| Chip Shot: Intel, President Obama Promote Math, Science Education |
| November 23, 2009 |
| In support of President Obama's U.S. Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Initiative, Intel committed more than $200 million over the next 10 years to train teachers in math, science and technology education. As part of its STEM investment, led by Former Intel Chairman Craig Barrett, Intel will help prepare all students to take Algebra I by 8th grade and give more students hands-on math, science opportunities, through Intel Math, Intel Teach and Intel's science fair programs. Learn more here. |
| Chip Shot: Two More Awards for Intel Solid-State Drives |
| November 20, 2009 |
| The Intel X25-M Solid-State Drive (SSD) received two more awards this week including a Consumer Electronics Association CES Innovations Award. The X25-M was also named a Gold Medal Winner as Editor Best in the Hardware Storage Category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro. Introduced in July, the Intel X25-M is the industry's first SSD on 34nm NAND flash memory manufacturing process - delivering the same or better performance over its 50nm version, at a fraction of the cost. |
| Chip Shot: Inspiring Change in Education with Technology |
| November 18, 2009 |
| In recognition of International Education Week, Intel ethnographer Tony Salvador discusses what he observed last week at the International eLearning Summit, a gathering of educators and policymakers from 40 countries. He reflects on the difficult - but essential - task many education decision makers are faced with to ensure their education systems are moving in the right direction. Tony calls out Portugal and Macedonia as leading countries supporting education, by investing in technology for enhancing and facilitating learning in the classroom. Read more from Tony and let us know your thoughts on how to improve our education system. |
| Chip Shot: Write a Haiku, Win a Home Server from Intel, Microsoft |
| November 18, 2009 |
| Gadget-philes that need an excuse to flex their artistic muscle are encouraged to submit an entry to the Intel® and Microsoft® Home Server Haiku Challenge. The challenge, which asks participants to express how a home server could bring peace of mind to their daily digital lives, will be accepting submissions until December 11. All entries are eligible to win one-of-three home servers that will arrive in time for the holidays to stream and share photos, videos and music with family and friends. For more information on winning a home server featuring the Intel architecture and Microsoft® Windows® Home Server software, visit winahomeserver.com. |
| Chip Shot: Intel CTO Justin Rattner kicks off Supercomputing '09 |
| November 17, 2009 |
| Justin Rattner, Intel CTO, kicked off the Supercomputing 2009 (SC'09) conference today. Rattner asserted that the 3-D internet has the potential to be the "killer app" that can drive growth for High Performance Computers (HPC). He unveiled and demonstrated a new framework called ScienceSim, an open source virtual world that Intel helped to create for SC'09. He discussed examples of ScienceSim being used for applications from fern ecology to fashion research. |
| Chip Shot: Intel Cloud Computing Service Measures Multicore App Performance |
| November 17, 2009 |
| To boost parallel programming, Intel introduced a Web-based service that allows software developers to assess how their applications will perform on a number of multicore processor configurations. Powered by Intel® Parallel Studio, the Intel® Parallel Universe Portal is a cloud computing analysis tool that tests parallel applications, written for the Windows operating system, in multicore environments on an on-demand basis. The tool is currently available to members of the Intel Software Network through the Intel Parallel Universe Portal at no charge. |
| Chip Shot: Intel CTO Weighs in on 21st Century Innovation |
| November 17, 2009 |
| In support of an Intel-Newsweek survey released on innovation and the economy, Justin Rattner shared his perspective on a 21st century R&D model with Huffington Post readers. He explained that promoting innovation and supporting U.S. competitiveness will require an enlightened combination of cutting edge academic research and industrial R&D, well-informed government policy and support, and continuous improvement of math and science outcomes. |
| Chip Shot: Intel Boosts NASA's Supercomputing Brainpower |
| November 17, 2009 |
| Using 2,304 Intel® Xeon® 5500 series processors, NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has increased its "brainpower" by 35 percent allowing scientists to make new discoveries and gain greater insight into Earth's system and climate change. Not only does the enhanced supercomputer allow scientists to make new discoveries, the new processors are also environmentally friendly, using only one-eighth the power of previous generation processors to accomplish the same amount of work. For more information, visit NASA's Advanced Supercomputing facility. |
| Chip Shot: Intel and SGI Break Supercomputing Boundaries |
| November 16, 2009 |
| Intel and SGI are scaling the extreme heights of supercomputing with a shared memory supercomputer called Altix UV. The system will lead the industry in maximizing bandwidth and minimizing latency on cluster and HPC applications. The system, which is being unveiled at Supercomputing 2009 in Portland, Ore., uses quad-, six-, or eight-core Nehalem-EX processors, and will deliver exceptional performance and scalability. Supercomputing 2009 attendees can see Altix UV in SGI's booth, #1721. |
| Chip Shot: Intel Capital to Announce New Investments at CEO Summit |
| November 16, 2009 |
| At the tenth annual Intel Capital CEO Summit in Huntington Beach, CA, Intel Capital President Arvind Sodhani will host a press conference at 12:30 p.m. PST tomorrow, Nov. 17. The press conference will be streamed live at this Web site. Sodhani will provide a general update on Intel Capital and announce several new investments spanning various geographies. The Intel Capital CEO Summit, which runs today through Wednesday, provides Intel Capital portfolio companies with company-building, deal-making and learning opportunities through keynote presentations, expert panel discussions and more than 500 matchmaking meetings between start-up CEOs and industry executives from some of the largest Global 2000 corporations. |
| Chip Shot: New HPC Optimized Intel Processor Planned |
| November 16, 2009 |
| At Supercomputing 2009 in Portland, Ore., Intel unveiled a future High Performance Computing (HPC) optimized version of its forthcoming processor codenamed "Nehalem-EX." The six-core chip will run at higher frequencies than eight-core versions of the Nehalem-EX processors and will offer advantages on some HPC workloads. Customers will benefit from greater memory bandwidth and capacity and will be able to build single computers or "nodes" with up to 256 such chips. More details can be found at Intel's online Press Room. |