Jeff Burt

AUSTIN, Texas—Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is looking to use its AMD64 technology to drive adoption of such form factors as blade servers and client-side devices. Officials at the AMD offices here said this push is a key part of their plans as they roll into 2006. They are comfortable with their technology and the roadmaps […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. officials are convinced their new UltraSPARC T1 servers, with a combination of high performance and low power consumption, are the perfect fit for todays data centers. They also know that a key to getting them into the data centers is persuading enterprises, which have been buying x86 servers in droves over the […]

Ardence is adding Linux support to its software offering that streams operating systems and applications from the network to end-user devices. The Ardence Software-Streaming Platform already supported Microsofts Windows. With Version 3.5, it now can stream Linux distributions from Red Hats and Novells respective SUSE Linux units. /zimages/4/28571.gifNovell recently had to defend SUSE against a […]

Chip makers advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. are looking to make moves in Asia to keep up with their expanding businesses. Intel last week opened its first assembly and test plant in China and announced that it is planning to spend $230 million to build another plant in Malaysia. For its part, AMD, […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Tuesday unveiled the first systems to run on its new multicore UltraSPARC T1, which the company hopes will give it greater traction in sectors now dominated by x86 machines. The rollout is a cornerstone of Suns fourth-quarter product announcements, being made in New York City. Sun officials have been talking about […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is looking to ramp up interest in its new UltraSPARC T1 processor by open-sourcing parts of the multicore chip. At the companys quarterly event Tuesday in New York City, Chairman Scott McNealy introduced the OpenSPARC project. Sun will publish specifications for the chip—formerly code-named Niagara—including the design source, verification suite and simulation […]

Just days after announcing the second beta of its Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, Microsoft has lured Burton Smith, chief scientist at supercomputer maker Cray, into the Redmond, Wash., fold. Smith, who was also a director at Cray, will leave the company this week to become a technical fellow at Microsoft. /zimages/2/28571.gifClick here to read […]

Stratus Technologies Inc. is expanding its line of fault-tolerant servers running standard Linux with the unveiling today of the ftServer T60. The server, which will be powered by up to four single-core Intel Corp. Xeon chips, will run Red Hat Inc.s Enterprise Linux AS operating system. Stratus three years ago first put its own variant […]

Open-source technology is ready to take a major step forward into the competitive virtual machine space, a move that could help drive down costs for users. The Xen project this week expects to release Xen 3.0, an open-source hypervisor technology offering features aimed at large SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) environments. At the same time, XenSource Inc., […]

Chip makers are aggressively moving forward with plans to add more cores to their processors as a way of improving performance without having to bump up the frequency. Sun Microsystems Inc., of Santa Clara, Calif., next month will roll out the first of its servers based on its new UltraSPARC T1—formerly code-named Niagara—which holds as […]

Semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies is planning to spin off its memory chip business by the middle of next year. The move will let Infineon focus on its core logic business, which includes such sectors as communications and automotive. According to a statement outlining what they called a “strategic realignment,” company officials said they intended to […]

Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. are forming a company that will manufacture NAND flash memory, a rapidly growing segment of the flash memory market that is used in such devices as some of Apple Computer Inc.s popular iPod music players. In announcing the plan last week, Intel and Micron also said Apple will buy […]