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…]

“d-frag” from Germany attended the DCMM, Deutschen Casemod Meisterschaft (German Case Mod Championship) show in Dortmund, Germany last year. He shares pictures of some of the incredible mods from Germany and other EU countries. Attendance at years show is expected [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…]

Gavin Rose, CEO of NS Optimum Ltd. in the UK talks about “Argon”, a PC shaped like a skull. This is their first venture into case making, and Rose explains the pain staking process for his entry in Intel Core [See the full post…]

Founder of Swedish company Kapsel Multimedia, Wilhelm Lagerkranz, wanted a small, quiet computer he could use as a home media center. He looked around the marketplace and didn’t find what he wanted, so he decided to make it himself. Lagerkranz [See the full post…]

Originally released in 2002, this video shows how the PC went from science fiction to science fact. It took 25 years for the first billion PCs to be deployed. The second billion are estimated to ship in less than 10 [See the full post…]

See what the PC looked like when it turned 20. Here’s a look back at the history of the PC Originally released on: 3/7/2001 Related Stories: IntelDesignChallenge

Originally released in 2006, this video shows how the PC has become an all-in-one home entertainment device. Related Stories: IntelDesignChallenge

With the Intel Core 2 Challenge PC Design contest deadline looming, tea-drinkers drank coffee, testers didn’t sleep, and boxes got packed in overdrive. This video, produced by BICOM, takes you behind the scenes, during the race to the finish, at [See the full post…]

In this mash-up montage from the Game Developers Conference, a number of companies discuss the advantages of using Intel Dual-Core and Quad-Core Processors. Related Stories: IntelGaming

Intel was showing off the power of its Quad-Core processors at the 2007 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Some of the biggest PC games were playable at Intel’s booth, including Crysis, Hellgate: London and Company of Heroes. PodTech’s Rio [See the full post…]

Paddy White, CEO of RealTime Technologies, in Dublin, Ireland, sent us this video about his company’s entry in Intel Core 2 Challenge PC Design competition. The iONYX imitates the look of stone, appropriate for geologically-rich Ireland. White contends this design [See the full post…]

Vivid, luminous, precious – these were some of the terms Paddy White and his design team at RealTime Technologies came up with over a couple of pints of Guiness in a Dublin pub. The iONYX, RealTime Technology’s design entry for [See the full post…]

Industrial designer Anthony Forsythe talks about Norwegian company Asono’s Merium, entered in the Intel Core 2 Challenge PC Designs. The Merium can be done in custom colors, using a material usually found in kitchen countertops — corian. “As far as [See the full post…]

Now through April 19, 2007, people can visit www.intelchallenge.com and vote for their favorite concept PC design. Voters get to choose from designs submitted by companies competing for $1 million in the industry Intel Core Processor Challenge. A group of [See the full post…]

Video game physics, animation and visual effects are very important aspects in creating a realistic and fun gaming experience. Havok is one company that enhances that experience, providing game developers with a modular suite of tools that allows them to [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…]

Kevin Chang, project director at Acer, in Taiwan, talks up his company’s entry in the Intel Core 2 Challenge PC Design competition, the Aspire L320 Desktop PC. Chang said at three liters volume size, Acer’s Aspire L320 Desktop PC is [See the full post…]