Intel is one of the world’s largest and highest valued semiconductor chip makers, based on revenue. It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Founded in 1968, Intel also makes motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing.
After becoming a top-seller of Chromebooks, Acer has set its sights on the Chromebox market, debuting a new Chrome OS desktop computer starting at $179.99. Two of the computer’s four USB… Read more »
In recent months, there’s been a spate of tech companies publishing their staff demographics. We’ve taken the liberty of turning all of them into pie charts — for gender — and… Read more »
Computer scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are joining the fight for open source chips with an instruction set architecture called RISC-V. They view it as a true open source… Read more »
Experiments at many leading large-scale data centers hold lessons for smaller ones that may not have the dedicated engineering and facilities staffs to fine-tune their data center’s efficiency. Read more »
SMS Audio, best known for headphones endorsed by the rapper 50 Cent, has a new pair of sport-focused earbuds which uses Intel’s optical sensor technology to measure heart rate and other… Read more »
HP just refreshed its Chromebook 11 back in May but it was more of a downgrade than anything else. Now, an official data sheet says HP has a newer model that… Read more »
Acer’s strategy of a Chromebook leader by offering many different models is continuing and this time, it’s enlisted Nvidia’s help. The Tegra K1 powers the new Acer Chromebook 13 with 1080p… Read more »
Safari is typically the browser of choice on Mac OS X but there are some that use Google’s Chrome. Now, a new 64-bit version is available, bringing a speed boost and… Read more »