Mark Hachman

Power outages struck IBMs computer chip fabrication plant in East Fishkill, N.Y., affecting production as key products for Nvidia and Apple ramp up. The largest U.S. blackout ever struck New York on Thursday, leaving part of six U.S. states and the Canadian province of Ontario without power, an area where an estimated 50 million people […]

Analyst firm Gartner Inc. raised its estimates for third-quarter PC sales on Thursday, citing improved IT spending. Still, the firm said, its too early to conclude that the industry is experiencing a recovery. Gartners revised estimates call for the PC industry to sell 39.8 million units during the third quarter of 2003, a 9.6 increase […]

The SCO Group Inc. on Thursday reported a boost in profits and revenue for its fiscal third quarter, including $7.3 million of revenue from its controversial Unix-licensing efforts. In fact, the companys SCOsource licensing efforts boosted the company to a profit. SCO reported net income of $3.1 million on revenue of $20.1 million, versus a […]

In the latest move of its copyright offensive over Unix, the SCO Group Inc. on Wednesday gave final notice to IBM Corp. that SCO had terminated the Unix System V contract for IBMs Sequent software. Although SCO said it had notified IBM in writing almost two months ago that it would terminate its contract, it […]

Like PC competitors Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc., Gateway Inc. is busy planning the next major phase in its diversification strategy: more than a dozen new consumer lines, including its own digital cameras. Gateway currently plans to deliver three still-image cameras, with resolutions up to 5.25 megapixels, according to sources. Gateway spokesman Brad Williams confirmed […]

HyperTransport, technology aimed at faster I/O, is picking up speed in the industry. Seven companies, including EMC, IBM, LTX, Media Fusion, National Semiconductor, Network Appliance and Texas Instruments, this week joined the HyperTransport Consortium, set up to admininister the development of the technology. This fall, HyperTransport will add special hooks for packet-based communication. “Weve pretty […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. intends to position its AMD64 64-bit processor architecture as the ultimate enterprise solution, singling out Intel Corp.s disparate architectures as a weakness. In an odd lunchtime meeting with customers and partners that was part strategy session, part revival and part historical analysis, analysts compared AMDs Opteron to steel mini-mills, able to […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Following its pledge at last years LinuxWorld to develop all of its products for Linux, Oracle Corp. will now actually develop future products using the Linux operating system, an Oracle executive said Wednesday. Last year at the LinuxWorld show here, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison pledged to run the companys entire business on the […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. at LinuxWorld Monday demonstrated a PDA reference design based on its Alchemy embedded processor. /zimages/5/26680.gifClick here to see the new PDA. The PDA, a mockup manufactured by a contract manufacturer, nevertheless showed off Metrowerks Qtopia PIM application running on top of the Metrowerks OpenPDA software suite. The OpenPDA application ran on […]

SAN FRANCISCO—On Tuesday, Red Hat Inc.s chief executive harkened back to the old rabble-rousing populist days of Linux, delivering a wakeup call to developers at LinuxWorld here. Michael Szulik, who had put his companys money where his mouth was Monday when Red Hat filed suit against The SCO Group, claimed that the industry has “devolved” […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Dell Inc. will ship the Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES operating system with select PowerEdge servers, the company announced Wednesday at the LinuxWorld conference here. Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES is especially designed for print and file servers and other edge-of-network applications. The package will be sold for $349 on the PowerEdge 4600, 2650 […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The legal issues surrounding Linux “will eventually be forgotten,” according to a top IBM executive speaking Wednesday at LinuxWorld. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, general manager of e-business on demand at IBM, said that he expects over time that the industry will forget SCOs efforts to enforce what it considers to be copyrighted material at the heart […]