Eric Grevstad

Last week, Intel Corp.‘s flagship processor was a Pentium 4 running at 3.06GHz; today, it’s a Pentium 4 running at the fractionally slower 3.0GHz. What happened? A new chipset platform and faster system bus — 800MHz instead of the previous 533MHz (technically, quad-pumped 200MHz instead of 133MHz). Using dual-channel DDR400 system memory, the Intel 875P […]

Everybody Get Unplugged This article also appears on Jupitermedia’s CPU Planet site. Desktops? Those old things? If you’ve seen the advertising spreads in this morning’s papers, you know Intel Corp.today started spending a reported $300 million-plus to launch its new Centrino mobile technology — a combined processor, chipset, and 802.11b wireless networking solution that the […]

A few hours after partners like Dell and Gateway posted new PC offerings on their Web sites, Intel Corp. has formally announced the new Pentium 4 desktop chipsets that make them possible — silicon that supports faster memory as well as the Hyper-Threading Technology that will debut in the 3.06GHz Pentium 4 processor shipping later […]

Mr. Speaker, members of forums, honored guests, my fellow Americans and PC users worldwide: Our constitution decrees that the columnist shall from time to time give information on the state of the art, and I’m honored to continue this January tradition. I’d like to single out a special guest in the gallery — that teenage […]

Few of us would call 2001 a good year, and all of us would gladly trade an even worse recession or high-tech slump for a cosmic Control-Z to undo the tragedies of September 11. But there were highs as well as lows here at Hardware Central. Plenty of cool products reached the Labs, Weather, & […]

I’m trying to stay calm about this. Actually, I’m trying to think of a comparable example of a company having an image problem, yet plowing ahead, bull-headed and ham-handed, without making the slightest effort to appease onlookers’ concerns. Imagine if tobacco companies announced they were not only restarting cartoon ads aimed at children, but sending […]