Source: Wired
Some laptop computer owners have discovered an annoying quirk with their machines: Whenever users install certain Nortel security software, their computers' screens turn blue and the laptops cease to work.
Source: CNN
Intel Corp. on Wednesday unveiled new processors and chipsets designed to bring to mainstream corporate and consumer PCs features now typically found only in higher-priced computers.
Among the PC makers offering systems based on the new technology is Gateway Inc., which said it would be the first to sell a PC based on the new Intel chips for under $1,000.
Source: Digi Times
Intel recently decided to cease production of its 850E and 860 chipset, moving further away from the Rambus DRAM (RDRAM) standard, motherboard sources revealed. The 850E and 860 chipsets are Intel’s two RDRAM-based products, designed for the desktop and server/workstation sectors, respectively.
Source: The Register
Intel has acknowledged a bug in its Itanium 2 processor. The error shows up in some rare data sets when a particular sequence of instructions is executed. Intel tells us it has shared a test with OEMs and as a workaround advises concerned Itanium customers to clock the frequency down to 800Mhz.
Source: The Inquirer
INTEL AND AMD move together so closely on the frequencies of their processors that you'd be forgiven for thinking this is some kind of cartel.
Source: CNet News
A possible glitch with a new processor has thrown a wrench into Intel's plans to bring out new silicon for high-performance chips for top-of-the-line PCs.
Intel delivered a new chipset on schedule Monday but delayed a matching Pentium 4 processor at the last minute, leaving a raft of upcoming PCs without a processor, at least for a while.
Source: CNet News
Intel jumped into the wireless world this week, but the company will face some static as it wedges its way into one of the tech market's hottest segments.
With the introduction of Centrino, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker formally entered the market for Wi-Fi components that allow PCs to connect wirelessly to the Internet or other PCs.
Intel does not advertise per se, but the Intel Pro 100 Ethernet Card (PCI) has a changeable or programmable MacID Number.
Many newer software Serial Numbers or Un-Lock Codes are linked to a specific MacID Number.
The software company sends you a small program that sees if you have an Ethernet Card and that MacID number, this is sent to them and by e-mail they send you a Serial Number or Un-Lock Code for their software that will only work on a computer with that MacID Number.
Source: CNN.com
Chip giant Intel Corp, a relative bit player thus far in the cellphone revolution, is making its first serious foray into chips that lie at the heart of handsets and has enlisted a handful of mid-tier Asian firms to use its design.
But Intel, taking on entrenched rivals such as Texas Instruments Inc and Analog Devices, must win over top phone makers such as Nokia if it is to become a key supplier for handsets that are becoming more like computers.
Source: CNet News
Intel has changed the release schedule for its Itanium chips for servers, adding a new chip for 2004 and moving the launch date of an Itanium with two separate processors to 2005 from 2007.
The changes reflect Intel's confidence in its ability to release high-end server chips faster than competitors and thereby gain the performance high ground, said Jonathan Eunice, principal analyst at Illuminata.
