The Las Vegas extravaganza known as the Consumer Electronics Show isn't exactly a chipmaker's event, but Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are still making their presence known. CIA technology will map your face
The most interesting product that Intel CEO Paul Otellini brought to his keynote address was an automatic avatar builder made by BigStage.
January 8, 2008 Intel CEO sees Net boosting consumer electronics
Paul Otellini predicts during his CES keynote that the Internet's impact on the PC industry is about to play out again in the consumer electronics market.
Photos: Otellini envisions an always-connected world January 7, 2008 New PC platforms from Intel will face hurdles
The benchmark results are suitably impressive, but the products--especially "Skulltrail"--depend on other tech to help them achieve their full potential.
January 7, 2008 Mobile Penryn: Early test results
Performance gains aren't immediately evident. Intel is really just laying the foundation for architectural advances due later in the year with Nehalem.
HP updates the Pavilion HDX with Penryn Toshiba jumps on the Penryn bandwagon January 7, 2008 Nvidia announces new chipsets, Hybrid SLI
The new NForce 700-series products are AMD-only designs, but they also bring about Hybrid Power (for laptop gamers) and GeForce Boost (for mainstream desktop types).
January 7, 2008 Intel, AMD toss in their chips at CES
AMD has much less to say, given that its priorities center on fixing the Barcelona and Phenom processors, but it will talk up its upcoming Puma notebook platform.
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Dirk Meyer, the man to watch at AMD
news analysis He's being groomed to succeed CEO Hector Ruiz. But first, he must prove that last year's engineering snafus were an aberration.
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