Trade Shows
As Intel looks to streamline its business operations and get back to profitability in the face of weak revenues and other business struggles, nothing is off the table as the company looks to cut costs into 2025 – not even Intel’s trade shows. In an unexpected announcement this afternoon, Intel has begun informing attendees of its fall Innovation 2024 trade show that the event has been postponed. Previously scheduled for September of this year, Innovation is now slated to take place at some point in 2025. Innovation is Intel’s regular technical showcase for developers, customers, and the public, and is the successor to the company’s legendary IDF show. In recent years the show has been used to deliver status updates on Intel’s fabs, introduce new...
Qualcomm's Announces Krait CPU: The Successor to Scorpion
Last year Qualcomm told us about the MSM8960, its next-generation Snapdragon SoC based on a brand new microprocessor architecture. Today Qualcomm announced some more details on the architecture behind...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2011Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy S II & Galaxy Tab 10.1
In a not completely unexpected move Samsung Mobile announced that it would be working with NVIDIA on two different projects. First and foremost is the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/13/2011Samsung Intros NVIDIA Tegra 2 based Galaxy Tab 10.1 & New Superphone, Galaxy S II Debuts
Including Apple, we've covered six major players in the high end smartphone SoC space: Apple, Intel, NVIDIA, TI, Samsung and Qualcomm. Not all of these six will survive in...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/13/2011MWC 2011: LG Optimus 3D and Optimus Pad Announced
Mobile World Congress 2011 is upon us, and LG is kicking things off by announcing the Optimus 3D smartphone and the Optimus Pad tablet. The Optimus 3D is an...
4 by Vivek Gowri on 2/13/2011CES 2011: Qualcomm Demos Snapdragon MSM8660
Qualcomm used CES to showcase their new dual-core Snapdragon parts, and they invited a group of bloggers to get their thoughts on the new chips. Qualcomm gave us a...
37 by Vivek Gowri on 1/12/2011CES 2011: Microsoft Keynote
When Microsoft wrapped up its CES keynote on Wednesday night, they added fuel to a news-packed couple of days leading up to the start of CES. The software giant...
9 by Vivek Gowri & Ganesh T S on 1/10/2011CES 2011: Intel WiDi 2.0 Brings New Media Extenders
One major feature of mobile Sandy Bridge is support for Intel WiDi 2.0. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, WiDi 2.0 uses SNB’s Quick Sync engine...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2011Intel Insider: Sandy Bridge Gets 1080p High Bitrate Streaming
In an attempt to ultimately raise its stock price, Intel is trying to shock and surprise investors by keeping details scarce on unannounced products. We saw the first example...
20 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2011CES 2011: Toshiba's Tablet and Glasses-Free 3D
We had a chance to visit with Toshiba on the CES 2011 show floor and were able to lay hands on their prototype Tegra 2-powered tablet along with checking...
15 by Dustin Sklavos on 1/9/2011AMD and GlobalFoundries, CES 2011
The entities formerly known as AMD—namely, AMD and GlobalFoundries—are both here in Vegas for CES, and we had an opportunity to stop by and discuss their current and future...
73 by Jarred Walton on 1/7/2011CES 2011: Visiting with Vendors
CES 2011 has kicked off in a major way and the talk on a lot of vendors lips is Sandy Bridge: what it means, what it brings to the...
20 by Dustin Sklavos on 1/7/2011Intel Light Peak - Lighting up 10 Gbps links in 2011
We've covered Intel Light Peak in the past, and similarly other optical interconnect solutions from the chipmaker. At IDF 2010, Intel was showing off Light Peak once more, but...
61 by Brian Klug on 9/16/2010Context-aware Computing, Intel Paints the Future of Devices
Traditionally a large focus of IDF is looking at future computing trends. For the longest time the name of the game was convergence. The shift to mobility highlighted many...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/15/2010AMD's Zacate APU Performance Update
It’s 12:43AM and I just got back into my hotel room. I spent the past few hours in AMD’s suite a block from IDF trying to get to the...
104 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/15/2010Dell Shows off 10" Inspiron Duo Convertible Netbook/Tablet
Dell just demonstrated its upcoming 10-inch Inspiron Duo convertible netbook/tablet. Based on the dual core Atom N550 the Inspiron Duo runs Windows 7 Premium. The system can work as...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2010First Public Demo of Oaktrail and Windows Gaming Tablet
Earlier this year Intel unveiled its Moorestown architecture, branded as the Atom Z600 series for smartphones and handhelds. Moorestown focused on a significant reduction in idle and active power...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2010Intel Announces CE4200 SoC for Smart TVs
Intel just announced its CE4200 (Groveland) SoC, the successor to the CE4100 used in devices like the Boxee box. The CE4200 is based on Intel's 45nm Atom architecture and features...
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2010Moorestown Preview: OpenPeak Tablet Benchmarked and Impressions
In IDF’s technology showcase, we got a chance to catch up with OpenPeak, makers of the OpenTablet 7, a 7” Android tablet running atop the Moorestown Atom Z6xx SoC...
8 by Brian Klug on 9/14/2010AMD Benchmarks Zacate APU
Update: We've spent more time with Zacate and have some more accurate performance comparisons here. It's tradition for AMD to have an off-site meeting place during IDF week and this...
66 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2010Intel Demos Sandy Bridge, Shows off Video Transcode Engine
Today marks the first day of our IDF 2010 coverage and we just left Dadi Perlmutter's keynote. Keeping up with tradition, Dadi's keynote focused on two of Intel's upcoming...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2010