Mark Hachman

Iomega Corp. has announced that its first products using RRD technology will challenge tape drives for backup applications beginning in 2004. On Thursday, Iomega said its first Removable Rigid Disk (RRD) drives will be branded as the Iomega REV and will feature 35GB of native storage capacity, or 90GB compressed. The drives will cost less […]

Intel Corp.s microprocessor business gained a percentage point of market share from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. during the third quarter, although both companies benefited from an overall recovery, according to an International Data Corp. study. In the study released Monday by IDC analyst Shane Rau, the firm found that Intel ended the third quarter […]

A pair of mesh networking companies will take the stage Monday, promising to improve wireless connectivity by shunting wireless connections through multiple access points. PacketHop Inc. will announce that it has spun off from parent and noted incubator SRI International; in an unrelated announcement, Zensys A/S will disclose a business relationship with Intel Corp. to […]

Motorola Inc. tied itself even closer to ultrawideband startup XtremeSpectrum Inc., purchasing the company outright in a deal announced Monday. XtremeSpectrum is one of the companies working on products supporting high-data-rate personal networking wireless communications using the IEEE 802.15.3a standard. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, the ultrawideband (UWB) specification appears to be […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. this week disclosed that it is working towards tying its own flash memories to data storage, while making the chips cheaper to manufacture. In an analyst conference, AMD officials discussed a high-performance extension to its MirrorBit flash architecture. Due by 2006, the technology aims to be a premium level of flash […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Thursday added a slew of new processor code names to its road map, timed to coincide with a meeting with Wall Street analysts. AMD executives also confirmed that its next-generation K9 processor will ship late in 2005. At its biannual analyst meeting at its Sunnyvale, Calif. headquarters, AMD officials outlined the […]

Advanced Micro Devices has added a slew of new processor code names to its road map, timed to coincide with a meeting with Wall Street analysts Thursday morning. While AMDs May 14 roadmap indicated that AMD was introducing three new processors for 2004 – “Athens,” Opteron designed for servers and workstations; “San Diego,” a version […]

Microsoft Corp.s trusted computing vision inched closer to reality on Wednesday, as an industry group released an updated specification for storing encrypted information. Version 1.2 of the Trusted Computing Groups hardware specification was released at the RSA Conference 2003 Europe in Amsterdam. The group is responsible for overseeing the development of Trusted Platform Modules, small […]

Smaller is better, certainly for notebook computers and their processors. However, the bane of low-power chips has been “current leakage,” a problem that drains away much of the energy-savings on smaller processors. Intel Corp. engineers on Thursday will announce a “breakthrough” aimed at minimizing this current leakage at the International Workshop on Gate Insulator 2003 […]

Intel Corp. officials confirmed that a software update designed to improve the performance of 32-bit Windows programs on its 64-bit Itanium processors has been pushed back until the second half of 2004. Intels IA-32 Execution Layer (IA-32 EL) software was tied to the official release of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, which Microsoft in […]

Although the U.S. Army has used radio-frequency identification tags for nearly a decade, it was the recent Gulf War that prompted the Department of Defenses recent decision to adopt them, a senior official said. The Defense Department said last week that it will require its suppliers to deploy RFID tags by January 2005, the same […]

Intel Corp. this week offered a demonstration of a forthcoming self-healing, wireless sensor technology. The sensor grid could improve the monitoring and analysis of environmental conditions and Intel said it will deploy the technology in its own manufacturing plants. Part passive sensor, part tiny computing device, Intels sensor “motes” will replace arrays of traditional wired […]