Chris Preimesberger

IBM said Sept. 18 that it has developed a prototype of what it claims is the semiconductor industry’s smallest, densest and fastest on-chip dynamic memory device.The 32-nanometer, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) chip, used mostly in embedded applications, is designed for products ranging from servers to consumer electronics.SOI protects the transistors on the chip with a blanket of […]

HP’s DreamScreen Brings New Dimension to Home Networks No Title The DreamScreen touch-screen home computer comes in two models: 10.2-inch and 13.3-inch screen sizes. Using its built-in 802.11 b/g wireless connectivity, it can be placed anywhere within a home network for viewing photos and video, listening to a music library or Web radio, and Web […]

Toshiba’s Storage Device Division Sept. 16 launched a new group of high-performance 7,200 rpm, 2.5-inch spinning disk drives for laptops, netbooks and desktops, including one with half-terabyte capacity.And they’re just in time, too, because it looks like the company should have no problem selling them, either to OEM customers or via branded products.The Japanese computer […]

Samsung, which has been competing fiercely with Toshiba for new customers in the enterprise NAND flash drive market, announced a major one Sept. 17 in Hewlett-Packard, which will now use the Korean manufacturer’s 60GB and 120GB solid-state drives as an option in its ProLiant G5 and G6 servers.HP has been offering SSDs as an option […]

Entry-level and midrange storage systems maker Dot Hill Systems announced Sept. 21 that its Virtual RAID Adapter software is now available for AMD’s newest core logic chip set. The VRA-for-motherboard solution is based on AMD’s SP5100 southbridge chip set and Dot Hill’s new VRA technology for enterprise servers, using Dot Hill RAIDCore. VRAs replace traditional […]

Enterprise search provider Autonomy on Sept. 16 announced it has reconfigured its frontline product, the IDOL Structured Probabilistic Engine (SPE), to bring its context-based search capabilities to work in databases. The company, which made news in January 2009 when it acquired content management provider Interwoven for $775 million, built its reputation in the market by […]

Oracle, deep in the pre-integration process of acquiring Sun Microsystems in a $7.4 billion transaction, reported Sept. 16 that its fiscal first-quarter profit improved 4.4 percent thanks to higher margins, negating a second consecutive quarter of declining sales revenue. The common stock price tumbled about 4 percent to $21.44 in after-hours trading, as new license […]

Don Basile, one of the founders of Fusion-io, who helped start the company with 11 people and grow it to its current 300 customers and partnership agreements with IBM, Dell and Hewlett-Packard in less than a year, was introduced Sept. 15 as the new CEO of Violin Memory — even though he’s been with the […]

Oracle and its soon-to-be-acquired partner, Sun Microsystems, made their first joint product announcement since the April 20 merger announcement on Sept. 15 when they unveiled a souped-up, NAND flash-based database server designed for both enterprise-level data warehousing and extreme-performance online transaction processing.As the trend has been playing out for the last two years, it’s all […]

Ford Loads 2010 Models with Safety, IT Bells and Whistles by Chris Preimesberger No Title Ford’s Director of Electrical Engineering and Electronics Jim Buczkowski, standing in front of Ford’s top-of-the-line 2010 Taurus, offers an overview of his company’s new standard and optional IT-related features for media members and analysts on Sept. 10 in San Francisco. […]

Storage provider EMC and chip maker Intel, the two leading IT companies in their respective sectors that have worked closely as partners for years, announced some key management changes Sept. 14 that analysts say will have a profound effect upon not only the companies, but also the numerous markets in which they compete. Veteran Intel […]

A Gaunt Steve Jobs Hails New Features for iPods, iTunes No Title Apple CEO/co-founder Steve Jobs appeared underweight, but he was energetic at the company’s new music-feature launch for iPods and iTunes Sept. 9 in San Francisco. “I feel great. I probably need to gain about 30 pounds, but I feel really good,” Jobs said […]