Intel is said to be preparing to launch two further low-end 'Grantsdale' chipsets next month.
The new parts, the 915PL and the 915GL, are essentially versions of the existing 915P and 915G chipsets, but with DDR 2 SDRAM support turned off. The new chipsets will offer PCI Express and 800MHz frontside bus support.
CHIP FIRM Intel is claiming that by 2010 your notebook battery will last a whole day. And it is also claiming that that's good for the environment, according to documents seen by the INQUIRER.
It doesn't say exactly how it plans to do this, and nor does it give a definition of a day. Yesterday was the shortest day in the Northern Hemisphere and in parts of Scandinavia the day lasts no time at all.
We think Intel means eight hours, but that's not far off being attainable long before 2010, so perhaps it really does mean 24 hours a day, which would be a breakthrough, indeed.
AT&T and Intel have paired up to bring more Voice over Internet Protocol to the wireless world, officials confirmed.
Craig Miller, Intel's VoIP platform marketing manager, told internetnews.com that the companies have inked a broad development partnership in which Intel is supplying AT&T with several reference architectures for routers, access points and other communications equipment based on Intel's IXP 425 processor.
AN ENGINEERING sample of a very odd looking Pentium IV chip is for sale on Ebay.
The thing is being sold as "defective". The vendor claims it has two lumps of semiconductor on the top. What it just could be is an Intel Extreme Edition with off die cache. It would be easy, perhaps, in development terms to bung a thing like that together, but expensive wiring two dies like this at the production stage.
Mind you, the EE is a bit expensive, no? As always, let the buyer beware.
Intel has released its Quick Start Kit for Linux, stepping up support for Asian system integrators that offer Linux-based desktop PCs. The Quick Start Kit for Linux is similar to software kits that Intel makes available for system integrators that build PCs designed to run Microsoft's (Profile, Products, Articles) Windows operating system, said Scott McLaughlin, a spokesman for Intel. "We are starting to extend what we've done in the Windows world to include the Linux space," he said.
Intel Corp., the world's largest maker of computer microchips, is evaluating India as one of the options for setting up a chip manufacturing unit, its chief executive said on Thursday.
"India is one of the several countries that we are evaluating for setting up a manufacturing facility," Craig Barrett told reporters."India is one of the competitors."
Santa Clara, California-based Intel has a large development centre in Bangalore. The unit designs and develops software to power chips that drive computers and high-end networks for Internet-based applications.
Intel on Monday updated its Itanium 2 processors, adding a top-end model to a high-end family designed to displace chips from Sun Microsystems and IBM.
As expected, Intel announced a new Itanium 2 with 9MB of high-speed cache memory. The processor runs at 1.6GHz and costs $4,226 per chip in batches of 1,000, the company said.
Hewlett-Packard and Unisys introduced servers on Monday that employ the new processor.
Intel Corp. and its partners are set to launch the 3.8-GHz Pentium 4, aka the Intel Pentium 4 570, on Nov. 15, sources said.
An Intel spokesman declined to confirm the launch date, saying only that the chip was due "real soon now". In any event, the single-core Pentium 4 will be the fastest on Intel's roadmap for the near future. Intel said it would place the 4.0-GHz Pentium 4 on hiatus. On Nov. 1, Intel released the 3.46-GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, a pricey $999 chip aimed at the top of the enthusiast niche.
CHIP GIANT Intel is moving heaven and earth to deliver dual core technology, but according to a web cast its president Paul Otellini made to staff, there are limitations on AMD technology which could give the chip giant the edge.
Otellini answered a question from an Intel staffer who asked whether the company's strategy on dual core desktop design was as well thought out as AMD's.
While Otellini wouldn't give specific details of Intel's architecture, he said his firm's strategy is on optimising the designs it has.
Intel Corp. quietly pushed its processor bus speed above 1-GHz on Halloween with a new release of its Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor.
However, tests showed that the new 3.46-GHz Pentium 4 EE chip has slipped in performance relative to its chief competitor from Advanced Micro Devices. The real fright? Intel's new chip is priced at $999, $172 more than AMD's rival, the Athlon FX-55.
