Video: Sean Maloney, Intel’s New China Chief, Talks About Rowing and Recovery

After suffering a stroke last year, Intel executive vice president Sean Maloney is back on the job, and headed to China. But did you also know he’s back to competitive rowing?

Intel Courted HP Executive

Intel Corp., which long has chosen internal candidates for most of its top management jobs, recently negotiated with a prominent Hewlett-Packard Co. executive about taking a senior position at the chip maker, people familiar with the matter said. The executive–Todd Bradley, who heads HP’s personal-computer business–decided earlier this month to remain with the company, the people said.

Intel’s CES Chip Blitz

A city renowned for its excesses, Las Vegas provided the perfect backdrop for the chip bacchanalia held by Intel Thursday. At an event at the Consumer Electronics Show under way here, the chip maker unloaded a slew of new processors, chipsets and wireless adapters–many built with its latest 32-nanometer manufacturing process.
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Intel Adds to the Naming Confusion in Portable PCs

Intel, which helped shake up the PC industry last year by promoting low-priced laptops called netbooks, is at it again. But there’s not such a memorable name this time. The chip giant is expected to use the Computex trade show this week to discuss a category of portables that fall in a price band between netbooks–which can start at less than $300–and full-featured notebooks, which often cost more than $1,000.

In the Year 2025–Who Knows What Tomorrow Brings in Tech?

While attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, BoomTown moderated what turned out to be a fascinating panel discourse of what was to come in the tech sector. No, it was not akin to a gathering of Trekkies. The SuperSession panel, titled: “What Will They Think of Next? Consumer Technology in 2025,” was less Spock than a logical analysis of where gadgetry is headed by looking at both the past and the present. Here’s a video with the panelists giving their predictions.