THE BIGGEST LOSER in the tie up between Microsoft and Nokia is none other than Intel. While they may try to put a brave face on the matter, the simple fact remains that their Atom line is now without a future.
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AMD JUST LOST two more executives, COO Bob Rivet and VP of Corporate Strategy Marty Seyer. There is no official word as to why they left, and neither will be departing immediately.
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DELL HAS REFRESHED 24 computers in it’s Latitude, Precision, and Optiplex lines, adding Sandy Bridge CPUs, a bunch of new features, a new look, and a lot of subtleties. The only real question remaining is when they will ship, but that isn’t really in Dell’s hands now.
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THE ACT MIGHT have made headlines for different reasons, but last week, voluntarily destroyed their one valuable asset. It was a subtle thing, and no one seemed to notice, but could it be the reason that Eric Schmidt left?
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GIVEN THE PROBLEMS that Intel’s Cougar Point chipset had this week, it is no surprise that some across the internet are taking pot-shots at the company. Usually these come in rant form, but this time, we get one as a song.
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HATS OFF TO Intel for pulling one of the most devious PR spin and coverups of the year with their chipset problems explanation. While it may be a desperate and masterful obfuscation job, if you poke a little under the surface, you can see how badly they screwed up, and how little of the truth actually came out.
Updated: Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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AFTER THE KEYNOTES of the three Common Platform partners, Samsung, Global Foundries, and IBM, three customers took turns at the podium. The first one up was ARM, and the talk centered around familiar themes, power and integration.
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IBM SHOWED OFF a 20nm test wafer at the Common Platform conference last week. It is a Common Platform test chip, but exactly which one is not clear.
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IF YOU’RE LOOKING to get yourself a new system in the near future, then you might want to consider investing in a motherboard sooner rather than later as the price of motherboards are expected to rise by somewhere between five and 10 percent, or maybe even more in the next few months. The reason for the price hike is the rise in raw material costs, least not copper (no, not that Copper).
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THE FINAL KEYNOTE of the Common Platform conference was given by IBM’s Garry Patton, and he talked collaboration and tech. The list of new things thrown out was pretty dizzying, but what do you expect from someone who is in charge of semiconductor R&D?
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GLOBAL FOUNDRIES HAD the second keynote at the Common Platform alliance conference Tuesday, the topic was manufacturing. Chia Song Hwee, COO of Global Foundries went into more details about what the alliance is doing to make chips, and how they were planning to work together for the benefit of their customers.
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THE COMMON PLATFORM alliance, Global Foundries, IBM and Samsung had a conference Tuesday to announce their renewed alliance and show off their respective wares. Samsung’s NS Woo, President and GM of the LSI Division kicked it off in the first of three keynotes.
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CRUCIAL IS STEPPING out from Micron in the branding world, and is doing so by introducing a new drive. Welcome to the new Crucial M4 SSD, it is not the same as the Micron C400.
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ABOUT TWO MONTHS ago, we said that Intel and Nvidia had settled their patent suit, and it was going to end up with about $1 billion going to Nvidia. Yesterday it was officially announced with the tab rising to around $1.5 billion.
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DIRK MEYER’S DEPARTURE from AMD is being touted as a mutual understanding and a gracious parting of the ways. That may be the official reasoning, Dirk wasn’t exploiting opportunities, doesn’t pass the sniff test.
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