Randall Stephenson, the recently christened AT&T chairman and CEO, is the mastermind behind the $199 Apple iPhone 3G. He’s also the architect behind an extended exclusivity deal with Apple.USA Today is reporting that Stephenson, the man who agreed to pay Apple about $300 per device to help keep the retail price of the iPhone reasonable, has inked a deal that will give AT&T some breathing room to profit from the phones.
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August 5th, 2008
Intel 
revealed details Monday about its upcoming family of graphics processors with multiple cores, code-named Larrabee. The new processors are expected to compete with market leaders NVIDIA and AMD’s ATI division.Details unveiled in an Intel-authored paper include a new approach to rendering 3-D, a programming model and performance analysis for several applications, and multiple processor engines. Intel plans to present its plan at the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles on Aug. 12.
The first Larrabee-based product will target the personal-computer graphics market and is expected in 2009 or 2010. Larrabee will be the industry’s first many-core x86 Intel architecture, which means it will be based on an array of many processors. The individual processors are similar to the Intel processors that power the Internet, laptops, PCs and servers, the company said.
“Intel is not the first vendor to go down this road. IBM’s Power-based Cell processor, and actually the multicore chips that IBM built for Microsoft‘s XBox and Nintendo, were the first,” said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT Research. “IBM’s work in the multicore space effectively knocked Intel out of the computer game-console market.”
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August 5th, 2008
