According to a report, Intel decided to postpone launch of 45nm quadcore CPUs due to lack of competition from AMD. AMD’s upcoming Phenom is not really that phenomenal.
ACCORDING TO A REPORT, Intel has decided to postpone the launch of its 45nm quad-core CPUs because AMD is in such a mess.
Digitimes said it learned from motherboard makers that the chippery was scheduled to launch in January next year. But now the mobo mob have coughed that the launch will be put back a month or two.
Apparently, Intel will flog its 65nm quad-core processors for a while longer since AMD’s triple-core and upcoming Phenom CPUs aren’t ready.
The chips we’re talking about here are the Core 2 Quad Q9300, Q9450 and Q9550, Digitimes said.
Source: The Inquirer
I guess Intel can rest for another 3 months. Not a good news for technology lovers though. I have at least 2 friends waiting quite impatiently for Intel Core 2 Quads.
Intel, Microsoft and Japanese online payments company Bit Wallet have teamed up to develop a mobile PC platform designed to bring computing to those traditionally considered to be unfamiliar with shopping online, browsing the web or sitting at a desktop PC. Like housewives, apparently.
There’s no mouse or keyboard, to make it more friendly for folk unused to such input devices, and Intel, Microsoft and Edy said they want to see apps with simple, button-based interfaces to come to the platform the better to appeal to people with little or no PC experience.
(Slate DT FeliCa.)
It looks likely the first device will be manufactured by local hardware company PBJ, which has already used Intel CPUs in its existing mobile devices.
More at Reg Hardware
Anyway, I think this is a good effort. This is a rather small news but I like the idea that they’re targeting housewives. Housewives is perhaps of the least tapped groups of people in the society to use computers. Exposing them to new technologies may be a good idea. And in return, I too hope that computers are easier to use since computers have to be housewives-friendly in future.
Our computers are just too hard to use. My aunt is still stuck thinking that the monitor contains the CPU. I encouraged her to get a Mac already.