Archive for the ‘Intel’ Category
Intel Buys McAfee
In a surprise move Intel is buying McAfee for $7.68 billion, a whopping great 60% premium that will be slightly dilutive for the semiconductor giant initially. It is Intel’s biggest acquisition ever by a factor of three. CEO Paul Otellini said during a conference call Thursday morning that the purchase “transitions Intel from a PC [...]
Intel Plans Giant Co-Processor
Intel has started laying the groundwork for what it says will eventually be at least a 50-core x86 co-processor called Knights Corner based on a newfangled Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture. It says the widget, the first of a family of Knights, will create HPC platforms running at trillions of calculations a second without sacrificing [...]
Intel & Nokia To Create a Universal Mobile OS
Intel, the semiconductor giant, and Nokia, the mighty handset maker, have united to create a universal widget operating system good for phones, laptops, netbooks, tablets, vehicle entertainment systems, Internet-connected TVs and other still-unimagined devices out of their existing Linux platforms – an open source combination of Intel’s netbook-oriented Moblin and Nokia’s smartphone-fancying Maemo. They’re calling [...]
Two New High-End Warrior Chips Born To Battle
Intel and IBM both wheeled out their latest high-end chips Monday. Cute how they do that isn’t it. In Intel’s case it’s the two-billion-transistor Itanium 9300, a k a Tukwila, the device once known as Tanglewood, only about, oh, say, three years late – the thing has been redefined, renamed, tweaked and diddled so many [...]
FTC Means To Clap Intel in Irons & Rip Out Its Claws
Just about all Intel will be left with is its list price if the Federal Trade Commission gets its way. The two dozen far-reaching remedies that the US regulator is demanding in the complaint it lodged Wednesday for Intel’s alleged decade of stifling competition to maintain its monopoly and now extend it to the GPU [...]
Intel Aborts Larrabee, its First Many-Core Chip
Intel has canceled Larrabee, its vaunted many-core graphics retort to Nvidia and the ATI side of AMD, because it wasn’t competitive enough to best them. The chip, Intel’s first standalone discrete graphics chip and a test of its multi-core prowess, was already late, and hardware and software development had fallen behind schedule. Intel swears it’s [...]
Intel & the Incredible Shrinking Cloud
Intel has built an experimental fully programmable 48-core chip that it’s nicknamed the Single-Chip Cloud Computer (SCC) and means to build at least a hundred more to pass out to industry and academic partners to use to develop new software applications and parallel programming models. Microsoft, ETH Zurich, the University of California at Berkeley and [...]
Cisco, EMC, VMware & Intel Form Acadia JV
Cisco and EMC Tuesday kicked off a cloud-chasing joint venture called Acadia that includes VMware and Intel as minority investors. Presumably they took the name from the ancient Greeks who used the word to mean a refuge or idyllic place and not the uprooted and deported North American Acadia captured in Longfellow’s magnificent tear-jerker “Evangeline,” [...]
Intel Buys Wind River $884m
Intel is buying Wind River for roughly $884 million in cash, $11.50 a share, a 44% premium. The move into software will give Intel VxWorks, Wind River’s proprietary and multi-core-ready RTOS, and its commercial-grade Linux operating system as well as its middleware and software design and device testing tools. Wind River claims to be the [...]
Intel Starts Shutting Down Manufacturing
With demand sucking wind and an inventory stockpile still to sell, Intel said late Wednesday that it would shutter five manufacturing operations – two assembly test facilities in Malaysia and one in the Philippines as well as a 200mm wafer fabrication plant in Oregon and wafer production in California, a move that will affect 5,000-6,000 [...]