About the curious case of the Ipad and the feedback from Intel and Microsoft

“That tablet thing? Yeah, we’ll get back to you on that.” That’s the general and yet very precise mentality of Microsoft, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices  on the matter. Why did they adopt this attitude towards the tablet? If any it should be the other way around, right? Wrong. Here’s one somewhat obvious reason I’ll [...]

Where did all the expensive laptops go?

Not too many years ago, any laptop tagged under 900$ was considered to be budget machine. What happened? The average price tag for a decent laptop and computing experience was somewhere around 1500 to 2000$. Now people can get away with a decent laptop with a small price lke 700$ and buy a fairly good, [...]

Intel’s Atom chip to shrink to 15 nm

Intel already has a roadmap on shrinking the very popular Intel Atom chip, which is mostly found on netbooks and small devices, as well as tiny desktop computers, to 15 nanometers, according to a presentation given this week at the Intel Developer Forum. How small is 15 nanometers? One nanometer is the width across a [...]

Nokia & Intel partnership in research for 3D experience

Nokia and Intel may be planning to create 3D mobile technologies, so they joined together to establish their first joint research center. This partnership called Intel and Nokia Joint Innovation Center will have it’s headquarters in Finland at the University of Oulu in it’s Center for Internet Excellence . The main activity of the lab is [...]

Intel Atom N550 released today

The Atom N550 dual core processor was released by Intel on Monday. The new processor is to be used in netbooks as the market demands higher performances from these devices. Although netbooks were initially made for internet browsing and few resource demanding applications such as word processing, with time the technology progressed a lot and [...]

Eight-core Xeon processor to be revealed by Intel

According to Macworld, Intel is planning to reveal details for an eight-core Xeon processor next month, at the San Francisco International Solid State Circuits Conference. No details are known regarding the Xeon processor to be discussed, the program only revealing that the executives at Intel will discuss an eight-core, 16-thread Xeon processor manufactured using a [...]