At the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, Eric Kim took stage to not only award the winner in the Intel Core 2 Challenge and announce that a new challenge would be issued to PC designers soon, he also shared the company’s plans to foster the growth of the PC as ...

Now through April 19, 2007, people can visit www.intelchallenge.com and vote for their favorite concept PC design. Voters get to choose from designs submitted by companies competing for $1 million in the industry Intel Core Processor Challenge. A group of computer and design experts will award the winners in ...

Last September at the Intel Developers Forum, Intel announced the Intel Core Processor Challenge, a design competition aimed at pushing desktop design far beyond its traditional “beige box.” To compete for a $1 million bounty, more than two dozen designers from around the world responded by building an ...

The Magic Box is actually two units: a fully functioning computer that detaches from the media server base featuring a 2.5-inch HDD bay, two-way speakers and a USB port for connecting it to other PCs. A high performing, energy-efficient Intel Core 2 Duo processor allows for a compact design that ...

Curves of brushed aluminum grace the BICOM HMS7, a combination PC and media server designed for the digital home. Inside, there’s a high-performance, energy-efficient Intel Core 2 Duo processor, but outside the user-friendly front panel features touch-screen LED controls for music, movie, and program functions. Future expandability options include PCI, ...

“The PC has been a clunky box for a long time,” said Ekin Binal, VP of product development for BICOM. “We’re taking a new spin on it.” The HMS8’s cubicle design is a high-end PC media server that integrates a CD, DVD Player/Recorder, and Digital Media Player. The front panel ...

An easy-to-use interface and touch-sensitive buttons were the main breakthroughs in the three systems Connecticut-based BICOM submitted to the Intel Core Processor Challenge PC Design. This aluminum covered media server is styled for the digital home. Built on the Intel VIIV technology platform using a mobile Intel Core 2 ...

“We tried to reduce everything to the necessary minimum,” said mCubed Information Technology GmbH’s Managing Director, Maik Berendt. mCubed’s submission for the Intel Core Processor Challenge PC Design, the aluminum and acrylic HFX micro, uses an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and a fanless, noiseless cooling system of integrated heatsinks ...

Timothy Chou, author and entrepreneur, is the latest guest in this series of discussions with thought leaders, presented by WebEx. Chou was the president of Oracle’s On-Demand business from 1999 to 2005, the author of the book The End of Software, and he remains an influential figure in ...

Intel announced the Intel Core Processor Challenge to award up to $1 million in prizes to the PC or CE manufacturers that designs the smallest, most stylish, multimedia optimized PCs based on Intel Viiv technology with Intel Core 2 Duo processors. The challenge is intended to speed up the availability of more stylish and smaller consumer PCs that have the performance and power efficiency thanks to Intel core 2 Duo processors,