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Hardware
Intel Core i9 Benched: Six Cores Of Pure Joy
6:22AM John Herrman | On paper, the Core i9 might not sound that exciting: It’s a lot like the Core i7, except built with a 32nm fabrication process and two extra cores, for a total of six. Early benchmarks, though, say it flies. Sometimes. More »
Hardware
Atom Processor To Get The 32nm Treatment In 2011
4:19AM John Herrman | Attention, people who like to maintain a complete mental taxonomy of every processor: Cedar Trail has been outed as the new Atom platform for 2011, with the name Cedarview going to the processor itself. Along with 32nm fabrication, some goodies: More »
Software
Intel Atom’s Snow Leopard Compatibility Re-Hacked
5:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Apple, understandably, broke Atom support in its latest 10.6.2 update for Snow Leopard — but that’s not going to keep enterprising Hackintoshers from finding a workaround. More »
Hardware
Intel Deems The Dual Core Atom 330 Too Hot For Netbooks
12:15PM Rosa Golijan | We’ve been curious as to why Intel decided to keep the N330 chip out of netbooks, and now we finally know: The chips are just too damn hot. More »
Hardware
Intel’s 32nm Arrandale Core i5 And i7 Chips For Anorexic Notebooks
8:04AM Matt Buchanan | We know, the Core i7-i5-i3 stuff is confusing. Not to make it worse, but Digitimes outs some of Intel’s notebooks plans for next year: a triplet of processors of Core i7 and i5 processors, codenamed Arrandale, for skinny laptops. More »
Hardware
AMD’s Atom-Mauling Bobcat And High-End Bulldozer Chips
7:39AM Matt Buchanan | Sure, AMD’s sorta revelling in getting handed $US1.25 billion by Intel, but more importantly, they’ve just revealed the future of AMD chips: The promised Atom competitor Bobcat and a new high-end architecture called Bulldozer. More »
Business
Intel Pays AMD $US1.25 Billion To End Antitrust, Patent Wars
3:23AM John Herrman | In case you were wondering if Intel’s business practices were as shady as the European Commission and the NY Attorney General think they are, look no further than this: Intel is paying $US1.25 billion — plus frills — to avoid fighting. More »
Software
Netbook Hackintosh Fix 10.6.2 Coming In “A Few Weeks”
3:06AM John Herrman | When Apple killed Atom processor support in the Snow Leopard 10.6.2 update, it was one of the first times they’d actively tried to stop hobbyist hackintoshing. It was also sort of a dick move! Luckily, it’s not going to stick. More »
Gadgets
The Intel Reader Photographs Text And Reads It Back To You
11:29PM Danny Allen | Intel’s Reader for the visually impaired isn’t a concept; it goes on sale today. Using an Atom processor, 5-megapixel camera and Intel’s Linux-based Moblin OS, it turns book pages into digital text and MP3s…then reads aloud in a synthesised voice. More »
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