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For those who crave more performance than what four processing cores and a single graphics card can deliver today, Intel Corporation has introduced the Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform. Formerly codenamed "Skulltrail," this is one of the first enthusiast desktop platforms to support two Intel quad core processors for a total of eight processing engines and a choice of multi-card graphics solutions from either ATI or NVIDIA. "When it comes to delivering innovation to the ultimate enthusiast, our new 8-core desktop platform is a winner," said Jeff McCrea, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Home...

Speaking at the Intel Developer Forum on Tuesday company chief executive Paul Otellini said the industry is on a new "performance per watt" course that will deliver powerful Intel-based computers that are increasingly smaller, sleeker and more energy-efficient. During his keynote address at San Francisco's Moscone Center, Otellini unveiled the company's next-generation, power-optimized micro-architecture for future digital home, enterprise, mobile and emerging market platforms -- and low-power products aimed at a new category of converged consumer devices. In the second half of 2006, Otellini said Intel will introduce the micro-architecture, which combines the strength of the company's current Intel...

In 1965, when he first set out what we now call Moore's Law, Gordon Moore (who later co-founded Intel) said the number of components that could be packed onto an integrated circuit would double every year or so (later amended to 18 months -- and recently amended again. In 1971, Intel's 4004 CPU had 2,300 transistors. In 1982, the 80286 debuted with 134,000 transistors. Now, run-of-the-mill CPUs count upward of 200 million transistors, and Intel is scheduled to release a processor with 1.7 billion transistors for later this year. For years, such progress in CPUs was clearly predictable: Successive generations...

Cell Architecture Explained: Introduction Introduction Designed for the PlayStation 3, Sony, Toshiba and IBM's new "Cell processor" promises seemingly obscene computing capabilities for what will rapidly become a very low price. In these articles I look at what the Cell architecture is, then I go on to look at the profound implications this new chip has, not for the games market, but for the entire computer industry. Has the PC finally met it's match? To date the details disclosed by the STI group (Sony, Toshiba, IBM) have been very vague to say the least. Except that is for the patent...

  No. 499-03 IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 10, 2003 DCIS Agents Launch 18-Company Search in Tech Transfer Case Joseph E. Schmitz, Department of Defense Inspector General, announced today that agents from the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) and the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) executed search warrants on 18 U.S. companies in ten states as part of an ongoing investigation regarding illegal transfer of military components in violation of the Arms Export Control Act.DCIS agents, working with Department of Homeland Security ICE agents, launched a multi-state execution of search warrants in Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, New Hampshire, New...