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Newegg Cans Counterfeit Core i7 Supplier

March 11, 2010
Newegg Cans Counterfeit Core i7 Supplier

Popular online computer parts vendor Newegg this week gave one of its suppliers, IPEX, the boot. The reason, says Newegg, is that IPEX was the one who supplied the vendor with fake Core i7 chips.

"Initial information we received from our supplier, IPEX, stated that they had mistakenly shipped us ‘demo units.’ We have since come to discover that the CPUs were counterfeit and are terminating our relationship with this supplier," Newegg said in a statement.

Initial reports had pegged D&H Distributing as the culprit, but the supplier has since been cleared of any wrongdoing.

"Contrary to any speculation, D&H Distributing is not the vendor that supplied us with the Intel Core i7 920 CPUs in question," Newegg added.

Fake CPUs weren’t terribly difficult to spot. There were several misspelled words on the retail packaging, including a sticker that spelled "socket" as "sochet," eWeek.com reports. In some cases, the user manual inside the box was blank.

As for customers who were affected, Newegg said it is sending out replacement chips.

See here for an unboxing video of one of the counterfeit chips.

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Intel Eyes up Enterprise for Atom Platform

March 5, 2010
Intel Eyes up Enterprise for Atom Platform

Intel’s Atom platform isn’t just for fun and play, at least not anymore. The No. 1 chip maker on Thursday launched its first Atom processor-based platform designed specifically for home networks and small office/home office (SOHO) storage devices.

"NAS systems have traditionally been found in businesses to manage, store and access data," said Seth Bobroff, general manager, Intel Data Center Group, Storage. "Today, households and small offices have an ever-increasing number of computers, laptops, netbooks and mobile phones that create and consume digital content. This advancement in mobility coupled with the explosive growth of data and media are creating the need for centralized, easy-to-use network storage solutions for the home and small office."

Available in both single core (D410) and dual-core (D510) flavors, Intel says you can expect up to a 50 percent power reduction compared to the company’s previous generation Atom processors.

Other features of the new platform include six PCI Express lanes, 12 USB 2.0 ports, a port multiplier function, and eSATA ports.

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Harder, Better, Faster, Strong: IBM’s Newest Multi-Core Power7

February 12, 2010
Harder, Better, Faster, Strong: IBM’s Newest Multi-Core Power7

IBM earlier this week lifted the wraps on its new Power7 systems designed for a range of applications, including smart electrical grids and real-time analytics for financial institutions, the company said.

The Power7-based servers have been optimized to chew through huge workloads of simultaneous transactions, data handling, analysis, and other related tasks. And according to IBM, customers can expect "dramatic improvements" in the price-to-performance ratios, as well as energy savings and server virtualization. More specifically, IBM claims its new systems can deliver four times the performance and four times the virtualization capability as its predecessor for the same price.

There are four new systems in all, including the IBM Power 750 Express for mid-market clients, IBM Power 755 with 32 Power7 cores, IBM Power 770 modular enterprise system with up to 64 Powe7 cores, and the IBM Power 780, "a new category of scalable, high-end servers, featuring an advanced modular design with up to 64 Power7 cores."

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AMD Preps 3.2GHz Phenom Processor for Business Users

February 11, 2010
AMD Preps 3.2GHz Phenom Processor for Business Users

AMD plans on shaking up its marketing strategy starting with its next round of business-oriented processors. Whereas previous iterations have fallen under the company’s B series (‘B’ for Business, of course), AMD will stick solely with its Phenom nomenclature, at least for its upcoming 3.2GHz business chip.

The Phenom II X4 97, as it will be called, will also come with 8MB of cache and a 95W TDP. This will replace the 3.0GHz Phenom II X4 B95 and rank as the fastest-running business processor in AMD’s lineup.

Expect the Phenom II X4 94 to debut sometime in early Q2 2010, Fudzilla reports. No word yet on price.

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Intel Announces Itanium 9300 Processor for Mission-Critical Computing

February 10, 2010
Intel Announces Itanium 9300 Processor for Mission-Critical Computing

Intel this week officially introduced its new Itanium 9300 processor series, which you may recognize by its codename, Tukwila. According to Intel, the 9300 series chips more than double the performance of its predecessor, while also boosting both scalability and reliability.

"Intel is committed to delivering a new era of mission-critical computing, and we are delighted 80 percent of Global 100 companies have chosen Itanium-based servers for their most demanding workloads,"said Kirk Skaugen, vice president Intel Architecture Groupand general manager Data Center Group. "Intel is continuing to drive the economics of Moore’s Law into mission-critical computing with today’s Itanium 9300 processor announcement, more than doubling performance for our customers once again."

Intel added that OEM systems based on the Itanium 9300-series will be binary-compatible with existing software, giving customers a big performance boost without needing any additional software optimizations.

Prices for the new chips range from $946 to $3,838 in quantities of 1,000.

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Intel’s Upgraded vPro Heightens Security, Lessens IT Personnel Visits

February 9, 2010
Intel’s Upgraded vPro Heightens Security, Lessens IT Personnel Visits

Good news for IT admins. Intel last week announced a new vPro platform for its Core i5 and i7 processors designed to make remote maintenance and management of PCs an easier task in the enterprise.

"Businesses, particularly those that haven’t purchased PCs for several years, face a computing environment that no longer handles the applications many workers and IT are adopting," said Rick Echevarria, vice president, Intel Architecture Group, and general manager, Business Client Platform Division. "The integration of intelligent performance along with smart security and cost-saving manageability features in the Intel Core vPro processor family provide IT and SMBs a no-compromise platform. We also are excited about how Intel vPro Technology gives IT the flexibility to look at client virtualization, consumerization and rich cloud applications"

The new platform based on Intel’s Core vPro processors consists of the new Intel Q57 Express chipset, Intel 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection for notebooks, and Intel 82578DM Network Connection for desktop PCs.

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Intel’s Much Anticipated Tukwila Itanium Processor to be Announced Feb. 8

February 4, 2010
Intel’s Much Anticipated Tukwila Itanium Processor to be Announced Feb. 8

Following a series of delays, Intel has finally begun revenue shipments of its "Tukwila" processor, the codename for its newest Itanium chip.

According to Intel, Tukwila more than the doubles the performance of its predecessor, while also adding a "range of new scalability, reliability, and virtualization features," the chip maker stated in a blog post.

Tukwila’s official launch will likely come on February 8, the same day Intel is scheduled to hold a press conference alongside representatives from Hewlett-Packard’s business-critical servers unit in its software business. No other OEM implements more Itanium parts than HP, who uses them to power its Integrity systems and NonStop servers.

Intel says that Tukwila will be the first of several announcements slated for the first half of this year as the company looks to make a "major push" into the server processor arena.

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Intel Expects More Enterprise Dollars in 2010

January 18, 2010
Intel Expects More Enterprise Dollars in 2010

Despite a super-positive fourth-quarter earnings call, Intel wasn’t very pleased with enterprise spending in 2009, instead noting that consumers drove the company’s revenue up.

"It was not a robust year in the enterprise," said Paul Otellini, CEO, Intel.

Otellini also expects that to change in 2010 while Intel does its part in helping push the corporate market. Not only will Intel release its eight-core Nehalem EX Xeon processor for servers with four or more sockets, but the chip maker also plans to replace every chip in its server portfolio with 32nm Westmere parts, and do so within the next 90 days, Otellini said.

"Companies that haven’t bought in a while are — and probably have been for a while — planning their purchases for this week," John Spooner, an analyst with Technology Business Research, told eWeek. "So they can essentially put 32nm Xeon servers in their budgets now, and plan purchases for the rest of the year."

Spooner went on to say something we’ve heard several times before, which is that there exists a lot of pent up demand.

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