If the hefty fine and an abusive monopolist tag was not enough for the chip maker, former friend turned foe have accused Intel of unfair pricing. Nvidia’s CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang told Reuters that Intel’s Atom chip pricing is unfair but won’t seek the legal way, at least for now. According to him, Intel uses […]
Intel shows off Larrabee with 32-cores
Intel at the Saarland University’s Visual Computing Institute showed a die image of the Larrabee based chip, confirming the undergoing development of the platform. The Larrabee chips will pit against Nvidia’s GeForce and AMD’s ATI Radeon cards with x86 32 processor cores and will have its own vector math unit as well as cache […]
EC slaps $1.45b fine on Intel, AMD laughs
Well, this was on the cards but no one imagined the European Commission will impose such a heavy fine. Intel has been fined 1.06 billion euros or 1.45 billion US dollars because of business tactics used by them to crush the competition. The fine in fact, is the highest ever imposed by the EC […]
Reuters: EU working to prove Intel anti-competitive
The actual decision will not be revealed until Wednesday but Reuters’ sources confirm that Intel will have to face a fine for being anti-competitive by paying computer makers to postpone or cancel the launch of products coming with an AMD chip. According to the report, Intel is said to commit two violations – first, […]
Intel’s smart plan to increase sales of Atom based nettops in India
Intel has tied up with AOC, Gigabyte, iBall and Seagate to bring a nettop that could be assembled by its channel partners under their own brand name. The strategy will make Intel to cash in on the reputation of the channels enjoyed by them in their respective regions. With the device targeted at the […]
Samsung ramps up DDR3 RAM production
Looks like Samsung’s semiconductor division is in for some good time as they have announced to ramp up production of DDR3 RAMs. The sudden surge in the production is to support demand for Intel’s Xeon powered 5500 series servers which when equipped with DDR3 memory “improves the efficiency of data transactions in virtually any […]
Intel unveils Z550, Z515 Atom chips; demos Moorestown
At the IDF conference in Beijing which also happens to be the first anniversary of Atom processors, Intel unwrapped Z550 and Z515 processors from the Z Atom series. The Z550 bumps the clock speed to a cool 2GHz with support of Hyperthreading and consuming just under 3 watts of power. On the other hand, […]
Nvidia countersues Intel for breach of contract
The spat between Nvidia and Intel has heated up. In a move to counter Intel’s case filing, the GPU maker has countersued Intel for breaching the chipset licensing contract. They claim the agreement is still valid for newer memory controller integrated CPUs including Nehalem and are also seeking to bar Intel from accessing Nvidia’s […]
Couple of Intel Atom processors leaked
Intel’s been pushing hard with its Atom processors and the latest leak confirms that the new Atom chip will enable netbooks and the likes to run faster. The Z550 from the Z-Series achieves a clock speed of 2GHz at just 2.4W which is the same even for a 1.86MHz chip. The chip has a […]
Nokia entering notebook business, already in talks with OEMs
An interview with a Finnish broadcaster, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo confirmed that they are actively looking to enter the laptop business. The reason for this is the rapid convergence between the computers and mobile phones, making Nokia to move towards the next evolution of phones. The rumors were rife about Nokia’s entrance in the […]
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