By comparison, Linux is practically risk-free for vendors of Intel or non-Intel hardware.
Likewise, they added support for Windows NT on Intel or non-Intel platforms because they assumed NT would sweep the world.
Similar woes plague Intel--down 22% over the last ten years--as tablets running non-Intel chips eat into the notebook market.
So, even if Linux eventually becomes the safe no-brainer choice on Intel, it will have gotten to that point with the established reputation for being reliable on non-Intel platforms as well as on Intel platforms.
This is a role reversal for AMD and Intel--last year, it was Intel that was rethinking its business.
The So Extreme SuperSpeed SSD product line offers consumers a storage option of either 80 GB (Intel M-25) or 160 GB (Intel M-25).
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Available in three different configurations, customers can choose a Mac mini with the latest dual-core Intel Core i5 or Intel Core i7 processors, AMD Radeon HD 6630M discrete graphics, or a quad-core Intel Core i7 powered server configuration.
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Processor loyalties could be split across the wider group, though: ASUS is said to be spreading the love by showing both an Intel-based tablet as well as one using NVIDIA's ARM-powered Tegra line, but Acer's previously rumored tablet is poised to go the Intel-only route, and Toshiba's may exist solely in a TI OMAP-based ARM camp.
It's AMD, with one-seventh of Intel's revenue, that has been exuding Intel-like cockiness--making predictions that its server processor called Opteron will be in twice as many server designs this year.
Despite generating just a fraction of Intel's sales, Intel's NAND flash memory business--a joint venture with Micron--will weigh on Intel's first-quarter profits, thanks to a worldwide glut of NAND memory (see "Memory Problems For Intel").
And, in its lower-end Intel-based server market, Compaq is facing stiffer competition, not least from Dell.
Gavrielov sees Xilinx in some ways as the anti-Intel: where Intel has a huge franchise focused primarily on one thing, microprocessors for PCs and servers, Xilinx makes parts used in a wide variety of products.
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While this secular bet will not be settled for some time, MSFT should get a cyclical boost late this year with the Windows 8 launch, expansion into the ARM- and Intel-based tablet markets, Office and Server product line refreshes, and a potential macro recovery and cyclical rebound in PCs.
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"There was no confirmation of an Intel Atom-based iPhone, " Intel spokeswoman Claudine Mangano wrote in a note in response to questions from Forbes.com.
Building on the device momentum and industry-leading power-efficiency of the award-winning Atom processor Z2760, Intel's first quad-core Atom SoC ("Bay Trail"), will be the most powerful Atom processor to-date -- doubling the computing performance of Intel's current- generation tablet offering and providing the ecosystem with a strong technology foundation and feature set from which to innovate.
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The Intel-side co-principal investigator, Mei Chen, has been in research at Intel and elsewhere for more than a decade, and has most recently focused on detailed medical image analysis and visual-collection management and navigation.
Some vendors who didn't support Intel-based systems eventually added Intel due to popular demand.
Of the tech companies with the ten largest cash positions, only two--Microsoft and Intel--yield more than 1.6%.
That way of thinking that led his Israeli engineering team to chuck the idea--sacred at Intel--that progress meant building ever faster processors.
In fact, the only thing they'd probably have to worry about would be the low-margin mini really cannibalizing thes sales of their non-Intel, non-DVR higher-margin iMac and Power Mac products (at least for the time being).
The Logitech Wireless Speaker Adapter for Intel WiDi-enabled laptops presents a tremendous opportunity for Intel to help customers extend the PC audio experience to a higher-fidelity home speaker system.
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Intel also continues to drive access to content on Intel-based devices by working with video service providers around the globe such as Comcast and Bouygues Telecom to create television experiences that will allow customers to view live and on-demand pay TV content.
Windows NT on Intel stands alone, and the hope of selling more non-Intel hardware based on the success of NT has collapsed.
Also doing well is the Four-Kings Intel Counter-Strike team.
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In January, Intel made announcements with Lenovo and Motorola at CES to launch Intel-powered smartphones, followed by announcing designs for Orange, ZTE and Lava at the Mobile World Congress in February.
Apple's close collaboration with Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ), and Intel's support for the new technology--basically a long-range version of wi-fi--gives the idea plausibility (see " Apple Cozies Up to Intel").
He said the new platform will deliver up to two times the performance benefits over Intel's current-generation solution (Intel Atom processor Z2460 platform), while also offering competitive power and battery life.
What Ramezani found was that companies that are consistently in the third quartile of growth--stalwarts like Wal-Mart, AutoZone and Intel--had stocks that far outperformed their faster-growing cohorts in the fourth quartile, such as Merisel, Limited and Toys "R" Us.
If it's a flop, however, Intel's latest price cuts could be the blow that ends AMD's ability to compete with Intel's manufacturing might--and put Intel's margins on an upward path once again.
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