Jeff Burt

The shortage of hard disk drives caused by the recent flooding in Thailand will limit the number of PCs that will ship in the first quarter of 2012, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli. IHS iSuppli analysts are cutting their first-quarter PC forecast by 3.8 million units-to 84.2 million-and reducing their full-year growth numbers […]

SuVolta, a startup that builds technologies used in the development of semiconductors, is touting a new transistor technology that officials say can reduce the power consumption in processors by 50 percent or more without impacting performance. The CMOS technology, which SuVolta calls Deeply Depleted Channel (DDC) low-power transistor technology, essentially reduces the variations in power […]

A federal judge reportedly has thrown out several of the claims against Intel in an antitrust lawsuit filed by the New York Attorney General’s office, questioning the state’s role in suing the giant chip maker on behalf of computer buyers and saying the statute of limitations had run out on some of the charges. According […]

Cisco Systems, which earlier this year said it was refocusing on its core businesses, saw its share of the competitive Ethernet switch market jump almost 3 percentage points in the third quarter, according to numbers from market research firm IDC. In their review of the networking space in the third quarter, the IDC analysts on […]

Advanced Micro Devices reportedly is backing an open-source project that is looking to port Google’s Android operating system onto PCs powered by x86-based processors. Meanwhile, officials with AMD rival Intel are saying that the goal of their joint efforts with Google is not to bring Android to PCs, but to enable it to run on […]

Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard continue to push their cloud computing agendas with new offerings and services. Cisco executives, including Lew Tucker, CTO of cloud computing at the vendor, and Padmasree Warrior, senior vice president of engineering and CTO of Cisco, are expected to discuss the company’s cloud strategy and unveil a host of new technologies […]

Patricia Dunn, who was chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard when the board of directors was hit with accusations of spying on not only directors but also journalists in an effort to curtail leaks to the media, has died following a battle with ovarian cancer. She was 58. Dunn joined HP’s board of directors in 1998, and took […]

Intel reportedly is getting ready to release the first of its 22-nanometer “Ivy Bridge” processors in the second quarter of 2012. According to a report on the X-bit Laboratories Website, Intel will roll out five of the Ivy Bridge chips-three Core i5 processors for mainstream systems and two Core i7 chips for high-performance computers-all but […]

Intel is set to reassert its top ranking in the worldwide semiconductor market, extending its dominance in the strong microprocessor and NAND flash memory sectors and leveraging its acquisition of earlier this year of Infineon Technologies’ wireless chip business, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli. In a report released Dec. 1, IHS iSuppli analysts […]

Nokia Siemens Network is selling its WiMax business, more than a year after buying it as part of a larger deal with the former Motorola. Nokia Siemens announced Nov. 29 that it is selling the WiMax wireless business to NewNet Communication Technologies, a U.S.-based vendor that offers wireless applications and services to telecommunications companies and […]

IBM rose and Hewlett-Packard fell in a worldwide server market that grew in both shipments and revenue in the third quarter, according to market research firm Gartner. According to numbers released Nov. 28, IBM surged to the forefront of server revenue in the quarter, generating more than $3.84 billion, a 3.5 percent jump over the […]

Hewlett-Packard reportedly is looking to take its legal dispute with software giant Oracle international. During a court hearing Nov. 22 in the suit HP is bringing against Oracle for ending development for the Itanium platform, lawyers for both HP and Oracle noted that the tech company is asking European regulators to investigate Oracle. According to […]