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  • Windows, Mac OS to run side-by-side

    Parallels, a start-up whose software enables Macs to run Microsoft Windows and the Mac OS at the same time, says it is ready with a final version of its product.

  • Intel, Microsoft plough US$20m into multicore research

    Intel and Microsoft announced on Tuesday they are jointly backing university research to help address the challenges posed by a shift to processors with many brains.

  • Intel: Teraflops industry standard chip on way

    Amid a slew of product announcements at Intel's Developer Forum in Beijing, enterprise division head Pat Gelsinger has unveiled plans for a teraflops IA architecture code-named Larrabee.

  • Intel R&D on slow boat to China

    Intel may be plunging ahead with manufacturing plans in China, but its research-and-development arm isn't moving at quite the same pace.

  • Sun's Niagara 2 doubles down with twice the threads

    Sun Microsystems' "Niagara 2" processor will be able to run 64 simultaneous instruction sequences, twice that of its predecessor, when it debuts in servers during the second half of 2007, a Sun engineer said on Tuesday.

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  • CPU roadmap: server processors

    In the world of processors, attention seems firmly focused on the fast-paced desktop and mobile markets. But that doesn't mean that there's nothing going on in server-land.

  • Intel defends architectural advances

    Mooly Eden, general manager of Intel's Mobile Platforms Group, sat down in San Francisco to explain why he thinks Intel's next-generation chips will blow the competition away.

  • Otellini's eye on multicore computing and WiMax

    Otellini's eye on multicore computing and WiMax

  • Itanium: A cautionary tale

    The wonderchip that wasn't serves as a lesson about how complex development plans can go awry in a fast-moving industry.

  • Intel: Montecito or bust?

    Abhi Talwalkar, general manager of Intel's Enterprise Platform Group, provides an insight into the dual-core Montecito, the company's latest Itanium chip.

Reviews (68)

  • Centrino Central: Four notebooks tested

    Need a notebook with speed and long life? The new mobile platform from Intel doesn't sacrifice battery life for performance. We test four of the first Centrino notebooks.

  • Benchmarks: Intel Core i7 (Nehalem)

    Intel's new Nehalem architecture features an integrated memory controller and runs two threads per CPU core. Our extensive benchmark tests reveal how well the new quad-core processors perform in practice.

  • Intel Core i7 965 Extreme Edition

    While Core i7 presents a new performance paradigm, the heinously gluttonous Australian prices will need to come down before it's accepted by the mainstream.

  • HP touts advantages of Itanium 2

    The co-designer of the Itanium 2 chip has formally detailed its plans for the processor.

  • At Intel, the chip with two brains

    There's more than one way to build a multichip microprocessor, according to Intel.

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