An Nvidia executive appearing on a local San Francisco TV show on Friday said that Intel is denying consumers the chance to use Nvidia chips, likely presaging more verbal sparring and future legal wrangling between the two chip giants. In a video posted on Nvidia’s Web site, Daniel Vivoli, a senior vice president at the [...]

Intel on Wednesday in Beijing is debuting an Atom processor designed for home tablets and announcing a partnership with China Mobile. Speaking at the Intel Developer Forum 2010 Beijing, Doug Davis, corporate vice president and general manager of Intel’s embedded and communications group, disclosed a future Atom processor code-named “Tunnel Creek” that is targeted at [...]

While I’ve always been a little scared of spiders, watching student Matt Bunting’s hexapod robot dancing has all but cured me. Maybe it’s the combination of the folk guitar and little leg sways in the below video, but all of a sudden, spiders (at least the robotic kind) look so damn cute.

It’s a pretty safe bet Apple will eventually incorporate Intel’s latest processors into its MacBook lineup, though when that will happen is still unknown.

Resellers are beginning to show a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion laptop with Intel’s more powerful mobile Core i5 processor, which will debut at the Consumer Electronics show on Thursday along with its lower-end sibling, the Core i3.

Toshiba and Gateway are early participants in the growing cavalcade of Netbook makers expected to stretch across the exhibition floor at the Consumer Electronics Show. These Toshiba and Gateway listings at a Canadian reseller follow Hewlett-Packard’s leak of its iMini 210 Netbook specifications. All three models from HP, Toshiba, and Gateway are based on Intel’s [...]

If the Apple tablet emerges as expected, this will be another big device market, following smartphones, that the PC industry cedes to Apple. The writing is already on the wall already for Microsoft and smartphones, as spelled out in a previous post and as documented in shrinking market share numbers.

Intel is launching the biggest makeover of the Atom processor since the seminal chip debuted in the spring of 2008, and consumers can expect a crush of new Netbooks to follow. As previously reported, Intel’s latest N450 processor and NM10 Express chipset–technology that had been previously referred to as “Pine Trail”–will be used in a [...]

Intel on Thursday previewed new Core processors and graphics technology that will become the pillar of its mainstream chip offerings. As reported previously, Intel said it will roll out new Intel Core i processors on January 7 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, including the new i3 chip. These will be based on [...]

The Federal Trade Commission’s complaint against Intel for alleged anticompetitive practices has a new twist: graphics chips. To date, the antitrust actions of regulators worldwide toward Intel have focused on sale practices for central processing units, or CPUs, a market over which the company has fought heavily with Advanced Micro Devices. On Wednesday, however, the [...]