Posts Tagged ‘intel’

Intel invests in America

February 10th, 2009 by Jeff

Tags: 32nm, intel, Nehalem

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Intel plans to spend $7 billion for factory upgrades and new manufacturings plants here in the United States. According to Electronista, Intel will create over 7000 jobs in the Southwestern US while they upgrade some of their fabs to the 32nm process that will be introduced next year when Intel does it “tock” on Nehalem.  Seven thousand more jobs sounds like a very good thing right now.  Good going intel.

nVidia has always felt a need to keep their drivers closed source, providing binary driver packages for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and BSD. This article focuses on the rationale and possible solutions to this “problem” in the case of Linux.

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