Tag: MID

• Fitting the Full Internet Into Our Pockets Computex in Taipei got many of us got smarter and more excited about the mobile computing possibilities being designed around Moorestown, the next generation set of technologies built around the tiny, mighty Intel Atom processor.In "What Moorestown Means for Consumers," Steve "Chippy" Paine (travel sponsored by Intel) described it like this: "The new platform, demonstrated yesterday on a number of...
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• LG + Intel = Future Phone, Full Internet Device LG and Intel today announced a partnership to bring a future mobile Internet Device, or, "MID," that will offer phone capabilities, based on a chip we're designing for 2009 or 2010 code-named "Moorestown."What does that mean? Intel's Atom processor powered MIDs are based on the same blueprint, or architecture (often called x86 or Intel architecture), all of our laptop, PC...
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• Evermore Mobile Internet Devices at CES 2009 Before Intel Developer Forums and some of the bigger consumer electronics shows, I always try to catch up with Ultra Mobility man Uday Keshvadas to see what new gadgets he's packin' up.Just before the holidays as he was gearing up for the Consumer Electronics Show, Uday showed me his team's latest collection of Mobile Internet Devices, each powered by a...
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• A High-Five For High-K Reinvented Transistors Today marks a major milestone: the one-year anniversary of shipping the world's first ever Intel processors manufactured on our 45 nanometer process--based on an entirely new 'high-k metal gate' transistor formula.And what a year it has been for this manufacturing and uniquely-flavored transistor combo (more…)
• BenQ MID Out of the Box, Into Internet Action Italian Style 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. I did get to see some of the promotional materials working their way to Internet savvy Italians. Hope they make it to...
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• Tiny Mobile Internet Devices Hitting the Bigtime When in Rome, do as the Romans do...with MIDs!Imagine strolling through the Colosseum wirelessly connected to the Internet and sharing the experience with the world using the video camera on you mobile Internet device!BenQ booted up its Intel Atom-based MID this week in Italy thanks to the TIM network, and Engadget wrote "Let's get these out to other nooks and...
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• Talkin’ Mobile Internet Devices, Netbooks, WiMAX at IDF For me, the Intel Developer Forum is a place to witness real progress, talk with tech demo lab gurus and test drive new devices and services before many of them hit the market.I learn a lot about the engineering wonders being built into the latest chips -- turbo mode for the new Nehalem-designed chips -- but getting my hands on...
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• Online Communication Challenged No More! Lets face it, unless you have the time to really follow the technology space closely, its likely you have been left behind on at least one of the more recent online communication tools. Keeping up on texting to IM to MySpace to Twitter can be overwhelming and even intimidating. As a parent, it can be even more so as there...
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• Video: Sneak Peek at Intel Atom-Powered Devices Appearing at IDF Last September, just prior to the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco 2007, I met up with Intel's Mark Parker, who gave us a sneak peak at a wafer filled with Intel Atom processors (back then codenamed Silverthorne). Seeing a few of the prototype devices helped open my imagination to what these future mobile Internet devices (MIDs) could do.In March...
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• Ars Technica: Intel’s MID, Netbook, and Nettop Strategy "Atom is a major launch for Intel, and will undoubtedly leave its mark upon the industry." Read more