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Cracking Open: Apple TV 2012

March 29, 2012 8:18am PDT

Bill Detwiler cracks open the 2012 Apple TV. Inside, he uncovers a new, single-core new A5 system-on-chip and an upgraded Broadcom BCM4330 wireless chip. For a detailed analysis of the teardown,...

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Cracking Open: Apple iPad 2012 (Wi-Fi)

March 21, 2012 2:29pm PDT

Bill Detwiler cracks open the 2012 Apple iPad Wi-Fi. Inside, he uncovers the new A5X system-on-chip, more RAM, the Retina display, and a 45Whr battery to power these hardware upgrades. For a...

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Cracking Open: Motorola Droid Razr

December 8, 2011 10:34am PST

In this week's episode of Cracking Open, Bill Detwiler shows you what's inside the Droid Razr, and discuss what he learned from the teardown. That basically, the Razr is an upgraded Droid...

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Apple unveils the iPhone 4S 'world' phone

October 5, 2011 4:48am PDT

Apple's senior vice president of marketing, Philip Schiller, announces the latest version of the company's smartphone, the iPhone 4S. The new phone features an A5 chip, dual-core graphics, a...

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Intel, Google partner on optimized Android phones

September 15, 2011 3:38am PDT

At the Intel Developer Forum, Google announced it is teaming up with the chipmaker to optimize Android for Intel-powered mobile devices. Google Senior Vice President Andy Rubin made an appearance...

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Intel shows off new 22-nanometer wafer

September 22, 2009 12:29pm PDT

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel CEO Paul Otellini shows off a silicon wafer housing chips made with 22-nanometer process technology. Chips made on that process will be ready...

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April showers in tech conferences

April 1, 2009 9:37am PDT

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to senior editor Sam Diaz about the month ahead and what the tech industry is expected to announce. Some highlights include, Intel's new Xeon 5500 processor,...

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The cost of creating solar cells

December 4, 2008 1:28pm PST

At the Always On Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., a panel of solar energy executives debates whether or not silicon prices will fall as the industry matures. While they all think margins...

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IT Dojo: Investigate RAM problems with Vista’s Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool

November 24, 2008 7:55am PST

Application failures, operating system faults, Stop errors: If you see any of these while running Windows Vista, you could have defective or failing RAM. In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler shows...

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Steve Jurvetson: Green nano solutions

September 18, 2008 4:00pm PDT

At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson describes the acceleration of computer and genetic technology through Moore's law, and then...

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Moore's Law to last 40 more years?

August 21, 2008 2:12pm PDT

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel's Justin Rattner and Michael Garner talk about materials and processes that will be used in the next 40 years to increase chip performance and...

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Intel touts Moorestown 'mobile' chip

August 20, 2008 12:20pm PDT

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Anand Chandrasekher, general manager for the chipmaker's Ultra Mobility Group, shows a wafer with "Lincroft"--the main processor for Moorestown. The...

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Intel demos quad-core notebooks

August 20, 2008 11:38am PDT

Intel's David Perlmutter showed the company's new quad-core laptop computers at the Intel Developer Conference in San Francisco. He demonstrated how video conferencing can be done in HD--even with...

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Inside the Intel Developer Forum

August 19, 2008 3:31pm PDT

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with senior editor Sam Diaz about trends and products at this year's Intel Developer Forum. Diaz discusses how the chipmaker's latest processors pave the way...

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The Green Enterprise: Intel

May 12, 2008 4:39pm PDT

On the next installment of The Green Enterprise, CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos looks at how Intel is developing green technologies for its customers and within its own organization. Innovations...

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Apple introduces ultrathin notebook

January 15, 2008 12:22pm PST

At Macworld 2008 in San Francisco Tuesday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs shows off the company's new ultraportable notebook, the MacBook Air. The new notebook is .76 inch thick and runs on Intel's Core 2...

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Keeping Moore's Law alive

November 13, 2007 11:47am PST

At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Intel CEO Paul Otellini talks about keeping pace with Moore's Law by developing processor technologies that minimize power usage and allow chips to be made...

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Moore's Law: No more

September 19, 2007 1:38pm PDT

At the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore discusses the end of Moore's Law, which he believes will hit a wall in the next 10 to 15 years.

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Intel's new Nehalem processor

September 18, 2007 1:53pm PDT

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Calif., Intel CEO Paul Otellini discusses the company's next-generation, 45-nanometer microarchitecture, Nehalem. The company says the processor will...

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Energy-efficient transistors

August 10, 2007 2:16pm PDT

Rob Willoner, a technology analyst at Intel, explains how smaller and more energy-efficient transistors are resulting in faster and more powerful CPUs.