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Dear Intel, what the hell are you thinking?

Intel teams hires will.i.am of Black Eyed Peas fame as “director of creative innovation.”

I am not a corporate-minded person so I would never understand why Intel would do so.

Why will.i.am of Black Eyed Peas?

  • Carlos Mencia is not available.
  • Kanye West is too expensive.
  • Kid Rock is too busy hanging out with strippers.
  • (insert remarks here)

I posted this because:

  • I am running out of ideas of what to write today.
  • I am actually sick with a cold.
  • There are other news, but it takes a lot of time to write about and this one is too easy.
  • Two of the above.

Back to bed.

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Intel and NVIDIA settle licensing issues.

January 10, 2011.

Intel and NVIDIA today announced that they have signed a “comprehensive long-term patent cross licensing” agreement. Intel will pay NVIDIA 1.5 billion dollars over a six year period in licensing fees. The agreement also stipulates that NVIDIA is prohibited from making chipsets for Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors.

Is this a case of Intelectual Property limiting innovations?

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CES 2011: Windows Support for Silicon on a Chip Architectures.

Windows on ARM architectures, who would’ve guessed? Actually the rumor mills had been talking about it. Today Microsoft announces support of System on a Chip Architectures From Intel, AMD, and ARM for next version of Windows.

Next version of Windows? Do you mean Windows 8?
Microsoft have not officially called the next version of Windows as Windows 8 yet.

Is it anything new?
Not really. Windows NT kernel was ported to PPC and DEC-Alpha back in the 90’s. Actually it took Microsoft’s way too long to add suports for ARM architecture.

What’s next?
Steve Ballmer’s CES Keynote at 6:30 PM Pacific Time. CNET is covering it Live.
Live Video feed, or is it?

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Waiting for New MacBook Pro to appear on Apple Store today? Don’t hold your breath.

The rumor is still alive and kicking. Maybe this Tuesday Apple would release the new Core i5/i7/i405 MacBook Pros. Well, I’ve been waiting for the 72-core MacBook Pro for a long time. I’m due for a new Computer, and I want another MacBook Pro. The last purchase I made was 4 years ago when the first generation MacBook Pro was released.

OK, I have seen some Core i7 laptops and so far I am not impressed. HP Envy 15 is a disaster. No optical drive, horribly unusable trackpad and not worth the sticker price.

Come on Apple, where’s my Core i37 MacBook Pro? Yeah, the one with 73-core CPU.

You can go back to sleep now, and stop F5-ing the Apple Store page.