Nokia was the wrong partner to have picked Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini is laying the blame for the company’s late launch of smartphone processors at the feet of Nokia. According to Intel “In hindsight, Nokia was the wrong partner to have picked”. Ouch! Otelleni has promised his investors that Intel chips would be powering smartphones [...]

New Intel chips for tablet and smartphone San Francisco – The world’s largest chip maker Intel has developed a new technology making more semiconductors can be crammed on a chip and a chip so small anymore. That made the U.S. company announced Wednesday. The new chip that can be made thereby, Intel hopes to get [...]

Cap Gemini And Intel to develop Tablet Household Energy-Management Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) – Cap Gemini SA and Intel Corp. will offer a home energy-management system to consumers and utilities as the French and U.S. partners seek to beat rivals onto the market for power-saving upgrades to electric grids. Cap Gemini, Europe’s largest computer-services company, and [...]

Intel plans Itanium with 3.1 billion transistors The International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is traditionally devoted to presentations and lectures on the latest chip products. In February 2011, the next edition and the program shows that eight sessions related to new processors. So IBM will leave details of its 5.2 GHz Z196 processor and [...]

Review : Intel Core i5 655K One of a pair of new K Series processors aimed at overclocking addicts, the Intel Core i5 665K’s stand out feature is an unlocked CPU multiplier. Previously only found on ultra expensive Intel Extreme Edition models, an unlocked multiplier allows for CPU overclocking without stressing other parts of the [...]

Intel is to buy German chipmaker Infineon’s wireless unit for $1.4 billion (Reuters) – Intel is to buy German chipmaker Infineon‘s wireless unit for $1.4 billion, enabling the U.S. chipmaker to boost its presence in the smartphone market. The cash transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2011 and the mobile unit [...]

Intel to Buy McAfee for $7.68 Billion Intel announced a definitive agreement to buy all of McAfee’s common stock fo $7.68 billion, in a move unanimously supported by the board of directors of both companies. The deal, which is part of Intel’s new strategy to focus on security as much as it does on energy [...]