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Network World Intel shareholder wants execs to pay $2.7B in fines An Intel investor, frustrated that the chip maker has been hit with $2.7 billion in fines and settlement payments this year, wants to force top company executives to pay the money.
Network World The 5 best, and 5 worst, features of Google Chrome OS Today, Google released the source code for Chrome OS and promised that devices will be shipping in about a year, in time for the 2010 holiday season. Chrome OS will run only on devices specifically manufactured for it and Google is dictating to manufacturers the hardware specifications. For instance, Chrome OS devices will be netbooks, will not include a hard drive, will have only solid state disks, will rely on specified WiFi chipsets/adapters for connectivity and must have full-sized keyboards, says Sund...
ZDNet ARM ups speed, drops power with new chip The world's most popular processor architecture continues to push its performance while aiming for mobile internet dominance over Intel
ZDNet Japanese researchers harness parallel chips A group of researchers aims to create a software standard for multicore chips in devices, including mobile phones and car-navigation systems
ZDNet How Intel's supercomputer almost used HP chips In the 1990s, Intel seriously considered building the world's fastest supercomputer with a rival's processors, but the Pentium Pro arrived in time after all
ZDNet Images: New technology unveiled at IDF 2009 At the annual Intel Developer Forum, the chipmaker shows off technology including a 22nm wafer, the new Larrabee graphics chip and the Sandybridge processor family
ZDNet Intel shows off new 22nm wafer IDF 2009: Intel chief executive Paul Otellini shows off a silicon wafer housing chips made with 22nm process technology
ZDNet AMD delivers its own server platform The low-power platform, formerly code-named Fiorano, offers server builders a combination of a six-core Opteron with a choice of three chipsets from AMD
ZDNet ARM targets Intel with 2GHz multicore chips ARM is preparing new enterprise partnerships as its Cortex-A9 processor goes fast and multicore
ZDNet Qualcomm readies 3G/4G mobile chipsets The company says it is sampling dual-mode chipsets that can switch between 3G and 4G wireless networks, and commercial products are expected next year
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