrett, who has been appointed the chairman of the [See the full post…]

The United Nations is embarking on something new: a partnership with the private sector to address some of the developing world’s most vexing issues in areas such as education, health care, economic development and government. Craig Barret, the chairman of [See the full post…]

The University of California, San Francisco Medical center says its pilot study using a portable computer called the C5 helped nurses to be far more productive than with conventional personal computers. The current setup in most hospitals is called a [See the full post…]

Intel will host a meeting between representatives of the the United Nations and business leaders in Silicon Valley to discuss ways of solving global problems such as access to health care, education and economic development. Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel, [See the full post…]

Intel says it has developed an 80-core microprocessor chip that could enable PCs and chip-enabled devices to perform Teraflop level computing. The company will offer more details of its research in a series of scientific papers at the annual Integrated [See the full post…]

As one comic put it, referring to a drive across the U.S.: “This country grows a lot of freakin’ corn.” Corn, prairie grasses and an innovative use of radiocarbon mapping may be leading the way to reduced carbon emissions as [See the full post…]

The Nintendo Wii may not spark an exercise fad, but, in at least one well-publicized case, it may be leading to some welcome weight loss. Also this week, we stopped by Intel, which was showing off its latest chip, Penryn. [See the full post…]

Intel announced that it will begin making 45 nanometer chips, code-named Penryn, in the second half of the year. The new microprocessors are the culmination of years of R&D using new materials to improve the efficiency and performance of silicon-based [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, January 20, 2007 (PodTech News) — It’s been a quiet week compared to the double whammy earlier this month that saw dueling trade shows — Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and MacWorld in San Francisco. MacWorld, which [See the full post…]

Intel CFO Andy Bryant says that 2006 was a year when chipmaker AMD won some marketing battles with better products. But that changed in the 4th quarter of the year when Intel was able to start applying pricing pressure to [See the full post…]

You might think Moore’s Law comes with an ancillary set of steps on how to adhere to it. The Law essentially says that technology develops so swiftly that chip engineers can pack twice as many transistors on a piece of [See the full post…]

It wasn’t highly anticipated. We all knew it. But if Apple’s new “Apple TV” appliance works as advertised, the company–now known simply as Apple and no longer Apple Computer–might have quite a juggernaut on its hands. With movie deals that [See the full post…]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs suggested in his MacWorld 2007 keynote that the new iPhone can connect to the Internet via WiFi. Really? And Cingular is okay with that? A reading of the description on Apple’s Web site seems to confirm [See the full post…]

The functionality of the new Apple iPhone, which comes in 4 gig ($499) and 8 gig ($599) models, appears to be far superior to the regular iPod. Trouble is, it doesn’t store enough music for people who keep large collections [See the full post…]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs delivered one of his most dazzling MacWorld keynotes as he unveiled Apple’s new iPhone. The device uses a patented touch screen system called multi-touch. Cisco, which owns the iPhone name, says it expects to close a [See the full post…]