Delaying Sandy Bridge-E Processor to January 2012!!!

After Intel promised to release it in Q4 2011, the latest news came to delay anticipated Sandy Bridge-E to year 2012!

The anticipated processors which are an evolvement to the current Sandy Bridge were expected to be released in December of this year despite of seeing good number of the motherboard supporting them in the last CES exhibit.

Intel Ensure that They Will Launch Their Upcoming Processors Clover Trail With Windows 8 releasing

Intel announced their support to Microsoft in their upcoming OS Windows8 by launching their new processor Clover Trail to achieve compatibility with the new OS, despite of Microsoft indicated that their OS will support the ARM processor.

Intel Talks about The Future Of Many Integrated Core (MIC) Processor Products

Larrabee, Intel's once-vaunted, next-generation graphics card died years ago, but the CPU technology behind the would-be graphics card has lived on. Intel discussed the future of MIC/Knight's Corner today. After Larrabee was officially canceled, Intel repurposed the design and seeded development kits to appropriate market segments. MIC cards won't start shipping until the 22nm Knight's Corner chip is launched, but even the Knight's Ferry prototypes offer tantalizing hints at what future performance might be resemble.

New Kingston HyperX 2133MHz SO-DIMMs Gets Intel XMP Certification

Kingston announced that its 2133MHz HyperX 4GB SO-DIMM memory kits has gained Intel XMP certification.The notebook memory modules are the first and fastest to be validated. That is insane memory speed for a notebook, but we are glad to see companies like Kingston are continuing to push the performance envelope for enthusiasts around the world! You can check out the actual certification here if you'd like to take a look for yourself.

Leak of Intel 710/720 SSD Series Performance

In Q3 this year Intel will very likely release their solid state drive line-up with two new 700-series SSDs. Intel will introduce only two 710-series drives, a 100GB and a 200GB model, both using a SATA 3Gbps controller paired together with 64MB of DRAM cache, softpedia reports the following on this:

"The drives will be able to achieve sequential read/write speeds of 270MB/s and 210MB/s respectively, while Intel rates their 4K random read/write performance at 36K/2.4K IOPS (input/output operations per second).

Intel Invests into Development of Humanoid Robots.

Intel Capital, an investment organization that belongs to Intel Corp. has made its first robotics industry investment, leading a $13 million investment in Aldebaran Robotics. The funding from Intel Capital will play a key role in allowing Aldebaran to develop its product offering into additional vertical sectors such as health and social care.
“Robotics is an area that Intel Capital has been interested in for some time. Aldebaran’s work in areas such as voice interaction and video analytics really highlights the advances made in perceptual computing and has the potential to offer innovative products and solutions across a range of sectors," said Marcos Battisti, managing director of Intel Capital in Western Europe and Israel.
The company currently manufactures and sells advanced, programmable humanoid robots focused on the education, personal services and research markets. Its products combine a range of facial and voice recognition technologies with location awareness capabilities, providing a flexible platform for application development. The investment from Intel Capiral and other partners will also help Aldebaran streamline its production operations and increase its research and development capabilities.

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New Intel Marketing Terms: Smart Connect & Rapid Start Technology

Intel would be enabling a new technology with Ultrabooks that allows your applications that require real time updates (e.g. email, twitter) to keep receiving data even when your PC is asleep. In its opening keynote at Computex, Intel shed some more light on the technology.

It's called Intel's Smart Connect Technology. Using a software layer it'll periodically wake up your machine while in a sleep state to check for updates for things like email, Twitter, Facebook, etc... My guess is the software will just reactivate the network connection at a not-short interval so those applications can get updates. The result will be a machine that seems like it's been connected and constantly receiving updates while it was asleep.

Smart Connect Technology will debut in some Ultrabooks shipping at the end of this year, but with Ivy Bridge the technology will move to a push model instead of a pull model - which should be better for battery life.

The next technology is called Rapid Start. Rapid Start is simply hibernate to NAND, which allows your notebook to resume from a zero-power hibernate state in 5 - 6 seconds.

Expect both features in Ultrabooks starting at the end of the year.