Jeff Burt

NEW YORK—The core of Intel Corp.s Centrino mobile platform was the direct result of a convergence of communications and computing, according to company CEO Craig Barrett, a company mantra for the past couple of years. To accomplish the development, Intel worked closely with networking partners, service providers and software developers to create an ecosystem that […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Wednesday is adding to the noise this week in the mobile computing space by unveiling 12 new mobile chips, including five in the increasingly competitive thin-and-light notebook space. During a week in which Intel Corp. is launching its much-talked-about Centrino mobile platform, AMD is adding to its mobile portfolio with […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday unveiled a metering technology that will enable enterprises using the companys high-end Unix-based Superdome server to pay only for the processing power they use. The technology, delivered through HP Financial Services, is part of HPs On Demand suite of software, designed to give users more flexibility and control over their costs, […]

A new service from Hewlett-Packard Co. called Smart Cooling is designed to help enterprises optimize cooling systems in their increasingly crowded data centers. HPs static smart-cooling service starts with the deployment of software that takes in a plethora of data—from the amount of heat generated by each system to the flow of the air in […]

Sun Microsytems Inc. has rolled out the latest in its line of Netra servers for the telecommunications industry, the Netra 1280, which features up to 12 900MHz UltraSPARC III chips and up to 96GB of memory. The Netra 1280, unveiled late last month, is the only 12-processor server that has received NEBS (Network Equipment Building […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. and Stratus Technologies Inc. this week will each unveil their own dense, rack-optimized servers that take the same—or better—features of full-size servers and shrink them into smaller boxes. HP will roll out the ProLiant DL560, a four-processor, Intel Corp.-based system housed in a 2U (3.5-inch) design. The Palo Alto, Calif., company is aiming […]

Transmeta Corp.s upcoming mobile chip, code-named Astro, will include three new bus interfaces designed to increase the performance of devices featuring the processor. The new bus interfaces will include HyperTransport capabilities, greater memory features and on-chip ADP-4X graphics support for high-performance graphics capabilities. The energy-efficient TM8000, which is being designed for such devices as thin-and-light […]

Gateway Inc. on Monday is rolling out upgraded servers armed with Intel Corp.s new 3.06GHz Xeon processors and targeted at the small and midsized business space. The 960 and 980 server lines will now feature the chip that includes Intels hyperthreading technology and a 533MHz front-side bus, according to Gateway, of Poway, Calif. Intel, of […]

Intel Corp. on Monday will release upgraded versions of its Xeon processors for dual-processor workstations and servers at speeds of 3GHz and 3.06GHz, according to sources familiar with the chip makers plans. The faster chips have been on Intels roadmap for months, and some OEMs, such as Dell Computer Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co., began offering […]

Giant chip maker Intel Corp. on Thursday said revenues for the companys first quarter should come in between $6.6 billion and $6.8 billion, which is close to what had been projected earlier. Officials with the Santa Clara, Calif., company in January said they expected revenues for the first quarter—which ends March 29—to come in between […]

IBM, which late last year began shipping a 16-way version of its powerful eServer x440 system, later this year will begin shipping a 32-way version of the Intel-based server. The x445 will ship begin shipping in midyear, in keeping with Intel Corp.s road map for its Xeon processor, Deepak Advani, vice president of IBMs eServer […]

Enterprises today are putting more powerful systems that carry more processing power into their data centers, putting a premium on cooling the data centers. Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday unveiled a service designed to help businesses optimize data center cooling systems. The companys “static smart cooling” service is software that takes in data—from the amount of […]