Interviews in Portugal with key stakeholders on the deployment of 450,000 “Magellan PCs” for students revealed that the project is so influential the students are now being referred to as the “Magellan Generation” – an entire generation experiencing education in … Read more
Intel recently described a 24MB 24-way set associative 8-ported 3rd level cache for an upcoming 8-core Intel® Xeon® Processor with design emphasis on high density, low power and design reuse. It features a 0.3816 ?m2 bit cell in a 45nm … Read more
The city of Pirai, Brazil has announced the purchase of Intel-powered classmate PCs for students enrolled in all 21 of its’ public schools, making it the first city in the world to adopt 1:1 computing for the entire school system. … Read more
THIS CONTEST IS NOW OVER. Congratulations to the winner who received a $500 Amazon gift card just in time to finish up his holiday shopping – Fenwick Jeffrey of New Brunswick, Canada – with his entry of 20,275,500,698,321,756, which came … Read more
As one of the Intel booth demo staffers, I had the pleasure of meeting hundreds of visitors to the Intel booth. The one thing they all had in common was a passion for Intel technology and the desire to learn … Read more
In an exciting CES keynote, General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner showed a dazzled crowd their automotive future. A cool new innovation he described was “Stolen Vehicle Slow Down” that uses GPS technology to pinpoint the location of a stolen car, … Read more
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts announced the transition to “Comcast 3.0″ that will give customers what they want, when and where they want it. “The consumer is king,” he said, not the content or distribution. He talked about a number of … Read more
Intel CEO and President Paul Otellini today in his CES keynote helped Smash Mouth’s lead singer Steve Harwell jam virtually with his band back home in his Mom & Dad’s garage. It looked like so much fun Paul offered to … Read more
There were many big automotive names in today’s “Connect2Car: The Automobile’s Convergence with Consumer Electronics” CES session including BMW, Chrysler, Ford, and Garmin. The panel discussed how to effectively integrate music, movies, GPS, phones, location-based services, automatic 911 calls, and … Read more
There’s a lot of excitement in the Intel booth after today’s announcement of 16 new Intel 45nm processors. A lot of visitors are interested in the 45nm Intel® Core™2 Duo processors for laptop PCs, which deliver even better performance and … Read more
