The future of WiMAX should be assured. After all, Intel has poured billions into WiMAX, from chipsets to investments in service providers. But the question, of course, is why. Intel is a chip company, and is always looking for high-volume opportunities to sell vast numbers of chips. Shouldn't, therefore, Intel remain relatively agnostic when it comes to next-generation developments? Perhaps Intel originally thought that WiMAX would achieve critical mass well in advance of LTE, and thus LTE would be no more than a runner up. That's clearly not the case, and there's evidence now that Intel realizes this. Intel CEO Paul Otellini has said that WiMAX is spurring the development of LTE, and that's a good thing. Sean Moloney, who spearheaded WiMAX development at Intel, says he'd like to see the harmonization of WiMAX and LTE. That won't happen anytime soon, but why would he make such a suggestion? Scott Richardson, Chief Strategy Officer for Clearwire, made a similar suggestion today, by the way, during a WiMAX Webcast announcing an intellectual-property consortium.
Monday, June 16, 2008
wat is intel thinking?
Intel will shortly announce its long-awaited "Montevina" Centrino chipset that includes WiMAX functionality. While this is an obvious direction for Intel to go, I'm left scratching my head a little over this one. I have never advocated buying a notebook with a built-in WWAN adapter; that's just too much of a lock-in to a network that might not be the right choice everywhere - and you get to pay for it with hefty monthly charges whether it works for you or not. In the case of WiMAX, which will have only limited commercial availability this year, such a lock-in would be counterproductive for those who travel beyond an area with service availability. Ultimately, it will be critical mass that determines the success of 4G technologies - enough availability in enough places to convince potential customers to make the investment and commitment.
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
INTRODUCTION OF INTEL
Intel Corporation (“Intel”) is a leading technological manufacturer
that largely can be credited with many of today’s technological advances,
innovations and developments – it hardly can be accused of seeking to curb
the growth of the Internet or computer technology. Indeed, these
developments have greatly enhanced the American economy, as well as
provided Americans with increased access to information. The
memberships of the Labor Policy Association, Inc. (“LPA”), the United
States Chamber of Commerce (the “Chamber”) and the California Chamber
of Commerce (the “Cal Chamber”) (collectively, “Business Amici”) are
comprised of businesses, organizations and employers that benefit from
these advancements and rely upon them to remain competitive in the global
economy. Appellant, Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi (“Hamidi”), and other
Amici1 have acknowledged the importance of email to American industry
and society in their various letters and briefs.
Simultaneously, however, American businesses, organizations and
employers have a vested interest in protecting the billions of dollars of
technological properties they purchase and maintain, and for which they
ultimately may be liable in the event of abuse.
Although Hamidi and Defendant Amici gloomily
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INTEL ABSTRACT
The Intel® Core™ Duo processor is a new member of the Intel® mobile processor product line. It is the first Intel® mobile microarchitecture that uses CMP (Core Multi-Processor; i.e., multi cores on die) technology. Targeted to the market of general-purpose mobile systems, the Intel Core Duo core was built to achieve high performance, while consuming low power and fitting into different thermal envelopes.
In order to achieve the required performance, a CMP-based microarchitecture was designed to achieve power-efficient architecture, each performance improvement was evaluated against the power cost, and only the power-efficient performance features were implemented.
On top of that, special hardware mechanisms were added to better control the static and the dynamic power consumption. As a result, the Intel Core Duo processor provides higher performance in the same form factors without needing to increase the cooling capability.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
INTEL AND AMD
The argument over an AMD CPU versus an Intel CPU and which has a higher functionality is currently raging. Simply two years ago this was not even a question. Anyone would tell you that the Intel CPU won the speed and complex algorithm war with AMD CPU's without question. Fast-forward to today and Intel is now playing catch-up to the latest in AMD technologies.
Intel played marketing games with their CPU's pricing them high and touting the functionality that they posses as cutting edge. AMD started out as the cheap alternative CPU manufacturer for computer brands such as e-Machines and low-end Compaqs. From the beginning, AMD CPU's were fighting an uphill battle to catch up with the technology in the Intel CPU. As the years have progressed, AMD has progressed.
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AMD
AMD, long the oppressed rebel force in the chip industry, managed to launch an attack on the Intel Death Star with the introduction of its 64-bit Opteron processors in 2003.
Opteron ran 64-bit applications and legacy 32-bit applications without the drag on performance noted in Intel's Itanium processors. AMD upped the ante further in 2005 with the introduction of its first dual-core Opteron processors that doubled the performance of single-core Opterons.
The first chink in Intel's armor appeared in the second quarter of that year when, as Mercury Research reported, Intel's market share slipped to 82.5 %, from 82.8 % in the year ago quarter, while AMD's inched up to 15.7 % from 15.6 %
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INTEL VS AMD
Perspective’s review of the 780G+Athlon 4850e combo. There’s a lot of interesting details down there. For example the differences between hybrid SLI and hybrid Crossfire – something had to be different, innit? It also shows the difference between Intel and AMD’s power efficiency designs. Some stats thrown in for good measure too – however Intel’s upcoming G45 should upset this AMD advantage. 2008 is shaping up to be quite the Mexican stand-off
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