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Intel Products Bolster "Enthusiast's Year" Awards by CPU MagazineDecember 23, 2009
2009 was a great year to be a PC enthusiast. Intel won top honors from CPU Magazine for its Intel® Core™ i5-750 and Intel® Core™ i7-920 in the processor category, while the Intel X25-M 160GB Solid-State Drive was named the No. 1 winner in the Storage Devices Category. See what all the
Intel processor and
Intel SSD enthusiasm is about. Press and industry analysts are invited to the
Intel® Core™ processor launch event at CES.
Intel SSDs Cooler Than Facebook or Twitter?December 21, 2009
According to the December print edition of PC World, the
Intel X25-M SSD ranked No. 3 in the
PC World Top 100 Best Products of 2009, ahead of both Facebook and Twitter. According to the publication, "This model's speedy test results put it at the top of our chart; its price and performance make it a compelling flash upgrade for notebook or desktop users." SSDs, or Solid State Drives, are storage devices that can replace a computer's hard drive. Because SSDs have no moving parts they offer faster performance and greater energy efficiency and durability.
Everything Channel Names Intel SSD a Best '09 ProductDecember 15, 2009
Everything CHANNEL Test Center has named the 34nm
Intel X25-M Mainstream SSD one of the
Best Products of the Year for 2009. According to the publication, "The advanced feature set and more attractive pricing give Intel the potential to gain an even larger portion of the growing SSD market."
BSNL Unwires WiMAX in rural IndiaDecember 14, 2009
BSNL launched India's first commercial WiMAX service on December 13 to begin bringing mobile broadband connectivity to rural India.
Analysts predict India will be the biggest base on earth for WiMAX by 2012. Besides high-speed broadband Internet access, rural citizens can benefit from e-government services including bill payment, vehicle registration and issuance of birth certificates, as well as telemedicine, tele-education and banking services.
Happy Holidays Intel-StyleDecember 14, 2009
Are you feeling the holiday spirit yet? Check out the Intel Choir's rendition of the "
Twelve Days of Christmas" to help get you in the mood. Wishing you happy holidays filled with wafers, processors and technology galore!
Copenhagen: Japan tops ICT Sustainability IndexDecember 11, 2009
State of the art and well-planned
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) such as computers and telecommunications equipment can help reduce carbon emissions by up to 25% if applied wisely. This is one outcome of an
IDC report published yesterday in Copenhagen looking into readiness of G20 economies to apply ICT for better carbon management. Japan was named as best suited today and topped IDC's ranking. The report gives an in-depth country-by country analysis and walks the talk of reinventing ourselves as low-carbon economies.
Join Intel at the Copenhagen Climate ConferenceDecember 7, 2009
Intel will participate in a series of events to showcase how Information Technology can help addressing climate challenges. Media opportunities include: a
Green IT industry panel, the IDC launch of a Special Report on IT's ability to reduce carbon emissions in G20 countries and Intel's presence at
Bright Green, the industry innovation show in Copenhagen.
Intel Celebrates 20 Years in IrelandDecember 2, 2009
November 27th marked a special a day for Intel Ireland as it
celebrated its 20th Anniversary. A number of external guests, including An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen (Irish Prime Minister) joined with Intel Ireland employees to commemorate this significant day and reflect upon milestones and memories of the past 2 decades.
Intel® Leibniz Challenge 2010: Application Period BeginsNovember 30, 2009
For the fourth time, students in grades 9 through 13 can now apply to participate in the
Intel Leibniz Challenge hosted by Intel and the Leibniz University Hanover and supported by the Initiative D21. The contest aims to introduce young people to the engineering profession and arouse interest in natural and technical sciences. The registration period ends on February 28th, 2010. The
Intel Leibniz Challenge is part of the Intel Education Initiative which covers a range of education advancement programs for pupils, students, pedagogues as well as young entrepreneurs. The multi-faceted programs aim to improve the teaching and learning environment at schools, universities, and other educational institutions while providing access to the latest computing technologies.
Write a Haiku, Win a Home Server from Intel, MicrosoftNovember 18, 2009
Gadget-philes that need an excuse to flex their artistic muscle are encouraged to submit an entry to the Intel® and Microsoft® Home Server Haiku Challenge. The challenge, which asks participants to express how a home server could bring peace of mind to their daily digital lives, will be accepting submissions until December 11. All entries are eligible to win one-of-three home servers that will arrive in time for the holidays to stream and share photos, videos and music with family and friends. For more information on winning a home server featuring the Intel architecture and Microsoft® Windows® Home Server software, visit
winahomeserver.com.
Intel Cloud Computing Service Measures Multicore App PerformanceNovember 17, 2009
To boost parallel programming, Intel introduced a Web-based service that allows software developers to assess how their applications will perform on a number of multicore processor configurations. Powered by
Intel® Parallel Studio, the
Intel® Parallel Universe Portal is a cloud computing analysis tool that tests parallel applications, written for the Windows operating system, in multicore environments on an on-demand basis. The tool is currently available to members of the Intel Software Network through the
Intel Parallel Universe Portal at no charge.
Intel, IT Industry Collaborate for Taiwan Typhoon ReliefOctober 30, 2009
Intel Taiwan is working with Acer, Asus, Microsoft Taiwan, the Ministry of Education, Red Cross Society and Taiwan Association for Educational Communications and Technology to set up IT learning environments for schools and digital services centres for communities to support the Typhoon Morakot disaster relief. Through this program, Acer, Asus, Intel Taiwan and Microsoft Taiwan will donate a total of 4,500 notebook PCs, netbooks, and desktop PCs with OS and software to help expedite education and community rebuilding in the typhoon affected areas. The typhoon-devastated schools will gain support from this program which combines PC donation and teachers training courses for building the IT learning environments. The digital services centers at communities are intended to support the agricultural products e-marketing, tourism development, indigenous culture communication, and after-school education.
Intel Announces SSD Toolbox and Optimizer to Support TrimOctober 26, 2009
On the heels of the Microsoft* Windows* 7 introduction, Intel today announced the availability of the
Intel® Solid-State Drive (SSD) Toolbox with Intel® SSD Optimizer and
firmware update, for its 34nm Intel® X25-M Mainstream SATA SSDs. The latest tools are designed to help better manage and retain the out-of-box performance of Intel SSDs. View the
press release and read the
white paper for more information on the Intel SSD Optimizer.
Sun Solaris Readies for Nehalem-EXOctober 21, 2009
In a
new white paper, Sun discusses how the Solaris OS will take advantage of the next-generation Intel Xeon processor for servers with four or more sockets (codename Nehalem-EX). In its latest version, Solaris will focus on scalable performance, advanced reliability and energy efficiency between specific features in Solaris and Nehalem-EX.
Intel My WiFi Technology Supports New Wi-Fi Direct SpecificationOctober 14, 2009
Mobile computing devices such as laptops, netbooks, smart phones, or other
Wi-Fi CERTIFIED devices will soon be able to connect directly to one another in a new way, and at record wireless speeds. Today, the
Wi-Fi Alliance announced a new specification available mid-2010 for connecting devices without a traditional home, office or hotspot access point.
Intel® My WiFi Technology, the industry's first commercially available Wi-Fi PAN solution, will incorporate this new specification, enabling exciting new peer to peer and social networking applications. Intel My WiFi Technology with Wi-Fi Direct certification will continue to connect with the 100s of millions of existing Wi-Fi CERTIFIED devices.
