Intel is known for their mighty Core 2 Duo, but it looks as though the processor was not home-grown. A lawsuit filed today by the University of Wisconsin claims that the processor infringes on patented technology developed by one of its professors. In 1998, the computer science department chair Gurindar Sohi presented some of his ideas relating to instruction level parallelism to Intel and offered to sell them, but Intel never paid for them yet used them to created the Core 2 Duo, according the the lawsuit. Intel says that it’s been talking to the Badgers for over a year and has not recieived a complaint, Intel may want to do something quick because the University of Wisconsin is asking for the court to stop shipments of the Core 2 Duo in addition to monetary damages and legal fees.

Intel has just introduced the Itanium quad-core processor for servers. It is the latest of Intels X86 processors, but this processor is simply amazing.

Two billion transistors represent the sum of these chips:

AMD Phenom (463M)
DC Intel Penryn (410M)
Intel Conroe (341M)
PS3 GPU (300M)
Sony Cell (234M)
Xbox 360 GPU (232M)
Motorola PowerPC 750 (20)

Via BBC News

Intel has just released its first dual-core Celeron processors, making the bargin processor line up a little better. The first processor to be available is the 1.6GHz E1200 model, features 512K bytes of cache and an 800MHz front-side bus. It is not real impressive, but is a good deal considering its price of $53, in quantities of 1,000 units. We expect more models to come in the future.