We’re So Ready to Sell Chips for Tablets, Intel COO Says

Ready, willing and able. But who’s buying?
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Intel Ex-Chief Hoping to Help Ireland Rebound

After Japanese competitors nearly sunk Intel in the 1980s, Craig Barrett helped the chip maker rebuild its manufacturing prowess. Now he’s going to lend Ireland a hand. The former Intel CEO and chairman, who retired from the company in May, on Tuesday is being named chairman of a non-profit collection of executives called the Irish Technology Leadership Group.

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CES: Intel Chairman Barrett Touts Education for Developing World

Intel chairman Craig Barrett held a talk at CES this afternoon on technology in the developing world. On stage with him were NetHope and Save the Children, which are both working to bring IT to places like China, Africa and Bangladesh. But ask Barrett what’s the most important technology to put in a classroom and he’d say “a really good teacher.”

This Week in Tech: A Dull CES, but (Gasp!) an Even Duller Macworld!

BoomTown is not saying it’s going to be like watching grass grow. But 2009 is not exactly getting off to a rousing start this week–with two underwhelming blockbuster tech events taking place that already have more of an air of whimper than of bang to them. That would be the Consumer Electronics Show, the annual egregious gadgetfest in Las Vegas, and the final appearance by Apple at Macworld. Of course, while CES tries to fend off the spate of no-one-is-going-to-CES stories–well, I am!–the absence of his digital Holiness and Apple CEO Steve Jobs at Macworld has really generated most of the glumness.

It was you Fredo …

The Missing Emails? Damn. You Know, I Think We Might Have Backed Them up in the Landfill …

So the emails Intel failed to preserve following the filing of Advanced Micro Devices’ antitrust lawsuit against the company? Not a big deal — according to Intel.