“We just don’t know.”
That’s come to be a common refrain offered by many of us Microsoft watchers when asked about many (most?) things having to do with Windows 8. Despite the fact the operating system is available in Consumer Preview form, and soon to be available as a near-final Release Candidate (or possibly “Release Preview”), there are still lots of unanswered questions.
Intel has confirmed that Andy Bryant will join its board as chairman in May, replacing current chairwoman, Jane Shaw.
Intel has revealed in a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proxy statement filing that Shaw will retire from the board and Bryant will step up from his role as CFO and vice chairman to become chairman of the board at Intel's annual stockholders meeting on 17 May.
Apple Insider is reporting reliable 'rumors' from How To Arena, stating that the iMac, will receive an update with Intel's next-generation Ivy Bridge CPUs in the June or July.
An updated processor roadmap dug up by Computerbase.de shows that Intel plans to release its Haswell processor in March 2013.
Haswell, whose processor models are currently not known will be Intel's first 22 nm chip and includes the “3-D transistor” technology from Ivy Bridge, plus a bunch of new features including AVX2 and transactional synchronisation extensions - a memory technology that Intel hopes will improve shared memory performance.
Optical cables for Thunderbolt ports which enable faster data transfer over longer distances will be available later this year, Intel announced yesterday. Thunderbolt, introduced just over a year ago, is a high-speed connector technology that shuffles data between computers and peripherals. Current solutions are based on copper, but optical cable could provide much more bandwidth and on longer cable runs.
Hacks working for CPU-World have been given a briefing by the suits at Chipzilla about the performance of its latest Ivy Bridge CPU.
Apparently it is all down to something that Intel has worked out called the Tick Tock regime, which appears to have been developed by the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. In Oxford. It is a cadence. It is also the clock ticking and tocking in the belly of the pirate, Captain Hook, in Peter Pan.
Intel Corp. (INTC), the world’s biggest chipmaker, is considering creating an online pay-television service that works on TV sets, computers and mobile devices, according to three people with knowledge of the plans.
Intel reached out to media companies and cable channels about getting the rights to broadcast shows, said the people, who asked not to be named because the discussions aren’t public. Intel would sell a Web-connected set-top box capable of streaming TV and video-on-demand programming, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier today.
Intel Capital is launching a $100m investment fund that will finance companies developing technology used in cars, such as in-car entertainment and navigation systems.
The move by the investment arm of Intel is an attempt by the PC chipmaker to ensure that its technology is adopted by carmakers, as the market for traditional PCs gradually declines. Intel’s x86 chips have dominated the consumer industry but have failed to make substantial inroads into mobile phones and tablet computers. Intel is looking to ensure that it does not suffer a similar fate with cars.
Intel is opening up its manufacturing facilities to third parties, as it takes the further tentative steps toward building a chip-to-order foundry business. The microprocessor giant announced last year that it would build FPGAs for Achronix Semiconductor, and on Tuesday a second FPGA designer, Tabula, said that it would have its chips built by Intel.
Researchers at Intel have come up with a way to make WiFi faster and more energy efficient. It’s a chip called Rosepoint, and although it’s just a research project today, it could show up in mobile phones and laptop computers by the middle of the decade.
