Intel to pay AMD to settle antitrust lawsuit
Intel has revealed that they are now going to pay $1.25 billion to their biggest rival AMD to settle the ongoing antitrust lawsuit.
AMD had filed this lawsuit back in 2004 and it had become a legal nightmare for Intel.
This settlement also would now extend the cross-licensing [...]
Nvidia stops development of NForce chipsets for newer Intel and AMD Processors
PC Perspective has reported that Nvidia has halted development of newer editions of their NForce chipsets for the new generation AMD and Intel processors.
This is mostly due to their licensing problems with the microprocessor industry giant Intel.
Both Intel and Nvidia have [...]
Intel sees a huge market for Atom processors in India
India is a land of small cars and cheap computers. Netbooks are gaining massive popularity in India due to their low costs.
Intel is one company that aims to benefit from that.
The company said that their Atom range of processors can make computing more [...]
Intel Sodaville Atom based chips for Television
Intel continues to work hard to get an entry into the consumer electronics segment.
The company showcased their latest Sodaville range of chips that are based on their Atom range of processors.
Intel Sodaville chip range is designed to be used in television set top boxes.
The first [...]
ARM announces 2GHz Cortex-A9 microprocessor
ARM has announced a new Cortex-A9 microprocessor that would run at 2 GHz.
This processor has designed to be used on portable devices like smartphones and smartbooks.
The company aims to deliver the product by the end of the year so that devices powered by it could arrive by next year. [...]
AMD Athlon II X4 620 quad core processor announced
AMD has announced a new quad core processor Athlon II X4 620 which has been priced at around USD 100.
The company said that this new processor is based on the 45nm processor architecture. It has been designed with Windows 7 operating system in mind.
AMD [...]
AMD launches six-core Opteron EE
Microprocessor manufacturer AMD has announced the launch of their latest processor model.
Six-core AMD Opteron EE is a low power consuming edition of their six-core Opteron processor.
This new processor has been launched just in time for the upcoming VMworld show that opens today.
AMD said that this new processors consume just [...]
Dell working on Linux powered smartbooks
Linux is becoming a popular operating system for low cost laptops popularly known as netbooks.
Dell is one company which has been offering Linux powered netbooks in the international markets.
The company is now working on smartbook models as well and these would also be powered by Linux OS.
Smartbooks are powered [...]
Samsung and Intrinsity announces a 1GHz mobile processor
Samsung and Intrinsity have together announced a new mobile processor that could someday power the Apple iPhone.
This new mobile processor from Samsung is rated at 1GHz.
It is similar in architecture to the processor that currently powers the Apple iPhone.
Apple iPhone 3GS is powered with [...]
Psystar makes a comeback with a new Open(7) Apple Mac Clone
Psystar has announced that they are soon going to come out of bankruptcy.
The controversial company has also launched their latest Apple Mac clone.
The new model is named Psystar Open(7) and it comes loaded with Intel Nehalem Xeon processor.
The company said that this is their [...]
