Jeff Burt

Proponents of blade server technology now have a trade association to promote their cause. The Server Blade Trade Association—which counts among its founders Chris Hipp, one of the co-founders of blade pioneer RLX Technologies Inc.—announced its creation this week. The goal of the group, which was created by more than 20 companies, is to educate […]

IBM on Thursday unveiled a service that gives businesses in need of supercomputing power access to clusters of high-powered IBM systems. IBMs service, part of its eBusiness on Demand push, is designed to make computing power a variable cost for customers, many of whom only need the power at certain points every year. Instead of […]

PC maker Gateway Inc. announced this week that it will post an even greater fourth-quarter loss than previously expected, due in large part to disappointing holiday sales. Officials with the Poway, Calif., company, which previously had predicted revenues of $1.2 billion, said Tuesday they now expect revenues to come in around $1.06 billion. Gateway will […]

Intel Corp. is naming its new family of mobile computing technology Centrino. Included in the Centrino group will be the Santa Clara, Calif., companys next-generation mobile processor, code-named Banias, as well as related chip sets and 802.11 wireless networking technology. The technology is expected to be rolled out in the first half of the year, […]

IBM and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will jointly develop chip technologies, the two companies announced Wednesday. The new processes will be aimed at improving chip performance and reducing power consumption, a key concern as more and more transistors are put onto the chips, which in turn creates a lot of heat. The companies will collaborate […]

IBM, which a year ago this month announced it was outsourcing the manufacturing of its desktop PCs in a bid to reduce costs, said on Tuesday it is going to do the same thing with the bulk of its eServer xSeries systems and IntelliStation workstations. The Armonk, N.Y., company has signed a $3.6 billion deal […]

SGI wants to combine the flexibility of standards-based environments with the performance of supercomputing. The Mountain View, Calif., company—formerly known as Silicon Graphics Inc.—on Tuesday is rolling out the SGI Altix 3000 family of servers and superclusters aimed at the technical computing space and powered by Intel Corp.s 64-bit Itanium 2 chips and the Linux […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is giving its grid portal technology to the open-source community. The Santa Clara, Calif., company has been beta testing its Grid Engine Portal portlet technology, which integrates Sun ONE (Open Net Environment) Grid Engine software with Sun ONE Portal Server. The integration enables users to securely access their enterprise or resource grid […]

Semiconductor upstart Transmeta Corp., known for its Crusoe line of low-power, low-heat processors, is expanding its product stable with a suite of chips for x86-compatible embedded applications. To help the move, the company is lining up an impressive list of big-name software developers to support the technology. The Crusoe SE (Special Embedded) processor line, which […]

Intel Corp. on Monday promoted three vice presidents and elected four others. The board of directors for the Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker promoted Robert Baker, Patrick Gelsinger and Patricia Murray from corporate vice president to senior vice president. Baker, who joined Intel in 1979, is general manager of the Technology and Manufacturing Group. Gelsinger, […]

Gateway Inc., the hard-hit PC maker that has tried various strategies to stem the tide of poor quarterly financial reports, is starting the new year with a new executive vice president of operations. Joe Formichelli, a 30-year industry veteran whose resume includes runs as vice president of worldwide systems operations at IBM and vice president […]

The year 2003 is shaping up to become an important period for InfiniBand, the much-touted but little-seen high-speed interconnect technology. Despite setbacks earlier this year, when Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp., two founding members of the InfiniBand Trade Association, backed away from InfiniBand development efforts, smaller InfiniBand vendors have recently launched enterprise-ready products, highlighted by […]