So you’ve decided to buy an SSD (or solid-state drive)! Good for you. Very suave. SSDs have been the latest craze among PC owners seeking to enhance the overall performance and user experience of their current PCs. PC owners are … Read more
Back in March I shared some thoughts about my time visiting the teachers and students of St. Paul Academy. We now have some footage of the classmate PCs in action at St. Paul Academy, including reactions from some of the … Read more
So it has been awhile since my last Blog update, but I am hoping to change that this year. To kick things off this year, I wanted to talk about a real world deployment of classmate PCs and 1:1 learning … Read more
Ahead of what will be a packed Intel Developer Forum, Sept. 22-24 in San Francisco, here’s some news around a newly planned family of future “embedded” processors for non-PC equipment and gear code-named Jasper Forest — and details around our … Read more
As a Portland, Oregon resident and Intel employee, I’ve been lucky enough to experience wireless 4G WiMAX Internet broadband, as well as speak with others who are amazed by its speed, availability, and their overall experience. What I find most … 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
Since the turn of the millennium, I’ve seen advances in chip manufacturing processes — from circuitry measuring 180 nanometers to 130 to 90 to 65 to 45 and now 32nm — and new architectural designs in between. Every time a … Read more
Roman aqueducts brought life sustaining water to major cities and areas vital to the Empire. Many consider the aqueducts one of the most important engineering feats in the past 2,000 years. I wonder what they’ll say about WiMAX? I’ve been … Read more
Many people had asked when the first Nehalem-based processors were going to be available. For those who have been watching, Intel confirmed today that the initial processors based on this new architecture began shipping to customers in Q3, and we … Read more
BenQ’s MID S6 with Intel Atom processor is now available in Italy, and last week many of my friends were asking: Have you seen it? Well, yes and no. I’ve seen the BenQ before, but not the whole Italian package. … Read more
