Intel has unveiled a new generation of tiny sensors that continuously analyze air quality in an effort to further understand and combat air pollution. The corporation also announced on Friday that it is developing devices that can tap energy from sunlight, body heat and television signals.

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While the air quality sensors have yet to hit the consumer market, street sweepers in San Francisco have already been outfitted with the chip-sized sensors that continuously monitor and relay air pollution information. The sensors are linked to GPS enabled Nokia N95 cellphones and allow scientists to access air quality readings worldwide in real time.

According to Intel’s Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner, the energy tapping devices (which are in the research stage) can salvage and store small amounts of energy from sources in the surrounding environment such as sunlight, body heat, television signals and cell phone towers. The devices are designed to continuously ’scavenge’ energy until they have a enough power to perform a given task such as run a built-in data transmitter with limited range.

Rattner says a commercial application for such a product could be a medical implant that monitors a patient’s health and then transmits data to a doctor’s cell phone placed near the implant.

I am most excited about the air quality sensors. Imagine the data that could be gathered if every phone in the country had such a device. Changes in air pollution could be monitored in real time and environmental disasters could be predicted and prevented!

The prospect of ‘free energy’ devices is quite interesting as well, although I would like to see if such a system could work on a large scale.

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The Betatesting Group, National PARAM Supercomputing Facility (NPSF), C-DAC is initiating the SECOND Technology Training (Tech. Trng. Prog.) Programme for C-DAC members and close collaborators. The Group seeks to enhance the knowledge quotient of member through training on technically advanced concepts and techniques. The Group in collaboration with other members of C-DAC, and external experts will provide inputs on technology trends, deliver technical lectures that will focus on macro view of the current technology trends, skill set requirements and Hands-on. The key objective of the Tech. Trng. Prog. is to help develop outstanding C-DAC IT professionals who are in touch with the latest technology areas, and are equipped with excellent problem skills by collaborating with the various institutions in India. To achieve objectives, the focus on one of the core areas like ProMCore 2008 - Programming on Multi Core Processors (Performance Enhancement through Software Multi-threading) has been identified. The ProMCore 2008 technical programme covers an overview of Multi-Core Architectures, and Programming on Multi-Core Processors. Examples using different programming paradigms (Pthreads/OpenMP/MPI/Java) with rich set of Tools, Tuning and Performance of Multi-threaded programs, Performance of Benchmarks using Math Kernel Libraries on Quad Core systems are covered.

ProMCore 2008 Tech. Trng. Prog. Is jointly organized by C-DAC, Pune and Centre for Modelling, Simulation and Design (CMSD), University of Hyderabad (UOH).

Intel software Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd actively participated and Intel Multi Core Programming Environment is used for Hands-on Session. Technical consultant Engineers from Intel demonstrated Intel software Tool Kit.

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Up until January, 2006 if you were to ask any computer enthusiast their opinion of an Intel motherboard you would here something like this: Intel makes a highly reliable and extremely durable motherboard that will be there long after others have died. The true enthusiast would go on to say that the only reason they didn't own an Intel motherboard was that the features included in the BIOS were minimalist at best and they could not be overclocked. This all changed for the better with the release of the Intel's D975XBX "Badaxe" motherboard in January, 2006. For the first time in Intel's history they had recognized the enthusiast community by releasing a motherboard that was not only reliable but had a highly feature laden BIOS that allowed this board to run with the big dogs.

While the DX975BX board was Intel's first enthusiast level motherboard, it was certainly not to be their last. In late October, 2006 Intel released the big brother of the "Badaxe" the D975XBX2 deemed the "Badaxe II" which took their enthusiast level feature set a few steps further. This trend towards officially recognizing the enthusiast community was finally set in stone when the term "overclock" actually began to appear in some of Intel's official publications. Heretofore if you you were smart enough to overclock a motherboard built by Intel you could kiss your warranty goodbye as you had officially violated an edict firmly established by Intel's support team. So much for the history lesson, let's fast forward to November, 2008 and the release of Intel's i7 series of processor and their X58 chipset that supported it.

The i7 series of processors accompanied by an enthusiast grade motherboard utilizing the X58 chipset were one of the most highly anticipated product releases since the Core 2 Duo. At the time of the launch Intel introduced their DX58SO motherboard affectionately nicknamed the "Smackover". The DX58SO motherboard is without a doubt the most feature laden endeavor that Intel has undertaken to date. It is not only slanted towards the the serious overclocker but it provides a bevy of BIOS related features that could easily take take Intel's latest product to the next level of performance.

We at Benchmark Reviews have had a review sample of the Intel DX58SO for just over a month now that we have used as our reference board for all of our reviews covering the i7 family of processors as this product series had the highest interest amongst our readers. Even though we have used volumes of test data acquired from the DX58SO and repeatedly talked about the features this motherboard had to offer, we have been remiss in officially reviewing this product. Today we intend to make amends and officially give the the Intel DX58SO "Smackover" X58 Motherboard its due time in the spotlight.

About the Company

Intel Corporation is the world's largest semiconductor company founded by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, and widely associated with the executive leadership and vision of Andrew Grove, Intel combines advanced chip design capability with a leading-edge manufacturing capability. Originally known primarily to engineers and technologists, Intel's successful "Intel Inside" advertising campaign of the 1990s made it and its Pentium processor household names.

Intel pushes the boundaries of innovation so our work can make people's lives more exciting, fulfilling, and manageable. And our work never stops. We never stop looking for the next leap ahead-in technology, education, culture, manufacturing, and social responsibility. And we never stop striving to deliver solutions with greater benefits for everyone. Intel is making PCs more accessible and affordable through innovative PC purchase programs. Through public and private collaboration, Intel has worked closely with government and industry leaders to develop more than 200 programs in 60 countries. With the onslaught of wireless broadband communication technologies like WiMAX, Wi-Fi, and 3G and wireline ADSL and cable, Intel in collaboration with local governments is connecting more people in more places than ever before-no matter how remote.

Intel is committed to improving education on a global scale. With an ongoing focus on students and teachers, we're making an impact with technology solutions that support the development of 21st Century skills, including digital literacy, problem solving, and critical thinking. As citizens use the Internet, the need to create localized content is the key. Intel-sponsored programs provide localized content and services to connect technologies to villages, suburbs, and cities around the world to deliver access to community information, education, and healthcare.

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Apple yesterday announced significant updates to their Mac Pro and Xserve lines featuring Intel’s “Harpertown” processor–but what’s in a name?

Intel’s quad-core Xeon 5400-series “Harpertown” processors run at up to 3.2GHz and are based on the new 45-nm Intel Core microarchitecture. The new chips are known for high performance and energy efficiency.

Apple’s previous Mac Pros were equipped with either a) two dual-Core Intel Xeon 5100 “Woodcrest” processors running at 2.0, 2.66, or 3.0GHz, or b) two quad-core Intel Xeon 5300 “Clovertown” processors running 3.0GHz in an “8-core” configuration. More on the whole Xeon family is here.

The biggest benefit over the previous generation Xeons are Harpertown’s 64-bit 1.6GHz dual independent frontside buses (up from 1.33GHz). These buses deliver processor bandwidth up to 25.6GB per second (up from 21.3GB/s). Then there’s 12MB per processor of L2 cache with 6MB shared between pairs of processor cores (up from 8MB per with 4MB shared).

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Atom is currently available in two forms: 'Silverthorne' and 'Diamondville'. One's for handheld internet tablets - what Intel calls Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) - and the second for netbooks and, in a dual-core form, for desktops. Nice and clear cut product differentiation, but you can buy netbooks based on Silverthorne chips, which are sold as Intel's Atom Z series.

And it doesn't look like that situation is going to change any time soon. Intel recently revealed a little more about 'Pine Trail', the next release of its netbook-centric Atom CPU and chipset combo series, and it bears a remarkable resemblance to 'Moorestown', the follow up to the Atom platform for MIDs.

Pine Trail comprises the 'Pineview' processor and a chipset, 'Tiger Point', connected over a DMI (Direct Media Interface) link. Pineview inserts a GPU and a memory controller into the CPU package - Intel isn't saying whether they're on the die or simply stashed in the same ceramic - allowing Tiger Point to focus solely on I/O operations.

Incidentally, Pineview's CPU core is called 'Bonnell', which is the overarching codename for the core design employed by 'Silverthorne' and 'Diamondville' - and by Moorestown's 'Lincroft' CPU core and the one in Moorestown's system-on-a-chip successor.

Intel stresses that this is three chips becoming two, with the middle part of the old CPU-northbridge-southbridge tryptic being cut out of the picture. That, it says, means lower costs to machine makers, lower power consumption and improved performance, though the latter's not entirely a result of the integration.

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Intel slashes processor prices as it flushes 65nm from the manufacturing system. Credit: Intel.

Intel Corporation, the world’s leading manufacturer of computer processors, is this week turning the pricing screw on closest industry rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in an effort to further solidify its position of dominance while clearing the way for better technology.

That solidification arrives via a rush of hefty price cuts -- up to 50 percent -- applied to a variety of Intel’s existing microchips. According to Intel, around a dozen processors are covered by the price cuts, with the majority of those built on the company’s older 65 nanometer (nm) technology.

Intel’s 65nm manufacturing process has since been superseded by its more advanced 45nm technology, and the sudden round of price cuts is likely to represent somewhat of a stock clearance as it continues to shift the spotlight from one to the other, reports Computerworld.

“We’re transitioning from 65nm to 45nm,” commented Intel spokesman Patrick Ward via an official announcement posted to the California-based company’s Web site. “We’re in the process of refreshing our line. If you see a 65nm [processor], it’s older technology and we’re moving on from it.”

In terms of the most notable processors directly affected by Intel’s price cuts, the new listing reveals that 1,000-chip orders of the Q6700 Core 2 Quad have plummeted from $530 USD to $266 USD per chip, while the Xeon X3230 has also dropped form $530 USD to $266 USD.

Other 1,000-chip orders benefiting from the price cuts include the Core 2 Duo E26850, which falls from $266 USD to $183 USD per chip, while the Xeon 3085 falls from $266 USD to $188 USD per chip.

Analyst reaction to Intel’s pricing adjustment suggests that the leading chipmaker, while obviously shifting from a 65nm to 45nm focus, is looking to expand its pricing-to-performance strengths when measured against the range of processors offered by AMD, which traditionally delivers cheaper chip alternatives to Intel’s line.

When it comes to the advancement of 45nm technology, AMD is looking to ship its initial microprocessor entrants in 2008’s closing quarter, which will subsequently leave the company trailing Intel by around a year.

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In Q1 2003, notebooks took a major leap forward not only in the area of performance, but also other important areas such as battery life, size, weight and wireless connectivity. The propulsion that enabled all this was none other than Intel's Centrino Mobile Technology. Propagating their vision of how notebooks should be, Intel unleashed its Centrino model to the world in a timely fashion with huge promises of better performance, battery life and portability for notebooks bearing their Centrino badge as opposed to existing notebooks then. If you are not already familiar, the first incarnation of the Intel Centrino Mobile Technology consisted of the now famous trio of the Intel Pentium M processor, the Intel 855 platform chipset and the Intel PRO/Wireless Network Connection. With the right blend of components, Intel's aggressive marketing, development and infrastructure support for this platform, the chip giant convincingly won over the support of the industry, consumers and skeptics in a relatively short timeframe. In fact, it was so successful that many manufacturers were seen rolling out Centrino notebooks almost exclusively.


The gem of the Intel Centrino Mobile Technology has got to be the Pentium M processor, which attributed much of the initial success of this platform. Sporting a much shorter pipeline architecture as compared to the Pentium 4 processors, Micro-Ops fusion, Advance Branch Prediction and a massive L2 cache, it was the first processor to be designed ground up specifically targeting the mobile market. This was quite a departure from the company's usual practice of modifying its desktop processors for use in notebooks. Although the Pentium 4 processor did play a part in producing notebooks that were very powerful, battery life and size were unfortunately unimpressive and unappealing to notebook users. The Pentium M however, was designed to factor in the usage patterns of notebook users and thus benefited much in terms of advanced power savings and the ability to get work done as efficiently as possible.

As impressive as the first Pentium M (codenamed Banias) was in addressing the fundamental issues of notebooks upon its release, its 130nm manufacturing process meant it had a clock speed ceiling of just 1.7GHz. To keep pace with the demands of consumers, Intel needed to come up with a processor that had a greater clock speed envelope to keep its Centrino momentum going strong. Hence in May 2004, that was realized in the form of a new Pentium M processor codenamed 'Dothan'.

Exploiting the new 90nm manufacturing process, the 'Dothan' Pentium M line of processors are not only capable of delivering clock speeds well beyond the 1.7GHz boundary of its predecessor, but were also endowed with a larger 2MB L2 cache (up from 1MB on the Banias). The additional 1MB was a great asset in boosting the overall performance in many applications. While the processing side of the Centrino has undergone a major facelift, the other subsystems of the notebook were dated as opposed to the desktop machines that were then adopting newer technologies (such as PCI Express and DDR2) and running on a much faster front side bus.


The Sonoma Arrives

To address this generation gap between the notebooks and that of the latest desktop platforms, Intel today officially launched a new Centrino platform that was codenamed 'Sonoma'. This spanking platform is a complete overhaul of the existing Centrino model and is centered on the new mobile 915 chipset (which is a mobile variant of the 'Grantsdale' 915P Express desktop chipset). The new platform will come with a few major enhancements, which includes PCI Express interconnect technology, DDR2 memory, Intel High Definition Audio (also codenamed Azalia) and SATA.

So in a relatively short timeframe of less than two years, we have witnessed the launch of the first generation Centrino, followed by a 'brain' surgery in the form of a processor update and now at long last, the much talked about platform overhaul is finally here. In this article, we'll show you exactly what to expect out of the new Centrino, how it compares with its predecessor, the benefits of investing in this updated platform and whether you should consider ditching your old Centrino notebook. Read on as we unravel the Sonoma platform and showcase one of the first notebooks to land in our lab.

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New generation of Intel Pentium III processors with Coppermine core featured not only better manufacturing technology (0.18 micron as opposed to 0.25 micron for Katmai core), but also different cache architecture and new package type. Smaller size of the new core allowed Intel to put level 2 cache on the the same die as the core. While new cache was two times smaller than the L2 cache on Katmai processors, it was twice as fast and had a few additional performance improvements. Because external cache chips were no longer required for the new core, it became possible to put the core on smaller and cheaper Flip-Chip Ping Grid Array package.

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Target is emerging markets, not case-modders

By Tony Smith in Beijing • Get more from this author

17th April 2007 10:53 GMT

IDF Intel has indeed thrown its weight behind rival chip maker VIA's Mini ITX motherboard form-factor, as reported back in January, though the bigger company wasn't exactly going out of its way to reveal its new compact mobo's origins.

Intel's entry into the Mini ITX arena is the Desktop Board D201GLY, which it's pitching at providers of low-cost - sub $300 - computers, particularly those pitched at "emerging markets" - what used to be called, in less euphemism-friendly times, 'poor countries'.

The 17 x 17cm board incorporates a soldered-in-place 1.33GHz Celeron 215 processor, SiS662 integrated chipset, a single DIMM slot, legacy ports, 10/100Mbps Ethernet, a PCI slot, six USB ports and a seventh mounted internally for "an OS on a Flash drive" - an item Intel launched not so very long ago.

Intel said the board will become available this quarter, but we can narrow that down to the second week of May. It will go on sale in boxed and unboxed versions.

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This new 2.6GHz dual-core processor features 4MB of L2 cache, and an 800MHz FSB, making it the highest end chip in Intel’s mobile range.

Intel have removed their overspeed protection from this chip meaning that the chip is able to be overclocked, this should interest gamers.

Intel claims the Core 2 Extreme X7800 has a 28 percent performance increase over the previous chips.

The new chip should be out in a couple weeks and will cost around $851.

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$32,319 million

2005 Rank/Value
5 / $35,588 million

-9% change from 2005

Based in U.S.

Profits and market share weren't the only things slammed by rival AMD. Intel's brand value tumbled 9%, as it loss business from high-profile customers.

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On April 7th, 2006, Intel silently launched the Intel Pentium D 805 processor. That makes the Pentium D 805 processor the entry level dual-core CPU for any Intel platform. Running at 2.66GHz the Pentium D 805 utilizes a Front Side Bus (FSB) of 533MHz and a clock multiplier of 20. To make this an entry level processor Intel gave it a 533MHz FSB, which is a slower than the other dual-core processors that all run on a 800MHz FSB and it does not have Enhanced Intel SpeedStep technology for better thermal regulation.

What does this mean to you? It means that Intel has released a dual-core processor priced at under $130. We couldn't ignore this budget dual-core processor and ordered one from chiefvalue.com this past week and it has been on the test bench since it arrived!

The Intel Pentium D Processor 805 runs at 2.66GHz with a 533MHz FSB and shares two seperate 1MB L2 caches that are located on the procesor. The 805 is a Smithfield dual-core processor and does fully support 64-bit computing via the Intel EM64T technology.

Inside the retail packaging you get the processor, an Intel heat sink fan cooling unit, and the owners manual with the Pentium D sticker on the back. Now that you know what you get for ~$130 US let's take a closer look at our processor and start the overclocking.

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Big news on the UMPC front this morning folks. Looks like Intel is shedding the Origami gorilla (read: Microsoft) as they prep a Linux-based platform to compete with Vista and XP-based UMPCs. Intel will unveil their new MID (Mobile Internet Device) platform at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing later this week. Unfortunately for their marketing department, they've already posted the slides. Unlike UMPCs which target mobile professionals, MIDs will target "consumers and prosumers" and feature a range of screen sizes from 4.5 to 6-inches with resolutions from 800 x 480 to 1024 x 600. Yup, these are the same devices we spotted under the in-house name of McCaslin sporting Intel's codenamed "Stealey" class of dual-core, battery-friendly processors. Intel's reference designs run a tweaked, 500MB version of China's RedFlag MIDINUX which boots in about 18 seconds (less than 5 seconds from standby) to a mix of open-source and proprietary code including Google Maps and web-based office and enterprise applications. Data access will be provided via HSDPA and WiFi. More GUI shots and reference designs in the gallery below.

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Details on the Intel DX58SO 'Smackover' motherboard are becoming crystal clear here at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco! For those that haven't been keeping up on the bleeding edge of technology the new chipset that Intel will be releasing to support Core i7 processors (Nehalem) is the X58 Express (Tylersburg). The Intel X58 Express chipset is paired with the new ICH10 southbridge chipset and the result is a cutting edge motherboard that will power the new LGA1366 processors

One of the new features that stands out on this motherboard is the fact that it supports triple channel memory for improved memory bandwidth. If you look very close at the picture above you'll notice that Smackover actually has four DIMM slots for DDR3 memory modules.

In a meeting between Legit Reviews and Intel it was discovered that three slots should be used if you want the best performance. If you pop in a fourth module and occupy all the slots the DX58SO motherboard won't be running in quad-channel. It will actually default back down to single channel mode, which will obviously drastically impact memory bandwidth. The official support memory clock speed is 1066MHz, but Intel was quick to say that 1333MHz, 1600MHz and even 2000MHz memory kits will work on the platform.

We talked to a couple memory companies about this frequency claim and they said 2GHz was possible, but not an easy feat to reach. One of the things that is limiting how fast the modules can go is the fact that the Intel DX58SO motherboard only supports 1.65VDIMM. This is much lower than other DDR3 chipsets that are currently on the market, so some SPD tweaks and IC changes are needed to reach peak performance levels on this new chipset. One of the other reasons that high memory clocks are tough to reach is because the board is still pre-production and the BIOS is still being optimized for stability, as well as, performance.

Kingston Technology has a system running Kingston HyperX DDR3 Memory at 1600MHz at the Technology Showcase at the Intel Developer Forum that we were able to take a look at. Kingston wasn't showing off any performance numbers since they are under NDA, but they said it is an impressive platform and they will be supporting it. This means Kingston triple channel memory kits are in the works and will be released around the same time as this platform. Kingston and Intel also both confirmed that Intel eXtreme Memory Profiles (XMP) still work on this system, so no worries on that. The Intel DX58SO 'Smackover' motherboard looks like it will be a solid performing motherboard with some features that will get the industry talking!

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Improvements to the processor, chipset and wireless components of Intel's latest mobile platform should result in a new generation of faster notebooks with longer battery life. Business systems will also get Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT) for the first time, while Turbo Memory should reduce the frequency of hard disk accesses, saving power and boosting performance.

At the heart of Intel's new mobile platform is the processor, chipset and wireless combination codenamed Santa Rosa. Business notebooks built on the Santa Rosa platform will be branded Centrino Pro, while consumer systems will carry the existing Centrino Duo branding. Intel has upgraded all three platform elements, in its continuing efforts to increase notebook performance while reducing power consumption. However, not all of the components are very different to their previous versions.

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The last generation of socket 370 Celeron processors featured Tualatin core with 256 KB level 2 cache, often called as Tualatin-256. Having twice as much cache as Coppermine Celerons, these microprocessors performed as fast as Pentium III Copermine processors running at the same Front Side Bus frequency (100 MHz). Besides larger level 2 cache, the Celerons also had lower core voltage and power consumption. The package of these processors was modified. It still used Flip-Chip packaging technology, where the processor die was mounted upside down on the top of the plastic package, but on Tualatin Celerons the die was covered by integrated heatsink. Like the Pentium III Tualatin CPUs, the Celerons used new bus interface, and, though the Celerons could fit into older socket 370 motherboards, the processors couldn't work in them. It was still possible to use special Tualatin socket 370 adapters to run Tualatin Celeron processors in old motherboards.

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Second generation of socket 370-compatible Celeron processors was based on Coppermine core. Like the Mendocino core, the Coppermine core had level 2 cache integrated on the die. The size of level 2 cache didn't change from older PPGA Celerons - it was 128 KB, or half the size of L2 cache of Pentium III Coppermine processors. The cache itself was improved - it featured 256-bit wide path to the cache and had lower latency than the cache of PPGA processors. Another enhancement in Coppermine Celerons was addition of SSE instructions, which could significantly boost processor performance in SSE-enabled applications. Core voltage of the Coppermine processors was reduced from 2.0 Volt to 1.5 - 1.75 Volt, which resulted in lower power consumption and cooler running processors. New package type of these Celerons, with processor die exposed on the top of the chip, also allowed better processor cooling. Coppermine Celeron microprocessors required revised socket 370 - this socket was mechanically, but not electrically compatible with PPGA Socket 370, which made all Copermine CPUs incompatible with many old Socket

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All Intel Celeron processors in PPGA package were based on Mendocino core. Mendocino was the first Intel x86 core that integrated level 2 cache with the core (Pentium Pro had level 2 cache on a separate die, and Pentium II processors used external cache chips). The core had only 128 KB of level 2 cache, but smaller cache size was partially compensated by faster cache speed - it was running twice as fast as the Pentium II level 2 cache. The Mendocino core didn't require external cache chips, therefore it could fit on smaller and cheaper Plastic Pin Grid Array (PPGA) package. To work with the Celeron PPGA package Intel designed new 370-pin socket - socket 370, or PGA370.

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Release timetables for Intel’s ultrathin and regular notebook processors have been leaked from industry sources, together with its Lynnfield desktop CPU range and new Xeon server chips. According to the leaks, Intel will roll out Celeron SU2300 and Celeron 743 processors for ultrathin notebooks by the end of September, with the Core 2 Extreme XE 2GHz, Core 2 Quad P2 1.73GHz and Core 2 Quad P1 1.6GHz – all part of Intel’s Clarksfield notebook processor range – will see a launch sometime around the Q3/Q4 crossover point.

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Stronger than expected sales of Atom processors have seen Intel post Q2 2009 revenues of $8.0bn, up 12-percent on the previous quarter, though not enough to avoid recording a net income loss of $1.0bn. Atom CPUs such as the N270, a common sight in netbooks and budget ultraportables, defied the trend for falling processor ASPs (average selling prices) by climbing 65-percent sequentially, and bolstering the company coffers by $362m alone.

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ntel’s Pine Trail platform, set to replace the company’s current Diamondville netbook/nettop architecture, could be delayed until the first half of 2010 so as to reassure vendors. According to Digitimes Research senior analyst Joanne Chien, the Intel Atom N450 processor has been pushed back from its original Q4 2009 launch schedule so as to allow the existing netbook market to settle.

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, the mainstream model from their Nehalem platform, is expected to make its debut on September 6th, along with two new Core i7 chips. According to sources in the Taiwan motherboard industry, Intel will begin shipping the Core i5-750, Core i7-860 and Core i7-870 from early September, with quadcore clock-speeds of 2.66GHz, 2.8GHz and 2.93GHz respectively. They'll be joined in early 2010 by two energy saving versions, the Core i5-750s and Core i7-860s, running at 2.4GHz and 2.53GHz, but with 82W TDP rather than 95W

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Intel have launched an appeal against their €1.06 billion ($1.45bn) fine, which was imposed by the European Commission after they found the company guilty of anti-competition behavior. Intel had been accused of using "hidden rebates" to dissuade manufacturers from using processors made by rivals such as AMD; while the company has not requested a stay of judgment, this week it officially confirmed that it was filing an appeal with the Luxembourg Court of First Instance.

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After word slipped out from Taiwan earlier this week that Intel were considering pushing back the release of the Pine Trail Atom N450 processor until the first half of 2010, now comes more specific news from PC manufacturers that both the netbook platform, Pine Trail-M, and its Pine Trail-D nettop sibling will both now arrive in the first quarter of next year. That, say the unnamed sources, will coincide with the release of Intel’s 32nm Core i9 processors, codenamed Gulftown, and offering six cores.

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The age-old battle between Intel and AMD is resurrected every year as the two duke it out for control of your computer. Back in the day, when I was broke and into building PCs, I often opted for AMD because of budget restrictions. After I graduated, performance was the objective which, at the time, meant a switch to Intel was in order. I took a case by case approach to the debate between Intel and AMD, but many PC builders out there have fierce loyalties to one side or the other despite their ups and downs. So the question is: Do you prefer AMD or Intel processors?

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Intel wants to make computer buying decisions simpler, so it`s limiting the names it uses for its Intel Core line to three chip classifications. Intel said older names like Pentium and Centrino will be phased out. Intel Vice President Deborah Conrad said Intel will use the "good, better, best" approach used by other companies.

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Intel will release soon its Consumer Ultra Low Voltage (CULV) processors, desinged for use in ultraportable notebooks, according to announcements. Laptop Magazine says that MSI will release the x340 ultra-slim laptop with the Intel CULV Core 2 Solo SU3500 CPU in April. The chip is clocked at 1.4GHz and has 3MB of L2 cache

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ConnectedIndians.com - Finally a Collective Effort to Boost Internet Penetration in India

ConnectedIndians.com - Finally a Collective Effort to Boost Internet Penetration in India

I read the ET today (well I do it everyday, but that’s not the point) and saw this piece of news as an ad along with the knowledge forum article. Intel has launched a campaign to boost Internet penetration in India called ConnectedIndians.com. The effort named of course at the idea of connecting a billion Indians. The initiative has the biggest stakeholder’s in the Indian telecom and computing industry as sponsors and perhaps might be ‘the’ initiative to get the Internet moving beyond the metros in India.

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The word on the street is that Google has been and will continue buying AMD products over Intel. Google currently owns 200,000 servers and AMD could start to see a lot of business from Google as they continue to expand or need to replace/upgrade the existing servers. The funniest part is that Intel's Chief Executive is on Google's board. It looks as though AMD continues ...

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In September, Intel will be holding an event in San Francisco showing off a number on new technologies. One that’ll interest netbook users, is that netbooks will be shown with the N450 CPU. Today’s netbooks with an Intel CPU use either the N270 or N280 which is pretty much just as fast as the upcoming processor. However one main difference is that the newer processor consumes less power keeping the netbook cooler for longer and on for longer with improved battery life. The N450 is also smaller in size, meaning the netbooks taking advantage of the new technology will be thinner than current netbooks.

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On Monday Intel announced the first mobile quad-core processor called Penryn. The new silicon is the cousin to the Penryn desktop processor, the Core 2 Extreme QX9650, announced on 12 November 2007.

The next generation transistors, used in the new Penryn processors (Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Core 2 Quad and Xeon family) feature “new high-k + metal gate material that will allow for higher frequencies, lower resistance, less leakage and lower power consumption.”

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Intel, the world’s biggest chipmaker, will launch a new corporate slogan next week as part of a major rebranding.
The “Intel Inside” phrase is out, and the company will now encourage consumers to “Leap Ahead”.

Intel will also change its logo, replacing the one featuring a lowered “e” with one showing an oval swirl surrounding the company name.

The firm wants to re-position itself as providing the technology behind many digital products, not just PCs.
Intel chief executive Paul Otellini is set to unveil the details of the new marketing campaign on 5 January at the giant gadget festival, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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SAN FRANCISCO--Intel plans to bring its first dual-core Atom to market next month, it was revealed here Monday during the Intel Developer Forum. The chipmaker also disclosed more details of the Nehalem processor.

The power-efficient processor will be targeted at Atom-based desktops called nettops. Currently, Intel offers the Atom N230 processor for nettops. This chip has a slightly higher power envelope than the Atom processors built exclusively for mobile devices.

That news was revealed to this reporter by an Intel employee as senior vice president Pat Gelsinger was delivering his IDF keynote, which included more specifics about Nehalem, the family of chips the company plans to begin rolling out in the fourth quarter. Gelsinger, the general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, showed the first wafer holding individual eight-core processors, detailed the power-saving features of the Nehalem processors, and confirmed future mobile Nehalem processors.

Intel Nehalem processor lineup as shown at IDF 2008

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Also due in September is the six-core Dunnington server processor, the final member of Intel's 45-nanometer "Penryn" family, which will ship to customers next month, Gelsinger said.

Most of his keynote centered on Nehalem, and one of the features Intel was pushing hard at IDF was a technology called Turbo mode.

Turbo mode is essentially a switch that turns off unused processor cores and then uses the remaining active cores more efficiently. This kind of sophisticated power-management technology will be used in both Nehalem-based laptops and servers, according to Gelsinger, and will become increasingly necessary as Intel brings out chips with more cores like the eight-core Nehalem processor due next year.

In short, in multi-core processors, cores not doing much can still use power. So, it's better to use, for example, a couple of cores more efficiently than four cores inefficiently.

The power saving technology is enabled by "an integrated microcontroller which only works on power management," said Rajesh Kumar, an Intel Fellow, who spoke during Gelsinger's keynote. There are about 1 million transistors dedicated solely to power management, Kumar said.

The feature "requires no operating system intervention. It is fully detected and managed by the hardware. If it has detected an idle core, it is able to reallocate that power budget to the other cores," Gelsinger said in an interview after his keynote.

On another front, Intel showed the first eight-core Nehalem chip. "This is the first showing of the eight-core Nehalem-EX," Gelsinger said in his keynote. He said the chip is a monolithic design, meaning that all eight cores are on one piece of silicon.

Nehalem-EP, or Nehalem Efficient Performance, will be a quad-core chip for mainstream servers and workstations. What Intel traditionally calls two-socket servers, Gelsinger said.

The mainstream desktop will be the Core i7. "With the i7 we have high-end desktop and extreme," Gelsinger said. The extreme edition is for overclockers, he said. Enthusiast gamers often overclock processors (ratcheting up clock speed beyond the rated speed) to gain extra performance.

"Turbo Mode" is a linchpin Nehalem technology

(Credit: Intel)

But there will be more pedestrian dual-core versions of Nehalem too. "There will be versions for the desktop that will be dual-core as well," Gelsinger said.

Gelsinger also talked about Intel's plans to put graphics directly onto the same piece of silicon as the processor. This will be a first for Intel.

He described why Intel is putting graphics right next to the processor. "There's a big sucking sound near the CPU. It keeps pulling things closer to it. This is uniquely enabled by Moore's Law...and as things get closer together I'm able to drive down thermal envelopes (i.e., heat) and decrease physical form factors (i.e., enable smaller computer designs)," Gelsinger said.

Gelsinger broke down the future processor lineup--with graphics on the processor die and without--as follows. "Lynnfield and Clarksfield are the versions without graphics. Havendale and Auburndale are the versions with integrated graphics." (Even Intel executives occasionally get confused by all the code names and it took two tries for Gelsinger to get this right.)

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Intel has announced the branding for its forthcoming range of low-power processors designed for handheld devices. Formerly referred to by the codenames of Silverthorne and Diamondville, the chips will now go by the moniker Atom.

The Intel Atom uses the same instruction set as the Core 2 Duo processor, but it’s a completely new design that represents Intel’s smallest-ever processor. The Atom is just 25mm2 with 47 million transistors, compared to 410 million on the latest 143mm2 Core 2 Duo. The new chip will run at speeds up to 1.8GHz and draw between 0.6 and 2.5W – the Core 2 Duo draws around 35W.

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Within Intel company reviews, employees suggest cutting out bureaucracy and improving the planning process, but what we find more telling is that they caution top executives to consider more of the long-term benefits and outcomes that a new partnership would bring.

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Leaders of the pack seeking monster performance, look no further. With four execution cores, the Intel® Core™2 Quad processor blows through processor-intensive tasks in demanding multi-tasking environments and makes the most of highly threaded applications. Whether you're creating multimedia, annihilating your gaming enemies, or running computer-intensive applications at one time, new quad-core processing will change the way you do everything. Pioneer the new world of quad-core and unleash the power of multi-threading.

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Introducing the latest additions to the Core 2 Quad family built using Intel's 45nm technology and hafnium-infused circuitry. These new processors deliver amazing performance and power efficiency. Whether it's encoding, rendering, editing, or streaming, make the most of your professional-grade multimedia applications with a PC powered by the Intel® Core™2 Quad processor. With four processing cores and up to 12MB of shared L2 cache and up to 1333 MHz Front Side Bus, more intensive entertainment and more multitasking can bring a multimedia powerhouse to your home.

The latest versions built on Intel's 45nm manufacturing technology take these benefits to a whole new level. This new technology uses hafnium-infused Hi-k transistors, enabling even more processor performance by doubling the transistor density, improving efficiency and speed relative to the previous generation, and increasing cache size by up to 50 percent. These new Intel Core 2 Quad processors deliver even more performance without using more energy.

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Intel's Core 2 Duo processors have been available for about six months now, and the response has been very favorable for Intel. In fact, many people send us emails asking our views on the best platform for Core 2 Duo systems. Until now the answer has been an Intel chipset, but competition has emerged: Nvidia's nForce 680i SLI core logic wants to be the undisputed champion for Core 2 Duo processors. Of course, we wanted to know whether it really is or not...

First of all, we have to make very clear that although today's chipsets support varying features and target different user segments, you won't notice any difference in performance between a motherboard using a P965, 975X or nForce 680i SLI chipset when you start Windows to attend to your daily business. Only if you belong to the feature-aware, performance-hungry or overclocking-savvy crowds will you appreciate the huge overclocking margins and plethora of tweaking options.

Intel's P965 and 975X chipsets represent the establishment, both because most Intel-based systems are powered by Intel's very own chipsets, and because Intel processors have traditionally run best with an Intel chipset. Although the 975X has been available for over a year, it is still the high-end product - it is paired with the ICH7 southbridge, and thus offers a nice range of interface options. However, the P965 is the latest core logic product, utilizing the ICH8 southbridge family with even more goodies. There is a large variety of 965 and 975 motherboards available today.

Nvidia has been in the chipset arena since 2001. Although its first nForce chipset failed, the nForce2 and following generations were increasingly successful. Today, the nForce 4 and 5 series are considered among the best choices for Athlon 64 solutions, and Nvidia is hoping that the nForce 6 will give it a big share of the Intel market. It is the larger business space, but also more difficult to get into: Nvidia already tried its luck with the nForce 4 Intel Edition, but even though the product was great, it couldn't take significant market share from Intel.

The nForce 6 chipset is supposed to be better than the Intel chipsets in every way: better overclocking, better storage subsystem, better dual x16 PCI Express SLI graphics as opposed to Intel's dual x8 PCI Express Crossfire support, better networking support and better memory auto-configuration. Let's dig into this new chipset and find out if it delivers.

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