HardwareIntel chairman kicks off IDF with call for social-minded innovation

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett called for developers to use their talents to come up with ideas for using technology to improve education, health care and economic development around the globe.

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HardwareMove over quad-cores, Intel's ready to ship 6-core chips

Intel Corp. announced that its new 6-core Xeon processors are slated to start shipping in September, long before rival AMD's competing offering is slated to be available.

HardwareIntel Nehalem Demo Systems

Intel had a number of Nehalem systems up and running at IDF. Clock speeds are unknown but there are tons of threads being spawned. The desktop platforms feature X58 motherboards with 6 DDR3 DIMM slots for Nehalem's 3 channels. Also on display was a Nehalem server with 144GB of DDR3 memory thanks to MetaRAM's 8GB DDR3 memory modules. ...