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Posted Saturday, October 25, 2008 by Daniel Shain Intel will be releasing a new wave of Montevina chips for laptops. The new chips will provide a nice power boost over the chips currently on the market. Intel is planning some big changes down the road, as it’s working on developing chips with the new Core i7 architecture which will all […]
Continue reading »Introducing “Laminar Air Flow Technology,” which uses air layers for cooling laptop hardware. During IDF (Intel Developer Forum) 2008 in Taiwan, Intel displayed its new cooling system for notebooks. The new system, “Laminar Air Flow Technology,” is designed particularly for thin notebooks. Cool air layers will float between the case and the hardware, reducing the operating temperature and providing cooling. […]
Continue reading »We all heard it when AMD rejected netbooks 2 weeks ago, but we thought it was because they were leaving it to Intel. But now Intel appears to be separating itself from the form factor too. What happened to the netbook? Once the poster child and darling of the notebook world, heralding in a new future of portability with its […]
Continue reading »Intel’s latest Atom chip, the N280, will offer a momentous 3.75% speed increase from 1.6GHz to 1.66GHz. If you’re thinking, “but Intel can surely produce an Atom chip faster than that by now,” you’re right. The growth of the Atom chip is being limited on purpose. Intel’s latest N280 chip will feature other small improvements, such as the FSB (front […]
Continue reading »Intel has begun shipping its new Atom N280 processor with the accompanying GN40 chipset to its customers. The new platform delivers a minuscule clock speed increase but significantly improves performance overall. The N280 wasn’t expected to be released this early, but perhaps the first clue that it was ahead of schedule was that, we don’t know, a well known and […]
Continue reading »Intel has taken another step in the wireless power world with their “Wireless Energy Resonant Link,” which they demonstrated powering a 60 watt bulb. Thanks to the geniuses at MIT the use of resonant magnetic fields to transmit electricity without wires has been talked about for a little while in the form of WiTricity. More recently however, Intel has teamed […]
Continue reading »To say that Intel’s Centrino platform has been successful would be a massive understatement. Now it’s time to welcome Centrino 2. In spite of the name it’s not really the second generation – Centrino stickers have been pasted on high-end laptops for five years. During that time the platform has been updated and upgraded several times over with new circuitry […]
Continue reading »Monday, January 24, 2005 It’s official, Intel’s newest development, a Centrino laptop upgrade code-named “Sonoma,” is now available to both corporate users and private consumers. Centrino technology is being updated to offer sharper graphics and other high-performance bells and whistles with its C2 chip. Sonoma’s dual chipset will help boost and make FSB frequency more reliable and efficient. It’s also […]
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