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Intel Corp., the world's largest chip maker, will invest $218.5 million in virtualization software maker VMware Inc., the companies announced Monday. The investment will give Intel ownership of about 2.5 percent of VMware's outstanding shares after VMware completes its initial public offering. An Intel executive also will join VMware's board of directors. The deal underscores the growing importance of so-called virtualization software, which allows companies to run more than one operating system on individual computers, in turn boosting the productivity of those machines and cutting overhead costs. Intel and VMware said they will continue to jointly develop and market products,...

A prominent software developer with a reputation for making waves in coding circles is doing it again - this time warning that Intel's celebrated Core 2 Duo is vulnerable to security attacks that target known bugs in the processor. Discussion forums on Slashdot and elsewhere were ablaze with comments responding to the claims made by Theo de Raadt, who is the founder of OpenBSD. Intel strongly discounted the report, saying engineers have thoroughly scanned the processor for vulnerabilities. In it he warns that errata contained in the Intel processor is susceptible to security exploits that put users and enterprises at...

Intel and Microsoft remain the closest of partners. But a sibling rivalry is brewing. In fact, Intel's growing investments in the open source community reveal five key trends that should worry Microsoft investors over the long haul. In its latest move, Intel Capital has invested an undisclosed sum in Centric CRM, a small open source application developer. Of course, this isn't the first time Intel has pumped money into open source. The chip giant's venture capital team has also invested in MySQL and JBoss (now owned by Red Hat), among others.

Space intel wars Defense officials say a turf war is shaping up that could diminish the capabilities of the government's most important space intelligence center, the Air Force's National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC). The Air Force center, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, was the key center in identifying China's secret anti-satellite weapons program and monitoring the provocative Jan. 11 test by China of an anti-satellite weapon. The officials say NASIC's space-threat analysis work is in danger as a result of a Defense Intelligence Agency reorganization plan that seeks to take the space-threat missions from NASIC, which...

On Wednesday I went to Intel's launch of its latest Centrino chipset for notebooks. Everything, of course, is a lot faster, but what caught my eye was a new technology embedded in the chips which, although aimed squarely at business users, would be a god-send for consumers. Take a look: Intel® vPro™ processor technology. IT departments will be able to reliably manage both desktops and notebooks and deal with what plagues them most – security threats, cost of ownership, resource allocation, and asset management – and do so wirelessly. One of the key innovations designed in Intel Centrino Pro –...

Mr. Tenet's account of all this gives the reader no idea of the substance of our critique, which was that the CIA's analysts were suppressing information. They were not showing policy makers reports that justified concern about ties between Iraq and al Qaeda. Mr. Tenet does tell us that the CIA briefed Mr. Cheney on Iraq and al Qaeda in September 2002 and that the "briefing was a disaster" because "Libby and the vice president arrived with such detailed knowledge on people, sources, and timelines that the senior CIA analytic manager doing the briefing that day simply could not compete."...

.. MD:.. I watched some of Tuesday's House testimony by former CIA analyst and head Bin Laden hunter Michael Scheuer on C-SPAN. *snip* .. he made a vitriolic attack on your work on the secret prisons story. His basic viewpoint could be summed up as "people are trying to kill Americans -- we have to kill those people and if innocents suffer along the way, tough." I did some Internet research and the guy seems to run with an odd mix of people -- including antiwar.com, a libertarian site that sees all war as a tool of state expansion. Yet...

The Latvian port town of Liepaja commemorated Monday the crew of a US aircraft shot down by Soviet forces in 1950 in an incident which sparked a bloody new phase in the Cold War.The deputy mayor of Liepaja, Gunars Ansins, and representatives of the US embassy in Latvia laid wreaths in memory of the ten-man crew of the US Navy Privateer reconnaissance plane, which was shot down by Soviet fighters on April 8, 1950. The Baltic states, which were created in 1918 during the collapse of the Russian Empire, were occupied by Soviet forces in 1940. They were incorporated into...

Intel is developing its own take on the mini-tablet, with a new ultra-mobile PC platform to be announced at this week’s Intel Developer Forum in Beijing. The big surprise? It’s based on Linux. Called a Mobile Internet Device (pic), or MID, the devices will have screen sizes from 4.5 to six inches with a target audience described as "consumers and prosumers" rather than mobile professionals. The MID2007 platform, currently codenamed McCaslin, will gain a more marketing-friendly moniker closer to next year’s release of the products. This is tipped to be an extension of the successful Centrino mobile brand, in the...

Beyond3D managed to get their hands on a presentation given by Douglas Carmean, Chief Architect of Intel’s Visual Computing Group, titled the Future CPU Architectures. The article has some really good info and over two dozen slides from the presentation. Thanks to Marcus B. for the link. Our shadow warriors have scored a copy of Carmean's presentation, and we've selected the juicy bits for your enjoyment and edification regarding the showdown that Intel sees as already underway between CPU and GPU makers. Comments

The 45-nanometer process is right on time, according to Intel. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip giant has created test chips made on the 45-nanometer process and will likely begin shipping processors, flash, and other chips based on that process in the second half of 2007, according to Mark Bohr, director of process architecture and integration at Intel. The test chips, produced this month, are static SRAM memory chips containing 153 megabits of memory. The chips contain over a billion transistors and are nearly the same size as test SRAM chips produced by Intel in 2000 on the then-new 130-nanometer process...

WASHINGTON, April 10, 2007 – The Department of Defense is establishing a home for human intelligence at Fort Huachuca, Ariz. Defense Intelligence Agency Director Army Lt. Gen. Michael Maples participated in ceremonies opening the new Joint Center of Excellence for Human Intelligence Training today. The center will answer a need for developing and exploiting intelligence from human sources. “Human intelligence within the Department of Defense needs a home,” said Steve Norton, chief of the Defense Human Intelligence Management Office at DIA. The home of infantry in DoD is Fort Benning, Ga., he said. “Where’s the home for human intelligence?...

BEIJING — Intel Corp. confirmed Monday (March 26) that it will build a $2.5 billion, 300-mm wafer fab in the northern Chinese city of Dalian. Fab 68 will begin construction later this year and is expected to go online in 2010, using 90-nanometer technology to "initially" make chip sets, the company said. Fab 68 will be Intel's first wafer plant in Asia, and is its first in 15 years at a new site. The project is a major coup for China, which is campaigning to move up the technology food chain and to clean up its poor track record on...

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AMD has the following notes on a transcript from the Intel anti trust case. Apparently Intel can't stop deleting e-mail. Funny. Attached is a court transcript from a meeting that occurred last Wednesday in Delaware between counsel for AMD/Intel and Special Master Poppiti after the hearing with Judge Farnan. After giving it a once-over, it seems to me that here’s where the most newsworthy meat is to be found from the 58 page transcript, in page order: Page 12, beginning at line 15 – Intel CEO Paul Otellini is revealed to be one of the Intel executives who is not...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- When Microsoft Corp. delivers a mysterious prototype for government testing this coming week, it will mark a crucial juncture for a high-stakes bid to change the way consumers get their Internet access. That bid has cast Microsoft and a group of powerful allies from Silicon Valley in the relatively unfamiliar role of Washington policy players. Microsoft's prototype, delivered on behalf of the group, is a wireless device that could provide the public with free and more widespread access to the Web instead of relying on networks owned by big telecom and cable firms. That breakthrough,...

Whether Intel suffers severe legal consequences for failing to save all potential evidence in Advanced Micro Devices' antitrust lawsuit against the chipmaker will depend in large part on whether Intel can convince a judge it followed best practices. [snip] "They're going to have a very hard time defending their process," Robert Brownstone, law and technology director at the law firm Fenwick & West in San Francisco, said. [snip] Intel acknowledges that ... a small number of hundreds of employees whose e-mail was deemed as potential evidence failed to move all messages to their hard drive, which means the e-mail would...

Intel Corp. announced that it will invest $1-to-$1.5 billion in its Rio Rancho, N.M.-based site to retool Fab 11X for production on its 45-nm manufacturing process. Fab 11X will be the company's fourth factory scheduled to use the 45nm process, with production in New Mexico scheduled to start in the second half of next year. Initial production of Intel's 45-nm products will be done at its Oregon development fab, dubbed D1D. The company is currently building two other factories that will use the 45-nm process. The $3 billion Fab 32 in Chandler, Ariz., will commence production late this year; and...

Here's the email I sent today to Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday: Chris - On yesterday's show, you quoted my February 11 on-air statement that my former office did not claim an operational relationship between Iraq and al Qaida. You then read from a Weekly Standard article and implied it contradicted that statement. I wish you had asked me about this matter before you aired it, because you wrongly attacked my credibility. What you quoted from the Standard was not my words. It was the magazine's interpretation of what it says was a document I sent to the Senate...

The Intel India Development Centre (IIDC) has co-developed the world's first teraflops research chip for building the next generation of high-end computers and servers to deliver supercomputer-like performance. The 80-core chip, which is less than a fingernail in size, has a powerful programmable processor that can undertake trillions of calculations per second - teraflops consuming only 62 watts of power. "The multi-core chip with greater computing horse power can be used for diverse research applications such as scientific experiments, weather forecasting, astronomical calculations, oil exploration, financial services, entertainment and personal media services involving huge data processing and number-crunching," Intel India...