A year after it launched its Centrino chip package for building notebooks with wireless networking abilities, Intel has begun a public project to let Linux take advantage of the hardware. On Tuesday, ...
Spectre and Meltdown are major design flaws in modern CPUs. While they're present in almost all recent processors, because Intel chips are so widely used, Intel is taking most of the heat for these ...
Why won’t Linux install on modern Lenovo laptops? The discovery of this problem set off a recent firestorm. But contrary to initial speculation, it’s not that Microsoft is forcing Lenovo to block the ...
Smarting from criticism from open-source programmers, the chip giant commits to release Linux versions of essential supporting software at about the same time it releases Windows versions. Stephen ...
Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...
Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, isn't happy with the state of PC hardware right now: calling out "buggy hardware" from tech giants Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD. In a new post on kernel.org, Torvalds ...
Intel announced Friday that it is stopping support for Clear Linux OS, bringing an end to the decade-old distribution. Clear Linux appealed mostly to developers and other pros. It was optimized for ...