Intel's Medfield chip-set aimed at getting the company into smartphones has been dissed by ARM CEO Warren East.
ARM-based processors will be in notebooks this year as well as tablets, with servers to follow later, giving x86 a run for its money in the hardware market.
January should see the ARM-based £16 computer, the Raspberry Pi, go into production.
How much money is Intel pouring into its UltraBooks? No one outside Intel knows. But you can bet it's massive.
Ping-Pong could provide the model for making commercial quantum computers.
Staying in Palo Alto this week, I was lured, as one is, to the Apple store.
If you could switch to a PC OS which runs faster than Windows, performs all Windows applications programmes as if it were Windows, can be seamlessly installed without affecting already-installed programmes and costs nothing would you do it?
Leaving aside the question: Why buy an iPad? comes question 2: Why buy a 10 inch tablet which isn't an iPad?
The lawyers seem to have been pretty cute in the Apple Samsung case which saw Samsung's 10 inch Android-based Tablet banned from Europe (except
Trends are finite. As the economist Sir Alex Cairncross had it:
A trend is a trend is a trend
The question is: Will it bend?
Will it alter its course
Through some unforeseen force
And come to a premature end?
Now, it seems, one of the bed-rock trends of the Wintel Age - the ever-expanding size of the PC OS - is ending.
Intel has a two year lead in process technology over the rest of the semiconductor industry and could get further ahead if yields are satisfactory on its finfet-based 22nm process due for introduction later this year, said Mike Bryant, CTO of Future Horizons, at last week's IFS 2011.
Could the AMD board have made the mistake of the century in ousting Dirk Meyer?
Three people have already turned down the job of AMD CEO, according to Bloomberg. They are Pat Gelsinger formerly of Intel; Mark Hurd, formerly of HP and Greg Summe md of Carlyle Group.
The Ultrabook. Funny name. Funny idea. The Ultrabook, a thin notebook, is part of what Intel CEO Paul Otellini calls its mission to 're-invent the PC'.
The news that Microsoft is saying that its Windows 8 tablet OS requires chip-makers to restrict their IC designs to one tablet design each, is the biggest piece of industry cheek since Intel went sole-source on the x86.
Can ARM really get into 50% of all mobile computers by 2015?
For a $40 billion revenue company in a $300 billion industry, Intel is sounding remarkably defensive these days.
Google is to launch its own lap-tops in June using Intel processors and the Chrome operating system. Their USP is said to be simpler operation.
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