Jeff Burt

Gateway Inc., the PC maker best known for its consumer systems and talking cow, is linking thousands of display PCs in its nationwide chain of stores to create a grid computing environment capable of scaling to 14 teraflops of performance. Through its Processing on Demand initiative, which will be unveiled this week, Gateway is making […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is rolling out its latest high-end multiprocessing server and workstation chip, the Athlon MP 2400+. The new processor, unveiled on Tuesday, joins the 2200+ and 2000+ chips designed for industries that use compute-intensive applications, such as high-performance computing environments and research institutions, according to the Sunnyvale, Calif., company. AMD officials said […]

IBM says it has created the worlds smallest working silicon transistor. IBMs Research Group on Monday unveiled the new transistor—which at 6 nanometers in length is at least 10 times smaller than transistors in production today, according to the company—at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco. The silicon body of the transistor is […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. this week is giving people a peek at its upcoming Itanium-based Superdome server, which will enable users to run Windows, Linux and HP-UX simultaneously. At the Gartner Group Data Center Conference running from Monday to Wednesday in Las Vegas, HP will demonstrate a 32-processor Superdome server with three partitions, each one running one […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is adding remote management and fault resilience technologies to three products in its rack-optimized server line. The Palo Alto, Calif., company last week rolled out two servers, the ProLiant DL320 and DL360, and an upgraded server, the ProLiant DL580. James Mouton, vice president for platforms in HPs Industry Standard Servers unit, said the […]

ClearCube Technology Inc. next year will bulk up its blade PCs with new chips and fiber-optic connectivity that company officials said will make the technology more attractive to the government sector. The Austin, Texas, company builds back-end blade computers that attach to traditional keyboards, monitors and mice via Ethernet connections. In this way, bulky PCs […]

Intel Corp. on Thursday joined rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in upgrading its fourth-quarter forecast, calling for revenue to come in between $6.8 billion and $7 billion for the quarter ending Dec. 28. AMD earlier in the day also raised its fourth-quarter guidance. That would be a jump in the $6.5 billion to $6.9 billion […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Thursday said it expects to fourth-quarter sales to come in at $700 million, a 35 percent jump over earlier projections from the chip maker. AMD, of Sunnyvale, Calif., said higher-than-expected demand for PC processors and continued demand for Flash memory products, particularly in the high-end mobile phone arena, are fueling […]

Users of IBMs pSeries Unix servers now will be able to run Linux natively on the servers. IBM on Wednesday announced that the eServer p630 will start shipping Linux-ready, without having Big Blues AIX Unix operating system bundled with it. The p630 is the first of the half-dozen pSeries servers that eventually will ship with […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. officials expect to complete the integration of Compaq Computer Corp. by the end of the companys fiscal year 2003, almost a year ahead of schedule, according to Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina. Speaking to financial analysts in San Francisco on Tuesday, Fiorina also said that the company expects to save $3 billion in […]

Intel Corp. is upgrading its software designed to make it easier for developers to build and run applications on Intel technology. Intel on Tuesday rolled out Version 7.0 of Intel C++ Compilers for Windows and Linux and Version 7.0 of Intel Fortran Compilers for Windows and Linux. Compilers are used to translate a programming language—in […]

Gateway Inc. is trying to help space-constrained businesses gain more room on crowded desktops. The Poway, Calif., company earlier this month unveiled two small-form- factor PCs designed to occupy less space than traditional microtowers but keep the computing power and manageability enterprises need. The Gateway E-2000 and E-4000 PCs are 35 percent smaller than microtower […]