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LATEST NEWS 2:11 PM PDT Monday Intel ships billionth chipRemember the 8086? That was Intel Corp.'s first microprocessor for personal computers in 1978, back when a "hand-held" was a transistor radio, computers were immobile mainframes, and the Internet was a project by a handful of research scientists. A quarter-century later, Intel has shipped its 1 billionth computer chip, according to figures compiled by semiconductor industry analyst firm Mercury Research and verified by Intel. "From the 8086 to today's Intel Pentium 4 processor, Intel Xeon and Intel Centrino mobile technology, the Intel architecture has brought the benefits of digital intelligence...

June 5, 2003 The Bush administration has a grave problem in the matter of the weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Jim Lacey, a Time correspondent embedded with the l0lst Airborne Division, summarizes his analysis in National Review. He writes that "there are some simple truths that many seem to be forgetting: (l) At one time, Saddam had an extensive WMD program and enough chemical weapons and toxins to annihilate the eastern United States; (2) in the past, he used those weapons against his enemies, internal and external; and (3) he was an aggressive dictator who tortured and massacred his own...

Microsoft, Intel and IP to Bring Changing of the Guard in VOD Server MarketsCompanies that make Distributable Servers are expected to take over the VOD server market with lower cost points and smaller form factors.In-Stat/MDR Research HighlightMay 19, 2003With Video On Demand (VOD), Subscription Video On Demand (S-VOD), Network Personal Video Recorders (N-PVR), and "Anything On Demand" (X-VOD) all being made ready for wide spread deployment by service providers throughout the world, the market for VOD Servers is heating up, reports In-Stat/MDR (http://www.instat.com). The high-tech market research firm expects that efforts on the part of Concurrent Computer Corporation, SeaChange International,...

Article origin: http://www.nybooks.com/authors/277 Note: this article serves as a place holder since Charlie Rose's Andy Grove interview transcript isn't available yet. The two of them discussed Paul Kennedy's "Rise and Fall" at one point.Paul Kennedy Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale is the author and editor of fifteen books, including The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and Preparing for the Twenty-First Century. (November 2002) November 7, 2002: The Modern MachiavelliThe Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John J. MearsheimerNo Virtue Like Necessity: Realist Thought in International...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The leader of Portland's biggest mosque sits on the board of an Islamic charity that's being investigated for terrorist links, federal tax records show. The Oregonian reported Tuesday that Alaa M. Abunijem has served on a three-person board in charge of the Michigan-based Islamic Assembly of North America since at least 1999, according to federal documents reviewed by the Portland newspaper. An FBI agent testified in an Idaho federal court last week that the bureau's evidence "clearly points" to the Islamic Assembly's role in promoting terrorism. Abunijem and other directors of the Islamic Assembly have not...

<p>Just caught this update on Gretas show, and that Aziz may have some information on the Captains location.</p> <p>CBS Radio had said that Saddam may have taken Scott to North Tikrit or Syria.</p>

PORTLAND — Federal prosecutors on Monday (April 28) charged a former Intel Corp. engineer with allegedly conspiring to aid Al Qaeda and the Taliban, as part of a move to “levy war” against the United States, according to a report in the San Jose Mercury News on Tuesday (April 29). The ex-Intel engineer, Maher “Mike” Hawash, was arrested in March and has been held by the U.S. government without charge as part of what the report called a “secret investigation.” Hawash, 38, a U.S. citizen of Arab descent, worked for Intel from 1992 to 2001, when he was laid off....

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?'