Jeff Burt

Intel, IBM, Others Craft Speedy Servers for Cloud Computing Intel Microserver Intel executives showed off the company’s microserver reference design, which can put 16 compute modules in a 5U (8.75-inch) enclosure. SGI Octane III Introduced the day before IDF kicked off, SGI officials call Octane III a personal supercomputer that can hold up to 80 […]

Hewlett-Packard executives are giving an optimistic outlook for the upcoming year. At HP’s annual meeting with securities analysts Sept. 24, Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd touted the company’s broad portfolio of products and its global presence as key drivers that will enable HP to expand its various businesses and extend its reach into new markets […]

Intel Atom Chip Drives Growth of Netbooks Fujitsu LifeBook M2010 The Atom-powered notebook includes integrated wireless LANs and Bluetooth features. HP Mini 110 Hewlett-Packard’s netbook offers up to 2GB of system memory and an integrated WLAN capability. Intel classmate PC Intel’s Atom-based system is designed to bring affordable and functional computing capabilities into the classroom. […]

Intel Continues to Shrink the Chip The 22-nm Wafer Intel CEO Paul Otellini shows off a silicon wafer containing the first working 22-nm processors. The circuitry of the chip is small, to the point that 2.9 billion transistors can be put into an area the size of a fingernail. The SRAM Die SRAMs tend to […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Advanced Micro Devices is continuing to press its case in the graphics space, rolling out its latest generation of ATI graphics cards. AMD officials on Sept. 23 unveiled the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards, which they called the most powerful processors in the world, with up to 2.72 Tflops (trillion floating-point operations […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Intel is bringing its “Nehalem” microarchitecture to the mobile space in the form of three new mobile Core i7 processors for high-end computing. At the Intel Developer Forum here Sept. 23, Dadi Perlmutter, executive vice president and general manager for the company’s Intel Architecture Group, unveiled the “Clarksfield” family of quad-core mobile Nehalem chips: […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Intel is looking to create a new category in the server space: the “microserver.” During his keynote address at the Intel Developer Forum here Sept. 22, Sean Maloney, newly installed executive vice president and general manager of the chip maker’s Intel Architecture Group, unveiled two low-power new versions of its Xeon 3400 line, a […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Intel is looking to build a developer community around its Atom processor. At the Intel Developer Forum here Sept. 22, CEO Paul Otellini introduced the Atom Developer Program, aimed at enabling ISVs to create and sell applications for netbooks based on the Atom chip. Support for handheld devices and smartphones will come in the […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Intel, which Sept. 14 announced that its 32-nanometer processors were in production, is showing off the next-generation 22-nm processors scheduled to ship to customers toward the end of 2011. At his keynote speech Sept. 22 at the Intel Developer Forum here, Intel CEO Paul Otellini held up a wafer showing the 22-nm SRAM (static […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Less than a month after Intel formally appealed the European Commission’s $1.45 billion fine for antitrust violations, the EC is laying out its case to the public. The commission on Sept. 21 published a “non-confidential version” of its May 13 ruling, in which the EC-the antitrust arm of the European Union-found that […]

Ten Gigabit Ethernet is finding its way into data centers, and networking vendors are already talking about their plans for 100GbE capabilities. On Monday, Mellanox is unveiling what officials there are calling the industry’s first 40GbE adapter card. Mellanox’s ConnectX-2 EN 40G is aimed at enabling enterprises to take better advantage of such technologies as […]

Hewlett-Packard is continuing expand the services it offers around data center management. HP on Sept. 21 rolled out 10 data center solutions that address what company officials said are the most common integration challenges, touching upon such areas as telecommunications, virtualized blade environments, data center relocation and scale-out environments. The new services are aimed aligning […]