Jeff Burt

MPC Computers LLC on Monday unveiled its latest two-way server aimed at small to mid-sized businesses and larger workgroups. The NetFrame 3610 is powered by Xeon processors from Intel Corp. and includes a 533MHz front-side bus, an integrated dual-channel Ultra320 SCSI controller card and 512KB of Level 2 cache. It also boasts hyperthreading, which enables […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Monday is rolling out an entry-level workstation based on Intel Corp.s new 3GHz Pentium 4 microprocessor and accompanying 875P chip set, which includes such functionality as performance acceleration and hyperthreading technologies. Armed with the new Intel technologies—including a faster 800MHz front-side bus and greater memory bandwidth—the single-processor HP Workstation xw4100 will offer […]

Fueled by services and software growth, IBM on Monday reported that revenue in the first quarter jumped 11.3 percent while income grew 8 percent. For the quarter ending March 31, the Armonk, N.Y., company earned $1.4 billion on revenue of $20.1 billion, both increases over the first quarter in 2002. The gains in services and […]

Intel Corp. has delayed the release of the 3GHz Pentium 4 processor due to “anomalies” in the new chip, according to a company spokesman. However, the delay shouldnt cause the Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker too many headaches as long as it doesnt stretch out over more than two months, one analyst said. Intel spokesman […]

Microsoft Corp. this week filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to determine whether patents held by Lucent Technologies Inc.—and which are the subjects of suits Lucent has filed against two OEMs—are valid. Software giant Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., filed the suit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Diego. Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler said […]

The list of InfiniBand products hitting the market grew this week when InfiniSwitch Corp. announced the general availability of three products designed for InfiniBand-enabled devices. The Westboro, Mass., company released the InfiniSwitch 12/24 Port Leaf Switch, the Lane15 Fabric Manager-Enterprise Version and the InfiniSwitch Dual Port Host Channel Adapter (HCA). The Leaf Switch offers 12 […]

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said it is developing versions of its Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems that will support Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s upcoming 64-bit Opteron chip. Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., said it also is extending support in both those operating systems for AMDs 64-bit Athlon 64 processor for desktop and notebook […]

Intel Corp. and Via Technologies Inc., which have been trading patent infringement lawsuits for the past few years, have settled their legal differences regarding chip sets and microprocessors. Key to the settlement, which the two companies announced late Monday, is a 10-year cross-patent license agreement that will cover each others products. Also, Intel will allow […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Tuesday is rolling out a collection of hardware, software and services, the second round of a policy of massive quarterly product launches that started in January. Among the releases are two low-end servers, the Sun Fire V210 and V240 systems, armed with the Solaris 8 operating system and one or two […]

Intel Corp. is trying to make it easier for software developers to create applications that can run with the chip makers performance-enhancing hyperthreading technology. Hyperthreading, currently found in Intels Pentium 4 and Xeon chips, enables a single chip to work like two virtual processors, improving PC and workstation performance by as much as 30 percent, […]

MPC Computers last week continued its drive to grow its product line beyond desktops, unveiling a new four-way server. MPC—formerly MicronPC—rolled out its NetFrame 6600 server (see picture below), which is powered by up to four Intel 2GHz Xeon MP processors and offers up to 2MB of Level 3 on-die cache. The 6600, which comes […]

Michael Dell and Larry Ellison teamed up last week to pitch a vision for the future of the data center that is built on smaller, standards-based Dell Computer Corp. servers and Oracle Corp. database clustering software. But some enterprise customers, while seeing a trend toward distributed computing on industry-standard Windows or Linux systems, are not […]