Intel will delay the introduction of its highly anticipated “Montevina” Centrino 2 mobile chips due to technical and certification problems, the chipmaker said Tuesday. The initial rollout won’t take place until July 14th, and the next phase in August. Intel had recently been saying that the Centrino 2 mobile platform would launch after Computex, toward [...]

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Intel is to use its new Solid State Drive capability to bundle such a thing with its future Centrino notebook platform, according to Digitimes. The Taiwanese wire said it’d been told by PC makers that Intel will add SSD products to the Centrino 2 platform (Montevina), by the end of the third quarter this year. [...]

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It is reported in The Inquirer that supercomputer maker Cray has signed a multi-year deal with Intel to use its chips in High Performance Computing (HPC) products. Details are sketchy, with a conference call scheduled for later today US time. The two companies plan to explore future supercomputer component designs such as multi-core processing and [...]

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In something close to firing a torpedo at AMD’s already sinking ship, Intel announced yesterday that it would be cutting prices on several of its processors by up to 50 per cent. Chipzilla released a new price list yesterday, which shows that many of the firm’s going-out-of-fashion processors built on 65nm technology are selling at [...]

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In a surprise move Intel Chief Financial Officer Stacy Smith appeared on TV last night, and while admitting that earnings for the 1st quarter of 2008 were down on last year’s figures, took great pains to paint a picture of a rosy future. “What we’re seeing is growing strength in the core business in the [...]

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If you want to know which way the economic wind is blowing, watch the chip-makers. That’s what economists on Wall Street are saying. They believe that if you want to know which direction the high tech industry is moving, see what’s happening in the chip industry. That’s where the warning signs will appear of trouble [...]

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We understand from the Inquirer that Intel has opened up an online shop. The shop is featured on the eBuyer site and you can buy just about anything for a pc. There’s memory, hard drives, motherboards, processors and even, yes, AMD motherboards and processors! When you get to the site you have a choice of [...]

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Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang spoke at an analyst’s conference at the Nvidia’s offices in Santa Clara, CA, just a few miles from Intel‘s headquarters, yesterday. “The competition has been awfully preoccupied with our company lately,” he said, “I can’t go to a conference or read an article where they don’t talk about Nvidia and how [...]

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Hewlett-Packard unveiled its Compaq 2133 ultraportable laptop, which uses a C7-M microprocessor from Taiwan’s Via Technologies instead of a chip from Intel. HP says it chose the chip because it met the thermal requirements needed for the Compaq 2133 laptop – and because it was ready. This is a noteworthy victory for Via, a company [...]

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News coming out of the Intel Developer Forum currently taking place in Shanghai is of a new generation of the Classmate PC, which Intel is calling the “netbook”. The refurbished Classmate is designed to be an affordable and fully functional PC, rugged enough for the classroom and fully Internet operable. The classmate PC is targeted [...]

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