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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has pushed back the release of two processors, including its much-anticipated first 64-bit chip, code-named Clawhammer, from the fourth quarter of this year to early 2003. “We plan to start shipping the Clawhammer during the first quarter, and it should be available in systems by late in the quarter or the […]

Mark Lewis, EMC Corp.s new CTO, said the company has made progress in its attempts to reinvent itself as a software vendor, but still sees changes coming in both software and hardware. In an wide-ranging interview with eWEEK on Friday, Lewis, who came over to EMC from Hewlett-Packard Co., said he plans on essentially following […]

EMC Corp. next week will announce new management software and new abilities to manage its competitors products, sources close to the company said. President and CEO Joe Tucci will announce new capabilities for the SRM (storage resource management) and storage virtualization niches in his keynote address Sept. 18 at the Storage Decisions trade show in […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—A senior executive with Intel Corp. Tuesday revealed plans for a dual-core Itanium processor, belittled Sun Microsystems Inc.s rival product as “old fashioned” and hinted that Dell Computer Corp. may be out of its league in the 64-bit arena during a briefing to tout the chip makers Itanium product line. Mike Fister, general […]

Microsoft apparently has decided that the world isnt ready for buying Office via subscription. An Australian Office program manager let the news slip that the company had decided to nix its long-term plan of selling its desktop suite this way, based on customer feedback that found subscriptions a less-than-optimal method for purchasing Office. Office XP […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Intel Corp. on Wednesday released two faster versions of its Xeon processors for two-way workstations and servers running at 2.8GHz and 2.6GHz, and also announced plans to introduce two new Xeon-based chip sets later this year that will offer quicker bus speeds and high-speed graphics support. The processors were released a quarter earlier […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Intel Corp.s flagship processor line, the Pentium 4, will receive a double dose of improvements this fall when the chip maker releases a new version revved up to 3GHz with an additional performance-enhancing technology called hyperthreading. Hyperthreading, which first appeared in Intel Xeon chips for workstations and servers this year, enables software to […]

Looking to give consumers more freedom to watch full-length movies whenever and wherever they choose, Sonicblue Inc., the maker of ReplayTV, and Intel Corp. announced plans Monday to introduce a handheld TV-like device called the Portable Video Player. The PVP, designed to be small enough to fit in a coat pocket, features about a 4-inch […]

Launching its own initiative to thwart hackers, Intel Corp. on Monday unveiled a new security initiative, code-named LaGrande Technology, that it will integrate into future processors and chip sets to stymie efforts to steal data. While many computer users rely on data encryption to protect information transmitted over the Internet or via phone lines, such […]

While the Itanium 2 has only been on the market since July, its successor, code-named Madison, is already being shown to customers this week at the Intel Developer Forum. NEC Corp. and Unisys Corp. are each demonstrating servers featuring beta versions of the 64-bit chip thats not due to hit the market until the summer […]

Storage leaders Hitachi Ltd. and Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday announced an agreement to share application programming interfaces with each other. The deal comes on the heels of HPs reaffirming its existing deals with Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM and EMC Corp., of Hopkinton, Mass., and of Hitachi also sharing with IBM. With the largest storage vendors facing […]

Just as Intel Corp. has successfully marketed its products as industry-standard building blocks to attain its position as the top maker of PC and server processors, the company has now set its sights on becoming the cornerstone supplier for another potential high-growth market, the communications industry. Intel President Paul Otellini, in his keynote at the […]