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AMD made real its virtualization technology as the chip maker unveiled its "Pacifica" specification, a computer processor design aimed at enhancing virtualization with 64-bit servers and other clients, including desktops and notebooks. AMD said its virtualization technology would take the concept --...
Underneath their dueling dual-core processor announcements, demonstrations, and recent releases to the market, Intel, which unveiled its Pentium Extreme Edition chips last month, and Advanced Micro Devices, which unleashed its Opteron chips, represent very different approaches to dual-core. Both, ho...
Intel made its PRO/Wireless 5116 processor available today, marking the release of the first chip based on the 802.16 WiMAX standard. WiMAX, which stands for worldwide interoperability for microwave access, will first be used to reach areas without DSL or cable modem infrastructure to expand the rea...
Velocity Micro is set to become the first PC manufacturer to release a machine built around Intel's dual-core Pentium processor. The DCX line, announced yesterday, will use the Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 840, which runs at speeds of up to 4 Ghz, and will be available by the end of June. The DCX...
Fujitsu showcased its additions to the high-end server world today, the PrimeQuest 480 and PrimeQuest 440, built on Itanium 2 chips. The servers will be released in June with Red Hat Linux, but Fujitsu said it will offer a version running Novell/SuSE Linux as well as Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Da...
Intel's newest platform offering, code-named "Truland," is an evolutionary step in the established path toward dual-core processors and 64-bit architecture. Truland, which comprises five different 64-bit Intel Xeon processors MP (multiprocessor) and the Intel E8500 chipset -- codenamed Twin Castle -...
Intel will spend next week drumming up enthusiasm for its dual-core processing systems at its Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco. The company, hot on the heels of AMD, announced it would release a 64-bit Pentium 4 processor for PCs by midyear, ending AMD's sole proprietorship of the 64-bit worl...
Less than 24 hours after Intel erased Advanced Micro Devices' status as the sole provider of 64-bit chips by announcing its own, AMD demonstrated a dual-core Athlon 64 processor, touting multiple core capability in its chips for servers, workstations and desktops and claiming it is the only company ...
Intel has finally matched its foe AMD in delivering 64-bit silicon solutions to the market in the form of five new Pentium 4 processors. The market, however, may not be ready for the more powerful chips. Intel said the new desktop chips -- a 3.73 GHz P4 Extreme Edition and four new 3.0-3.6 GHz P4s -...
Hewlett-Packard this week unveiled three new systems based on Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor, taking advantage of the processor's price-performance advantage and in the process drawing ever closer to Intel's main rival. In announcing new BladeSystem servers, a workstation supporting dual-...
Intel, playing catch up with AMD, has announced that it has plans for the release of its much delayed 64-bit processors for desktop computers. Systems containing the 600 series Pentium 4 chips will be in stores next month, the company said. "With Intel and AMD, it's always a game of leapfrog. Someti...
IBM continued its extension to the small and medium business market this week as the company unveiled its entry-level, Unix-based p5 510 server, priced at just under $4,000. IBM new server for the SMB market matches similar moves by rivals Hewlett-Packard and Sun. All are responding to demand for mo...
Texas Instruments and Nokia announced today that a new single-chip mobile phone solution will take cutting-edge chips to the volume market of simple mobile phones. Delivering on a promise to provide a single processor with digital baseband, memory, logic, radio frequency, power management and analog...
AMD is poised to announce its new mobile processor, dubbed Turion, to take on the increasingly significant mobile PC market and to shorten Intel's head start in the thinner and lighter PCs that are currently popular. Although it has aggressively challenged and won market share from Intel with its se...
Ending a disappointing chapter in its history, Hewlett-Packard today announced that Intel would hire its Itanium chip team, severing a 12-year development partnership between the companies. HP, however, said it was still planning to spend $3 billion over three years on the 64-bit technology. "It sur...
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