Intel

We've all been wondering exactly what Intel would do with various multicore x64 processors that had been designed as co-processors to accelerate graphics and other applications with lots of number-crunching. The answer, as Intel explained at the International Super Computing conference in Hamburg, Germany this week, is simple: Replace lots of standard Xeon processors commonly used in massively parallel supercomputers with many-cored systems on a chip and drop the whole idea of doing discrete graphics cards to compete against Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices.

We love the smell of silicon in the morning -- especially when it emanates from one of Intel's legendary leaked roadmaps. Today, we've stumbled across one with specs for Chipzilla's entire fall collection of mobile chips, and a couple new details about that desiccated overpass the execs keep talking about.

AMD isn’t the only company with modestly priced unlocked chips now. Intel on Thursday released two new “K” series chips which feature unlocked multipliers with extremely attractive pricing.

The 2.93GHz Core i7-875K clocks is essentially an unlocked version of the company’s top LGA1156 chip; the 2.95GHz Core i7-870. The new 875K has 8MB of L2 cache, Turbo Boosts up to 3.6GHz and has a 95 Watt TDP rating. We’ve buried the real news though: the price. The new Core i7-875K has a volume price of $342. The Core i7-870 has a volume price of $562.

After Nvidia's CEO criticised its "Moorestown" Z6 series of Atom processors, Intel has waded into the graphics chip maker. Nvidia's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, was asked about the prospects for Intel's new in a recent interview with Laptopmag.com.

He said that “you could give an elephant a diet but it's still an elephant" implying that Intel Atom processors are too big and too power hungry to be viable in smartphones.

Intel Corporation said it has expanded Core processor family to more stylish, ultra-thin laptops that offer performance, battery life and connectivity consumers need on-the-go. Based on Intel’s 32 nm technology manufacturing, the processors are more than 32 per cent smaller and deliver more than 32 per cent better performance, all in a lightweight, sleek design.

These new processors also reduce power consumption more than 15 per cent, resulting in great battery life, the statement added.

Intel Corp. said Tuesday that the joint-venture Intel-Micron Flash Technologies (IMFT) had begun shipments of flash produced using 25nm fabrication process. The new flash memory will eventually enable Intel, Micron and their partners to dramatically boost capacities of various flash-based devices, including solid-state drives.

Intel has proclaimed that it has morphed into a fundamental computing company.

That surprising statement came from Chipzilla's CEO, Paul Otellini, who was speaking at an investor event. It was presumably an effort to spur more interest in the firm, which in the past has done pretty well fabricating bits of silicon. Otellini waxed lyrical about how Intel has made a remarkable transformation since the turn of the century which, according to him, has turned it into a "different kind of company."

Intel has a new 48-core experimental processor. I want to discuss the technology, but first I need to rant a bit. The PR contrived headline calls it a “Single-chip Cloud Computer.” Arrgh, they are even using an acronym calling it the SCC chip. Where to begin? First, when this project was started, I doubt the hardware engineers at Intel said, “Hey let’s build a processor for the cloud.

Intel’s first quarter results were as strong as advertised as the company delivered revenue down just a smidge from the fourth quarter tally. Typically, there’s a seasonal drop off in sales.

The company reported net income of $2.4 billion, or 42 cents a share, on revenue of $10.3 billion, up 44 percent from a year ago and off a mere 3 percent from the fourth quarter. Wall Street was expecting earnings of 38 cents a share on revenue of $9.84 billion. Gross margins for the fourth quarter were 63.4 percent.

Mind reading may no longer be the domain of psychics and fortune tellers - now some computers can do it, too.

Software that uses brain scans to determine what items people are thinking about was among the technological innovations showcased Wednesday by Intel Corp, which drew back the curtain on a number of projects that are still under development.