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SAN FRANCISCO, April 24 (Reuters) - Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) is developing new emulation software designed to speed the way its Itanium processor runs certain applications on server computers, an Intel spokeswoman said on Thursday. Intel has spent heavily to develop the Itanium chip in order to meet the needs of faster and more powerful software. The microchip allows servers to run both 32-bit applications, which crunch 32 bits of data at a time and comprise most of the software in use today, and newer 64-bit applications, which are faster because they process more bits of data at a time. However,...

Why Intel doesn't write stuff down By Andrew Orlowski in San FranciscoPosted: 24/04/2003 at 08:02 GMT What's the difference between hardware engineers and Microsoft - between the hardware guys and the software guys? Why was Microsoft caught in the humiliation of a four year hairball of legislative scrutiny, when Intel escaped without the public knicker-washing. A complicated deal was cut with the FTC in 1997 - at about the time Intel acquired the Hudson plant, and with it the license for StrongARM and the rights to manufacture DEC's Alpha processor. At about the same time, Microsoft was being drawn into...

AMD Aims Long-Awaited 'Sledgehammer' at Intel Mon April 21, 2003 06:59 PM ET By Elinor Mills Abreu SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD.N on Tuesday will unveil a new microprocessor designed for powerful and pricey corporate servers, part of a bid to crack a lucrative market dominated by its larger rival, Intel Corp. INTC.O . Analysts said AMD's roll-out of its first Opteron processors was crucial to both the company's financial recovery and its effort to force the pace of innovation as both servers and desktop computers shift to faster data-processing speeds. "For the first time, AMD...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Intel Corp INTC.O , the world's largest chip maker, said on Sunday it cut the prices of its fastest microprocessors for desktop and laptop PCs by as much as 38 percent on Sunday, following its regular pattern of slashing the cost of its chips in advance of faster models. The price of Intel's Pentium 4 microprocessor running at 3 gigahertz was cut 32 percent to $401 from $589. The price of the mobile Pentium 4 chip running at 2.4 gigahertz was cut 38 percent to $348. Intel last made price cuts in February. The cuts came...

Four days ago Warblogging reported on the story of Maher (Mike) Hawash. Mr. Hawash's problems have now been the subject of an article in the New York Times. Mr. Hawash is a programmer, working at Intel, who was detained by the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force as a material witness. He has so far spent just about two weeks in jail without being charged with a crime and without being questioned or told why he is detained. He is being kept in solitary confinement. Mr. Hawash was detained by FBI agents wearing helments, body armor and carrying assault rifles...

Reprinted from NewsMax.com CIA Derides Pentagon's Choice to Replace SaddamNewsMax.com WiresTuesday, April 8, 2003 WASHINGTON – The Central Intelligence Agency has issued a report claiming that the opposition leader airlifted by the Pentagon to Iraq over the weekend, Ahmad Chalabi, would not be an effective leader to replace Saddam Hussein because many Iraqis do not like him either. In a classified report distributed widely within the U.S. government in the past week, the CIA argues that Chalabi, a favorite of Pentagon civilian officials, and Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim, the leader of the Tehran-based Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq,...

April 4, 2003, 1507hrs MSK (GMT +4 DST), Moscow - By the morning of April 4 the situation on the US-Iraqi front showed a tendency toward stabilization. As the forward coalition units reach Baghdad they fulfill their primary orders outlined by the coalition command. During the four days of the advance elements of the US 3rd Mechanized Infantry Division have bypassed from the east the Iraqi defenses at Karabela and, without encountering any resistance, advanced around 140 kilometers along the Karabela-Baghdad highway and reached the Iraqi capital. However, the goals of this attack will be fully achieved only when the...

Geostrategy Direct.com -Week of March 11, 2003 United States Intelligence Sees Major Al Qaida Attack Triggered by Iraq WarThe capture of Khalid Sheik Mohammad has confirmed that Al Qaida is about to launch a major terrorist attack against the United States of America tied to the onset of hostilities against Iraq. The United States Intelligence community is furiously trying to figure out where.._Full Text, Subsribers

Here's yet another reason to be glad we don't use a Microsoft OS. The Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, headed by Microsoft & Intel, provides both hardware and software standards that will allow only licensed operating systems to run on a machine. This means unlicensed operating systems such as Linx can no longer even be installed on a TCPA-compliant system. In a not so distant future (2004) the TCPA hardware will take charge, when you turn on your PC. This onboard chipset checks the integrity of your boot ROM, executes it and measures the state of the machine. After that, it...

United States Spots Iraq Moving Missiles SouthFor the first time, Iraq has moved missiles toward the Kuwaiti border.The United States fears the missile may be armed with nonconventional warheads.United States Spy Satellites detected an undetermined number of launchers and missiles transported from positions south of Baghdad toward the area of Basra, Western Intelligence sources said.Iraqi military forces are also moving troops and equipment into Northern Iraq in anticpation of military action.Nine large rocket systems were moved from one town and concealed in a storage depot in the town of Diyala, where a dam is located, the Kurdish Newspaper 'Irbil Brayati'...

Officials said that the United States Intelligence Community has relayed information that Al Qaeda intends to launch an attack during the Id Al Adha holiday with 'soft targets' such as tourists likely victims.The holiday is marked by an annual Muslim pilgramge to the Saudi city of Mecca.Id Al Adha is expected to begin on Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims, including Gulf Arab leaders, have arrived in Mecca for the Haj pilgrimage, Middle East Newsline reported.Officials said that Al Qaeda could be planning attacks similar to those launched last year on an Israeli owned resoprt hotel in Mombasa, Kenya and...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is once again delaying the shipment of a long-awaited microprocessor chip that is vital to its competition with Intel Corp., Monday's Wall Street Journal reported. The chip, part of a new family that has carried the code name Hammer, was originally expected to be available in personal computers at the end of 2002 or early in the first quarter of this year. In September, however, AMD reset the delivery date to late in the first quarter or early in the second period. Friday, AMD said PCs based on the chip, formally called the Athlon 64,...

I was flipping the radio dial changing channels and almost fell out of my chair when I heard this!So is this the kiss of death for their credibility with their 'seal of approval?'

WASHINGTON (AP) - The music and technology industries, which have battled over consumers downloading music on the Internet, have negotiated a compromise to protect copyrighted works such as movies and songs without new government requirements, people familiar with the plan said Monday. The agreement, expected to be announced Tuesday in Washington, contends that U.S. laws do not need to be amended, for example, to permit consumers to make backup copies of compact discs they purchase or copy songs onto handheld devices. The technology industry also will announce its support for aggressive enforcement against digital pirates. Under the plan, future...

Developing: U.S. intelligence agencies have uncovered information indicating Russia«s foreign intelligence service is covertly cooperating with Iraq spy agencies....

Intel introduces the Centrino family By John G. Spooner January 8, 2003, 7:46 AM PT Intel on Tuesday announced a new brand name for its next-generation mobile processor technology: Centrino. The new chip family, which includes the processor formerly known by the code name Banias, was designed to help manufacturers build notebooks that use less power and offer extended battery life, along with better wireless networking capabilities. Instead of just giving Banias a variation on the company's well-known Pentium moniker, Intel decided to set the family of chips apart with a completely new name. A few insiders at Intel had...

OK, I have a computer that's about 3 years old and I'm very attached to it. I've done lots of upgrades and improvements over the past year or so and instead of getting a new one, I'd like to do one more upgrade.Having put in a Network Interface Card, doubled the RAM to 256K, installed a CD-RW drive and replaced the hard drive in my IBM Aptiva, I'm giving serious thought to updating the processor from a Pentium III 600 MHz to something like a P4 2G or something, and I have a few questions: 1) Do I need a...

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 16 (Reuters) - In a high-tech horse race to shrink circuits on semiconductors, International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) will announce on Monday that it is in the final phases to create a next-generation 90-nanometer chip for Xilinx Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) The new 90nm technology, which measures less than one one-thousandth of a human hair, can cut the size of chips by 50 to 80 percent, said IBM Microelectronics of East Fishkill, New York. Chips serve as the brains of electronic devices ranging from cars to PCs to networking equipment. However, Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) says it has bragging rights...

<p>Tech giants AT&T, IBM and Intel, along with two investment firms, will form a company to provide high-speed wireless Internet access across the United States, one of the biggest and most ambitious ventures of its kind to address the burgeoning Wi-Fi market.</p>

Truly remarkable results gobsmack us A SHARP EYED contributor to Ace's Hardware Forum has noticed that Intel is making some truly remarkable claims for the 3.06GHz Pentium 4. A demo on its site – it requires Flash to view – compares a spreadsheet calculation. That takes five minutes 39.9 seconds on a 3.06GHz Pentium 4 without hyperthreading while with hyperthreading, Intel claims it takes 35.58 seconds. [ Actually, if you see the demo, it is supposed to take the non-hyperthreaded P4 an even longer 6 minutes 15 seconds. (5:40 + :35) ] This is a remarkable feat and leads us...