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Pentium, PowerBook, BlackBerry Got Their Names From Same Place

8:30AM October 7, 2011 | Sam Biddle

We use things every single day, and call them by their names. I pick up my iPhone. I drink my Fresca (shut up). But the names don’t just appear. It’s actually someone’s job — and they’re great at it. More »


Intel Graciously Unlocks The Processing Power Your PC Already Has For $US50 Fee

2:30AM September 20, 2010 | Jack Loftus

Those $US50 Intel/Compaq “Upgrade” Cards from Best Buy unlock latent processing power your computer already has kicking around inside its silicon guts. How nice of them! More »


Forty Years Of Intel: Interactive Timeline

12:30PM July 19, 2008 | Matt Hickey

This week marks the 40th anniversary of Intel, the people who likely made the CPU in your computer. To mark the occasion, the people at PC Magazine have put together a pretty comprehensive timeline showing every major generation of Intel processor from the first one to the current Core 2 Quad and Atom series processors. We’ve all used them at some point in our lives, and I remember my first Intel processor was a Pentium II running at a blazing 233MHz. I loved that laptop. What was your first Intel processor? Or which was your favourite? [PC Mag]

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