To fire back at AMD after the release of its K8L processor reported to be faster than current Xeon, Intel has decided to speed up its roadmap. So, 45nm-engraved Xeon originally planned to be introduced in 2008, will be available much earlier: H2 2007. They will be compatible with the current Xeon motherboard. The next generation planned to be released in 2008 will use a different architecture.
So, price of the current Quad Core Xeon might quickly decrease and while higher clocked models should appear.
Intel will release a technology named HyperColor lives aiming to better control temperature of notebook case.
To summarize, this process relies on a special coating covering some parts of the internal layer of a notebook case and having the ability to change its color depending on the temperature. A sensor will then record the color and its variations and transfer them to the system to be interpreted. According to Intel, this color-based sensor is more reliable than the current temperature sensor.
The goal is to decrease the CPU power and its heat release when the case of the notebook becomes too hot, preventing the user to keep his notebook on his knees or even getting burned.
For sure, owner of the MacBook Pro revA would have enjoyed having such technology already available.
As it was announced by Adobe CEO at the WWDC 2005, Adobe will support Intel-based Mac and will be back with new products. If some could have thought that the temporary lack of updates for Adobe solutions for Mac was the beginning of the end; they must finally agree that Adobe is back, and ready to compete with Apple's solutions for photo and video.
First, Lightroom was introduced at a much lower price than Aperture (208€ till June, 22nd vs. 319). But Adobe does not plan to build lightroom success on its lower price, as described in details by an article published by
Ars Technica, Lightroom is packed with a lot of feature and functions making Aperture looks inferior in many aspects.
Marketing wise, Adobe was very smart to pave the way of its comeback:
- On October, 19th, 2005 Apple introduce Aperture, a Photo editing solution, a entirely new application, packed with interesting features, but rather slow even on the most powerful Mac hardware at that time. In addition, the introduction price was set much too high: 499€.
- It remains unclear if Adobe was already planning to release Lightroom to compete with Aperture when Apple released it; however, Adobe offered to all a free beta version of Lightroom. Many Pro users were rather using this free beta version than investing in an expensive and slow solution, Aperture.
- Apple then cut the price of Aperture, and released a new version 1.5, much more stable with a much better support of RAW photo format. If Aperture was initially released as its version 1.5, Lightroom might have had a much harder time to compete.
Of course the war is not over, and Adobe might have only won the first battle. But Apple needs to strongly react to preserve its market share, and one could imagine that the new version of Aperture might be introduced at the NAB.
Apple and Cisco found an agreement about the "iPhone". Both companies will have the right to use the name for their own iPhone-branded device.
As compensation, Apple will work with Cisco to allow a large interoperability for their products. Details remain unclear, but it might force Apple to open its iPhone to features and functions developed by third-parties, such as the ability to use VoIP.
