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Intel Atom Goes Dual-Core for Laptops
Intel revealed the Intel Atom 330 Aug. 20, a dual-core version of its Atom "Diamondville" processor for low-cost "nettop" PCs. Like the Intel Atom 230, the Intel Atom 330 uses 45-nm technology, features a 533MHz front side bus and is designed to work with Intel’s 945GC chip set (the 82945GC northbridge and 82801GB southbridge). Unlike…
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Intel Gives Prices for Ultralow-Voltage Chips, Laptops
Intel posted new prices for Intel’s mobile processors, including its latest low-voltage and ultralow-voltage processors, the LV Intel Core 2 Duo L7700, L7500 and L7300. The LV Intel Core 2 Duo L7700 (1.8GHz), L7500 (1.6GHz) and L7300 (1.4GHz) have 4MB Level 2 caches and support for an 800MHz FSB. The $316 L7700 costs as much…
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Intel’s Gelsinger Envisions Gradual Rollout of Nehalem Processors
SAN FRANCISCO—Now that Intel has detailed its new Nehalem microarchitecture, the question remains when the first of the processors built around this new chip architecture will hit the enterprise space and the wider consumer market. To date, Intel has revealed that the first of the Nehalem-based processors, the Intel Core i7 chip, will enter the…
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Sun Fires Up Server Lineup with Intel Chips
Sun Microsystems is looking to round out its server portfolio with new systems based on Intel processors and designed for high-performance computing and back-office applications such as databases. At the start of the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Aug. 19, Sun will introduce a pair of servers that use Intel Xeon processors from the…
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Intel Unveils Solid-State SATA Storage Drives
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel has been developing solid-state flash memory processors for as long as flash has been around (20 years). But only on Aug. 19 at the Intel Developer Forum here did the world’s largest chip maker announce its first-ever flash-based SATA drives for data storage. Intel’s High-Performance SATA (Serial ATA) solid-state drives are data storage devices…
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SAP Creates Ecosystem for Nonpartner ISVs, Consultants and Integrators
Do you sometimes work with SAP customers but not enough to merit paying the 2,400-euro SAP channel partner fee? Or do you work with SAP so much that you need to outsource some of the work to other qualified solution providers? For partners who answer "yes" to either of those questions, SAP has a new…