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Paul Otellini, Intel CEO, says his company is working hard to port Google's tablet specific Android 3.0, known as ‘Honeycomb' to the x86 architecture. He told investors and reporters “We've received the Android code – the Honeycomb version of Android source code – from Google, and we're actively doing the …

When in comes to delivering pure processing power, transistor density is right up there with clock speed as the key ingredient. We're used to AMD and Intel revealing ever more transistors packed onto a piece of silicon, but today's record annoucement comes from a different source altogether. KitGuru pulls out …

After having the market to itself for over 3 years, AMD finally woke up and realised that there was a market for a Fusion-class processor that combined decent CPU-ing with decent GPU-ing. News into KitGuru suggests that Intel might be embarking on a strange strategy for 2011. Here's what we …

Intel have said that developer kits for Thunderbolt will be available this quarter, meaning we could see a raft of new devices entering retail, based on this interconnect technology. Thunderbolt was first announced on February 24th and is currently only offered by industry leader Apple in their new Macbook Pro …

Yesterday KitGuru reported on Intel's Oak Trail solution and Intel have also rolled out their next generation ‘Cedar Trail' Atom processor, due in Netbooks within the next couple of months. At a developer conference in China they have showcased new netbooks based on the next generation Atom processor. Cedar Trail …

Intel have released a new Oak Trail tablet chip which they hope will be used in tablets targeting the market leader, Apple. Intel launched the new ATOM chip, codenamed Oak Trail which is designed specifically for tablet computers. They have also said that 35 tablet and hybrid computers will be …

While the whole world plus dog is still looking at the ripples made by the Sandy Bridge recall, Intel is jogging on at a tremendous rate of knots. KitGuru dons a bee-keeper suit and enters the FAB-u-lous world of CPU technology. In January, everyone's jaw dropped as Intel asked the …

Sources close to Intel have been in contact with KitGuru to say that there is no possibility of the price of Sandy Bridge i5 and i7 products becoming more competitively priced until AMD launches Bulldozer. Damning stuff. KitGuru investigates. We all know that competition is a good thing. We're also …

Intel have announced their new Xeon E7 series with up to ten physical processing cores per chip. They are targeting AMD's Magny-Cours with hopes of moving some high density data center customers to their platform. The Xeon's are not aimed at the consumer audience, they are aimed at the mission …

KitGuru spent Saturday afternoon shopping in centres packed with folks stocking up on Mother's Day gifts. While the world looked out for that ‘special something that would make the moment', KitGuru was looking around the electronics shelves and noticed something rather surprising. Here's a quick story and a pic – …

While Intel will always be known for their range of consumer and business oriented processor designs, their Solid State Drives proved to be extremely popular among the enthusiast audience, selling well across the range of sizes. The X25-M in particular is still a huge seller for the company, especially with …

It will be quite a while before anyone is benchmarking AMD's new Bulldozer against Ivy Bridge from Intel, but industry watchers who originally thought the match-up would not start until October, might be in for a surprise. KitGuru puts a glass to the wall and tries to discern the relevant …

Even though the flow of B3 chipsets is well and truly under way, the channel is creaking terribly under the strain of trying to service customers. Nope, not end-users and enthusiasts. The customers who are suffering are the channel customers. The system builders. KitGuru dusts off the magnifying glass to …

Intel have bought SySDSoft to help expand their wireless business, this egyptian based group build IP systems and RF/Analogue circuits for mobile platforms. The 100 engineers in SYSDSoft will be joining the Intel team to push forward new high speed technologies into the mainstream market. The SySDSoft deal will help …

While everyone and their dog can attack the Futuremark records, breaking the SPEC performance record takes some doing. KitGuru has been following the adventures of this Vale of Aylesbury company for a while now, and this announcement is quite special. During a recent, exclusive interview, Cryo founder Alan Johnson told …

Enthusiast customers are spoilt for choice when buying a new motherboard. Asus, MSI and Gigabyte are all going head to head to create the most eye catching, feature packed, overclocking friendly boards to suit those with deeper than average pockets. One such product which caught our eye recently was the …

Kingston have released new HyperX 4GB and 8GB 1600mhz SO-DIMM kits. This new dual channel CL9 memory is the fastest on the market specifically designed to support notebooks and mobile platforms using the new 2nd generation Intel Core Mobile Processor family, codenamed ‘Huron River'. “Our latest HyperX SO-DIMMs are the …

Growing up in the cold war meant that B1 and B2 conjured up images of supersonic bombers capable of delivering both nuclear and conventional payloads, great distances. At CeBIT 2011, the characters ‘B' and ‘3' combined to make something altogether more attractive. KitGuru puts down the mustard and investigates. No …

SeaMicro today announced a new low power server which contains 256 of Intel's Atom N570 dual core processors. The new SM10000-64 has 512 Atom processing cores which operate at 1.66ghz, which when combined deliver 850GHZ of processing power. Intel's low power Atom processors are generally used in netbooks and low …

Intel have announced their plans to build a new semiconductor fabrication facility in Arizona. Their goals are to achieve a 14nm process which will cost around $5 billion. This new facility is called ‘Fab 42' (Thunderbirds are go?), and will be built from the ground up to produce Intel's next …

While the Sandy Bridge/Cougar Point affair is still very much in the public domain, Intel is pushing ahead with its launch schedule unhindered. We're presently hearing that the launch for the new chips will be on a Sunday. Strange timing. KitGuru gives the specs a once over. Searching Google for …

The original ‘just in time' philosophy might have been Japanese, but it seems that Intel's engineers are passing around the parable as well. So, how close are they?  KitGuru attaches safety lines and prepares to investigate the bridge. Working like flayed demons, Intel chipset engineers across the globe have been …

According to ARM CEO Warren East, Intel still have a long way to go before dominating the mobile market as their processor designs still demand too much power. He told Reuters “Unless they can make their processors smaller they will struggle.” He then said that he was happy with the …

Yesterday KitGuru reported on Core i7 960 and 970 price drops. They are also releasing a new Extreme Edition processor, called the Core i7 990x. This chip is being sold at the $999 mark, and replaces the 980x as the flagship processor from the chip giant. This chip is a …

If you haven't yet jumped into a new Sandybridge system upgrade then today's news might help cheer you up. Over the weekend Intel have reduced the cost of some of their LGA1366 processor range. The quad core i7 960 and hexa core i7 970. Last week the i7 960 cost …

Intel have  issued a Product Change Notification today which suggests that the fixed B3 revision will start to ship from the 14th of February. This news will be a welcome relief for Intel's OEM partners who have had to take drastic action to deal with the faulty motherboard shipments. Demand …

As we all know by now, Intel announced that it was pulling all Cougar Point chipsets that support the new Sandybridge desktop and laptop processor family due to a design flaw in the chip controlling the Serial ATA II data inputs. All H67 and P67 boards have two sets of …

But how safe is it? Intel doesn't really do ‘Total Recalls' like this. It's scary stuff. The company that effectively made the global market for microprocessors is such a galactically huge corporation, with advanced R&D the like of which has never been seen before, that no one ever really expected …

MSI are next in line with an official statement regarding the high profile Intel Sandybridge chipset issues. MSI has been informed by Intel about the design issues in the Intel 6 series chipsets. According to Intel the performance of some of the Intel SATA ports on Intel 6 series products …

Samsung Electronics issued a statement today, saying that any of their customers who bought an Intel system with the flawed chipset will be entitled to a full refund. Kitguru covered the news yesterday that Intel have found a design problem in the new chipset that is expected to cost it …