Intel CES announcement: Penryn in the wild

by Michael Rose (Jan 8th 2008 11:30AM)

Since the Mac Pros announced earlier today are using the "Harpertown" desktop version of the chip, it should be no surprise that Intel's Penryn family of processors are shipping and in use, as announced at CES yesterday. The full suite of chips inclu...

Apple and Intel thinking differently together

by David Chartier (Mar 24th 2006 1:00PM)

Intel sounds excited about their relationship with Apple, as Deborah Conrad, vice president and director of Team Apple at Intel, spoke positively to a group of CNET editors yesterday about how things are going so far. Deborah was doubtful that an Int...

But Uncle Steve, I thought Intel chips were faster?

by Scott McNulty (Jun 7th 2005 10:32AM)

The biggest problem I can see with Apple's switch to Intel is the fact that Apple will have to work against much of its own marketing. Take, for example, this graphic (source):According to this chart the PowerPC smokes the Intel chips, and does...

WWDC Rumor Roundup: Apple moving to Intel

by Scott McNulty (Jun 5th 2005 1:10PM)

Well boys and girls, we all know the big rumor of the day is that Apple is looking to ditch IBM and cozy up with Intel to start producing chips for Macs across the line. Let's take a look at how people across my NetNewsWire subscriptions are react...

Xserve RAID powered by… Intel?!

by Scott McNulty (Mar 3rd 2005 7:56PM)

For years people have suggested that Apple would fare much better if they ported their OS to the Intel platform. The reasoning goes something like this: There are lots of Intel boxes out here. People don’t like Windows. Lots...

The race to get Linux on Intel Macs

by Scott McNulty (Feb 10th 2006 9:30AM)

ComputerWorld has an interesting article up about how the various flavors of Linux are working, or not working, towards running on the new Intel Macs. Since the chips in the new Macs use the relatively new EFI (the successor to BIOS) most Linux distr...

Intel hints at option of custom chip foundry for big customers

by Michael Grothaus (May 26th 2011 9:00PM)

Reuters is reporting that Intel "wouldn't blink" if given the chance to make custom chips for Apple's devices, like the iPhone and iPad. At an investor event in London on Thursday, Chief Financial Officer Stacy Smith told journalists that "there...

Intel's new strategy confirmed

by Jan Kabili (Dec 30th 2005 12:00PM)

Intel will unveil its new strategy focused on the digital home at next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the New York Times says this morning. Intel is changing its focus from computing hardware to selling a digital lifestyle to consumer...

PC vendors to use the MacBook Air's tiny Intel chip

by Dave Caolo (Jan 31st 2008 5:00PM)

The World's Thinnest Laptop will soon have competition. Macworld is reporting that (at least) two unnamed manufacturers intend to use the tiny Intel chip that powers the MacBook Air. Steve Jobs made a big deal about it at this month's Macworld Expo ...

Intel Mac minis' sports integrated graphics card

by Scott McNulty (Feb 28th 2006 3:15PM)

If you are interested in getting yourself the ultimate Mac gaming machine, the Mac mini has never been for you. The new Intel Mac minis are much faster, which might make some Mac gamers think twice, however, as Joystiq points out this iteration does ...

Apple PC competitors request price drop from Intel

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 20th 2011 4:00PM)

Intel is facing increasing pressure from its retail partners to lower the price of its upcoming line of Ultrabook notebooks, according to a report from Digitimes. Manufacturers like Acer are now asking Intel to reduce the cost of the CPU to help...

Editorial: Apple on Intel

by C.K. Sample, III (Jun 6th 2005 3:00PM)

By WWDC 2007, Apple will be switching to Intel. What does this mean? It depends on who you are. If you are a mobile user, like myself, it means there will be no Powerbook G5. The next Powerbook will be running on an Intel chip. In fact, it most...

Logic for Intel Macs at NAMM

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 21st 2006 10:00AM)

If you haven't made up your mind that Intel chips will "save" the Mac platform, Apple demoed the Intel-native version of Logic Pro 7 at NAMM today. How fast is it? Let's just say I'm going to have to call that PowerBook of yours - yeah, the...

Jobs gives a date for Intel Macs

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Sep 20th 2005 3:30PM)

Warm up those credit cards for June 2006, early adopters. Another little nugget to come from Steve-O's quiet little meeting with reporters at the Apple Expo in Paris: the shipping date for the first Intel-based Macs. Hey, you know what else was relea...

Intel releases Santa Rosa notebook chipset

by Mat Lu (May 10th 2007 8:00AM)

Our sister blog Engadget has the goods on Intel's newest notebook chipset which was released yesterday and is called "Santa Rosa." This chipset is the followup to earlier notebook chipsets which are presently powering the MacBook and MacBook Pro. Thi...