Intel on Tuesday said that it plans later this year to offer test versions of software tools aimed at allowing Mac developers to improve the performance of programs that run on its chips.
The chip giant said that sometime later this year it will offer beta versions of both its compiler and its performance libraries, which contain code optimised for both digital media and scientific computing tasks.
If there's one truism in life, it's this: if you're not the lead dog on the sled team, the scenery never changes. For pretty much the first 25 years of PC computing, Intel was the lead dog, with AMD coming in at a distant second. My, how times have changed when you have a lead Intel product developer publicly admitting that Intel's latest Pentium 4 dual-core flagship, much ballyhooed by Intel, was a "rush job" that was hacked together at the last minute due to pressure from AMD.
A Japanese overclocker has managed to overclock Intel Pentium 4 670 microprocessor to 7.132GHz and even run certain benchmarks on the system that was cooled down by liquid nitrogen.
Intel has joined forces with Connexion by Boeing (NYSE: BA) to help ensure that travelers almost always have access to the Internet.
There seem to be hiccups on the way towards setting up Intel’s proposed $700-million wafer testing facility in India as the government appears reluctant to meet some of the demands raised by the world’s largest chipmaker.
Apart from flexibilities on external commercial borrowings and tax benefits, Intel had asked the government to make an upfront payment of $100 million, officials told Business Standard today.
CHIPMAKER INTEL was raided by officials of the European Commission as part of an investigation into anti-competitive activities.
The commission said it dropped in on various Intel sites across Europe as well as those of computer makers and resellers.
A Commission spokesman said officials, accompanied by officials from national competition authorities, "are conducting, since this morning, onsite inspections at several premises of Intel corp in Europe as well as at a number of IT firms, manufacturing or selling computers," AFP reports.
Intel is gearing up to debut its first ever dual-core processor for servers, and ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned it's a Pentium.
The chipmaker is expected to announce next week that its Pentium D can now be sold with a new chipset — the Intel E7230 — that has features best suited for entry-level servers.
Intel allayed concerns over the possibility of hackers using a vulnerability in its Hyperthreading technology to steal cryptographic keys from compromised servers.
According to Colin Percival, a computer security researcher at Oxford University, processes that share the processor's cache memory could allow an attacker to discover keys by running a malicious thread running with limited privileges that monitors the execution of another thread running on the same processor.
Intel's hyperthreading technology could allow a hacker to steal security keys from a compromised server using a sophisticated timing attack, a researcher said Friday in a paper presented at the BSDCan 2005 conference.
A JAPANESE web site which claims to have talked to sources close to the Fair Trade Commission (FTC), said the chip giant halved the prices of CPUs to keep OEMs in its camp.
The FTC has recently completed an investigation into practices Intel is alleged to have taken in Japan, but it's unclear whether the chip giant will appeal against its findings.
According to The Asahi Shimbun, Intel used three different rebate schemes to keep OEMs from using AMD microprocessors.
