Intel

Intel’s Galileo open-source computer for the hacker and do-it-yourself crowd can now be ordered for $69.90, and is scheduled to ship at the end of November.

The Galileo computer is an unenclosed circuit board that’s a little larger than a credit card, and uses Intel’s extremely low-power Quark processor. The board is a competitor to the popular $25 Raspberry Pi open-source PC, and is targeted at the community of makers and enthusiasts who make computing devices ranging from robots and health monitors to home media centers and PCs.

Intel has announced its Atom C2000 family of server system on chip (SoC) processors, formerly known as Avoton, which target the relatively new but growing microserver segment of the industry.

The 22nm SoCs are the successor to the Atom S1200 Centerton chips and Intel claims they offer a substantial performance boost, fitting in up to eight Silvermont cores and running at higher clock speeds of up to 2.4GHz while operating in a power envelope between 6W and 20W.

An optical interconnect introduced by Intel on Wednesday may someday slim down cabling throughout data centers if the company can get enough vendors to mass-produce it.

Intel has announced the latest in its 10-year line of "Extreme" desktop processors, and the consensus view from the geekerati who have put it through its paces in prerelease testing is a collective "Meh."

As ExtremeTech, Joel Hruska's review of the new chip was headlined, "Core i7-4960X Ivy Bridge-E review: Intel's Great Limp Forward."

Intel has created a Hadoop-based rig that analyses just about every network event in the company – four to six billion of them on business days - in close to real time so it can spot threats including industrial espionage.

Intel has instructed its teams of monks, missionaries and evangelists to get to work and encourage a wider take up of HTML5.

Intel wants people to move to HMTL5 post haste as the code can do a lot more than just web development and has spin offs for future hardware kit.  It will start putting a foot in the door of developer's houses from the next Intel Developer Forum next week.

Unisys Corporation is partnering with Intel Corporation to bring to market a secure computing platform designed to handle the demanding requirements of mission-critical cloud and big data workloads, while offering Unix clients a cost-effective path off legacy RISC-based platforms onto an Intel-based environment.

Long-awaited improvements in photolithography could pave the way for the continued shrinking and scaling of microprocessors into the second half of this decade and beyond.

Moore's Law—which says that transistor densities double every 18 to 24 months or so—is not some inevitable consequence of physics. Rather, it's an observation of the way the semiconductor industry has evolved: the investment and technological progress that companies like Intel have made results in an approximate doubling of transistor densities on a regular basis.

Just over a month ago, slides leaked showing what Intel would be releasing next year - the massively powerful Haswell-E chip - but now a Chinese site has obtained a leaked image showing that Intel will in fact release three additional Ivy Bridge-E range of CPU's in September, ahead of Haswell-E.

The leaked image shows three new Ivy Bridge-E processors, the Core i7-4960X, Core i7-4930K and Core i7-4820K. And if you can get past the hilarious translation and server errors, according to their sources, the CPUs will launch on September 10.

Intel has shipped its first "open source PC," a bare-bones computer aimed at software developers building x86 applications and hobbyists looking to construct their own computer.

The PC, called the MinnowBoard, is basically a motherboard with no casing around it. It was codeveloped by Intel and CircuitCo Electronics, a company that specializes in open-source motherboards, and went on sale this month for US$199 from a handful of retailers.