On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Intel unveiled on Thursday at the CES their new family of which included the Core i7, i5 and i3 processors, the Intel 5 series chipsets and Intel centrino Wi-Fi and Wimax adaptors. The company also laid claim to the advancement of computing technology and how it was no more restricted to PC's only with the advance of so many new smart devices. All this possible with Intel technology. The company released 11 mobile processors, six desktop processors, and four wireless adapters. On the mobile front, prices range from $225 for a 2.4-GHz Core i5 520M to $332 for a 2.66-GHz Core i7 620M or a 2.13-GHz Core i7 640LM. Desktop versions range from $113 for a 2.9 GHz Core i5 530 to $284 for a 3.46 GHz Core i5 670. Pricing was not provided for the wireless adapters. Technology known as 'Hyper Threading' which allows each processor to run multiple threads will be available on the Core i7, i5, and i3. Which makes technology previously available only in Hollywood now in the hands of e...