Intel

The majority of CPUs from Intel inside servers these days are Xeon processors, server-specific chips that are typically derived from the same basic architecture the company uses in its desktop and laptop CPUs. There's another chip that lurks in its shadow, though: Itanium, Intel's first crack at a 64-bit processor architecture, which eventually floundered when AMD produced a 64-bit instruction set that didn't break compatibility with then-prevalent 32-bit operating systems and applications.

Apple may decide to institute its third architecture switch in a decade, returning to its RISC roots by ditching Intel’s x86 for ARM’s architecture - ironically, a company that it co-founded.

Rumours about Apple dumping Intel first surfaced two years ago, but when Bloomberg reported earlier this week that the company is exploring ways to replace Intel processors with a more powerful version of the Ax series that powers the iPhone and the iPad, it confirmed our belief that Intel could very well be on its way out.

If you've used a smartphone or tablet at any point in the last five years or so, you have ARM to thank for it. The company doesn't actually manufacture any of its own chips, but it licenses its low-power CPU architectures and instruction sets to others like Samsung, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and Apple, who all use the designs to build better battery life into tiny devices. The company isn't content with its niche, however: it has PCs and servers in its sights, and we're going to be seeing ARM chips in many more devices in the next year or two.

When Microsoft unveiled its Surface tablets earlier this year, Intel executives were shocked.

Microsoft started developing its self-branded tablets -- including one that uses an Intel chip -- without notifying Intel or asking for help. Intel, like many of Microsoft's other partners, didn't find out about Surface until shortly before the event, and it did not play a role in the announcement. Microsoft decided to go it alone, much like rival Apple has done.

A biometric sensor in a laptop or tablet computer scans the unique pattern of veins in a person's palm to verify their identity.

The technology, developed by Intel, could do away with the multiple passwords most people use for websites.

Information about Intel's next-generation processor architecture, codenamed Haswell, has been leaking steadily for some time, but presentations at today's Intel Developer Forum (IDF) are finally giving us details on what to expect from the fourth-generation Core processors when they launch in 2013.

Intel has a lot on the line this week as the chip maker hosts the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco starting Tuesday. So it's an opportune time to catch up with the company's CEO, Paul Otellini, and to pepper him with questions about Windows 8, the future of the personal computer, the rise of tablets, and the course that Intel has charted for itself.

Intel Corp. will collaborate with VMware Inc. to deliver a platform for "trusted cloud" that combines Intel's Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) and VMware's vSphere 5.1, platform for building cloud infrastructures, Intel said Monday (Aug. 27).

With computers playing an ever-increasing role in driving cars there's a real concern over hackers taking over control systems – so much so that Intel has put a dedicated team on the case.

In a US garage the security staff search for electronic bugs that could make cars vulnerable to lethal computer viruses.

The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has disclosed a flaw in Intel chips that could allow hackers to gain control of Windows and other operating systems, security experts say. 

The flaw was disclosed the vulnerability in a security advisory released this week. Hackers could exploit the flaw to execute malicious code with kernel privileges, said a report in the Bitdefender blog.