Jeff Burt

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has a tough road ahead of it in its quest to prove that archrival Intel Corp. has used illegal means to maintain its dominance of the microprocessor market, industry observers say. AMD late last month filed an antitrust lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Delaware, alleging that its larger rival uses […]

Now that blades have proved themselves efficient and cost-effective alternatives in data centers, OEMs are looking to give businesses the option of bringing similar technology to the client environment. Lenovo Group Ltd., fresh off its purchase of IBMs PC business, this week will announce a reseller agreement with ClearCube Technology Inc., an Austin, Texas, company […]

IBM has launched a dual-core version of its PowerPC processor, a move that industry observers said has been in the works for more than a year. IBM announced the PowerPC 970MP on Thursday at its Power Everywhere show in Tokyo. The new chip is aimed at entry-level servers, clustered environments and the embedded market. It […]

SOMERS, N.Y.—IBM is looking to expand the integrated offerings based on its blade server platform. The computer maker already offers a range of “solutions in a box” for its BladeCenter platform, covering such topics as security, Linux and midsize businesses. In the coming months, IBM plans on growing its offerings to include such areas as […]

Gateway is completing the transformation of its line of business desktops to the new BTX chassis design, aimed at improving reliability and energy efficiency while reducing heat generation and noise. The Irvine, Calif., computer maker on Thursday released three new E-Series desktops that will feature the new design. At the same time, Gateway Inc. rolled […]

Dell Inc. is adding Fibre Channel connectivity capabilities to its blade servers. The Round Rock, Texas, company is announcing next week that it is offering up to two Fibre Channel switches from McData Corp. in the Dell Modular Server Enclosure, the chassis for the PowerEdge 1855 blade servers. The McData 4314 switches will add to […]

Advanced Micro Devices, which filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel on Tuesday, envisions a day when Intel no longer dominates the PC market. AMDs suit, filed in Delaware, alleges that its larger rival wielded its financial and market clout illegally in order to artificially limit AMDs market share and maintain its own PC processor monopoly. […]

Systems vendors continue to fill out their lineups of Opteron-powered systems, drawn by the dual-core capabilities of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s processor. At its JavaOne conference in San Francisco in late June, Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to roll out two new workstations, including one armed with an Opteron chip and bundled with the companys Java-based […]

Hewlett-Packard in June unveiled its first commercial notebook armed with Advanced Micro Devices Turion 64 processor. HP is aiming the Compaq nx6125 notebook at small and midsize businesses, officials said. The notebook will offer Turion chips ranging in speed from 1.6GHz to 2.2GHz. The thin and light nx6125, which weighs 2.4 pounds, is the first […]

Myricom Inc. and Startup Level 5 Networks Inc. last week each introduced offerings designed to eventually bring 10 Gigabit Ethernet into data centers and HPC environments. In addition, Neterion Inc., which makes 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters, earlier this month unveiled a channel strategy designed to fuel demand for Ethernet technology. Myricom, of Arcadia, Calif., unveiled […]

IBM dominated the Top500 list of the worlds fastest computers, released in June at the International Supercomputing Conference. IBMs Blue Gene supercomputers ranked first and second on the list, and IBM systems accounted for 51.8 percent of those on the list. Hewlett-Packard accounted for 26.2 percent, and SGI was third with 5 percent. /zimages/4/28571.gifClick here […]

Savvis Communications Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are teaming up to give businesses a utility computing environment for their desktops. At the Securities Industry Association Technology Management Conference in New York on Wednesday, Savvis announced a new virtualized computing environment that uses Suns Sun Ray thin clients. St. Louis-based Savvis already offers a virtualized data […]