What you see here is a large board from Intel’s booth at CES. All those cubes are actually representative of news stories from across the Internet. The cubes could represent anything from news stories pulled from aggregators, Flickr photos, tweets, Facebook updates, or any mixture you can think of. Each time a cube it touched, more »

For the past year the Intel Atom processor has been the default netbook processor. It’s small, efficient, and fast enough to run the small machines. The next version of the Atom, code named “Pine Trail” is due out by early 2010 at the latest. It will feature graphics on the CPU and as a result more »

Today is the final day of the Intel Developer Forum and as in the end of any forum/expo/conference, it’s a bit light on anything new. Intel, being the large company it is, had something new to announce, though it seems to be just about the only thing new. Intel decided to focus its attention to more »

The Intel Developer Forum looks to be an excuse for Intel to show off all the cool stuff they’ve been cooking up and let PC makers show off some of their products. Of course there’s a multitude of technical sessions each day, though those probably won’t interest many people outside developers and engineers. Today we more »

Today began the Intel Developer Forum, a chance for Intel and a number of other companies to debut their newest computer technology. It’s the perfect opportunity to see what’s coming up next in terms of computer hardware and will likely see a lot of new Windows 7 machines throughout the conference. Today, as the opening more »

Gamers are always looking for ways to upgrade notebooks in order to serve up the best graphics and sound during game play. AMD has announced ATI Mobility RadeonTM HD 4000 series graphics, their planned next generation series of notebook graphics processors. AMD says that this new processor will bring PC quality gaming technology to notebook users.

So, what type of upgrades can users expect? The processor will support Microsoft DirectX 10.1 games, longer battery life, and HD quality multimedia features. The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4800 series will improve HD gaming performance with support for ATI CrossFireX technology to deliver up to one teraFLOP of performance power. The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4300, 4500 and 4600 also are supposed to be energy efficient.

The quality of cameras in phones has risen exponentially in the last few years from poor VGA to the fairly good 3 megapixel and beyond. But there is always progress to be made, and Sony Ericsson have outlined some fairly ambitious aims in the release of their four year plan for smart phones; not only with cameras but other aspects of the phones as well.

However I will begin with cameras, and Ericsson’s vision is that by 2012 the cameras on phones will be capable of 20 megapixels and even the ability to shoot full HD video. This is incredibly ambitious in four years, especially considering the current economic climate, but there is nothing to suggest that it cannot be done. This will certainly have far reaching effects regarding home videos allowing near professional home films to be made via phone cameras, which would be pretty cool!

Keep reading for more info on where Sony Ericsson plans to take phones.

Planning on building that new gaming rig? Here’s some good news. Putting pressure on rival chip-maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Intel has surprisingly halved the prices on its Core 2 Quad Q6700 (from $530 to $266) and Quad-Core Xeon X3230 (from $530 to $266). Overall, fourteen processors experienced a price cut, ranging from 12% to 50% off. Other CPUs with slashed prices include the Core 2 Quad Q6600 (from $266 to $244), Core 2 Duo E6850 (from $266 to $183), Dual-Core Xeon 3085 (from $366 to $188), Celeron 560 (from $134 to $107) and more. All prices reflect 1,000 unit shipments. The reason for the discounted prices is Intel’s transition from their 65nm to 45nm process. All of the chips on sale are based off of the old 65nm technology. AMD announced its plans to begin shipping their 45nm chips in fourth quarter 2008, which puts them one year behind Intel, who began selling their 45nm CPUs back in November 2007.

Forget quad-core, AMD is preparing a dodeca-core chip. If you didn’t stay in boarding school if you need refreshing with your greek vocabulary, dodeca means 12, and that’s 12 cores for you right there. Imagine, a dozen times faster than a normal chip. But how fast does one’s computer ever really need to be? AMD doesn’t seem to care if there’s an answer to that question or not (just as its closest competitor Intel doesn’t), and moves on with their plan to produce a 12-core processor to be released by late 2008. It will reportedly be called the Shanghai, and will be a 45nm successor to their not-so-successful Barcelona chip.

Intel has recently shown off not one, not two, but three ultra-portable laptops running on their much-awaited Atom processors. Pictured here is a little lappie from a little-known brand called Thinno, perusing Intel’s Atom processor with Windows XP. Register Hardware was unsure of the third laptop and calls it a mystery, but Engadget was keen more »