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• MotorWeek Pulls into Intel, Fills up on Atom PBS-TV's MotorWeek visited Intel headquarters recently. Steven Chupnick wanted to learn how the tiny, mighty Intel Atom processor can help automakers stay in step with consumer trends. He met with Staci Palmer, director of Intel's In-Vehicle Infotainment, Embedded and Communications Group, who talked about how computer technology can connect autos to the Internet to bring information, entertainment and even maintenance...
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• Why would a 32GB SSD cost more than an 80GB SSD? The landscape of solid-state drives is growing. Many companies, Intel included, have a growing portfolio of drives for sale. Various people much smarter than I have talked about how "Not all SSDs are created equal," but there's one fundamental difference at play that most technologists understand, and not all consumers do. In fact, it's a difference that's pivotal to the...
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• Contest: Guess Intel Transistor Shipments, Win a Great Prize! 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 the closest to the correct answer of 19,914,946,000,000,000November 11th marked the one-year anniversary of Intel shipping its very first processors...
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• News Watch: 08 In Review Following the Core i7 (Nehalem) launch yesterday, here are two places for those looking for the top Intel news announcements and achievements this year. The first is Pat Gelsinger's blog from a couple of weeks ago around what Intel's Hafnium-based, reinvented transistor and 45 nanometer manufacturing prowess has helped the company achieve.The second is this 3-page fact sheet just posted...
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