Andy Patrizio

Dell Latitude Z Click to enlarge. Source: Dell Dell is hoping it has read the tea leaves right and that many of you are ready to upgrade clunky old computers. It has some new desktops in the pipeline and a laptop that looks like it might have come from the labs of Apple’s design wizard Jonathan Ive. […]

Online e-tailer Newegg.com has gone from zero to $2 billion in sales in just eight years. Now it wants to go from privately-held to public. The company filed the paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday for an initial public offering (IPO) it hopes will raise up to $175 million. Located in […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel is putting Atom processors almost everywhere these days, with the latest target being televisions. The company announced a new Atom-based system-on-a-chip (SoC) design for television sets to make them the hub of social networking and interactivity. Justin Rattner, chief technology officer for Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), introduced the Atom CE4100 during his […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel wasn’t the only firm introducing new technologies here at the Intel Developer Forum. Its partners were showing off a variety of new wares as well, some of which Intel had a hand in co-developing. Chip design firm Rambus (NASDAQ: RMBS), teamed with Kingston Technologies to develop “threaded memory module technology,” which […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The next version of vPro, Intel’s security system for client computers, will include a variety of upgrades, from data encryption to tracking down a lost laptop to a remote kill switch, to — of all things — keyboard/mouse/video (KVM) support in the chip. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) last updated vPro in late 2008 […]

Intel is pushing fiber optics as a new standard for cabling. Source: Intel SAN FRANCISCO — Day two of the Intel Developer Forum opened with news of the latest, fastest processors, but it was an low key announcement at the end of the keynote that may be the one that changes your life the most. […]

Intel Executive Vice President Sean Maloney speaks at IDF 2009. Source: Intel. SAN FRANCISCO — What should have been Intel’s most exciting keynote of the day here at the Intel Developer Forum turned into a disappointment. While the company announced a new server platform, new Xeon processors and several other technology advances, the first public […]

Intel CEO Paul Otellini speaks at IDF 2009. Source: Intel. SAN FRANCISCO — Intel kicked off its 12th annual Intel Developer Forum (IDF) with a keynote by CEO Paul Otellini that highlighted the world’s largest chipmaker’s ongoing efforts to branch out into profitable sectors beyond its core PC market. That’s been a chief focus of […]

Maximum battery life is an obsession for laptop makers and buyers alike. Well, MSI, a Chinese OEM/ODM that makes both laptops as well as components like notebooks, has introduced the Wind U110 ECO netbook with a nine-cell battery that MSI claims is good more than 15 hours of battery life. Of course, you won’t be […]

It’s that time of the year for Intel developers and customers alike. Several thousand will make a pilgrimage to San Francisco this week, where weather is reportedly going to be in the 90 degree range, for the Intel Developer Forum, to find out what the chip giant has in store. This will be the first […]

The integration of AMD and ATI took yet another step today with the introduction of low-power, all-AMD chip designs for servers developed under the codename “Fiorano.” This new strategy mirrors what AMD has done on the desktop and laptop by marrying its CPUs with ATI chipsets and graphics. In this case, AMD (NYSE: AMD) is […]

A financial investment firm’s checks with PC builders have found that both Intel and AMD are ahead of projections and their third-quarter sales could exceed the previous estimates of both companies. FBR Capital Markets did its usual monthly checks of major notebook original design manufacturers (ODMs) and desktop motherboard makers and found more good signs […]