Tag: desktop

• Intel Teams up with Open Labs, Lenovo and Linkin Park to Drive High-Performance Music Creation Last year, I had a musical experience of a lifetime. I was sitting in the the famed Red Bull studios in Santa Monica, talking with members of Grammy-award winning band Linkin Park. Star-struck, yes. But my focus wasn’t on their music or their well-known love of technology.   Instead we were focused Zayed Hassan, a young man from Bangladesh who had...
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• Unwiring the Last Bastion of Wired Connectivity: The Desktop PC For years, the desktop tower was a symbol of technological superiority — a pillar of processing power, storage capacity, and memory. In the past, everything that happened on a computer happened on a desktop tower. However, advances in technology have allowed manufacturers to replicate much of the desktop’s utilitarian power and productivity in much smaller, more mobile products like All-in-Ones,...
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• Upgrade To Business Class If you’ve had the good fortune to use a Cisco Telepresence system like I have at Intel, you can already see glimpses of the ‘Star Trek’ future of video communications. It’s a game-changer. And that’s just one of the cool features you’ll find on Cisco’s recently introduced Cius, the first business-class, collaboration tablet and desktop phone. The Cius is based...
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• A look at the future of the transistor from the Solid State Devices and Materials Conference (SSDM) I'm writing this on the plane from Narita airport to Portland as I return from  giving the plenary talk at the Solid State Devices and Materials conference (SSDM), in Sendai Japan.  It is always exciting to visit these device conferences to see the myriad of new options that are being discussed for next generation transistors.  Before I get into the technical...
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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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• Moorestown Drives Innovation in the Ultra-Mobile Segment The world of mobile entertainment along with always-on Internet is exploding, as consumers and road warriors demand greater connected experiences on the go. Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and smartphones are paving the way with advanced and highly efficient audio, video, camera and imaging usages, along with premium content delivery. Driving this effort, is the Intel® Atom™ processor-the world's smallest processor....
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• Reality Check – Windows XP Mode and Intel’s chips 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 will let you run a copy of Windows XP SP3 on your Windows 7 PC or notebook within a virtual partition...
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• A night of semiconductor history 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 that enabled the development and delivery of modern electronics -- including computers, networking, cell phones, PDAs, DVDs, and more or less...
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• Intel Embedded in Future Communications Networks with New Xeon Processors Click To Play For more information please see the press kit for the Xeon 5500 series launch, which occurred on March 30, 2009.
• Intel Asks Employees to “Go Forth And Get Online” Do you remember when Jay Leno took over for Johnny Carson on NBC's The Tonight Show? Of course in the scheme of things this wasn't the most pivotal time in the history of the world. But it did mark an important turning point in the show's existence. With new furniture and background, combined with fresh faces and musicians, this transition...
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