Jeff Burt

Intel can no longer use its market dominance and money to hinder competition from the likes of Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia, according to an agreement between the giant chip maker and the Federal Trade Commission announced Aug. 4. The agreement resolves a lawsuit filed against Intel in December 2009 in which federal regulators said […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials have launched a blog dedicated to the company’s upcoming “Bulldozer” processor architecture, which will be disclosed at a conference later in August. Postings on The Bulldozer Blog, which launched Aug. 2, will focus primarily on the commercial side of the business, though there will be some discussion of the consumer space, […]

Server vendors will continue to see a harsh business climate as enterprises adapt to the new fiscal realities, and while Dell and Cisco Systems may ride out the storm well, Oracle could see its hardware plans battered, according to a report by market research company TheInfoPro. In its latest server study, released Aug. 2, TheInfoPro […]

Intel kept the top spot in the list of the world’s biggest PC graphics chip vendors, and Advanced Micro Devices saw huge gains through its ATI business, according to a report by Jon Peddie Research. All that came at the expense of Nvidia, which saw its business tail off in practically every segment, according to […]

Intel got a rare win in court when a special master in a case filed by consumers ruled that he had found no evidence that consumers had been hurt by the giant chip maker’s business practice of giving discounts to computer makers. Special Master Vincent Poppiti, ruling on the case, which was filed in U.S. […]

Negotiations between Intel and Infineon Technologies over the sale of Infineon’s wireless chip business reportedly are advancing, even as another possible suitor-Samsung Electronics-appears to be trying to muscle in. Citing several sources close to the talks, Reuters reported July 29 that executives with Intel and Infineon are continuing to talk about a deal rumored to […]

Intel Interconnect Prototype Uses Light to Transmit Data By Jeffrey Burt 50G-bps Silicon Photonics Module Mario Paniccia, Intel Fellow and director of Intel’s Photonics Technology Lab, holds the 50G-bps silicon photonics transmit module. Moving Data The 50G-bps silicon photonics transmit module, left, sends laser light from the silicon chip at the center of the green […]

Intel engineers have created a prototype of an interconnect that uses light rather than copper wiring to speed up data transfer within a system to as fast as 50 gigabits per second. The breakthrough is thelatest step by Intel to create a light-based technology that would replace copper wiring and electrons to transmit data at […]

Hewlett-Packard is introducing a modular, prefabricated data center design that officials say will give businesses more options and significantly drive down the costs of building a new facility. HP on July 27 unveiled its Flexible Data Center concept, which has what officials call a “butterfly” design. In the center is a rectangular central core building […]

Lenovo, best known as a PC vendor, is continuing its push into the highly competitive x86 server market. Lenovo on July 27 rolled out its first line of low-end servers aimed at the small and midsize business space, MSPs (managed service providers) and enterprises that need smaller systems for branch offices. The company launched its […]

IBM’s mainframe business is now under scrutiny from European regulators, who have opened two antitrust investigations involving Big Blue’s business practices around its Big Iron portfolio. The European Commission, the antitrust body of the European Union, announced the investigations July 26. The development is the latest legal headache for IBM in connection with its System […]

Riverbed Technology is rolling out a virtualized version of its Steelhead WAN optimization appliance, a move that company officials said will enable the Steelhead technology to be put into a larger number of environments. Riverbed introduced Virtual Steelhead July 22, adding that it will be available later in the quarter. Virtual Steelhead, which comes in […]