New Intel ARK is lifeboat for journalists, chip junkies
If you follow Intel for fun and profit, then this resource is going to make you so happy you might start crying tears of joy. It's called ARK, for Automated Relational Knowledgebase, and it's essentially the Great Intel Product Decoder Ring in the Sky. In terms of research for my book and for my Ars reporting, this thing might have saved me at least one man-year out of the past decade of my life had it been available in 1998.
The easiest way to explain what ARK is is to walk you through a quick usage scenario and show you some pictures. So here goes: Upon logging in, you're greeted with a search box and three basic browsing options: browse processors, browse chipsets, and browse codenames.
