Intel Looks Beyond the Microchip

Dr Occult writes "BBC reports about upcoming major changes in Intel in 2006. The current Intel core, the Pentium, is on its way out and is to be replaced by a new chip called 'Core'. These new Core chips come in two flavours. Solo Core is a single core processor, and Duo Core is a dual core processor. Intel has also announced the Viiv standard. Viiv is less technology and more a shopping list of technologies. Aimed at the home entertainment market, it defines the latest generation of media centres that are capable of playing anything from MP3 songs to high-definition films."

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Oddly appropriate for a story like this...

Re:Total Annihilation

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I know this is going to be modded -1, Offtopic but I really need to say it.

Best. Game. Ever.

Disposable PCs.

[LWATCDR]

We already have disposable pcs. How many times have you heard someone say, "My computer is slowing down I need a new one." Yea we all shake our heads and try and tell them that they just need to run adaware, spybot search and destroy, then install AVG or the virus checker of your choice. But many people just go and buy a new $300 computer and throw the old one out of give it to a geek friend.
Spyware IS driving a large amount of the profits of Intel and Microsoft. Every $300 computer is money in Microsofts pockets. The only place that it has the potential to hurt Microsoft is in the corporate and government segment.
The real truth is that for 99% of the users out there a 1.2 Ghz Duron is good enough.

I would love to see just what the cheapest new "usable" system someone can build would cost.
Frankly the software stack could be free. I can not think of one home user level application that lacks a free alternative.