You won’t see this happening everyday. The Chip giant buys a security software giant, out of nowhere.

Intel, the biggest chip-hardware player, is buying software/security maker McAfee for $7.7 billion, a huge 60% premium  over yesterday’s market price.

Acquisitions like this one are Really rare in the Tech industry, here’s why:

• Intel bought a company which is almost as big as itself.
• A core Hardware company buying a core security software company.

Intel is giving us sneak peak into the Future by revealing the first chip that uses light aka photonics to send data. With Four lasers being used in the prototype, its able to convert light into data at about 50Gbps, something which is un-achievable using wires carrying electrical signals.

The Light Peak optical interconnect can transfer data at 10Gbits/sec in both directions, and is touted as an all-in-one replacement for USB, DisplayPort and HDMI and all others in competition. At such speeds, You can transfer a Full HD 1080p BluRay movie in a .. Read Further »

Sure, Intel wants to plant a chip in your head by 2020, so why cant they build a car that is smarter than its driver?

Intel is building the car at its research headquarters which would record Car’s dynamic characteristics like speed, steering and braking along with video footage from inside and outside the vehicle and then like it opr not, will send the data to police and insurance companies in the event of an accident making it easier to determine the cause of car crashes and identify the person .. Read Further »

Intel’s plans for entering smartphone market is making sweet progress. Few days back, Intel announced Official Android port to x86, Atom and today they demonstrated the next generation Atom processor that would lay the building blocks of the .. Read Further »

The popular mobile OS, Android, has been ported to support Intel Atom processors.

Currently, the Android OS is exclusively available for ARM based architecture, however, Since it’s open source, we’ve seen few x86 ports for Netbooks. One of .. Read Further »

Intel plans to end the Processor Rat race, atleast for few months, by unveiling it’s latest Processor architecture: Nehalem-EX server. Last year, Intel had .. Read Further »

In 1968, IBM had introduced a new concept that could enable Software Threads at the lowest level transparent to the application developers, this was known as SMT or Simultaneous Multithreading.

Sure, it was a great innovation but several years later was copied and re-branded as Hyper Threading (HT) by Intel #mce_temp_url#in it’s x86 processors. Intel claims it to produce two parallel threads without loss in performance. Well, it’s not true.

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Intel has recently unveiled plans for it’s next generation graphics for Netbooks: PineTrail. Nvidia already has a strong contender: Nvidia Ion. So which one is better?

Intel claims that Nvidia Ion is overkill for Netbooks .. Read Further »

Intel always dreamt of making the one perfect Mobile Internet Device that could do everything a Noteboook could, yet, fit int he pocket. The dreams started off with experiment: Netbooks.

Luckily, the idea created a new Niche though was exaggerated by several big brands. Watching the growing success, .. Read Further »

Recently Intel got blamed of an AntiTrust by FTC for making monopolizing market  innovation.

Without any disruption, Intel has revealed its plans for new products to be unveiled at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Intel plans to debut 27 new components, including 17 new processors. They include two notable integrated processors for desktops and notebooks PCs. Both .. Read Further »