On Monday, Intel submitted a formal, written response to the Statement of Objections that the European Commission sent to the company this past July. The contents of Intel’s response have yet to leak out, but the company has confirmed that it has also requested a hearing before the EC in order to orally refute the charges of anticompetitive behavior leveled against it by the EU.
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Hark! Today marks the arrival of Intel’s first 45nm desktop processor

To coincide with the NVIDIA’s GeForce 8800 GT launch scheduled for later today, Intel jumped the gun today with its immediate embargo lift on its high end 3.0 GHz 45nm quad-core Penryn QX9650 processor.

The Extreme Edition QX9650 desktop processor is Intel’s first 45nm offering. True to Intel’s “tick-tock” approach to processor design, all initial 45nm processor offerings will be process node shrinks of the Core 2 Duo architecture. The only feature difference between these processors and the Core 2 Duo Kentsfield processors announced last year is the inclusion of additional L2 cache, SSE4 instructions and higher clock frequencies. Continue reading »

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