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  • 19 September 2011

  • News: Weekly Wrap: Firmware updates, Thunderbolt gadgets, more

    It's been another busy week here at Macworld, and not just because of a steadily escalating prank war between editors Philip Michaels and Dan Miller. We've covered interesting iOS and Mac apps; Lion tricks and issues; accessories; Windows 8; and plenty more. In case you missed any of the good stuff this past week, here's a roundup of our biggest and best stories (in easily-digestible list format!) to bring you up to Thunderbolt speed.

  • Video: Video: Intel Ultrabooks run Sandy Bridge-based processors

    Promised in time for Christmas Intel pushed Ultrabooks at its developer forum in San Francisco last week. Ultrabook is an Intel trademarked name for systems that meet certain specifications for thickness, battery life and processing power for example. They're designed for people who want more functionality than a tablet, but still need something light and fast. So these systems are going to be based on the Sandy Bridge processor. Ultrabooks will come from a number of manufacturers including Toshiba, Acer, Asus and others. Intel has laid out its plan for processor upgrades for ultrabooks in the next few years. So next year we're going to be introducing Ivy Bridge into the market and that's the same basic architecture that we have on Sandy Bridge today but it's going to (unintelligable) to our 22nm process with those really cool 3D transistors that you may have heard about already. And even with Ivy Bridge coming next year, Intel is already looking to 2013 and the introduction of a new chip that will be even more power efficient.

  • 16 September 2011

  • News: Intel boosts laptop battery, graphics with Ivy Bridge

    Chip and system-level improvements that Intel is making with the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture will result in laptops out next year with longer battery life and better graphics, the company said this week.

  • News: Value of Intel-Google partnership on smartphones remains to be seen

    Intel this week promised that a smartphone based on its Atom processor will hit the market in the first quarter of 2012, while Google pledged to make future Android releases work on Intel's mobile chips. To analysts, the latest Intel-Google partnership wasn't all that significant.

  • 15 September 2011

  • News: Intel attracts criticism on ultrabook pricing strategy

    Intel hopes to redefine the PC market with a new category of thin and light laptops called ultrabooks, but at around US$1,000, their hefty price tag leaves questions about the products' viability, attendees at the Intel Developer Forum conference said this week.

  • News: Intel runs PC on CPU powered by solar cell

    Intel on Thursday showed an experimental low-power processor the size of a postage stamp that could run PCs on solar power.

  • News: Micron unveils its first entry-level SSD for blade servers

    Micron today released its first entry-level solid state drive to be used as a boot drive in servers or for I/O intensive read applications, such as video streaming in cloud computing environments.

  • News: Semiconductor market slumps as PC sales slow, says Gartner

    Worldwide semiconductor sales have slowed in 2011, and the market is on pace for a small decline compared to last year, market research company Gartner said on Thursday.

  • News: Intel's Thunderbolt with fiber optics years away

    Intel's Thunderbolt high-speed interconnect technology, which shuffles data between PCs and devices like displays and external storage, could be years away from getting optical technology, an Intel executive said this week.

  • News: Microsoft: No Windows Server for ARM

    While Microsoft is embracing the ARM processor architecture for its next Windows client operating system, Windows 8, the company has no immediate plans to develop an ARM-based version of its next Windows Server, the company executive in charge of Windows Server confirmed Wednesday.

  • 14 September 2011

  • News: Intel announces new 710 series enterprise SSDs

    Intel on Wednesday announced the new 710 series solid-state drives, which the company is pitching as a replacement to hard drives in enterprise servers.

  • News: Thunderbolt strikes at 2011 Intel Developer Forum

    Several companies are displaying new Thunderbolt-based hardware at the 2011 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week, giving users of Thunderbolt-equipped Macs new hope that they will finally be able to take full advantage of the high-speed connection technology.

  • News: IDF Day 1 Recap: Ivy Bridge, and the X79 Factor in Photos

    Did you miss yesterday's Intel Developer Forum announcements? Catch up in our day one recap--and read our previous IDF coverage here.

  • News: Intel hopes for smartphone breakthrough with Google

    Intel hopes to boost its business selling chips to phone makers -- now the domain of rival ARM -- through a partnership announced this week with Google to develop future Android OS versions for mobile devices with Intel chips.

  • News: Acer, Asus to bring Intel's Thunderbolt to Windows PCs

    Acer and Asustek Computer next year will deliver Windows PCs with Intel's Thunderbolt interconnect, which for a time was available exclusively on Apple's Macintosh computers, Intel said on Wednesday.

  • News: Anobit doubles performance, capacity of SSD using consumer flash

    Israeli start-up Anobit on Wednesday is announcing its second generation of SSDs based on consumer NAND flash technology. The company has doubled capacity to 800GB, halved the size of its circuitry and added a SAS connector.

  • News: Servers with new Intel Xeon E5 chips due early 2012

    Servers with new Xeon E5 chips based on the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture will become available early next year, Intel officials said on Tuesday.

  • 13 September 2011

  • News: Intel shows off tablet with upcoming Atom chip

    Intel on Tuesday for the first time showed working prototypes of tablets with Google's Android OS and the chip maker's upcoming Atom low-power chip, code-named Medfield.

  • News: Windows 8 on ARM to open up for developer scrutiny

    Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 OS running on ARM prototype tablets and other devices will be open for developer scrutiny at the software giant's Build conference this week.

  • News: Chip-level advances that may change computing

    Imagine a world with electronic devices that can power themselves, music players that hold a lifetime of songs, self-healing batteries, and chips that can change abilities on the fly. Based on what's going on in America's research laboratories, these things are not only possible, but likely.

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