Intel

CHIP GIANT INTEL confirmed that even with a small staff of one man+dog, compared to a Chipzilla headcount of 80,000 or so, the INQUIRER can still beat it to its own announcements.
The firm duly rolled out its Xeon MP now re-named the Extreme Edition last night to sounds of trumpets, bands, and fanfares all round.

But Intel distributor Dell, which gets the first bite of the cake for chip allocations, is saying on its web site that the preliminary ship date for a Dimension XPS at $4,179 won't ship until the 26th of November.

THE RUNAWAY SUCCESS of Apple's iTunes for Windows shows that when it's a matter of software versus hardware, the fruitcakes have it.
But we couldn't avoid noticing that last Friday, Dr Craig "Intel Dude" Barrett was more or less inviting Steve Jobs to start running the Macintosh OS on future CPUs Chipzilla might make.

Of course, the OSX will run on X86s fine right now, if there was a will or a way, but the good Dottore Barrett is telling the world that his firm's "Vanderpool" project could let Mr Macintosh run the Apple system as well as Microsoft Foghorn Leghorn Longhorn.

Intel will launch a new motherboard this week containing a Trusted Platform Module (TPM), which is an electronic safe that can store encrypted keys to sensitive documents and personal information.

The TPM is an addition to the standard motherboard, and consists of a chip and keys that encrypt and decrypt files on the fly. In order to access the documents, client-side software prompts the user for a password. Once authenticated, the user can send files or store them onto the computer's hard drive. Files cannot be accessed while in an encrypted state.

THE ONLY PLACE Intel is going great guns is in Asia, an analyst has claimed. And adds Bill Fleckenstein at MSN Money, Intel’s share price is wildly overvalued, underestimates AMD’s 64-bit chip plus there ain’t much growth in the personal computer market, he thinks.
According to his column, the bulls are making a mistake extrapolating results Intel delivered last week into the forthcoming quarter.

AS PREDICTED, Intel introduced a Celeron microprocessor but for both desktops and for notebooks designed as desktop replacements.
The introduction spells the beginning of the end of the road for its Celerons based on current Northwood technology.

There’s no end to the Celeron brand name in sight, however. Intel will continue to use what has been a remarkably lucrative and long lived concept – selling microprocessors which are the Diet Coke equivalent of its Class Coke Pentium class.

Intel Corp. on Tuesday raised the bar on Pentium 4 notebook performance with the introduction of the Mobile Intel Pentium 4 with hyperthreading technology. The chip should drive a new generation of "transportable" notebooks. Officially, the Mobile Pentium 4 replaces the Mobile Pentium 4-M, which will be phased out by the newer, higher-performance Pentium line. Although Intel Corp. is offering the latest chips at higher speeds from 2.66GHz to 3.20GHz, the processors also require substantially more power and dissipate much more thermal energy. And lead to a bigger footprint.

Intel Corp. will bring its hyperthreading technology to its Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor, which is used in desktop-replacement notebooks, the company announced Tuesday. Hyperthreading allows a multithreaded operating system or application to take advantage of unused execution units in a single-threaded processor. Hyperthreading sends software instructions that aren't dependent on the execution of other instructions to those unused execution units, allowing the processor to do more work than it normally could.

Well, when I tell you guys to visit us often, I am not kidding :). Drums please, here are the very first Pentium 4 EE results! A big thanks to Markus Weingartner and Kristof Sehmke!

Interestingly, Intel PR confirmed that a BIOS upgrade is not a requirement to run the new CPU. The 2MB L3 cache of the Xeon MP...euh... Pentium 4 EE will be recognized without upgrading the BIOS. This also applies for boards from other manufacturers (besides Intel).

Intel Corp. will produce integrated products that meet the 802.16 WiMAX specification by mid-2004, executives said Wednesday. In a press briefing at the Intel Developer Forum here that was designed to acquaint reporters with Intel's communications initiatives, Shane Wall, director and general manager of the Emerging Platforms Lab at Intel, said the company will produce both 802.16 and 802.11 wireless silicon, and that the two are complementary, not competitive.

When engineers building the computers of tomorrow convene this week to hear the latest technology from Intel, the world's largest chipmaker will discuss plans to make server chips more secure and ways to boost battery life for laptops and cell phones.

The three-day Intel Develop Forum begins Tuesday at the San Jose Convention Center and features keynote speeches by Paul Otellini, president and chief operating officer of Intel Corp. (INTC.O), Pat Gelsinger, chief technology officer, and others.