Intel's Ivy Bridge announcement will have to wait. Instead Intel executives devoted its CES press conference to the user experience they hope to deliver with Ultrabooks, which they said are more than just thin-and-light PCs.
Intel has released new low-voltage versions of its second-generation Core processors designed to power a new class of so-called Ultrabooks from the likes of Asus, Lenovo and LG Electronics.
In a keynote speech at the Computex trade show in Taiwan, Intel Executive Vice President Sean Maloney said the company would borrow some "new ideas" from tablets to reinvent the PC, carving out a new category of laptops dubbed ultrabooks. Maloney also discussed Intel's progress with its own chips for tablets and smartphones.
In a post yesterday, I took a look at ultraportables based on AMD's low-power Fusion processors. In this second part, I'll cover some of the bigger laptops from Acer, Gateway and Toshiba that have co-opted this chip.
The choices for laptops continued to expand in 2010. The good news is that you are virtually guaranteed to find exactly what you -- or someone on your list -- is looking for.
Lenovo today announced 10 new and updated laptops and desktops including the company's first all-in-ones with touchscreens.
The performance gulf between Intel and AMD (pun intended) just got a little bit bigger.At a conference for game developers this week, Intel announced its first six-core desktop processor, the Core i7- 980X Extreme Edition (my colleague, Sean Portnoy, wrote about this earlier).
In the next few months, both Intel and AMD are slated to release the industry's first six-core processors for desktops, but real-world consumer applications for six-core chips remain limited.
One of the rare success stories of a tough 2009 in tech, the netbook is set to get an overhaul courtesy of Intel's Pine Trail technology. Intel released Pine Trail earlier this week, and a few computer makers have announced new netbooks based on it.
As the end of 2009 approaches, more details about Intel's first 32nm processors are beginning to trickle out.