Mark Hachman

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems Inc. this month will roll out two new servers featuring its UltraSPARC IV processors, a Sun executive said Friday. The new systems will replace the current four-way Sun Fire V480 and eight-way V880 systems, which currently run UltraSPARC III, Andy Ingram, vice president of marketing for Suns Scalable Systems Group, told reporters […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is countering Intels “Silvervale” virtualization technology with its own initiative, executives said late Wednesday. “Pacifica” is being internally developed within AMD as an “advanced virtualization” technology, said Ben Williams, vice president of the enterprise workstation business at AMD, in an interview. At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel executives […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The enterprise processor contest is now a two-horse race between IBM and Intel Corp., Intels enterprise platforms chief said Tuesday. In a briefing with reporters at the Intel Developer Forum here, Abhi Talwalkar, vice president of Intels Enterprise Platforms Group, in Santa Clara, Calif., said in the future only IBMs Power5 architecture and Intels […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel will move forward on its Centrino wireless solution with “Napa,” executives said Wednesday. The company also demonstrated its first desktop dual-core chip running on an Intel 915 motherboard at the Intel Developer Forum here. Although desktop processors have been the focus of past IDF confabs, the focus here Wednesday turned to mobility, with […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Asking Intel Corp. to talk about its new processor technologies is easy. Persuading the company to talk about when theyll appear in actual hardware is another matter altogether. Intel executives now call its “Ts” — the grab bag of technologies that enhance a processors performance beyond clock speed — part of the “service-oriented enterprise.” […]

Ericsson Sverige AB, a Swedish developer of telecommunications silicon, said it has decided to stop Bluetooth development, which the company said was an indicator of the technologys mature state. The company will continue to manufacture Bluetooth components, however. Specifically, the company restructured its licensing operation, Ericssson Technology Licensing, which had set out to design Bluetooth […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The dot-com boom-and-bust cycle will be followed by a surge, a top Intel executive said Tuesday, prompted by a shift toward multicore technologies. In turn, that surge will prompt a “Moores Law” of data expansion, Intel President and Chief Operating Officer Paul Otellini said in his keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum here. […]

Intel Corp. laid out more of its WiMax roadmap on Tuesday, disclosing that the company has sampled its first “Rosedale” silicon to customers and tipping plans to add the technology to handsets in 2007. Intel has been a chief promoter of WiMax, which is seen as a wireless alternative to cable and DSL wired broadband […]

Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are revving up for what they see as the next big step in the evolution of x86 processors—the introduction of dual processing cores. Both companies are demonstrating technology that puts two processing cores on a single chip, providing users with almost double the processing power in the same […]

IBM and Intel plan to open up their eServer blade platform to seed the market for future designs, the companies plan to announce Thursday. IBM officials positioned the move as one that was necessary to grow the market from the “early adopter” phase to the “mass adopter” phase. With the specifications—which Intel Corp. and IBM […]

Next week, the Wi-Fi Alliance will release Wi-Fi Multimedia, or WMM, an interim standard that will provide early quality-of-service functionality for multimedia equipment based on the emerging 802.11e specification. Wireless chip companies and equipment makers are expected to announce support for WMM on Sept. 8 at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The standard […]

Intel co-founder Gordon Moores famous law will be re-examined again next week, as Intel shifts away from pure speed to the more efficient utilization of silicon. Moores Law, which generally states that the number of transistors will double every twelve to eighteen months, has been used as a rationale to explain the perpetual increases in […]