A tad late getting this posted, but I am recently back from St. Louis where I attended the 2011 FIRST Championships – April 27-30 at the Edward Jones Dome. For those of you that don’t know about FIRST - you should! FIRST … Read more
So, there has been a lot of noise around Sandybridge and Linux support. Most of the criticism has come from Charlie Demerjian over at semiaccurate.com. Now we at Intel like Charlie, we are fans and he does an important job … Read more
There has been some confusion online about Intel Insider. So here are the facts: Is it DRM? There have been stories describing Intel Insider as a ‘DRM’ technology. DRM means ‘Digital Rights Management’ and is used to control the use … Read more
I rarely write about topics with such vigour, but this latest video from a so-called documentary team is absolute and utter rubbish. There is no evidence whatsoever that the Intel Xeon 5500 processor can create the kind of data centre … Read more
When Intel launched “Nehalem-EP,” more commonly known as the Intel Xeon 5500 Series processors back in March, we pointed out that their energy-efficient performance and other attributes lead to a very quick return on investment – as soon as eight … Read more
So, there have been quite a few stories recently about support for Windows 7′s new ‘Windows XP Mode’. ‘Windows XP Mode’ is a feature that will be available with some versions of Windows 7. The short version is this: it … Read more
Below is a public reposting of an Intel internal blog written by Tom Waldrop – Intel’s Director of Issues and Policy Communications: Imagine, in one room, a group of scientists and engineers largely responsible for the advances in semiconductor-related technology … Read more
You’ve no doubt heard that Intel’s new Xeon 5500 series processors can deliver a return on investment in as little as 8 months when you replace an older, single-core Xeon server. You may even have heard Pat Gelsinger refer to … Read more
So, my first PR mentor taught me to start replies with the word ‘So’. This gives you valuable micro-seconds to compile a sophisticated and accurate reply to the daisy-cutter question just lobbed at you by the archetypal British reporter. Typically … Read more
Did you watch Pat Gelsinger’s IDF kenote today? He announced that the new 6-core Intel Xeon processor for expandable servers will launch in September, and has already broken multiple world performance records – notably the first x86-based server to burst … Read more
