John G. Spooner

Hewlett-Packard says that by making cuts now, its investing in its future. But some analysts are still waiting for the other shoe to drop. The Palo Alto, Calif., computer giant, as expected on Tuesday, enacted a major restructuring plan it says will get its finances in order and ultimately make it more competitive in the […]

Hewlett-Packard will announce on Tuesday a restructuring plan that is expected to include hefty layoffs. The Palo Alto, Calif., computer giant on Monday evening said in a statement that its CEO, Mark Hurd, and chief financial officer, Bob Wayman, would conduct calls on Tuesday morning to provide “the details of a restructuring plan.” That plan […]

Intel is asking itself whats next for Linux. The chip giant recently pulled its disparate efforts to work with the operating system. Those efforts span programs aimed at notebooks, desktops, servers, storage and vertical markets such as telecommunications, together under one roof, creating a Linux Program Office, run by its Software and Solutions Group. Intel […]

Intel Corp. is planning a last hurrah for its single-core Itanium server chips. The processor giant is expected to announce on Monday a pair of Itanium 2 processors fitted with a slight increase in clock speed and a faster front side bus. The bus, which is the equivalent of a pipeline for data moving into […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is using low prices to drum up business for its desktop PCs. The computer giant has begun offering a new wave of low-price desktops to consumers and businesses. Its Pavilion desktop PC, for one, starts at a hair under $250 after a rebate. Its also advertising its HP Compaq business desktop dx2000 model […]

Dell Inc. has shuttered the customer order support portion of its Web bulletin board system, in part to help protect its clients privacy. The Round Rock, Texas, PC maker on Friday removed its customer care board, which was often used by Dell clients to help track orders or solve shipment problems, from its Dell Community […]

Intel Corp. will mark July 2005 as its entry into the dual-core processor server age. Later this month, the chip maker will begin rolling out the first of four new dual-core server platforms for machines ranging from inexpensive, single-processor boxes for small businesses to multiprocessor Xeon servers and high-end Itanium machines for large businesses. Based […]

SOMERS, N.Y.—Apple Computer Inc.s worries about watts are unfounded, according to IBM. Apple said earlier this month that it will switch to Intel chips from PowerPC chips as IBMs future PowerPC processors projected power consumption will make them too difficult to design into future Apple systems. But IBM begs to differ. The company could build […]

East Fishkill, N.Y.—IBM is hands-off when it comes to manufacturing its most powerful processors, including chips used by Apple Computer. The companys chip plant here, a vital piece of IBMs strategy, employs an army of automated machines connected by hundreds of miles of cable in order to produce chips such as the PowerPC 970, known […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has filed a broad antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corp., claiming Intel illegally maintains a monopoly in the PC processor market. AMD, which announced the suit on Tuesday, offered a long list of examples in which it says Intel has used its position, including its ability to offer product rebates or to […]

IBM has found a home for its new Cell chip—in enterprise workstations and servers. The company on Tuesday announced that Mercury Computer Systems Inc., of Chelmsford, Mass., will use the Cell in computers built for industries such as aerospace and health care. The computer maker expects the Cell to increase the base processing performance of […]

The Mac public got its first look into Apple Computer Inc.s Intel-based development systems this week, thanks to Web sites such as Think Secret. For those versed in assembling PCs, they look fairly ordinary. Apple Computer Inc., which said in earlier this month that it would switch to Intel Corp.s processors from PowerPC processors made […]