John G. Spooner

Chip makers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are preparing their next round of server processors. Intel is expected to launch its upgraded Bensley server platform next month at its Intel Developer Forum. Meanwhile, AMD offered a snapshot of a forthcoming Opteron chip, due later this year, at the San Francisco International Solid State Circuits Conference. […]

PC firmware, a murky world of interwoven software code that dates back to the original IBM PC and its clones, is about to be modernized. In a move that experts say promises to lead to fewer headaches for IT staff by creating more stable and manageable desktops and notebooks, the PC industry has begun transitioning […]

IBM and Freescale Semiconductor aim to boost the Power processors architecture by aligning their chip design efforts. Senior executives at the two companies announced Feb. 6 an alliance under which they aim to create a common power architecture instruction set and align their chip road maps. Freescale will also join Power.org, the open Power processor […]

PC firmware, a murky world of interwoven software code that dates back to the original IBM PC and its clones, is about to be modernized. In a move that experts say promises to lead to fewer headaches for IT staff by creating more stable and manageable desktops and notebooks, the PC industry has begun transitioning […]

Long hours are legendary among Silicon Valley techies. But one Massachusetts technical support engineer has sued storage maker EMC, claiming he was fired for refusing to work an extended work week. The Boston Globe reports that Bay State resident Kevin Bujold has filed suit in Massachusetts Middlesex Superior Court, claiming he was fired by EMC […]

There is an updated version of this story available. For the most recent version, click here. Advanced Micro Devices, buoyed by the success of its Opteron server chip and rapidly growing market share, is beginning to win over more enterprise customers. The chip makers main goal for 2006, as it has been for most of […]

Advanced Micro Devices, buoyed by the success of its Opteron server chip and rapidly growing market share, is beginning to win over more enterprise customers. The chip makers main goal for 2006—as it has been for most of the past decade—is to expand its reach into the enterprise on both the desktop and server platforms. […]

Itanium supporters have pledged to put up $10 billion in an effort to make the server chip tops for mission critical servers. The funding will come from the collective backing of Bull, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens Computers, Hitachi, HP, Intel, NEC, SGI and Unisys, all members of the Itanium Solutions Alliance, a consortium of companies backing the […]

Intel said it has reached an important milestone on the path to rolling out the next generation of chip manufacturing in 2007. The chip giant said on Jan. 25 that it has completed a test chip using its forthcoming 45-nanometer process, dubbed P1266, which it expects to roll out in the second half of 2007. […]

Advanced Micro Devices says it picked up nearly four points of market share in the x86 chip market during the fourth quarter. The gain, which came as AMD posted strong fourth-quarter earnings, saw it pick up share in both PC and server processors, the chip maker said. Overall, it represents one of the largest single-quarter […]