Hardware

Agilent Technologies is selling its semiconductor business in yet another example of how the chip industry has blossomed with consumer, mobile and networking technology and devices, but has become a fast-moving, boom-or-bust business that is difficult to deliver for Wall Street. The expected sale, a...

Agilent Technologies is selling its semiconductor business in yet another example of how the chip industry has blossomed with consumer, mobile and networking technology and devices, but has become a fast-moving, boom-or-bust business that is difficult to deliver for Wall Street. The expected sale, a...

Intel is reportedly set to divulge more details of its switch from its current microprocessor architecture to a fuller use of the chip giant's Pentium M mobile platform, which affords Intel the energy efficiency and lack of heat its previous transistor-heavy processor platform did not.

OPINION

PC Alternatives for the Future

This week, let's look ahead at changes coming in hardware over the next few years and the players driving those changes. It is certainly time for a change. In 1984 we had two PCs in the business space, Apple enjoyed 40 percent market share and had two innovative designs (the Apple II and the Mac) -...

Intel is reportedly set to divulge more details of its switch from its current microprocessor architecture to a fuller use of the chip giant's Pentium M mobile platform, which affords Intel the energy efficiency and lack of heat its previous transistor-heavy processor platform did not.

Intel may be in talks with Silicon Integrated Systems (SIS) to use its chipsets for entry-level motherboards, according to a report circulating on Chinese news wires today. SIS, a unit of United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), has secured an order from Intel for low-end chipsets, said the report, whic...

Virtual infrastructure software vendor VMware yesterday made competitive moves against rivals Microsoft and the open-source Xen project with new partnerships and shared source code announcements. The company expects standard interfaces for hypervisors to enable interoperability for customers with he...

Three years after tablet PCs made their way to market, shipments are markedly increasing and the next few years will show multibillion-dollar growth, according to research firm In-Stat. Referring to PCs that run Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system, tablet PC shipments have yet ...

When AMD reported second quarter sales of US$1.26 billion and net income of $11 million buoyed by its processors recently, it also passed the 10 percent barrier in x86 market share for the first time in company history. According to a report from analyst firm Mercury Research, AMD's share of the x86...

IBM is looking to make more of the mainframe, by adding more performance, reliability, and security and selling the z9 system as a collaborative computing hub that is accessible to more users, including those on Intel and RISC platforms. IBM said its three-year, US$1.2 billion development effort had...

HP Propels Printer Speed

HP said its latest technologies -- improved printhead construction and other ehnancements aimed at lowering cost per page -- have been incorporated into the Photosmart 8250, which will be selling for about US$200 in U.S. stores soon and is available online now. HP suggested that the new scalable pri...

Cisco Systems on Friday announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Denmark KiSS Technology for its Linksys division in a US$61 million cash and stock agreement. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2006. Cisco is betting KiSS' networked entertainm...

Cisco Systems today announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Denmark KiSS Technology for its Linksys division in a US$61 million cash and stock agreement. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2006. Cisco is betting KiSS' networked entertainment ...

The world is getting a little thinner, according to Samsung Electronics. Company executives told International Meeting on Information Display and Exhibition (IMID) 2005 Business Forum attendees that the global flat panel display market would double in size within the next two to three years. "The gl...

The world is getting a little thinner, according to Samsung Electronics. Company executives told International Meeting on Information Display and Exhibition (IMID) 2005 Business Forum attendees that the global flat panel display market would double in size within the next two to three years. "The gl...

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