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Diverging from its usual dedication to Intel-based machines, Microsoft has made public a beta version of Windows XP for use on 64-bit computers running the AMD Athlon 64 and Opteron processors. Microsoft said its Windows XP 64-Bit Edition is designed for technical workstation users who require large...
A new era of faster computing for consumers soon may be in the offing, as Intel has gone public with plans to produce 64-bit microprocessors as soon as the supporting software is commercially available. Adding 64-bit features would let x86 chips such as Intel's Xeon and Pentium overcome today's 4-GB...
On April 20, a NASA rocket will lift off from Vandenburg Air Force Base carrying one of the most remarkable physics experiments ever attempted. Gravity Probe B will try to answer questions raised by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, proposed in the early years of the 20th century. Whether Gra...
Opposing forces in the DVD format world are lining up support and touting firm rollout timelines as they compete to establish the next generation of DVD format specs, with the Blu-ray disc format winning support this week from computer makers Dell and Hewlett-Packard. The two American companies join...
Apple Computer set its sights even more squarely on supercomputing and distributed grid computing this week with the preview and beta release of its Xgrid technology designed for scientists and their compute-intensive environments. Apple's announcement of the technology, which is available as a free...
While the ATI Radeon 9800 XT produces frame rates comparable to the Nvidia GeForce FX 5950 chipset in many of today's most popular benchmarks, the Radeon delivers -- on average -- higher frame rates in many of the most popular 3D-intensive applications released in the past year. Stating this fact is...
Kicking off the new year by trying to leverage last year's biggest PC trend -- burgeoning sales of cheaper notebook computers -- Intel and AMD released new mobile processors for the value and 64-bit markets this week. Intel is aiming the Celeron M at the value market to compete with AMD in the value...
Faced with a far more urgent need to support more Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, the Asian nations of Japan, South Korea and China are looking to lead the move to IPv6, considered by many to be the next-generation Internet. Unlike the United States -- which still has a bountiful supply of the Int...
Those wanting to represent the Internet graphically to a lay audience are fond of animations showing a spinning Earth criss-crossed by a network of buzzing, vibrating lines. Lift those animations up from the planet a bit, and you get a picture of what space someday could become -- a place where comm...
IBM claims it has found a way to apply nanotechnology -- a field of study in which researchers have manipulated materials at dimensions approaching the size of individual molecules -- to producing semiconductor components with existing chip-making tools. Big Blue researchers, who will present their ...
Say "NASA" and most people immediately think "space exploration." But space also offers a unique vantage point for observations of Earth, and NASA devotes significant resources to scientific projects aimed at understanding our own planet and our impact on it. This is the first of three articles abou...
IBM hopes to hit it big with its new Business Integration Game (BIG) technology, which is a software system designed to throw third-party e-commerce and communication into the latest online role-playing and multiplayer video games. The BIG framework, which uses open standards such as SOAP and J2EE, ...
Intel has revealed plans to extend the number of transistors the company can put on chips with existing equipment. The next-generation technique includes a 65-nanometer process that the company said will help develop more capable processors and larger, more cost-effective 300-nanometer wafers, which...
Computer chip king Intel has committed to producing a 4-GHz processor by the end of next year as it adopts an aggressive push toward smaller, faster 90-nanometer chips that cost less for the company to make. The official announcement of plans to hit the 4-GHz mark in 2004 might be less significant t...
AMD has announced groundbreaking on a new manufacturing facility in Dresden, Germany, that will help the company keep up with what it claims is growing demand for 64-bit chips. The Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker, which announced a significant deal to put its 64-bit Opteron processors in Sun s...
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