Intel pulled its Sandy Bridge launch forward today, launching the new family a full two days earlier than the planned January 5th date at CES. And with 15 desktop parts and 14 mobile parts, what a launch it is. The 29 total parts announced make it Intel's biggest launch ever.
Intel is building a hardware security layer in its next-generation Core chips to prevent streaming movies from being copied.
The chip feature, called Insider, includes an end-to-end protection layer and management feature to unlock high-definition movies from online streaming services, said Karen Regis, consumer Consumer Client Marketing Manager at Intel.
Intel Corp. on Wednesday announced its new 310-series solid-state drives (SSDs) that boast small sizes (about 1.8"), high performance and modest price. The drives are designed for thin notebooks, innovative single-drive tablets and low-power, rugged embedded industrial or military applications.
As far as I know, the next generation of Intel Core processors or more fondly known for now as Sandy Bridge will only be revealed early next year; most probably at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2011 in Las Vegas. However, it seems that some of our local retailers already have them on sale.
Intel Corp., the world’s largest chipmaker, won clearance from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to acquire McAfee Inc., bringing the company a step closer to expanding into the security-software market.
Intel, based in Santa Clara, California, announced the decision in a statement on its website. The company is still working with the European Commission as that organization reviews the purchase, Intel said.
Intel's new Sandy Bridge processors have a new feature that the chip giant is calling Anti-Theft 3.0. The processor can be disabled even if the computer has no Internet connection or isn't even turned on, over a 3G network. With Intel anti-theft technology built into Sandy Bridge, David Allen, director of distribution sales at Intel North America, told ITBusiness that users have the option to set up their processor so that if their computer is lost or stolen, it can be shut down remotely.
Intel CEO Paul Otellini said today that its chips will be in more than 35 different tablet designs in 2011, while clarifying that two lines of Atom processors will be used in tablets.
"We're going to make sure we support all of the viable operating systems that are in the marketplace," Otellini said at the Barclays Capital 2010 Global Technology Conference. The conference audio was streamed live over the Internet.
Intel's Light Peak optical cabling technology is on track to make its first appearance in products in early 2011, with Apple expected to follow soon after, according to a new report.
Apple expressed a very strong interest in Light Peak after Intel approached them with it several years ago. According to an Engadget report from September 2009, Apple Chief Steve Jobs and Intel CEO Paul Otellini allegedly fleshed out the Light Peak standard after Apple intimated that it was looking into optical signaling as a single port solution.
Intel has opened a $1 billion chip testing and assembly facility in Vietnam, which it says is the biggest facility for the company yet.
According to the company, the factory has a total area of 46,000 square meters, which is around the size of five and a half football fields. Situated in the Saigon Hi-tech Park, Ho Chi Minh City, the factory will be used for testing chips for defects before packaging. "Assembly and test is a critical final step in the end-to-end manufacturing of Intel's silicon products," the company said.
We can expect Intel to comment on this, as they probably have some 'splainin' to do. A sharp-eyed Engadget reader saw a $50 card at Best Buy that allows a consumer to increase performance on their Pentium G6951 CPU by unlocking extra threads and cache.
The product says it's for the Gateway SX2841-09e, but it appears this is a pilot program running against the G6951 Processors.
