The Ultimate con
Even if the Windows Ultimate team has fled to the International Date Line, summer is officially over. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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23.9.2007 AMD versus Intel, bye bye Intel
You may recall a few months back when AMD took out full-page newspaper ads to challenge Intel to a dual-core server duel. Intel declined to take up AMD on its offer, but the challenge got us thinking: what would the results of a dual-core desktop CPU fight look like? Many people equate Windows PCs with Intel Pentium processors (and soon will likely be doing the same with Macs), but we've seen dual-core CPU AMD systems power ahead of dual-core Intel-based PCs on more than one occasion.
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27.11.2005 Intel waiting for key update before going Vista
If it's not good enough for Intel, is it good enough for you? We're talking Microsoft's Windows Vista, which the chip giant's CEO, Paul Otellini, this week indicated has not won the backing of his technology experts.
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7.3.2007 AMD beats Intel in Vista adoption
Speaking at the Bank of America Technology conference in San Francisco, Intel's Paul Otellini was asked about his take on Vista and whether it could drive demand.
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9.3.2007 Intel, Dell hold off on internal rollout of Vista
Intel will roll out Vista internally only once the first service pack of the operating system has been released, and Dell is likely to do the same.
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5.5.2007 Intel CEO spills beans on Vista SP1 release schedule
Answering a question about Vista and its impact on Intel's earnings forecast, CEO Paul Otellini spills, 'probably October-November'
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20.4.2007 Microsoft dropped Vista hardware spec to raise Intel profits
According to an email sent last February by Microsoft general manager John Kalkman, the software giant lowered Windows Vista's minimum hardware requirements to ridiculous levels only because Intel needed to sell more graphics chipsets.
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4.3.2008 Vista to XP Copying Performance Slower with Intel I/OAT Enabled
One of the issues that plagued Windows Vista when the operating system was launched in January 2009 was the slow copying speeds delivered.
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5.7.2009 Intel going for a new logo(?)
The new Intel processor, codename 'Yonah', announced for the 3rd of January 2006, will according to X86-secret simply be called 'Core Solo' or 'Core Duo'. Depending on the amount of cores (no way! where did they come up with that). It's more than 10 years ago since Intel created ax X86-architecture CPU that wasn't called 'Pentium'. Machines with Centrino CPU's will also get a new sticker-logo from now on, saying only 'Centrino', without the real CPU name. The amount of cores will still be mentioned on the sticker.
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16.11.2005 Intel CPU bugs
Kris Kaspersky, author of numerous books on reverse engineering and software engineering, will be presenting hisKris Kaspersky research on remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs at the upcoming Hack in the Box Security Conference in Malaysia.
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15.7.2008 Intel boosts Atom
Intel on Tuesday gave the first preview of its next-generation Atom chip, with a more integrated design intended to improve performance and energy efficiency.
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20.5.2009 Intel Macs may boot XP after all
Reports spreading across the web that Intel Macs can't boot Windows XP might be inaccurate, reports Dan Warne.
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14.1.2006 Intel Supports Overclocking with New Mainboard
In a bid to further tap into the segment of performance enthusiasts, Intel Corp. has quietly released its Desktop Board D975XBX2 mainboard that not only allows installing three graphics cards (two in ATI CrossFire mode for improved graphics performance and the third one, possibly, for physics), but also can overclock microprocessor and set memory to work at 800MHz clock-speed, something, which was not officially supported by Intel 975X core-logic originally.
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30.11.2006 Intel inside again for new Google servers
Intel, armed with a custom-designed motherboard, has reclaimed Google as a server customer after a year watching the search powerhouse give its business to Advanced Micro Devices, CNET News.com has learned.
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27.1.2007 Intel Readies Merom-L Core
In a bid to make manufacturing of Celeron M 500 CPUs economically more efficient, Intel will introduce a shrunk-down core in the near future.
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9.4.2007 Intel Launches "Santa Rosa"
Intel rolls out the red carpet for its next generation Centrino platform.
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10.5.2007 Microsoft-Intel Capable Collusion?
Microsoft is going to be in a heap of trouble because of the Windows Capable lawsuitand perhaps Intel, too. Windows Vista Capable certification for the Intel 915 chip set may have violated U.S. antitrust laws.
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29.2.2008 Intel E8500 CPU Review
In the world of CPUs (Central Processing Units) and motherboard chipsets Intel is the number one manufacturer and is the platform of choice for enthusiasts in the PC industry since the launch of the Core 2 series outshined the top CPUs at the time it was launched and they haven't looked back.
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24.3.2008 Microsoft and Intel to Support HD-DVD
Microsoft and Intel on Tuesday pledged their support for HD-DVD, the next-generation DVD format created by Toshiba. Microsoft had previously remained neutral in the standards war between HD-DVD and Sony-backed Blu-ray, as the company's VC-1 Windows Media Video codec will be included with both formats.
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Intel to take 'Averill' to market as Centrino-like platform
Intel will next year launch its third branded PC platform, after Centrino and Viiv, this time pitched at corporate desktops.
As yet there's no word on the platform's go-to-market brandname, but it will almost certainly be based on Intel's 'Averill' platform. Averill was announced at the chip giant's Developer Forum in March this year for availability in 2006.
Averill is based on Intel's upcoming 'Broadwater' chipset, which will ship primarily as the 965 family, but also as the 946 and 963 product lines, it is believed. The platform also takes in Intel's next-generation Gigabit Ethernet controller, 'Nineveh', and its 65nm dual- and single-core Pentium D and Pentium 4 6xx processors.
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1.12.2005 Intel launches Xeon 7100 processors
Intel is fighting back to recover the performance crown from rival AMD with the launch of a range of dual-core server and notebook processors.
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4.9.2006 Intel Announces Quad-Core Processor
At an early morning keynote address to open the semi-annual Intel Developers' Forum in San Francisco, CEO Paul Otellini confirmed what hardware industry resources had already known for weeks: A Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor is coming this November for the enthusiast segment of the PC market, with Core 2 Quad processors for the mainstream segment and Quad-Core Xeon server processors soon to follow in the first quarter of next year.
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27.9.2006 Reversal of Fortune for AMD in Intel Case
The special master appointed to hear evidence from both parties in the AMD v. Intel antitrust case has recommended that Intel be compelled to produce documents for evidence that it had previously declined to submit.
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17.12.2006 Intels Extreme Processors Coming to Notebooks
There is no news that some companies and individuals install mobile processors into desktops to make them quieter and keep power consumption low, while other are installing high-performance desktop chips into mobile computers in order to run demanding applications faster.
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31.1.2007 Intel says new chips about 40 pct faster
Intel Corp. said a new line of computer processors due out later this year will be about 40 percent faster than current chips when running computer games, videos and other heavy workloads.
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18.4.2007 Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 review
Late last year Intel unveiled the worlds first quad-core desktop processor, stealing a bit of thunder from the amazing Core 2 Duo range. For a whopping $999, the new Core 2 Extreme processor would become Intel's new flagship product.
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16.7.2007 Intel 2-way servers to get 45nm boost in 4Q
The 2-way server market can expect a boost of holiday season cheer in the fourth quarter as Intel is lining up to launch 12 new processors based on its latest 45nm designs, according to sources at server makers.
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1.9.2007 Intel Centrino 2 chips coming in two waves
Intel will roll out its first wave of mainstream 45-nanometer "Montevina" Centrino 2 mobile processors by June then follow this up in September with additional chips including the first quad-core mobile processor.
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14.3.2008 Intel to show 8-core Xeon on February
Intel will give its first public look at an 8-core Xeon processor in less than two weeks at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the show's schedule (PDF) reveals.
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29.1.2009 Intel will deploy Windows 7 on employees computers
According to The Register, Intel plans to deploy Windows 7 on its employee's computers. When asked at a Technology Summit with reporters and analysts in San Francisco whether the company would wait until service pack 1 to deploy Windows 7, Intel's EVP and chief sales and marketing officer Sean Maloney said, "This time I think we'll go faster."
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31.7.2009New Intel Xeon Steppings on the Way
Intel has issued a new product
change notification
(http://intel.pcnalert.com/con
tent/eolpcn/PCN107467-00.pdf>P
DF), or PCN, to partners in
regards to dual and quad-core
Xeon stepping changes. The
stepping change brings the
dual and quad-core Intel Xeon
5100 Woodcrest and 5300
Clovertown processors to
stepping G0. G0 introduces
energy efficiency and
virtualization enhancements.
Stepping G0 reduces
power consumption during C1E
halt states. Intel does not
state how much less power
stepping G0 processors consume
in idle states except some
amount. Intel improves VT
technology in stepping G0.
The enhancements
include:
- APIC Task
Priority Register (TPR)
Virtualization
-
NMI-window exiting
-
Advanced VM-exit information
for INS & OUTS..
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11.06.2007ATI strikes deal with Intel,
delivers Xpress 200 IGP for
Intel boards
Chicago (IL) - ATI and
Nvidia remain focused on their
discrete graphics card
business, but apparently
expand their reach into lower
margin areas to increase
production volume: While
Nvidia is preparing the launch
of its C51 integrated graphics
processor (IGP), ATI convinced
Intel to use its Xpress 200
chipset on entry level
Intel-branded boards, sources
told Tom's Hardware
Guide.
Des
pite much media coverage of
the graphics industry is
focused on ATI' and Nvidia's
battle for the highest
performing chips, the
leadership in total market
volume is wrangled out on a
different field. In fact, both
ATI and Nvidia are trailing
Intel in terms of shipped
graphic chips by a wide
margin: Simple IGPs allowed
Intel to reach a 43.7 percent
market share in the second
quarter of this year,
according to Jon Peddie
Research. ATI follows as a
distant second with 26.8
percent, Nvidia's so-far non
existing IGP business resulted
in only 15.9 percent market
share in the overall graphics
chip market.
According to
sources, this scenario is
likely to change in the near
future. While Nvidia is
currently prepping its debut,
ATI has the Xpress 200 IGP in
the market for about 10 months
(7 months for Intel
platforms). As it appears,
Intel now has decided to use
the Intel edition of the
chipset for entry level
boards, most likely upgrading
the 845/865 AGP-based boards
as well as supporting 915GL
PCI Express boards. In either
case, Intel will integrate the
Xpress 200 in an
Intel-branded, entry-level
board...
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20.09.2005Intel Hexes AMD
While AMD stumbles around trying to get its first errata-free Barcelona quads out two years behind Intel, Intel is off planning the launch of its
six-core Dunnington microprocessor, a hex, if you will, the last of the expected Core 2-based Xeon server chips before it switches over to the Nehalem
microarchitecture capable of supporting eight or more cores.
Dunnington, a Bangalore-designed successor to Harpertown, is still
supposed to be relatively hush-hush but Intel has reportedly put three dual-core 45nm Penryn chips on a die the size of a postage stamp and sharing a
16MB L3 cache. Like other Penryns, Dunnington still uses a front-side bus.
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23.02.2008Microsoft set to release Vista Ultimate Extra games - free
Remember Vista Ultimate Extras? Well they are back according to Paul Thurrott, but this time they will be released for free in the form of two games,
Microsoft Tinker and Hold 'Em. Microsoft's failed Vista Ultimate Extras were a big promise from the company of "cutting-edge programs,
innovative services and unique publications." At least they were in Vista RTM, by the time Vista SP1 was rolled out nearly all references to Vista
Ultimate Extras were removed (shown below). Blogger Long Zheng called them the "ultimate con" at the time and in hindsight he was right. Microsoft
made several promises of more extras which resulted in the company launching UltimatePC.com which now redirects to the Vista home-page.
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11.11.2009The Ultimate con
Long Zheng: Even if the
Windows Ultimate team has fled to the International Date Line,
summer is officially over. Normally I wouldnt care what season it is in the northern hemisphere but today it proves this team is incapable delivering
anything and should never be trusted again.
Two months ago, after weeks of
pressuring for answers, Microsofts Windows
Ultimate group director Barry Goffe
finally
spoke out about the missing Windows Vista Ultimate Extras. As implied throughout most marketing materials including the
official website and even Window
Vistas own control panel, Ultimate Extras were suppose to be frequent and free premium products and services delivered to the customers who wanted it
all. And the truth is, customers are getting near to nothing. Although realistically not everyones equally upset at the lack of extras, some argue it
wasnt part of their choice to buy Vista Ultimate, which is fine but that doesnt help the people who did.
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23.09.2007Microsoft hones its Vista holiday pitch
This year will mark the first time that Microsoft and its partners will have a chance to make their pitch for why Vista PCs should be on your holiday
gift lists.
To kick things off, Microsoft is holding a Windows Vista holiday-preview event this week in New York, aimed primarily
at the consumer press (folks like Vogue, GQ, Cosmo, etc.) Windows officials are here to show off how far Vista has come in the year since the product
was released to manufacturing.
Microsoft rented out a loft overlooking the Hudson to act as a temporary showroom. Rather than
trying to demonstrate the whole connected entertainment scenario, Microsofts gone the stripped-down route this time around. There are no Windows
Mobile phones, no Windows Home Server systems, no Xboxes and no Zunes to be seen.
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24.10.2007Intel isn't saying 'no' or 'yes' to Vista completely
There may not ever be a planned, collective migration of Intel's company clients to Windows Vista. But as Intel told BetaNews today, there doesn't
have to be, since IT can make upgrade decisions on a case-by-case basis...
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26.06.2008Intel Enables Hardware T&L on G965
Intel has released a
pre-beta
for Broadwater G965 and GM965
chipsets that enable hardware
transform and lighting.
Hardware transform and
lighting were touted with the
Intel GMA X3000 and X3100
integrated graphics cores,
however, current release
drivers did not enable the
feature, despite Intel
demonstrating games running
with hardware T&L on GMA X3x00
hardware.
Now nearly
a year after the Broadwater
launch, users can take
advantage of hardware T&L on
G965 and GM965 hardware in
Windows XP. Windows Vista
users need not apply, as Intel
does not have the hardware T&L
enabling Vista driver ready
yet. Intel promises Windows
Vista hardware T&L drivers in
the coming weeks...
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19.06.2007Provision Plans Portable Virtual Desktop Beta
Provision Networks expects to enter beta testing of its portable virtual desktop technology in the first quarter of 2008.
Paul
Ghostine, general manager of Provision, put the same timeframe on the delivery of another capability he mentioned to Computer Business Review in
August: the ability to provision multiple virtual desktops reading from a single OS image.
Ghostine said the development of the
virtual desktop mobility offering is being done in collaboration with another company, Vizioncore, which is 70% owned by Quest and whose backup and
replication engine Provision is using for the purpose.
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29.11.2007Microsoft: No Vista on Intel
Macs
Microsoft confirmed reports
that at least the initial
Intel Macs from Apple would
not support Windows Vista,
telling BetaNews Friday that
its next generation operating
system would not support the
EFI boot process being used by
the new systems...
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11.03.2006Intel will deploy Windows 7 on employee's computers
According to The Register, Intel plans to deploy Windows 7 on its employee's computers. When asked at a Technology Summit with reporters and
analysts in San Francisco whether the company would wait until service pack 1 to deploy Windows 7, Intel's EVP and chief sales and marketing
officer Sean Maloney said, "This time I think we'll go faster." This is good news for Microsoft since Intel and many other companies skipped
Vista. The company's top salesman also sympathized with those who passed on Vista. "There was an excuse not to deploy Vista, because - rightly or
wrongly - people said 'wait for service pack X' or 'we don't like the compatibility issues." But this time, thins may be different.
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31.07.2009Dell adds new notebook PCs, Dimension desktop brand to be phased out
Dell Inc.
introduced new notebook computers on
Tuesday available in eight
different colors with advanced
features as it tries to grab a
bigger slice of the consumer
PC market.
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26.06.2007Was Best Buy To Blame For Vista Capable?
Scanning the headlines after U.S. Judge Marsha Pechman unsealed internal Microsoft e-mails in the Vista Capable class-action suit would lead you to
believe that Intel was the main force behind the botched marketing campaign. "Intel pressured Microsoft" is the main thrust of much of the reporting
on the eye-opening Vista Capable e-mail exchanges between Microsoft executives, including CEO Steve Ballmer.
But if we learn
anything from slogging through the 158 pages of electronic discovery, it's that Best Buy, not Intel, was apparently a prime driver of Microsoft's
decision to stamp many more computers with the Vista brand than it had originally planned.
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28.03.2008Victorian Government Microsoft's $23 million Vista patsy: consultant
While the rest of the world is shying away from Windows Vista and looking to deploy Linux across schools, the Victorian State Government in Australia
is behaving like Microsoft's patsy by side-stepping competition and adopting Vista in schools, according to a leading local IT consultant.
Con Zymaris, the CEO of Cybersource, a company that has specialized in the integration of Linux and Windows sites since the early 1990s,
says the Victorian Department of Education, is heading in the wrong direction by adopting Windows Vista in a $23 million deal announced this week.
"The Victorian Department of Education has again neglected the market, side-stepped competition by open tender and signed yet
another deal with Microsoft - excluding all other platform vendors, to deploy Windows Vista - an operating system shunned by the rest of IT
industry," said Zymaris.
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25.10.2007Microsoft-Intel 'Capable' Collusion?
Microsoft is going to be in a heap of trouble because of the Windows Capable lawsuit—and perhaps Intel, too. Windows Vista Capable certification
for the Intel 915 chip set may have violated U.S. antitrust laws. For more than a year, I've complained that OEMs shipped Windows Vista PCs with
deficient graphics accelerators. I never imagined that Microsoft was involved. Why would the company want to ruin the Vista experience?
But e-mails released yesterday (while I was out of the office at a Microsoft event, damn it) suggest otherwise. I was wrong about Microsoft. By all
appearances, the company colluded with Intel to qualify a knowingly, deficient graphics chip set as being Windows Vista Capable. Todd Bishop of the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer blogged the full text of internal Microsoft e-mails late yesterday. The communications were released as part of discovery
for the Windows Vista Capable class-action lawsuit.
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29.02.2008MIDs will run Windows XP and Vista, Intel says
Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) based on Intel's Centrino Atom chip package will be available with Microsoft's Windows operating system in addition
to Linux, according to the chip maker.
"The platform is going to be enabled for both Windows XP and Windows Vista," said Gary
Willihnganz, director of marketing at Intel's Ultra Mobility Group.
MID is the name that Intel has given to handheld devices
based on Centrino Atom that are expected to be produced in a range of form factors, with many using touch screens or slide-out keyboards. The devices,
which are being showcased at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Shanghai, are seen as a way for users to access the Internet and play media files when
they are on the move.
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02.04.2008Intel to unveil new brand to
employees today
Intel is scheduled to
reveal the details of its
massive rebranding campaign
today. But for now, only Intel
employees will be informed
about the ideas and reasons
why the old and familiar Intel
logo just was not up to the
task
anymore.
D
ropping the dropped 'e'
takes the center stage of the
rebranding and will be the
most visible sign for people
outside Intel that the company
wants to acquire a new image.
The Intel brand, currently
valued at about $35 billion,
is evolving, Intel told
employees that the new brand
"will tell the world in a new
way what Intel is all about,
and what the company
does."
Originally,
the name Intel was derived
from the firm's original name
"Integrated Electronics".
Later on, the two words were
combined and the "e" was
dropped to highlight the
separation of the two words.
At the time, the name
"Intel" was held by a hotel
company and was purchased by
Intel for $15,000...
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08.12.2005HD DVD and Blu-ray coming to Santa Rosa IGP
In the second half of 2007,
Intel's recently-launched
Santa Rosa platform will get a
next-generation DVD playback
option, according to Intel
mobile graphics spokesperson
Mike Choi. Intel will use a
third-party hardware decoder
to bring HD DVD and Blu-ray
support to versions of Santa
Rosa with integrated graphics
processors (IGPs).
Intel's decision to use a
dedicated decoder chip will
let the company keep costs
down. Instead of relying on a
more expensive discrete GPU to
do the decoding, Intel can
ship next-generation DVD
support with its IGP products.
When next-generation
DVD playback finally arives,
the Intel graphics solution
will be optimized for Vista.
Currently, Vista loses some of
the Aero effects during HD
playback on some non-Intel
systems, but Intel's
optimizations will let users
have the full Aero experience
simultaneous with HD-DVD or
Blu-Ray. ..
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07.06.2007Intel Core i7 Ships
Today Intel's next-generation Core i7 shipped. The new 64-bit CPU includes 4 cores, each with 2 threads, brings the memory controller onto the
die and significantly increases performance over Intel's existing CPU line. Dell Computer took the news with the launch of the new Dell XPS 730X
that now comes standard with 64-bit Vista and up to 6GB of memory. View: Wired: Intel launches Core i7 View: Dell XPS 730X
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18.11.2008Vista Holiday Promotions Announced
The consumer edition of
Windows Vista wont be
available in stores and
outlets until at least
January; but in the meantime,
the big holiday push is
proceeding on schedule, as
Intel, Microsoft and their
partners start selling their
new technologies...
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