Our story on Oracle joining Microsoft and Red Hat in discontinuing support for Intel’s Itanium platform drew a swift response from Hewlett-Packard, questioning Oracle over its reasons in pulling the pin on Intel’s enterprise platform technology. HP released a statement on March 23 in response to Oracle saying that it plans to continue to Itanium [...]
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The man who led Intel’s Centrino development and brought us the Atom chip has resigned, Intel said today. In a brief announcement, the company said that Anand Chandresekher, general manager of Intel’s Ultra Mobile Group (UMG) will be leaving the company to persue other interests. His place will be taken by two vice-presidents of Intel’s [...]
Intel’s processor woes earlier this year have come back to bite Taiwan notebook makers with major falls in shipments. The flaw inside the chipset’s SATA controller forced the chip giant into a worldwide recall, leaving notebook makers reeling. According to news website digitimes.com, Quanta Computer and Wistron, two of the world’s major notebook suppliers to [...]
With Intel and Apple announcing the release of the new Thunderbolt interface on new Apple MacBook Pros last week, the obvious question is how long before we see Intel deliver it on the PC platform. We asked Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer MSI’s local Australian office and a spokesperson believed that Intel “does not expect to see [...]
If you’ve read the news about today’s launch of Apple’s new MacBook Pro notebook series, you would’ve seen reference to a new port called Thunderbolt. Originally developed by Intel in conjunction with Apple back in 2009 and codenamed “Light Peak”, Thunderbolt is getting a run for the first time in the MacBook Pro range and [...]