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Intel & Microsoft hope to push iPad’s global market share under 50% in 2013

Both Microsoft and Intel are said to have been working closely with PC makers in hopes of pushing Apple’s iPad to less than 50 percent of the global tablet market by mid-2013. Continue reading

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Windows 8 may have under five ARM tablets in October intro

After having touted ARM support, Microsoft is expected to leave it a minority for the fall Windows 8 launch, insiders purportedly disclosed on Monday. There would be “fewer than five” ARM devices, three of which would be tablets, in the understanding of Bloomberg’s sources. Over 40 companies were hoping to have Intel-based systems, they said…. Continue reading

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Remains of the Day: ARM wrestling

Apple continues to try and port OS X to every chip, up to and including those delicious chocolate tortilla ones, Siri keeps bugging Wolfram Alpha for information, and it looks like your used music files will clutter your iTunes library until the end of time. Continue reading

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Apple intern’s thesis leaks secret project to port Mac OS X to ARM processors

An academic paper written by a former Apple intern who now serves as a Core OS engineer at the company has revealed that it was working on a secret experiment to port Mac OS X Snow Leopard to the ARM architecture. Continue reading

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Apple threatened Intel with ‘wake-up call’ over chip power consumption

Officials at Apple were at at one point so unsatisfied with power consumption levels of Intel’s processors that they threatened to end their partnership with the chipmaker, if the problems were not addressed. Continue reading

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