Intel

Local forum member Gamer casually posted his first overclocking results with an Intel Duo Core T2600 clocked default at 2.16Ghz. Using a modified subzero cooling he was able to push the CPU to 3.4Ghz and run a CPU intensive SuperPi 1Mb calculation in 17.75 seconds; which is slightly faster than the current world record hold by Tom Holck with a P4 670 at 7.2Ghz! With less than halve the CPU cycles the new Duo Core proves to be quite the performer!

The built-in procedure that Intel Pentium-powered computers use to blow off their digital steam could put users in hot water by making the machines vulnerable to cyberattacks, computer security researchers announced at the CanSecWest/core06 conference last week.

CHIP GIANT Intel's legal department is cranking up the lawsuit numbers again by suing a chap called Pernell Thomas who has dared to trade as Intell Entertainment.

Chipzilla filed an action in a New York district court at the end of March, alleging that Mr Pernell Thomas was diluting the Intel trademark and even on occasion trading as Intell, alone.

Intell, and so Mr Pernell Thomas, provides disk jockey and music entertainment services in New York and New Jersey.

Senior managers at OpenBSD have admitted that the organization is running at a loss and want to increase annual income to continue funding the development of the project's open-source operating system.

"OpenBSD for the past two years has turned a loss of approximately $20,000 (12,000 pounds)," Marco Peereboom, an OpenBSD developer, wrote in the OpenBSD Journal on Tuesday. "This is starting to seriously impede the development of OpenBSD and OpenSSH."

OpenBSD is a secure Unix-like operating system that is popular among system administrators running firewalls.

David Kanter over at RWT has posted a whopper of an article that gives the goods on Intel's new Core architecture. The article comes complete with a nice architectural diagram that puts to rest any doubts about whether Core is in the P6 lineage (the Pentium Pro down through the Pentium III, which with major changes includes the Pentium M). Although it combines the best features of the Pentium 4 and the P6-derived Yonah, Core tends to look more like Yonah than anything else.

Intel Corp., reeling from weak sales as it loses share to rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc., hopes to get back on track this week when it unveils faster, more efficient computer chips.

The world's biggest chip maker hopes the fanfare around its twice-annual developers' forum in San Francisco, beginning on Tuesday, will eclipse its Friday revelation that first-quarter revenue will be considerably lower than earlier thought.

The world's largest microchip maker Intel Corporation has announced a US$300 million (Bt11.7 billion) investment to build a semiconductor assembly and test facility in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City, as part of a plan to spend $1 billion to improve production in Asia.

It is also a part of the company's worldwide production-capacity expansion that will involve spending $6 billion to increase manufacturing capacity around the world.

US chipmaking giant Intel broke new ground today with the announcement of a planned new US$4 billion ($6.1 billion) plant in the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat, according to an Associated Press (AP) report.

The Israeli government contributed US$525 million to the plant, which is to produce 45-nanometer semiconductor chips. Intel's investment is the largest by an industrial corporation has ever made in Israel.

Chip giant Intel has signed a deal with the GSM Association to help hardware makers include mobile SIM card readers and 3G connectivity in new PCs.

Intel and the GSMA announced the initiative Tuesday and will be publishing guidelines for laptop manufacturers to encourage them to integrate modems capable of picking up various networks, including 3G, HSDPA or EDGE, in their products.