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by Mike Zazaian November 3, 2006 - 12:19am, 7 Comments >>

In an effort to broaden the future of the Chinese technology market, Intel will spend some serious bucks to help Chinese teachers train students in IT.

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by Mike Zazaian October 25, 2006 - 11:52am, No Comments

After several months of regulation-jumping and board-voting-formalities, AMD has officially gotten the green light to acquire graphics-leader ATI.

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by Mike Zazaian October 23, 2006 - 7:15pm, 4 Comments >>

After moving from Intel Pentium III chips in the original Xbox to IBM PowerPC 5 chips in the Xbox360, Microsoft is now looking to control their own silicon as prepare to design the processors for the next generation of Xbox consoles.

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by Mike Zazaian October 12, 2006 - 1:04pm, 2 Comments >>

Defunct processor manufacturer Transmeta is suing Intel over 10 energy efficiency patents that it claims to have originated, and were used in over $100 Billion worth of Intel’s chips.

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by Mike Zazaian October 5, 2006 - 11:36am, No Comments

Rumors that processor behemoth Intel is looking to acquire graphics company Nvidia made their way through Wall Street today, with Nvidia shares jumping 8 percent in a matter of hours.

Notions of the acquisition have been flying around since July, when Intel’s key competitor AMD purchased ATI, Nvidia’s primary competition. It’s unclear as to exactly how the speculation started, but whatever the cause it seems to have been enough to stir up Nvidia’s stock to the tune of 8 percent, up $2.32 to $30.62 US. Bill Lefkowitz, an options strategist at New-York-based vFinance Investments commented, There is speculation that Intel will make an acquisition announcement tonight.

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by Mike Zazaian September 29, 2006 - 9:27am, 1 Comment >>

While Intel’s initial line-up of Ultra-Moble PCs never really came to fruition, a much-updated design unveiled at the Intel Developer’s Forum in San Francisco marks the product that was promised by Intel a year ago.

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by Mike Zazaian September 28, 2006 - 9:01am, 3 Comments >>

Intel CEO Paul Otellini wowed the media at Intel’s Developer Forum with promises of an 80-core chip within five years, the innovation of connecting memory directly to processor cores could have a bigger impact on computing.

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by Mike Zazaian September 26, 2006 - 2:16pm, 65 Comments >>

Intel has developed an 80-core processor prototype that it plans to roll out within the next five years.

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by Mike Zazaian September 19, 2006 - 1:10pm, 1 Comment >>

While the release of Intel’s upcoming Core 2 Duo successor is immiment, no details regarding the quad-core chip have been released. That is, until now.

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by Mike Zazaian September 18, 2006 - 10:02am, 8 Comments >>

Intel will announce today their creation of a computer chip that could eliminate bottlenecks by using laser beams, not electrical wires, to transmit data.

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