Mark Hachman

Advanced Micro Devices said Tuesday that it would add Chartered Semiconductor as a chip foundry beginning in 2006. The decision will add another source of production to AMDs own lines, which include Fab 32 and the upcoming Fab 36, both in Dresden, Germany. Both of AMDs fabs are expected to carry the company into the […]

Motherboard makers will soon have the option of adding a dedicated HyperTransport card slot, a feature that will increase the options available to clustered supercomputers. The so-called HTX slot will allow direct access to the HyperTransport bus via the slot, which motherboard maker Iwill add to its DK8-HTX board, members of the HyperTransport consortium said. […]

Clustered supercomputers eked out a majority over traditional big iron in Mondays “Top500” rankings of the worlds fastest supercomputers. IBMs BlueGene/L took the top spot, followed by NASAs “Columbia” cluster. The semiannual Top500 directory is a joint project of the University of Mannheim, in Germany; the University of Tennessee; and the National Energy Research Scientific […]

Intel Corp. is refreshing its 64-bit Itanium 2 processor line with six new chips based on the Madison core. The new processors represent the last single-core Itanium chips that the Santa Clara, Calif., company will roll out. The next step for Itanium is Montecito, which will have two cores on a single processor, Abhi Talwalkar, […]

Two alternative methods of benchmarking supercomputers are nearing completion, as the most popular metric for benchmarking performance is being applied Monday to generate a new list of the worlds most powerful systems. The latest revision of the Top500 list of supercomputers is expected to be released late Monday before the SC2004 supercomputing show kicks off […]

Intel Corp.s share of the CPU market fell slightly during the third quarter as smaller rivals nipped at the leading chip makers heels. Intels market share slipped to 81.9 percent, versus 82.5 percent a quarter before, according to data released Monday by Mercury Research Corp., of Cave Creek, Ariz. Rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. saw […]

Toshiba said Monday that it will offer a free exchange program for more than 25 of its notebook models, caused by a problem with a memory module that appears similar to one that affected Hewlett-Packard several months ago. Toshiba Ltd. said it had placed a downloadable utility on its Web site so users can determine […]

Intel, IBM and NTT DoCoMo have released a specification to create a “trusted mobile platform,” which appears to take the foundation of Microsofts own trust initiative, “Palladium,” into the mobile space. The three companies placed the Trusted Mobile Platform specification on the Internet for public review. An executive at Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel said the […]

Intel Corp. plans to refocus its efforts on the mainstream flash market with the launch of a new product family early next year, which analysts said could further undermine already deteriorating pricing. From its goal of being the top supplier in flash memory for cellular handsets two years ago, Intel executives have said that they […]

Intel Corp. rolled out a low-power, embedded version of its new 64-bit Xeon processor on Tuesday, which the company has specifically designed for smaller-form-factor storage applications. The new 2.8-GHz processors design will cut the heat in half when compared with a standard Xeon designed for servers, the company said. Intel, based in Santa Clara, Calif., […]

Broadcom Corp. on Tuesday announced that Scott McGregor, chief of Philips chip division, will become its new president and CEO. McGregor will continue in his current position at Philips through the rest of this year, according to a Broadcom spokesperson, and then assume the title of Broadcoms chief executive on Jan. 3. He will replace […]

Executives at security solutions provider Symantec said theyre confident that the companys business will continue to thrive in the face of Microsofts Windows XP Service Pack 2, and they promised a comprehensive anti-spyware package in the next few weeks. In a conference call Wednesday announcing the companys earnings for the second fiscal quarter, executives said […]