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More supercomputers than ever are using Intel Corporation processors, according to the latest TOP500 list. The high performance computing (HPC) community is especially enthusiastic about quad-core Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors, which are driving the research and analytical capabilities of more than half the systems on the list.

The 32nd edition of the TOP500 list shows that 379 of the world’s top 500 systems, including the third-fastest system in the world, now have Intel inside. According to the list, Intel is powering 49 systems in the top 100.

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The IBM and Intel Corporation have announced that they are extending their collaboration in the `blade server market’ to drive adoption of an open industry specifications for the blades switches.

A statement here on Saturday (25 Oct) said that this will enable switch vendors to maximise returns on their research and development by developing products to a single design, reaching more customers with just one product.

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Seven 45 nanometer (nm) manufactured processor 7400 series products launched by the Intel Corporation. A statement here on Wednesday said the Intel Corporation has extended its lead in the high-end server segment, setting new standards in virtualisation performance with the launch of seven 45nm-manufactured Processor 7400 Series products.

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The idea may scare some, but Intel predicts that by 2050 machines could surpass the peak of human intelligence.

So predicted Justin Rattner, chief technology officer at the chip maker, in a presentation at the Intel Developer Forum which examined how technology is expected to bridge the gap between man and machine.

The vision included sensitive robots and shape-shifting materials.

“There is no question that one of the most likely things that will happen in the next 40 years is that machine and human intelligence will come much closer together,” Mr Rattner told the BBC.

“The ability of humans to communicate with machines and for machines to communicate with humans will get so much better.”
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Intel has released a draft specification revision 0.9 for the Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI). The revision, released Wednesday, comes in support of USB 3.0 architecture, also known as SuperSpeed USB. The draft specification provides a standard method for USB 3.0 host controllers to communicate with the USB 3.0 software stack.

One important factor in adopting SuperSpeed USB products is interoperability between multiple devices from different manufacturers. The xHCI draft specification revision 0.9 aims to make interoperability easier to implement, while also making it easier for developers to create software support for the market.

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Intel Pakistan Corporation on Wednesday conferred awards upon young Pakistani scientists who brought recognition to the country at various International Science and Engineering Competitions. Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education Jehangir Bashar, Additional Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education Shahid Ahmad and Country Manager Intel Pakistan Corporation, Azhar Zaidi were present on the occasion.

The ceremony was arranged in collaboration with the Ministry of Education in and awarded young Pakistanis who not only won at the National Science Olympiad (NSO) but also brought great laurels to Pakistan this year at various other international science and engineering competitions.

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Intel wants to get back into the discrete graphics game and on Monday revealed some details about how it plans to get there within the next couple of years with a family of products and development tools codenamed Larrabee.

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip giant will officially present a paper on “a many-core visual computing architecture” at the SIGGRAPH 2008 conference in Los Angeles on Aug. 12 but has already placed the paper online.

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You can never be sure what advances will find their way into the next round of Apple hardware updates until practically the moment Cupertino makes the big announcement. But that doesn’t mean it’s not fun to guess a little bit.

Soon after Intel’s recent announcement of its new Centrino 2 mobile platform, rumors began to circulate about what would be inside Apple’s next round of MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops (which are, themselves, rumored to be refreshed in the near future). Since Apple’s current laptop line is based on Intel’s earlier Centrino (aka Santa Rosa) platform, most observers assumed that Apple would adopt Intel’s new platform—despite some uncertainty caused by Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer’s veiled reference to a “product transition” during the company’s July 21 earnings conference call.

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Three tech giants Hewlett Packard, Intel and Yahoo said on Tuesday they are teaming up on a research project to help turn Web services into reliable, everyday utilities.

The companies are joining forces with academic researchers in Asia, Europe and the United States to create an experimental network that lets researchers test “cloud-computing” projects Webwide services that can reach billions of users at once.

Their goal is to promote open collaboration among industry, academic and government researchers by removing financial and logistical barriers to working on hugely computer-intensive, Internet-wide projects.

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Intel, the world’s top PC chip maker, on Tuesday launched the next-generation of its Centrino wireless chip that it hopes will provide a new revenue stream amid a broader push into mobile technologies.

The launch of the Centrino 2 chip, previously code named Montevina, came after a delay of several months and was decidedly lower key than the launch of the first Centrino chips in 2003. The next generation chipset combines wi-fi capability, which is only usable within about 100 meters of so-called “hot-spot” transmitters, with a newer wireless technology called WiMax, which allows for high-speed data transmission over much bigger distances and can be used to blanket entire cities.

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The company also introduced dual-core mobile processor, as well as planning to introduce eight new processors within 90 days.

Intel has introduced the Intel Centrino 2 Processor Technology products for laptops, powered by five new Intel Core2 Duo processors. In addition.

The company has also said to introduce the world’s highest performing dual-core mobile processor, the Intel Core2 Extreme processor running at a brisk 3.06 GHz.

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