Intel

Former Intel CEO Andy Grove calls on government leaders to make development of dual fuel, electric vehicles and used car conversions a national priority.

Intel tops the EPA's list of green energy purchasers. It plans to buy more than 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year of renewable energy certificates, making it the largest corporate purchaser of alternative energy in the United States. The certificates will subsidize the development of wind, solar, biomass and small-scale hydro-electric sources of energy.

After Intel CEO Paul Otellini bragged that Intel's Xeon chip was the most energy-efficient processor, Neal Nelson compared it to AMD's offering and found that Intel wasn't being exactly truthful.

Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of One Laptop Per Child project has broken his silence and slammed Intel for its decision last week to withdraw from the organisation’s board of directors, claiming they contributed nothing to the project to deliver cheap, green compupters to poverty striken children.

Chip giant refuses requests to kill OLPC rival Classmate PC, leaving project struggling.