Jeff Burt

Sun Microsystems Inc. took a $2.28 billion loss in the second quarter of fiscal 2003, fueled in large part by almost $2.13 billion in charges related to the reduction in value of companies that Sun had acquired. The Santa Clara, Calif., company also took a $357 million charge related to restructuring plans, including layoffs. Sun […]

Intel Corp. on Wednesday is releasing a Linux version of its technology designed to enable software developers to better analyze and optimize their applications. Using the Intel VTune Performance Analyzer 1.0 for Linux, developers should be able to determine how to get the most out of their Linux applications using Intels Pentium 4 and Xeon […]

Intel Corp. continued making news in the mobile space, reducing prices this week of its notebook chips by up to 38 percent. Intel, which in the early spring is expected to launch its Centrino line of energy-efficient chips—including its next generation mobile chip, which was codenamed Banias—and other mobile technology, cut the pricing of its […]

Transmeta Corp. announced today that it is embedding wireless security technology onto its Crusoe TM5800 processor that will among other things enable users to store sensitive information right on the chip. The features also include a hardware acceleration engine for such encryption algorithms as Data Encryption Standard, or DES, DES-X and Triple DES, and a […]

Intel Corp. generated $7.2 billion in revenue in the fourth quarter, a 3 percent jump over the same period last year, the giant chip maker reported Tuesday. The number also represented a 10 percent jump over the previous quarter. The Santa Clara, Calif., company said its income for the quarter was $1.1 billion, a 6 […]

Just days after cutting the prices on many of its mobile chips, Intel Corp. on Tuesday rolled out six new notebook processors, including a 2.4GHz Pentium 4-M. The Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker also unveiled a new integrated graphics chipset for its mobile PC group, the 852GM. When combined with Intels mobile Pentium 4 or […]

Mobile device users can reduce processor power consumption in their products by as much as 50 percent by using a combination of chip technology from IBM and software from MontaVista Software Inc., the two companies said Tuesday. The result could be significant overall power savings—about 20 percent—in overall power savings in such products as smart […]

PC maker Dell Computer Corp., which already is looking to expand its offerings into such areas as printers and personal digital assistants, is getting into the retail cash register business. At the National Retail Federations Convention and Expo in New York on Monday, Dell announced it is combining its various server, PC, storage and networking […]

Businesses and researchers looking to bring Linux into their supercomputing environments will soon have new options coming from Silicon Graphics Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. to choose from. SGI will roll out this quarter the Altix 3000 server, which will run Linux on as many as 64 Intel Corp. Itanium 2 chips. The platform will complement […]

Businesses will get more help tying together their data center devices. Startup Topspin Communications Inc., which in November rolled out its InfiniBand-based 360 Switched Computing System, this week will unveil an entry-level switched computing device. The Topspin 90 Switched Computing System offers 12 InfiniBand ports and can be expanded by four more InfiniBand ports, two […]

A year after IBM announced it was farming out the production of its NetVista desktop PCs in a bid to reduce costs in its supply chain, the company last week said it is going to do the same with the bulk of its eServer xSeries systems and IntelliStation workstations. The Armonk, N.Y., company signed a […]

For the second consecutive year, IBM produced more than 3,000 patents in 2002, according to the Armonk, N.Y., company. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded IBM 3,288 patents in 2002, an indication that innovation is as important as the technology itself at Big Blue, said Brian Connors, chief technology officer and vice president of […]