Jeff Burt

Intel Corp. has begun shipping the latest Pentium 4 chip, which had been delayed last week after engineers found an anomaly in it. Intel spokesman George Alfs said Monday that the company has sent a software update to OEMs and motherboard makers to correct the problem found in the 3GHz Pentium 4 chip. Alfs declined […]

Dell Computer Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. continued their see-saw battle for dominance in the PC space, with Dell in the first quarter of 2003 regaining the lead that it lost to HP in the last quarter of 2002, according to numbers from two research firms. In a quarterly survey compiled by International Data Corp., Dell, […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. generated $2.79 billion for the third quarter, a 10.2 percent drop from the more than $3.1 billion it garnered in the same period last year. However, the Santa Clara, Calif., company on Wednesday announced that it earned $4 million for the quarter ending March 30, compared with a $37 million loss in […]

Transmeta Corp. lost $20.1 million during a first quarter that saw it branch out its business beyond solely manufacturing energy-efficient chips for mobile devices. The Santa Clara, Calif., companys loss was an improvement over the $30.9 million its lost during the same period last year and the $21.7 million it lost in the fourth quarter […]

Gateway Inc., which is undergoing a transition away from simply being a PC manufacturer, lost $200 million in the first quarter on revenue of $844 million. The loss—which included a $78 million restructuring charge—was more than the $126 million lost in the same period last year and the $72 million lost in the fourth quarter […]

Intel Corp. saw revenue remain flat and net income drop slightly in a first quarter in which the giant chip maker made big strides in its mobile and wireless offerings with the launch of Centrino and Manitoba products. Revenue for the quarter ending March 29 came in at $6.75 billion, a slight drop from the […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. lost $146 million in the first quarter and saw sales decline 21 percent from the same period last year, but company officials on Wednesday said the company is on target to reach the break-even point by the end of the second quarter. The Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker saw its numbers jump […]

As Advanced Micro Devices Inc. gears up to release its 64-bit Opteron workstation and server chip next week, Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday outlined the ecosystem that has grown around Intel Corp.s 64-bit offering, Itanium. HP, which co-developed Itanium and makes four-way servers powered by the chip, announced that software makers continue to migrate their offerings […]

Fueled in part by growth in the semiconductor business, Texas Instruments Inc. saw first-quarter revenue jump 20 percent over last year. For the quarter ending March 31, the Dallas-based company garnered more than $2.19 billion in revenue, a jump over the $1.83 billion it generated in Q1 2002. Texas Instruments earned $117 million, compared with […]

Top-tier vendors IBM, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. are adding features to their respective low- and midrange Unix servers while keeping prices down. IBM last week said it is putting its 64-bit 1.2GHz Power4+ chip into its one- to four-way eServer p630 systems—both the rack-mounted p630-6C4 and the deskside p630-6E4. Even with the faster […]

Unisys Corp. is looking to bring high-end server features into the midrange with the launch last week of a family of smaller servers based on its ES7000 systems. The ES7000/500 servers (pictured), formerly code-named Dylan, can scale from four to 32 processors in 4U (7-inch) building blocks and include advanced server management and security software. […]

PC makers are looking to bring serverlike functionality to their desktops by adding integrated RAID-configured hard drive and Serial ATA hard drive options. The addition of RAID, which lets two hard drives work as one, and Serial ATA will boost speed and performance of the desktops while offering greater storage and reliability, said the PC […]