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Apple Hints at Launch of Nehalem-based Xserve |
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An Apple online store is set to take preorders of new Xserve servers carrying Intel's new Xeon chips, hinting at launch of the devices in the near future.
A notice on Apple's Hong Kong online store is offering to take preorders of the Xserve based on Intel's latest Xeon server chips. However, preorders cannot be placed as the link hasn't been activated yet, and customization capabilities for the old Xserve products have been disabled.
"Preorder the new Xserve with Intel Xeon (Nehalem)," the Web page states.
Apple does not comment on future products, an Apple spokesperson said. It is unclear when the servers would be released, though enthusiast sites including AppleInsider have predicted availability in a few weeks.
The upcoming servers could carry quad-core chips from the Xeon 5500 and 3500 family, which Apple has already included in its Mac Pro |
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Intel’s Atom damages AMD’s CPU market share |
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El Segundo (CA) – Each chip maker has basically the same business model, which is to sell more chips every day. And at least in this discipline, Intel showed its rivals how this business worked in 2008. Thanks to its Atom processor, the company earned a huge jump in market share during the year, while AMD lost nearly 25% of its 2007 share, according to iSuppli.
Anyone in the microprocessor industry has to give Intel props for having the right product in the market at the right time. Atom was right there when the netbook segment became popular and no other company was able to cash in on this trend as much as Intel. The processor shifted Intel’s product mix to the lower end and impacted the firm’s revenue, due the lower prices of the CPU. However, since it is generally believed that Intel is able to produce Atom processors for less than $6 per piece, there is lots of profit margin in this product.
The success of the processor boosted Intel’s Q4 2008 microprocessor market share (including x86, RISC and other types of processors) by 3.4 |
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Intel Honors 26 Companies with Preferred Quality Supplier Award |
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Seoul (Korea Newswire) March 05, 2009 08:39 AM -- Intel Corporation today announced the 26 companies receiving Intel's Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award for commitment to quality and performance excellence in 2008. These suppliers exceeded high expectations and tough performance goals to distinguish themselves from the thousands of suppliers that work with Intel.
Winners of the PQS award include:
AceCo Precision Manufacturing; Asyst Technologies, Inc.; Cisco Systems, Inc.; Dow Corning Corporation; FUJIFILM Electronic Materials; Ibiden Co., Ltd.; KES System & Service (1993) Pte Ltd.; Linde Electronics, a Member of the Linde Group; Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.; Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board Corporation; Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd.; Praxair Electronics; Richtek Technology Corporation; Rofin-Baasel; Rosendin Electric; Securitas Security Services USA, Inc.; Senju Metal Industry Co., Ltd.; Skanska; Tektronix, Inc.; Thermal Product Solutions, a Division of SPX Corporation; Tokyo Electron Limited; TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc.; Tyco Electronics; Verizon Business; VWR International, LLC; and Xstrata Recycling, Inc. |
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AMD Spins Off GlobalFoundries Chip Making Unit |
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GlobalFoundries is expected to start manufacturing next-generation 32-nanometer processors by the middle of next year.
GlobalFoundries, the chip-manufacturing spin-off of Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), officially opened for business Wednesday and laid out its preparations for moving to next-generation 32-nanometer products.
The joint venture of AMD and Advanced Technology Investment Co. said it will expand its Dresden, Germany, manufacturing capacity by bringing a second facility online in late 2009. Called Fab 1, the Dresden complex will dedicate one of its two facilities to making 45-nm chips, which AMD is in the process of transitioning its products to, and the other to 32-nm processors.
The numbers refer to the size of the microprocessor circuitry. The smaller the size, the more transistors can be placed on a piece of silicon, which translates into much higher performance without increasing power consumption. The move to 32-nm is seen as the next big jump in processor performance. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter. |
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What Convergence? TV’s Hesitant March to the Net |
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You would be hard-pressed to find a screen today that does not have Internet access. It’s not just the PC and the phone — online content appears in elevators, in the back of taxis and at your airplane seat. Some companies have even tried (albeit unsuccessfully) to get the Internet displayed on a refrigerator door.
So how is it that the Internet has largely escaped the single biggest screen in most of our lives — the TV?
An intensifying, and perhaps surprising, debate is playing out around this question and others. Should televisions be able to get access to the Web? And not just the thin slices of the Web allowed by a few services, but the whole cacophonous, unregulated, messy thing? And if they should, how should they?
Now a movement is afoot by chip makers big and small to spur a new generation of TVs with full browser capability, like a personal computer. In October, Intel released its own TV-centric chip, and many other semiconductor designers and manufacturers are doing the same, industry analysts said.
But perhaps the most surprising thing is not how long it is taking to get the Internet on TV but that, to some degree, that slow pace is deliberate. Television manufacturers simply do not seem to want it. |
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