ANOTHER VICTIM of the flawed Sandy Bridge 6 Series support chip has announced that it has stopped all shipments and named the affected products.
In its statement Taiwanese manufacturer MSI said that Intel has told it that the performance of some of the Intel SATA ports on the 6 series chip, also known as Cougar Point, can degrade over three years and stop working.
In our Sandy Bridge review I pointed out that Intel was unfortunately very conservative in one area of the platform: its chipset. Although the 6-series chipset finally brought native 6Gbps SATA to Intel platforms it failed to fix issues with 23.976 fps video playback. Intel also failed to deliver a chipset that can support SNB's processor graphics as well as overclocking. Today, things just got even more disappointing.
Intel Corp. introduced a free new technology that enables all data center traffic to run over a single cable using the Intel 10Gb Ethernet (10m GbE) server adapter X520 family. The new technology will simplify data centers and will therefore reduce costs.
The problem with existing malware and anti-virus software is that it works by detecting recognisable strings of code - known as the signatures - in order to stop malicious programs. Unfortunately, this means that the definitions need to be updated on a regular basis, leaving systems vulnerable to so called 'zero-day attacks' that haven't been profiled yet.
Intel boss Paul Otellini says his company plans to offer Windows 8 on smartphones - putting the chipmaker on a collision course with Microsoft. Speaking after Intel posted record profits for 2010, Otellini was asked his views on Microsoft's decision to port the next generation of Windows to the ARM platform.
A bullish Otellini described the announcement as "not a lot of new news" before claiming that full-fat Windows running on system-on-a-chip platforms also had advantages for Intel.
Not too long after Intel posted a record quarter for Q4 2010, as well as a record year, word got out of some very generous employee bonuses.
It’s always nice to see the company you work so hard for do well. Also nice? Getting a big fat bonus when it posts record breaking financial results. VentureBeat reports that Intel employees are receiving four times their usual bonuses thanks to the company’s record-breaking year. As if that weren’t enough, Intel is said to be giving workers the equivalent of three extra days of pay on top of that.
US computer chip giant Intel on Thursday reported that it posted its best earnings ever in 2010 as businesses and consumers snapped up processors for networks and mobile devices.
Intel said it took in a net profit of $11.7 billion for the year on revenue of $43.6 billion in a 167 percent jump from the profit it posted in 2009.
Intel Corp. and Nvidia Corp. agreed to a long-term cross-license agreement, ending a legal dispute over the use of each other’s technology.
Under the deal, Intel will pay Nvidia $1.5 billion over the next five years, and the companies will receive a license to each other’s patents, subject to certain terms, Santa Clara, California-based Intel said today in a statement.
An Intel executive on Friday said that its Light Peak interconnect technology, designed to link PCs to devices like displays and external storage, is ready for implementation.
Light Peak, announced in 2009, was originally designed to use fiber optics to transmit data among systems and devices, but the initial builds will be based on copper, said David Perlmutter, executive vice president and general manager of Intel's Architecture Group, in an interview with IDG News Service at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Intel is offering concessions to European regulators in hopes of gaining approval for its proposed $7.68 billion acquisition of security software maker McAfee.
The deal, which was approved last month by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, is still being reviewed by the European Commission, which reportedly has had antitrust concerns about the deal.
