September 1, 2010 9:52 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Small laptops aren’t necessarily getting any smaller, but they are getting more powerful. Here’s a quick look at the power-efficient engines purring inside the latest laptops from Hewlett-Packard.
HP Mini 210: there's a lot going on below the colorful skin.
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Hewlett-Packard)
The newest welterweight laptops from [...]
August 29, 2010 10:59 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Intel has agreed to acquire Infineon Technologies’ Wireless Solutions business for approximately $1.4 billion, the companies announced late Sunday, as the world’s largest chipmaker seeks to boost its presence in smartphones.
“The global demand for wireless solutions continues to grow at an extraordinary rate,” [...]
August 27, 2010 8:40 AM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Intel said Friday that its third-quarter revenue will be below the company’s prior outlook.
The world’s largest chipmaker now expects third-quarter revenue to be $11 billion, plus or minus $200 million, compared with the previous expectation of between $11.2 and $12 billion.
Revenue has [...]
August 26, 2010 10:16 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Hewlett-Packard will refresh its Netbook lineup next month with new Atom chips that bring dual-core technology to these mini laptops for the first time.
HP Netbooks to get new dual-core Atom chip.
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CNET Reviews)
Documentation on HP’s U.S. Web site (PDF) indicates that the HP Mini [...]
August 26, 2010 9:22 AM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Intel and AMD are off to the races again. This time it’s about making PCs not just faster, but more versatile.
The two longstanding PC chip rivals seem to agree, roughly, on one thing: the need to meld the two key PC chips, the [...]
August 23, 2010 10:53 AM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Intel announced on Monday the first dual-core Atom processor targeted specifically at Netbooks, finally putting the same number of processing cores inside these tiny laptops as found on larger mainstream laptops.
Acer, Asus, Fujitsu, Lenovo, LG, Samsung, MSI, and Toshiba, among others, are expected [...]
August 19, 2010 4:05 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Intel Senior Vice President Renee J. James
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Intel)
Renee J. James, senior vice president and general manager of the Software and Services Group at Intel, discussed Intel plans to buy security company McAfee for $7.68 billion in an interview with CNET on Thursday.
James is responsible [...]
August 19, 2010 11:34 AM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Intel’s $7.68 billion acquisition of McAfee is a good fit for the world’s largest chipmaker in a highly connected and increasingly security-conscious market, according to analysts.
The chipmaker said Thursday it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy all of McAfee’s common stock. [...]
August 18, 2010 9:04 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Global PC microprocessor shipments saw a healthy rise in the second quarter, though the outlook is cautious for the third quarter, IDC said.
Worldwide PC microprocessor unit shipments and revenues in the second calendar quarter of 2010 increased 3.6 percent and 6.2 percent, respectively, [...]
August 17, 2010 7:48 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge processors will include new circuits for handling demanding multimedia tasks, according to sources, more evidence of processor changes in store as the chip giant gets ready to shift over to a new processor architecture.
Sandy Bridge is Intel’s next microarchitecture, [...]