Intel claims that the growth in ultrabooks has helped the company achieve its volume goals in the first half of 2012.
Intel claims that the PC consumption in Q3 grew at half the season rate and it expects a similar situation next quarter as well.
"Intel claims that all it's doing is pro-competitive discounting, " says Balto.
Thin-and-light laptops with 28W U-series chips get a new tier, Iris, that Intel claims is up to twice as fast in 3D as last year's HD Graphics.
But for right now it's Atom, which is a big win for Intel in this space -- and in fact, Intel claims to have written half of Google TV's code.
Earlier, Compaq had launched suits claiming infringement of 13 patents (nine of which actually belong to Intel, Trigem claims).
Without admitting to any wrongdoing, Intel has settled such claims out of court more than once.
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Aptly named the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop, the distribution includes several Intel contributed enhancements that it claims will improve performance and security.
However, we feel that Intel has been faring well so far in this domain and claims to have a strong road-map for the future.
The company also claims IBM executives said they could not support AMD without facing retribution from Intel.
The Register is reporting that PA Semi had a close relationship with Apple in the months prior to the switch, and that the two companies were working together to gauge the feasibility of running native PowerPC-coded software on 2GHz dual-core chips that PA Semi claims run at only a third of the 21 to 25 watts consumed by Intel's Core Duo models.
Apple claims the new machines offer twice the performance of the models they replace, thanks to new Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors.
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