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AMD Defends Market Share with Processor Price Cuts

AMD isn’t about to concede an inch of its market share to Intel, not without an aggressive fight, anyway. Citing “sources from motherboard players,” DigiTimes reports AMD has taken a hatchet to about 20 desktop processors in an attempt to defend agains… [...]

Intel to Acquire McAfee for $7.68 Billion

Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire security firm McAfee by purchasing the company’s common stock at $48 per share. That works out to about $7.68 billion for a deal that was … [...]

Intel Scoops Up Cable Modem Unit from Texas Instruments

Intel isn’t just about processors and chipsets, at least not anymore. That’s because the chip maker signed an agreement to acquire Texas Instruments’ (TI’s) cable modem product line.
“Adding the talents of the Texas Instruments’ cable team to Intel [...]

Intel Drops Two New Atom Chips into Storage Appliance Sectors

Intel’s Atom processor line has become ubiquitous with netbooks and most nettops, but these aren’t the only areas the Santa Clara chip maker sees Atom processors making a splash. Recent reports suggest Intel will make a serious push into the tablet mar… [...]

Leaked Intel Roadmap Reveals Upcoming SSDs, Sandy Bridge CPU

Not one, but TWO Intel roadmaps recently fell off a truck and somehow managed to land on the Web, giving curious tech junkies a peek into what the Santa Clara chip maker has in store for 2011.
One of the roadmaps lists no less than 19 upcoming notebook… [...]

Intel’s Latest Six-Core Gulftown Chip Still Breaks the Bank

Let’s start off with the good news. Intel’s newest six-core chip, the Core i7 970, has started showing up in retail, giving DIY system builders a lower priced option to choose from if sticking with Intel. Ready for the bad news? The price isn’t all tha… [...]

Intel: Sandy Bridge is the Shiznit, Everyone Wants It

During Intel’s earnings conference call on Tuesday, company CEO Paul Otellini said demand for Sandy Bridge is already red hot, even though the platform has yet to be released.
"Due to the very strong reception of Sandy Bridge, we have accelerated… [...]

Intel’s Q2 Profits Hit All Time High at $2.9b

Sometimes it escapes our attention that people are still buying huge numbers of PCs these days. Intel’s quarterly profit announcement reminded everyone of that today with news that the chip maker had record profits of $2.9 billion. Not to belabor th… [...]