Mark Hachman

Intel Corp. on Tuesday raised the bar on Pentium 4 notebook performance with the introduction of the Mobile Intel Pentium 4 with hyperthreading technology. The chip should drive a new generation of “transportable” notebooks. Officially, the Mobile Pentium 4 replaces the Mobile Pentium 4-M, which will be phased out by the newer, higher-performance Pentium line. […]

As it did with the Opteron processor, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has managed to sign a top-tier OEM vendor to use its Athlon 64: Hewlett-Packard Co. The company and several others will use the new chip in consumer desktops and notebooks. Hewlett-Packard, alongside Fujitsu PC Corp.; Fujitsu-Siemens Computers; and Packard Bell, a division of NEC […]

Broadcom Corp. on Monday introduced a family of Gigabit Ethernet switch chips that the company designed for the small and medium-sized business market. The chips may let switch vendors offer a new class of less-expensive, down-sized products. The new ROBO-HS family is designed to enable switches with 4 to 24 ports with a single chip, […]

Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. said it will restructure its company in order to increase sales of its mobile computing devices. TAIS, based in Irvine, Calif., will restructure itself into three divisions, the company said. The restructuring will result in the loss of approximately 200 employees from throughout the TAIS workforce, reducing the companys headcount […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Intel researchers are busily optimizing how the companys Wi-Fi devices transfer data, in a bid to provide the best wireless experience possible. Although Intels wireless efforts have lagged behind such rivals as Atheros, Broadcom and Texas Instruments, Intels Chief Technology Officer Pat Gelsinger said today at the IDF show here that the company […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Intel Corp.s enterprise processor road map will evolve into an ever more complex matrix, where customers will be asked to make choices based on multiprocessing and thermal power. The result will be an enterprise environment where IT managers and enterprise OEMs will design for multiple processor threads running on chips with multiple processor […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—On Wednesday, Intel Corp. will announce at its Intel Developer Forum here its entrance into the blade server market, seeding the enterprise market with blades in much the same way it has supplied motherboards to the desktop market. What was known internally at Intel as the “Hampton-E” on Wednesday will be sold as […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Calling wireless “the next best thing,” Intel Corp.s top wireless executives are promising lower-power enhancements that will extend the technology throughout the world. Anand Chandrasekher, vice president and general manager of Intels Mobile Platforms Group, confirmed that the next generation of Intels Pentium M processor line, “Dothan,” will ship in the fourth quarter. […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Storage developers may get a look at a new hard disk technology here this week at the Intel Developer Forum. At the conference and expo, hard drive manufacturer Seagate Technology Ltd. will reportedly demonstrate a forthcoming mechanism incorporating “native command queuing.” Seagate, based in Scotts Valley, Calif., is expected to announce the Barracuda […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Intel Corp. has built a prototype of a “personal server” that could become the personal multimedia diary of the future. The small device, about the size of a deck of playing cards, isnt designed to be an Intel-branded product. However, Intel commissions internal research projects in bids to promote computing—and sales of Intel […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—On Tuesday, Intel Corp. will offer a sneak peek at a technology that will treat a PC like a television, snapping it on or off at the touch of a button with no booting required. The unnamed technology could have an impact on the manufacturers of uninterruptible power supplies. The technology will apparently […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—The disk drive industry is happy. Cautious, but happy. After weathering years of price declines, cutthroat competition and questions about whether customers actually needed all the storage manufacturers had to offer, vendors can afford to breathe a small sigh of relief. Drive shipments are expected to grow from 225.4 million units this year […]