Intel

The most crowded area of Intel’s CES booth? Not the phone section, not tablets, not even two-in-ones. Nope, everyone’s huddled around a desk with coffee mugs. That, and a plastic baby doll lying face-up in a carrier. Just like Intel CEO Brian Krzanich hinted, the company is going all-in on wearables this year. Except the Continue Reading →

Intel has its own digital assistant, and it lives right inside of an earpiece. On stage at CES on Monday, Intel unveiled Jarvis, an oddly shaped Bluetooth headset that wraps around the back of its wearer’s ear. By pairing it with an Android smartphone app, Jarvis is able to remotely interact with the phone, getting Continue Reading →

Intel is asking about $500 million for OnCue, the online pay-TV service that the world’s largest chipmaker developed before dialing back its ambitions, according to people with knowledge of the process. Intel is seeking to secure a sale by year-end, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. One Continue Reading →

Intel will follow other major technology giants, notably Microsoft and Google, in offering pop-up brick and mortar stores in New York City later this month, as the chipmaker gears up towards a busy holiday sales season. The company announced in a YouTube video that the first store would arrive in the NoLita district of Manhattan Continue Reading →

Intel’s Atom-branded CPUs are synonymous with netbook computing — tied to thoughts of pokey, budget-priced notebooks that may be good on your wallet, but do little to impress. Now, the company wants to shake off that image with its latest “Bay Trail,” architecture. As Ars reports, the new products will support both Windows and Android Continue Reading →

Intel just announced its smallest silicon yet. It’s called Quark, and it’s one-fifth the size of the company’s existing Atom cores, and uses one-tenth the power. Intel CEO Bryan Krzanich just pulled out the tiny Quark X1000 chip at the 2013 Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, and explained that it’s for the internet Continue Reading →

To understand how much television could soon change, it helps to visit an Intel division here that runs like a startup. Erik Huggers, a Dutch-born former British Broadcasting Corp. executive, has assembled a 350-person team with talents beyond computer chips—programmers, industrial designers, artists and experts in fields like video encoding. Working in bright, newsroom-style offices Continue Reading →

Microsoft added some gestures to improve trackpads in Windows 8, but the underlying issues with laptop trackpads weren’t really addressed fully. With Windows 8.1, it appears that Microsoft is taking the issue seriously and working closely with partners to improve what has been a notoriously mixed experience for Windows users over the years. In a Continue Reading →

Intel’s talks to buy content from media companies for its new TV service are advancing, and the chipmaker is offering to pay as much as 75 percent more than traditional cable rates, people familiar with the talks said. But Intel has yet to close any programming deals, said the sources, who requested anonymity because they Continue Reading →

Intel’s Atom is getting a makeover. In more ways than one. First, when Intel speaks to customers internally about micro-architectures, Atom is out, Silvermont is in, Intel told CNET on Friday. Second, some upcoming Silvermont silicon will be branded Pentium and Celeron — which is the value end of Intel’s Core-based mainstream chips. The chipmaker’s Continue Reading →