A-Tech Fabrication’s Glenn Lirhus talked with PodTech about his company’s Intel Core 2 Challenge PC design. A-Tech’s design was inspired by a remote control, and is intended for the home-theater enthusiast. Like many of the Core 2 Challenge contestants, A-Tech had a unique solution to the cooling problem. The aluminum ...

Gavin Rose, CEO of NS Optimum Ltd. in the UK talks about “Argon”, a PC shaped like a skull. This is their first venture into case making, and Rose explains the pain staking process for his entry in Intel Core 2 Challenge PC Design competition.

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Founder of Swedish company Kapsel Multimedia, Wilhelm Lagerkranz, wanted a small, quiet computer he could use as a home media center. He looked around the marketplace and didn’t find what he wanted, so he decided to make it himself. Lagerkranz and his design team drew hundreds of sketches, trying to ...

Originally released in 2002, this video shows how the PC went from science fiction to science fact. It took 25 years for the first billion PCs to be deployed. The second billion are estimated to ship in less than 10 years.

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See what the PC looked like when it turned 20. Here’s a look back at the history of the PC

Originally released on: 3/7/2001

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Originally released in 2006, this video shows how the PC has become an all-in-one home entertainment device.

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With the Intel Core 2 Challenge PC Design contest deadline looming, tea-drinkers drank coffee, testers didn’t sleep, and boxes got packed in overdrive. This video, produced by BICOM, takes you behind the scenes, during the race to the finish, at the Connecticut company whose three PC designs, the HMS1, HMS7 ...

Paddy White, CEO of RealTime Technologies, in Dublin, Ireland, sent us this video about his company’s entry in Intel Core 2 Challenge PC Design competition. The iONYX imitates the look of stone, appropriate for geologically-rich Ireland. White contends this design will “look well in any room of the digital home.” ...

Vivid, luminous, precious - these were some of the terms Paddy White and his design team at RealTime Technologies came up with over a couple of pints of Guiness in a Dublin pub. The iONYX, RealTime Technology’s design entry for the Intel Core 2 Challenge PC Design, is made of ...

Industrial designer Anthony Forsythe talks about Norwegian company Asono’s Merium, entered in the Intel Core 2 Challenge PC Designs. The Merium can be done in custom colors, using a material usually found in kitchen countertops — corian. “As far as we know, this is the first time corian has ever ...

This is a video of Intel engineers talking about their research into 80-core chip technology. PodTech’s interview with Intel CTO Justin Rattner about the company’s 80-core announcement can be found here.

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Intel says it has developed an 80-core microprocessor chip that could enable PCs and chip-enabled devices to perform Teraflop level computing. The company will offer more details of its research in a series of scientific papers at the annual Integrated Solid State Circuits Conference this week in San Francisco. ...

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Intel announced that it will begin making 45 nanometer chips, code-named Penryn, in the second half of the year. The new microprocessors are the culmination of years of R&D using new materials to improve the efficiency and performance of silicon-based semiconductors.

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Stars and celebs turned-out recently for a hip housewarming party at Hollywood’s coolest new crib. The Esquire House 360° is a 17,000 square-foot Italian villa set among the stylish and exclusive mansions of Beverly Hills. This hip home is situated on three-acres of land with panoramic views of Southern California. Built and decorated with the latest materials and craftsmanship, the house seamlessly incorporates technology into each room, demonstrating how high fashion and high tech together are essential to the modern man.

Mobile computing is literally going to bed with users, so at the cool BED club in New York, PodTech’s Michael Johnson literally hopped into bed with Genevieve Bell, a senior researcher and anthropologist for Intel. She’s the director of Intel’s user experience group for Digital Home.

SAN FRANCISCO, September 26, 2006 (PodTech News) — Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini said his company is committed to bringing out new silicon manufacturing processes and chips every two years. Essentially, according to Otellini, Intel will prove that Moore’s Law can continue well into the next decade. The opening keynote address ...

Meet the professional girl gamers, the Frag Dolls and others, as Eddie Codel wanders the floor of the Intel Core 2 Duo launch party at Intel’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California. See demos of Intel’s new processor in action and hear from those who have already had the chance ...

Intel launched its family of Core 2 Duo processors at its headquarters in Santa Clara, California. PodTech’s Michael Johnson was there and gather a few moments from the event floor.

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Intel Core 2 Duo

SANTA CLARA, July 27, 2006 (PodTech News) – Intel Corporation showed off its new Core 2 Duo processors today at a press event at the company’s Santa Clara headquarters. The Core 2 Duo processors will power desktop and laptop PCs and workstations for both consumer and business uses. “This ...

Eddie Codel shows you what it’s like inside Intel’s Performance Benchmarking Lab by interviewing Matt Dunford, Intel Worldwide Chief Benchmarking Manager, and Regina Wu, Performance Engineer & Mad Gamer.

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Stephen Smith, Intel Corporation’s VP & Director of Desktop Platform Operations speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson, about the development of the new line of Intel Core 2 Duo processors, at Intel’s “proving ground”, the Benchmark Lab in Santa Clara, California.

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