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Days after several financial analysts stated that Hewlett-Packard had outperformed expectations and gave it positive marks, the company said it expects to make job cuts in the first half of 2005 that will cost $200 million, or 4 cents a share. The cuts will come after the company hired 4,000 people ...
Broadcom has rolled out a new line of local area network (LAN) chipsets that it says can increase the range of existing WiFi networks by as much as 50 percent in both office and home settings. Broadcom said its Broadrange 54g chipsets rely on advanced signal processing technology to boost the range ...
Muscling into territory previously controlled by rising competitor AMD, Intel has struck a broad cross-licensing agreement with graphics chip maker nVidia. The result of the multi-year deal will be that nVidia can design its graphics chipsets to work with Intel processors. NVidia has seen its market...
Computer manufacturers hope a combination of collaboration, evolving technology and better deals will drive holiday sales of media center PCs, which were the focus of announcements from both Dell and Gateway this week. Dell cut the price of a software upgrade to Microsoft's Media Center Edition 2005...
Seagate Technology hopes to super size its revenues with a hard disk drive targeting PC users that offers a whopping 400 GB of storage space and 133 GB on each platter. Seagate says the Barracuda 7200.8 model is the world's highest-capacity PC hard drive with the highest data density and the fastest...
Dell and Microsoft have struck a partnership aimed at making it easier and faster for enterprises to update their server software with security patches and new releases. The companies said they will work to merge Dell's OpenManage 4 systems management software and Microsoft's Systems Management Serv...
Dell announced today its next generation of blade server, two years after it first ventured into the market with an offering that did not take off. The PowerEdge 1855 blades, based on dual Xeon processors, will fit into a new 7U chassis built by Dell to hold up to 10 dual-processor servers. Dell has...
Dell CEO Kevin Rollins sent a clear signal to Intel, saying in an interview that the company is likely to begin using Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processors in some of its products. Dell is the last holdout among PC and server makers not to use the Intel competitor's chips. "They've been getting be...
Intel announced the latest versions of its Itanium 2 processors, six chips designed to add heft to the product line. The manufacturer released three multi-processor chips, two dual-processor chips and a low-volt chip. At the high-end, the highlight of the announcements is a 1.60 GHz processor with 9...
Gearing up to supply a growing demand, AMD has secured a microprocessor sourcing and manufacturing deal with Chartered Semiconductor, which will add capacity for production of AMD's Athlon64 and Opteron chips. AMD said it will have its Dresden, Germany, facility cranking out its latest processors, b...
IBM has taken an experiment -- Blue Gene/L, the world's fastest supercomputer -- and turned it into a commercial, albeit expensive, off-the-shelf product. The Blue Gene project began five years ago with the goal of creating a family of supercomputers that could have more commercial applications beca...
In the latest supercomputer news arriving before the release of the Top500 list this week, IBM has announced collaboration with the Spanish government on a super system made with blade servers. IBM said the "MareNostrum" system, built with 3,564 Power processors in eServer BladeCenter JS20 blade se...
AMD-Fujitsu silicon subsidiary Spansion has announced backing of an emerging Flash memory standard with a new family of processors intended for the growing market of devices -- from PC hard drives to onboard navigation systems for cars -- that rely on the embedded Flash memory technology. Spansion s...
Intel unveiled its latest ultra-high-end processor platform, the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, with a higher-speed frontside bus and more cache and memory. The move marks a departure from the company's traditional advancement through clock speed, more closely resembling the strategy of rival AMD. Intel...
While its 20 clustered Linux systems joining more than 10,000 Intel Itanium 2 processors may put it at the top of the speed list, the scientists who have access to the new "Columbia" supercomputer at the NASA Ames Advanced Supercomputing facilities tout the amazing research abilities of the super sy...
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