Archive for the ‘Intel’ Category
Intel says that the $500 million will be invested over 5 years mostly for WiMax
The availability of WiMax in the United States isn’t looking that great right now with Sprint cutting back its Xohm WiMax service with alarming frequency. Despite the murky outlook for WiMax in the U.S., Intel is betting the technology will be huge not only in the U.S. but in other parts of the world as well.
Intel is investing heavily in WiMax technology in Taiwan with a $500M investment being announced over the next five years. Intel managing director of WiMax program, Lil Mohan, said at a conference, “This investment is largely for WiMax.”
Mohan went on to say that Intel believes WiMax infrastructure will be ready by 2009 or 2010 in Taiwan and that Intel expects WiMax to be commercially deployed in the U.S. in Q2 or Q3 of 2008. The Taiwan government has already announced that it plans to invest $664M over the next five years in WiMax.
Many big technology companies are betting on WiMax as the successor to Wi-Fi thanks to its much greater range of up to 30 miles. Mohan continued, “Japan will probably launch the first (WiMax standard in Asia), since they have already invested lots of money.”
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Three tech giants — Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo — said on Tuesday they are teaming up on a research project to help turn Web services into reliable, everyday utilities.
The companies are joining forces with academic researchers in Asia, Europe and the United States to create an experimental network that lets researchers test “cloud-computing” projects — Web-wide services that can reach billions of users at once.
Their goal is to promote open collaboration among industry, academic and government researchers by removing financial and logistical barriers to working on hugely computer-intensive, Internet-wide projects.
Founding members of the consortium said they aim to create a level playing field for individual researchers and organizations of all sizes to conduct research on software, network management and the hardware needed to deliver Web-wide services as billions of computer and phone users come online.
“No one institution or company is going to figure this out,” said Prabhakar Raghavan, the head of Yahoo Research who is also a consulting professor of computer science at nearby Stanford University.
Cloud computing has become the industry’s biggest buzzword. It is a catch-all term to describe how Internet-connected hardware and software once delivered as discreet products can be managed as Web-based, utility-like services.
“Potentially the entire planet will come to rely on this, like electricity,” Raghavan said, referring to the push to make everything from daily communications to shopping to entertainment into always-available, on-demand Web services.
“We are all trying to move from the horse driving the wagon to a million ants driving the wagon,” Raghavan said of the need to let computers manage millions of small jobs, adding that the available capacity on the Web would vary widely. “The challenge can be a billion ants one day and a million ants the next.” Continued…
Clickry Post Source Link
- In: AMD | Clickry | Graphene | Intel | news | Penryn | processor | Smallest | Thanks Again | transistor | world's
- Leave a Comment
45nm? 32nm? Stop playing around Intel, AMD! 1nm is where it’s at.
Transistors, transistors, transistors — the building block of every processor core we know and love. The more transistors engineers can pack into a processor, the more performance they can squeeze out of it. Rather than making processors larger, incurring all sorts of evil problems, the lithography process for etching silicon wafers to create processor cores with has been refined a hundred, maybe even a thousand-fold since its inception.
Current generation mainstream processors are floating at around 45nm transistors with Intel’s Penryn chips. Penryn holds about 205 million transistors per core in its die structure, with all four cores in a quad-core chip able to fit inside the area of a dime. Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing even boasted about 32nm cores in design as long ago as 2006.
Thus far, chip engineers have been able to keep a tenuous grasp on Moore’s law, which states that the number of transistors on a microchip will double every two years. Gorden Moore, who coined the idea in 1965, feels that time is running out for his now-famous prognostication with the limits of silicon lithography rapidly approaching. Many scientists and engineers feel that 10nm will be the death knell for silicon transistors.
Worry not, readers, carbon has your back. Back in March of 2007, DailyTech reported on graphene transistors. Professor Andre Geim and Dr. Kostya Novoselov at the University of Manchester’s School of Physics and Astronomy announced a transistor made of graphene that measured just one atom thick and less than 50 wide. Now, they say, they’ve done even better, having improved their process and created a transistor one atom thick and a mere ten atoms wide. The pair claims to have a working 1nm graphene transistor.
Obviously such a ludicrously small transistor would, possibly not revolutionize, but allow the current semiconductor industry to delve even further into chip shrinkage, packing tens or hundreds of millions more transistors into a single core, or allowing many more cores to be used in the same area as current quad-core microchips.
- In: DDR2 | DDR3 | Intel | memoryPlatform | Mobile | NVIDIA | Prepare | Processors | Single-chip
- Leave a Comment
NVIDIA is ready to deliver on last week’s promise
When we think of notebook computers which use Intel Pentium Dual Core, Core 2 Solo, or Core 2 Duo processors, the systems are usually paired with an Intel Northbridge and Southbridge. Intel hopes to carry on this tradition with its Centrino 2 platform which is slated to launch during the summer.
NVIDIA, however, has plans of its own when it comes to mobile platforms for Intel-based notebooks. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang recently called Intel out on its integrated desktop/mobile graphics performance. Huang even went so far as to say that NVIDIA would “open a can of whoop ass” when it comes to its upcoming products.
It appears that NVIDIA’s first few cans of “whoop ass” are just now leaving the factory and they are labeled MCP79. MCP79 is a new single-chip integrated chipset for “small form factor” notebooks according to NVIDIA. Each variant of MCP79 incorporates a DX10-capable GeForce graphics controller supporting Shader Model 4.0, NVIDIA’s VP3 video processor, and support for Hybrid Power/Hybrid SLI/Hybrid Performance.
In addition, MCP79 features a single-channel TMDS interface for HDMI 1.2, support for a 1066 MHz FSB, 800 MHz DDR2, 1333 MHz DDR3 memory support, 3 Gbps SATA/eSATA, NVIDIA DriveCache (similar to Intel Turbo Memory), an NVIDIA GbE controller, High Definition Audio, TPM 1.2, and up to 20 PCIe 2.0 lanes.
NVIDIA has plans for six members of the MCP79 family. On the low-end, the MCP79ML lacks such features as RAID 0/1, PCIe x16, DisplayCache, and DriveCache. The MCP79GLM will feature a Quadro-based graphics controller instead of GeForce and the MCP79-SLI will support NVIDIA SLI as its name implies. Other members of the family include the MCP79MH, MCP79MX, and MCP79MVL.
NVIDIA’s MCP79 family will be going toe-to-toe with Intel’s Centrino 2 platform (Montevina) in June. Montevina Northbridges will include the integrated GM45/GM47 and the discrete PM45. The integrated Northbridges will incorporate Intel’s new X4500 HD graphics processor (DX10, HDMI, DisplayPort) which NVIDIA doesn’t think too highly of at this point in time. Like NVIDIA’s MCP79, Centrino 2 chipset will support DDR2/DDR3 memory and support FSB’s up to 1066MHz.
- In: Consumer | Crunchbase | graphics chips | Hand | hardware | Intel | Mashups | motherboards | network cards
- Leave a Comment
Intel is releasing into public beta today a new “experimental” product from its labs called Mash Maker
. It’s a browser plugin – most functional with Firefox but also available for Internet Explorer – that lets end user create their own mashups on top of existing websites.
The idea of a mashup, while very central to the movement we call Web 2.0, has always struck me as an overly techie concept. And Intel’s Mash Maker doesn’t do much to change that, even though it tries to bring mashups more mainstream.
What’s a mashup? Simply a combination of data from disparate sources into one presentation. Web 2.0 sites mash up data all the time without asking their users to do much. Problems only seem to arise when when users are required to link data together in manual, custom ways.
There are other places on the web where Intel likes to highlight its mashups, such as Expedia where a “leg room” mashup will show you how much estimated leg room you’d have on each search results flight. You can also pull up Yelp reviews when flipping through Craigslist.
But much of the web is like the Wild West and there are no premade mashups yet. That’s where presumably you are expected to come up with your own. And Intel has provided all the options you need to make a mashup from right within the browser extension. But honestly, the vast majority of users are going to have no clue or desire to learn how to make mashups with it. This is where the idea of an end user mashup program falls short, and it’s same the reason you’ll never hear your (normal) friends mention how they stayed up all night playing with Yahoo Pipes.
| Website: | www.intel.com |
Intel is best known for producing the microprocessors found in many personal computers. The company also makes a range of other hardware including network cards, motherboards, and graphics chips. Learn More
Valleywag - valleywag.wordpress.com 
Recent Comments