Mark Hachman

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Wednesday reported flat revenues and slightly lower profits for the second quarter of 2004, a performance mirroring that of rival Intel Corp. AMD, of Sunnyvale, Calif., reported net income of $32 million on revenue of $1.26 billion. Net income slipped 28 percent from the previous quarter. Revenue increased 2 percent […]

A new DRM (digital rights management) scheme for next-generation content has won the backing of two major studios as well as some of the biggest names in technology. IBM, Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., Matsushita Electric/Panasonic, Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. joined The Walt Disney Co. and Warner Bros. Studios to back the “Advanced Access Content […]

Dragged down by lower microprocessor shipments and skyrocketing inventories, Intel on Tuesday reported flat revenue and earnings for the second quarter. Intel Corp., based in Santa Clara, Calif., reported a net income of $1.8 billion on revenue of $8.05 billion, slightly lower than the $8.1 billion in revenue that analysts expected. While the companys earnings […]

Major hardware makers have responded to Microsofts pleas to develop 64-bit drivers, building up the necessary infrastructure to support upcoming 64-bit operating systems. For enterprise customers, the necessary code may be in place; but the outlook for support by smaller vendors and for legacy devices is uncertain. A number of chip companies polled by eWEEK.com […]

Its official—Wi-Fi has reached commodity status. On Tuesday, Conexant Systems Inc. preannounced lower earnings for the current quarter, based on an influx of low-cost Wi-Fi chips produced by Taiwan manufacturers. Conexant executives said that the price of 802.11g components is now on the order of 802.11b chips in certain markets. Although the Wi-Fi market has […]

Its official – WiFi has reached commodity status. On Tuesday, Conexant Systems Inc. preannounced lower earnings for the cureent quarter, based on an influx of low-cost WiFi chips produced by Taiwan manufacturers. Conexant executives said that the price of 802.11g components is now on the order of 802.11b chips in certain markets. Although the WiFi […]

A Dell VAR on Tuesday began offering OptiPlex desktops for sale in Italy with a Linux operating system from Lindows. Although the announcement was positioned as an official Dell release, a spokesman from Dell Inc.s headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, said the program was not offered with Dells approval. Questar, one of Dells Italian VARs, […]

A so-called industrywide memory problem reported by Hewlett-Packard Co. last week may be less pervasive than the PC maker implied. Officials at IBM and Dell Inc. have been unable to turn up samples of the flawed memory modules HP reported late last week. Meanwhile, two memory suppliers said they had completed their own testing and […]

Adaptec said Tuesday that it has acquired RAID technology from IBM in return for a guaranteed supply agreement. According to a statement released late Tuesday by Milpitas, Calif.-based Adaptec Inc., the deal involves both products and intellectual property currently used by IBM inside its server line. A spokeswoman for Adaptec said the deal involves the […]

After years of rumors and months of promise, Intel Corp. on Monday rolled out its first x86 chip with 64-bit extensions, officially launching the next-generation dual-processor Xeon chip, code-named Nocona. Intel will roll out its EM64T (Extended Memory 64 Technology), featured in the Nocona processor, gradually over the course of the year. The first chip […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. said Friday that it will replace memory modules in some of its notebooks with an “industrywide” design flaw that can cause system lockups. The problem is tied to the interaction of DRAM from several manufacturers and several chip sets, all designed by Intel Corp. The flaw, which could result in system lockups, is […]

Even the most ingenious chip designs can be undone by manufacturing problems: Consider IBM Corp.s struggle to raise the megahertz ante for its PowerPC processors. The company has managed to keep delivering chips without major interruptions. Nevertheless, issues with two of its key clients point at problems manufacturing its chips at their rated speeds. The […]