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Chip giant Intel won first place in a ranking of flash memory-based solid state drives (SSDs) , in which the researcher, DRAMeXchange Technology, pilloried the industry over the wide disparity of quality among the storage devices.

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Intel wins top spots in SSD storage drive ranking

Chip giant Intel, a major backer of the movement to provide mobile WiMax wireless broadband to Internet users around the world, expects the next major release of the technology to be deployed starting in 2012, an executive said Tuesday. “Standards work will be completed by the end of this year,” said Rama Shukla, a vice president and director of the WiMax program office at Intel, during a news conference in Taipei.

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Intel sees 2012 deployment for mobile WiMax Release 2

Intel acknowledged Monday that at least one counterfeit version of its Core i7-920 processor made its may into the U.S. market, and said it’s trying to determine how many more are out there.

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Intel investigating sale of fake Core i7 chip

Intel faces challenges in migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 , including application incompatibility and system readiness, the company said on Wednesday.

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Intel faces challenges in Windows 7 migration

Intel Capital and other venture capital firms will invest $3.5 billion in U.S. technology firms over the next two years, and Intel and 16 other large U.S. companies will step up their hiring of U.S

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Intel, VC firms to invest $3.5 billion in U.S. tech

Acer has spilled details hinting at an imminent release date for Nvidia’s latest Ion 2 graphics platform, which could potentially turn netbooks into multimedia powerhouses.

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Acer hints at March release for Nvidia’s Ion 2 platform

Nokia and Intel will merge two of their mobile operating systems into MeeGo, a Linux-based, open operating system for everything from advanced smartphones to netbooks, connected TVs, and tablet computers, the companies said at a joint press conference on Monday. The new operating system will combine the best features from each operating system, including the Moblin core and the UI (user interface) toolkit from Maemo.

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Nokia and Intel to merge Maemo, Moblin mobile operating systems

After about a year of delays, Intel today took the wrappers off its high-end Itanium processor, code-named Tukwila .

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Intel rolls out oft-delayed Tukwila chip

Intel is preparing six-core chips for high-end desktops and servers for release in the first half of this year, the company said Wednesday.

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