INTEL
Intel’s New MXC Optical Cable Uses Light To Quickly Move Large Volumes Of Data

Could we ever quench the human thirst for the fastest data speeds on the planet? It’s almost like data is source for a ‘hunger’ of sorts. Cool timing for Intel, who with the help of some partners, may make it … Continue reading →

 

INTEL
Intel’s New Xeon 7-Series Worth The Wait With Twice The Performance

Intel may be the world’s largest chipmaker, but that doesn’t mean they don’t hope to boost corporate sales with its first new version in several years, the new Xeon 7-series processor. This, of course, means a moving out of Intel’s … Continue reading →

 

CES - CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW
Intel’s New Voice Command, Jarvis: Bringing Voice Recognition Back To The Device

A quote I noticed by Intel senior VP Mooly Eden during a presentation at this year’s CES: “We need to add senses to the brain”. At the time I could only assume Eden was referencing the computer brain, and I … Continue reading →

 

INTEL
Intel Edison: The Tiny Quark Computer the Size of an SD Card

Intel just made their most important innovation announcement in years. Edison. This Edison isn’t a person, but it sure is a genius. It’s essentially a tiny computer crammed into the size and shape of an SD card. This means something … Continue reading →

 

INTEL
Mark Their Words, Intel’s Quark is The Next Chip on The Emerging Wearables Block

It’s true the company has yet to release any pricing information, but that's okay. After all, with the expectations from Quark to provide a budget-friendly alternative for smart wearables, and with the smart device market growing exponentially and constantly, we could sure go for a very affordable piece of machinery.

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
Intel Ultrabooks’ 40% Market Share Magical Mystery Tour: Parsing the Numbers

As materials become thinner, cheaper & lighter, mainstream adoption of ultrabooks will increase exponentially, as ultrathins become the new norm.

 

INTEL
World’s Lightest Full Carbon Fiber Ultrabook – Gigabyte X11, Andy Warhol, & Our Tech Friend Déjà vu

If it's thinner, faster, or lighter; it's either a fashion runway model, an Olympic athlete, or an ultrabook laptop.

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
$35 Raspberry Pi Linux Computer – Random Slices & Intel’s Nuke NUC?

Businesses, schools, & universities can deploy entire fleets of desktops for a small fraction of the price of traditional PCs.

 

AMD
Intel’s Thunderbolt vs AMD’s Lightning Bolt or Just an Open Source Standard?

Don't ever think for even a minute that the best technologies always win. They frequently don't. A gorilla at the playground can often beat-up the smaller, but very intelligent so-called "nerd". Intel may know their Thunderbolt will fade from the scene in the same way that FireWire has diminished, but it may still be used to keep the smaller "nerd" from getting a decent meal at the cafeteria. Right about now AMD could really use a good, hot meal.

 

INTEL
Intel, ASML Semiconductor Technology – Betting a Wafer Wager, the Chips are Down

The chips are down on a wafer wager, & Intel is betting on the future arriving a bit ahead of schedule.

 

AMD
Liquid-Cooled Laptops: AMD & Intel Water-Cooled Asetek Solutions

No birds were actually stoned, or shot, for this article. It's against our policy to actually "shoot-the-bird" on company premises, but we have been known to "give 'em Dell".

 

AMD
Ultrabooks vs Ultrathins’ Prices – AMD Kicks You Know What

Watch out for falling laptop prices: Walmart may want to take lessons from the laptop industry.

 

AMD
AMD, Intel Chips Power-up Ultrathin, Ultrabook Laptop Sales

You may be excused for momentarily thinking it's a train named hyperbole that's just blowing smoke, with boxcars full of metaphors. You've got to stop doing that.

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
CompuLab Intense PC Fanless Mini Core-i7 is No Raspberry Pi

Intense PC consumes just 8W in idle, yet both CPU cores can reach 2.4 GHz, and it is the most powerful, feature-rich, fanless, passively-cooled, ultra-small PC currently available.

 

AMD
2012 – 2013 PC Sales Growth Projected by Gartner Research

Gartner Research predicts a growth-rate for PCs more than seven times greater in 2012 than the previous year, and is forecasting even higher growth by the end of 2013.