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Similar to the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) program that MIT birthed in early 2005, the ClassMatePC is an effort from Intel to provide cheap laptops to children in developing countries. Designed to be lightweight, rugged, and partially water resistant, the device clearly favors practicality to performance. Unfortunately, the laptop's technical specifications only weigh in at a 900MHz Celeron processor, 256MB of RAM, and a tiny--but speedy--flash based 1GB hard drive. I guess anything to keep costs low.
Intel says it plans to start...
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After attending an Intel propaganda conference in Concord today, I couldn't help but be amazed by the number of fabrication plants the company owns. It's no secret that superior manufacturing has been the chip maker's key stepping stone in out pacing AMD in both efficiency and power consumption. Later this year Intel even plans to make the jump from 65nm to 45nm construction, a move that will help pave the way for affordable quad core processors to hit the stores this fall.
You see, as Intel begins to make the innards of their processors...
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Intel last week demonstrated a working processor with 80 individual processing cores. Each core, or "tile" as Intel calls them, consists of a compute element and a router that allows each tile to connect to its neighbor. The chip can deliver more than 1 trillion floating point operations per second (teraflops), depending on how fast it's running. This is only a research project right now, as there are a lot of challenges involved in making an 80-core chip that's a practical option for PCs and servers.
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The Intel Core Processor Challenge is looking for smaller, more stylish multimedia PCs. The only condition is that entries must be powered by Intel Viiv technology, using the chip giant's Core 2 Duo processors.
Beyond that, Intel urges potential applicants to "think outside the box".
"Consumers today make home PC purchase decisions based on more than just price and features; they also consider the size, shape and style," said Eric Kim, vice president of Intel's Digital Home Group.
The competition is open to PC designers and...
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Intel and DirecTV are getting ready to release their first joint product, a new set-top box with Intel's Viiv home media technology, the companies announced Tuesday at the Intel Developer Forum.
When it launches, DirecTV's set-top box will only allow users to access photos or music stored on their PCs, not movies or television, said Merlin Kister, director of marketing for Intel's Digital Home Division. DirecTV chooses the features it wants to deliver to its customers, Kister said. Allowing DirecTV Plus HD DVR users to watch...
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With the agreement of the court in the antitrust case AMD started against Intel last year, a subpoena has been served on graphics firm ATI.
Apart from the financing of the ATI acquisition, Intel wants details of potential chip production at AMD fabs, as well as extensive details about the stable image platform that forms the plank of both the CPU manufacturers' corporate business.
As AMD said last week, the terms of the subpoena are sweeping, but its lawyers believe it falls outside the time limit, and AMD reserves the right to request...
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