Jeff Burt

Graphics card maker Nvidia put its stamp on the Computex show this week, rolling out a midrange offering in its “Fermi”-based GPU portfolio, hyping the power of “3D PCs” and promoting Google’s Android mobile operating system as the primary operating system for tablets. All of those efforts support Nvidia’s multiyear effort to promote graphics chips […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials June 1 gave Computex attendees the first public demonstration of a Fusion processor, technology that is scheduled for release in the first half of 2011. Fusion is AMD’s effort to create what the company is calling APUs (accelerated processing units), which bring together “CPU, GPU, video processing and other accelerator capabilities” […]

Hewlett-Packard officials are planning to pump $1 billion into the company’s Enterprise Services business, a move intended to increase the amount of automation in its data centers and one that will result in 9,000 jobs being cut. HP officials said June 1 that they expect the move to help the company gain ground in a […]

Intel is continuing its push to expand the reach of its low-power Atom processors. At the Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan, held June 1 to 5, Dadi Perlmutter, executive vice president and co-general manager of Intel’s Architecture Group, gave attendees a look at what the chip maker has planned for the Atom platform. In his […]

Cisco Systems continues to demonstrate its dominance in the networking space, with an Infonetics Research report saying the company was the top player in the switch and router market. Cisco saw sharp gains in revenues in the space, according to Infonetics analyst Michael Howard. “Cisco is on a roll, bumping up their service provider IP […]

Intel is looking to expand its Intel Health Guide in-home patient technology into the wider European market through a series of partnerships with health care providers. Intel announced May 26 that it is working with partners to bring the technology to France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands. The solution already is commercially available in the […]

Advanced Micro Devices has hired away an executive from rival Nvidia to head up its efforts to combine CPU and graphics technologies in a single computing platform. AMD on May 27 announced that Manju Hegde, Nvidia’s vice president of CUDA technical marketing, will now be corporate vice president of its Fusion Experience program. Hegde, whose […]

Officials with the One Laptop Per Child program are planning to show up at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2011 armed with a new tablet that they hope will get them closer to their goal of offering a computer for less than $100. OLPC and semiconductor company Marvell Technology Group announced May 27 that […]

SGI is expanding its ICE Cube containerized data center offerings to give customers more flexibility and extend the product’s reach into the high-performance computing space. SGI on May 27 introduced a Universal class of ICE Cube that can accommodate not only the company’s entire server and storage line, but also systems from other vendors. The […]

Hewlett-Packard grabbed the worldwide market share lead from IBM in the first quarter as sales globally continue to rebound, according to market research firms IDC and Gartner. Both firms said HP saw server revenues jump while IBM figures slid in the quarter. HP and IBM were both helped by increasing demand for their respective x86 […]

The Ethernet switch and router markets saw strong growth in the first quarter, driven by demand for such applications as voice and video over IP, virtualization and cloud computing, according to research firm IDC. The big winner in the surge was Cisco Systems, which saw the largest gains and highest market share in the Ethernet […]

Supercomputer vendor Cray is unveiling its latest high-end system powered by Advanced Micro Devices’ latest Opteron processors and featuring Cray’s newest interconnect technology, dubbed “Gemini.” The result is the XE6 supercomputer, which Cray officials said can scale to more than 1 million cores and can expand the reach of petascale computing to a wider range […]