John G. Spooner

Chip makers are making clear that they intend to continue to explore advanced technologies such as virtualization and multicore processors to help solve thermal problems and push the performance envelope. At the Fall Processor Forum last week, Fujitsu Ltd. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. shed some light on technology that will appear in their respective […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. gained market share in the x86 chip market during the third quarter, a published report says. The Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker, which is Intel Corp.s primary rival in x86 processors—the chips used by most PCs and many computer servers—gained 1.6 points of market share during the quarter to give it 17.8 […]

Micron Technology Inc., best known for producing computer memory, hopes its latest camera chip for automobiles will catch a ride in new types of safety gear. The Boise, Idaho, chip giant, which has been plowing along in the automotive electronics market for about four years, released a new image sensor chip for automotive cameras, earlier […]

AMD (Advanced Micro Devices Inc.) wants to help remove the barriers that, thus far, have prevented virtualization from the mainstream of the x86 computer space. Executives from the Sunnyvale, Calif., chipmaker, in a presentation at this weeks Processor Forum in San Jose, Calif., detailed its efforts to add elements that support virtualization, or the ability […]

Intel Corp. has redrawn its server processor road map for the next few years. The Santa Clara, Calif., chip giant on Monday said it will push back the introduction of some of its Itanium chips, including moving the launch of its dual-core Itanium chip, dubbed Montecito, back by several months. Montecito had been scheduled to […]

P.A. Semi, a 150-employee chip startup, wants to make name for itself through attention to detail. The Silicon Valley chip startup, run by chip legend Dan Dobberpuhl—Dobberpuhl, its CEO, presided over the development of the Alpha processor while at Digital Equipment Corp.—lifted its veil of secrecy Monday. The company will begin offering a new family […]

Editors Note: This story is part of , a continuing series of stories from the reporters and editors of Ziff Davis Internet. Instead of the usual mile-high look at the year ahead, these articles examine particular technologies and markets in transition, including whats in store for them. The marriage of notebook PCs and televisions may […]

NEW YORK—Intel Corp. has a prescription for enhancing health care in the future: increasing the dose of computer technology. The chip maker, which established a new Digital Health Group as part of a broad reorganization earlier this year, is preparing to trial a laptop-like device that could aid in the care of people suffering from […]

These days, engineers at Sun Microsystems Inc. have their counterparts at chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on speed dial. Sun, whose turnaround plan bets heavily AMD Opteron-based processor servers, has gained the ear of the chipmaker over the last two years and thus is helping shape the future of the Opteron, which charged on the […]

Apple Computer Inc. may have tipped its hand on Wednesday, by revealing its new line of Power Mac G5s based on the dual-core PowerPC processor. The notoriously secretive computer makers new lineup includes single chip models running at 2GHz and 2.3GHz and a dual-processor machine with 2.5GHz chips. Apple also updated its PowerBook portable line. […]

Apple Inc. introduced a raft of new technologies at an invitation-only news event Wednesday, at the debut of its long-awaited Power Mac G5 desktop line, which features dual-core processors, along with new PowerBook notebooks and its latest image-editing software. While the photographic production applications may have represented the most intriguing new tools from the Cupertino, […]

Lenovo Group LTD is pitching a new low-price ThinkCentre desktop in an effort to gain more of a following in the small business market. The PC maker, created in May when Chinas Lenovo closed its multi-billion-dollar purchase of IBMs PC division, launched the ThinkCentre E Series, which starts at $379, on Tuesday. The desktop shows […]