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Newegg: Get your fake Intel CPUs here

This story is just too wild to ignore: It seems Newegg has quite a bit of old egg on its face this week after it shipped customers "counterfeit" Intel CPUs that were more like movie props than actual working electronics.

By Robert X. Cringely | 13 March, 2010 10:30

Tags: Core i7, cringely, Intel, pc components

Analysis: Intel, AMD end a bitter business and technical battle

The settlement reached today by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) and Intel may not simply resolve some of the business issues the two companies have had; it might even encourage them to cooperate on some shared technical issues, say analysts. In fact, Intel's $1.25 billion payment to AMD may, in the end, turn out to be only a small part of what the accord delivers.

By Patrick Thibodeau | 13 November, 2009 07:56

Tags: amd, Intel

ARM vs. Atom: The battle for the next digital frontier

For once, Intel knows how it feels to be the underdog.

By Neil McAllister | 28 October, 2009 21:50

Tags: Arm, Intel, intel atom, pc components

Hands-On: Intel Core i7 920XM Laptop

This morning, Intel has just unveiled its newest mobile processor. Surprise! Okay, not really. We've heard about this chip for what feels like ages. Well, today we're gonna tell you how a Core i7 laptop performs in initial tests.

By Darren Gladstone | 24 September, 2009 04:17

Tags: Core i7, Intel, notebooks, pc components

Rise of the netbook

The evolution of mini-laptops

By Jon Brodkin | 14 April, 2009 10:36

Tags: Acer, Apple, asus, dell, everex, Google Android, Intel, Microsoft, msi, netbooks, olpc, Palm

Intel, Microsoft look away as beefed-up netbooks blur lines

Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp.'s attempts to confine netbooks to the low end of the market to protect mainstream notebook PC sales have taken another hit.

By Eric Lai | 01 April, 2009 08:09

Tags: Intel, Microsoft, netbooks

Ghosts of Cyrix, PowerPC, Transmeta haunt x86-bound Nvidia

Experts have one question about Nvidia's public admission last week that it may offer its own PC processor: What took you so long?

By Eric Lai | 12 March, 2009 09:08

Tags: amd, Cyrix, Intel, nvidia, PowerPC, transmeta, x86 server market

MIT guitar combines acoustics and electronics

A prototype guitar built by US student Amit Zoran combines the natural acoustics of wood with the power of electronic processing

By Nick Barber | 18 February, 2009 11:34

Tags: processors

Mobile CPU buyer's guide

These days, even average mobile CPUs are powerful enough to rival their desktop cousins in every application other than gaming (and they're catching up on that front, too). That helps explain why sales of notebook computers are beginning to overtake those of desktop machines. If you use a PC for business or personal productivity, it's vastly more convenient to buy a computer you can take with you.

By Michael Brown | 17 December, 2008 08:59

Tags: mobile cpu

Multicore: New chips mean new challenges for developers

With the advent of multicore processors such as the Intel Core Duo, which is now commonplace in PCs, software developers must deal with a new wrinkle -- getting software to be processed across multiple cores -- in order to ensure the maximum performance from their software. But this is much easier said than done, with developers having to tackle issues with concurrency and potential performance bottlenecks. Already, 71 percent of organizations are developing multithreaded applications for multicore hardware, according to a recent IDC survey sponsored by tool vendor Coverity.

By Paul Krill | 05 November, 2008 08:09

Tags: chips, cpu, programming

Intel, AMD multicore chip sales may be slowed by software

Trying to boost the IT capabilities at his digital forensics company, Brian Dykstra invested in a quad-core processor-based server. After all, he figured, more cores means a more powerful machine that can do far more work than single-core systems.

By Sharon Gaudin | 25 September, 2008 09:15

Tags: amd, Intel, quad-core

Happy 50th Birthday Integrated Circuit

IC grows up by growing smaller

Four new mini-laptops -- which is smallest, lightest, best?

Like a diamond, a digital media player or a rare coin, the latest mini-notebooks are good things in small packages. By squeezing a lot of computing power into a very mobile package at a hard-to-beat price, they are turning the established mobile pecking order on its head.

By Brian Nadel | 17 September, 2008 09:50

Tags: ultraportable laptops

How to buy a mini-laptop

Mini-laptops are among the hottest new products this year and with the back-to-school sales season upon us, I created a list of items to help you choose the right one.

Forgotten history: the true origins of the PC

This year marks an almost forgotten 40th anniversary: the conception of the device that ultimately became the PC. And no, it did not happen in California.

Road-warrior conundrum: Laptop or handheld?

As handheld devices become more like full-fledged computers in their own right, the question of whether business travelers might be better served by leaving their laptops at home is again being asked by IT managers and end users alike. But that still appears to be more of a future goal than a current reality.

Taking advantage of multicore PCs

Call it the great multicore discord: a parade of major hardware and software vendors promising desktop applications powered by multicore chips yet all marching out of step, leaving confused software developers in the dust -- but times are changing.

Building a free computer from spare parts

Ah, the joy of summer storms. A recent one involving a flooded basement (a torrential downpour traveled down a chipmunk burrow that led to an otherwise enclosed basement window with a broken windowpane) and several staccato blackouts sent one of my neighbor's computers, as well as one of my own, to their eternal rest.

Birth of a standard: The Intel 8086 microprocessor

The release of Intel's 8086 microprocessor in 1978 was a watershed moment for personal computing. The DNA of that chip is likely at the centre of whatever computer--Windows, Mac, or Linux--you're using to read this, and it helped transform Intel from merely one of many chip companies to the world's largest.

This season's mini-laptops

A new breed of extremely small and light (2 pounds or so) laptop has emerged just in time for summer travel. Called mobile Internet devices (MIDs), and also known as mini-laptops, mini-notebooks, or mini-notes, these lightweight laptops are practically naked, stripped of all extraneous features. And starting at around US$400, they're far cheaper than other mobile PCs.