Hardware

The company also licensed its wireless LAN chipset to Apple back in 1994 and, in 1992, became the first licensee of ARM’s architecture. Under the deal, Intel will receive the option to buy a financial security in Plessey at a … Continue reading →

Other members of Apple’s executive team also gained stock options in 2001, including software executive Scott Forstall, hardware manager Bob Mansfield, CFO Peter Oppenheimer, marketing chief Phil Schiller, general counsel Bruce Sewell and operation manager …

Intel also is pushing efforts to drive down the cost of ultrabooks to below the $1,000 mark, where they will be able to better compete against tablets and Apple’s MacBook Pro. And less than a year after launching the ultrabook … Continue reading →

People asking about Apple’s absence from the Consumer Electronics Show are asking the wrong question, according to the Consumer Electronics Assn’s chief economist Shawn DuBravac. “The key, to me, is that we’re building a hardware core,” DuBravac said …

Part tablet, part a reimagining of the traditional “clamshell” laptop, it was a major step into the design arena where Apple has been virtually unchallanged for several years. It takes the Ultrabook concept formally introduced by Intel last June – … Continue reading →

Samsung threw down the gauntlet to Apple’s MacBook Air—and anticipated Intel’s massive marketing push for ultrabooks—with the Latitude D820 Battery Series 9 ultraportable, a 13.3-inch laptop with a super-slim 0.6-inch profile. Now that …

Dell, meanwhile, is preparing to release its own take on the ultrabook — an industry term created by Intel Corp. for light, thin laptops. Personal-computer makers are counting on ultrabooks to challenge the MacBook Air, Apple’s best-selling …

Apple Inc. (AAPL) Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook will … In November, software executive Scott Forstall, hardware manager Bob Mansfield, Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer, marketing chief Phil Schiller, General Counsel Bruce Sewell …

I can’t say that there’s a dramatic reason why I switched (it’s not some political statement about free and open source software); I just wanted to use some hardware that was impractical to get from Apple. Something crazy happened when … Continue reading →

Intel is taking high-tech and low-weight to new levels with … because you know the first ones were $999 or more,” he continued in a veiled reference to Apple’s popular MacBook Air line. “Our target is to pull the price … Continue reading →