Intel's upcoming Atom tablet chip code-named Bay Trail will be repurposed for use in the company's Celeron and Pentium chips for entry-level laptops, desktops and all-in-ones, Intel said on Friday.
An unmanned Volkswagen Touareg R5, powered by seven Pentium M computers, won last week's DARPA Grand Challenge. The vehicle, nicknamed Stanley, completed the 132-mile route in less than 7 hours.
Intel's vaunted Pentium 4 brand name, which has denoted its flagship desktop processor since 2000, will be retired with the launch of the company's first dual-core desktop processor, Intel said Tuesday at the Spring Intel Developer Forum. The company also outlined some features of the first batch of its dual-core processors during a briefing for press and analysts.
Intel is expected Monday to release the first update to its Pentium 4 family since the company decided that it had reached the practical limit of the chip's clock speed.
The leading quote from this week’s news comes from Intel CEO Paul Otellini: "We're doing product refreshes every two years, which is the model we invented and then stopped doing after Pentium 4, shame on us," Otellini said. "We fell off it -- mea culpa, we screwed up -- and now we're back on that pace."
In two weeks, Intel will increase the clock speed of its Pentium 4 processor for possibly the last time as the company heads into a new era for its desktop processor designs.
Intel is expected to release a faster version of its powerful but expensive Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor Monday alongside the introduction of a chipset that uses a faster front-side bus to connect the processor and the memory.
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Intel is planning to introduce a faster front-side bus on an upcoming version of its Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor that will help the firm increase the performance of its chips by improving a crucial bottleneck in system performance.
Intel slashed prices across its Pentium 4 and Itanium product lines Sunday as it prepares for its biannual developer conference in San Francisco at the beginning of September.
Intel has decided to push back the launch date for its 4 GHz Pentium 4 desktop processor to the first quarter of 2005, after reviewing its launch schedules and determining it would not be able to introduce the product in sufficient volume, a company spokesman said Thursday.
Intel has begun phasing out several of its mobile processors, paring down a crowded, confusing lineup to a roster dominated by the Pentium M processor.
All Computers Inc. filed a patent lawsuit against Intel Thursday claiming that Intel's Pentium II processor infringed upon a circuit design patented by All Computers.
Upcoming versions of Transmeta's Efficeon chips will support the NX (No Execute) feature enabled by Microsoft's upcoming Windows XP Service Pack 2 release, but Inte's Pentium M processor won't be ready for NX technology until 2005, representatives from both companies confirmed Monday.
IBM is targeting small and midsize businesses with the launch last week of two Intel Pentium 4 based servers that boast integrated management and data protection features uncommon to servers of their size.
Intel's first dual-core chip was a hastily concocted design that was rushed out the door in hopes of beating rival AMD to the punch, an Intel engineer told attendees at the Hot Chips conference Tuesday.
At least four things will be on the minds of many attendees at next week's Computex trade show in Taiwan: the dual cores of Intel's Pentium D processor and the dual cores of Advanced Micro Devices' Athlon 64 X2 processor.
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Intel plans to launch the second generation of its Centrino mobile processor platform at a Jan. 19 event in San Francisco, the company confirmed Monday. The new platform, code-named Sonoma, will include a new version of Intel's Pentium M mobile processor, a new wireless chip, as well as a new chipset, which Intel says will have double the graphics performance of its current products.
Intel is planning to introduce over the coming months eight new Pentium 4 processors utilizing a new packaging technique, including its first workstation processors with 64-bit extensions technology, according to a document posted on Intel's Web site.
It was a pretty good week last week in the world of mobile devices. Toshiba released a Pentium 4 desktop replacement notebook, Mitsubishi unveiled a pocket projector that shines wide, and Tatung launched its first tablet PC. Here's a brief note about each of the products:
Intel outlined its plans for a dual-core mobile processor and platform technology Wednesday, but declined to provide any details about the dual-core future of its flagship Pentium 4 desktop processor.