Mark Hachman

A summary of upcoming press releases accidentally sent to reporters reveals that AMD will release the Athlon 64 and mobile Athlon 64 on Sept. 22. The summary, which also revealed the launch date of the Opteron 246, also indicates that AMD will significantly strengthen its ties to China, with server announcements scheduled for August. An […]

On Tuesday, Gateway announced its own branded DVD player that will also serve as a front end for playing back media files stored on a users PC. Gateways “Connected DVD Player” represents another stab at distributing media files around the home, such as Tivos to share media files, known as the Tivo Home Media Option, […]

Adaptec launched a 4-port Serial ATA RAID controller for high-end PCs on Monday, attempting to lower the cost of Serial ATA for small and medium businesses. The four-port 2410SA card supports up to four Serial ATA drives, providing RAID functionality of RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD. Adaptec currently ships a two-port card as […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Apple ushered in the world of 64-bit computing to its Macintosh line on Monday morning, introducing a new line of G5 Macintoshes to an enthusiastic audience at its Worldwide Developer Conference here. Although Apple also introduced its latest version of Mac OS X, dubbed “Panther,” Apples new hardware crowned Apple as the manufacturer of […]

If you can take a DVD movie on the plane with you, why not a TV show? Thats the thinking at Hewlett-Packard, where company executives acknowledged theyre evaluating how to bring the companys Media Center PC features to notebook computers. HP appeared at CeBIT America in New York City Wednesday morning armed with a slew […]

Iomega has announced a “universal” rewritable DVD drive that supports the DVD+RW, DVD-RW, and DVD-RAM formats, providing an equitable truce to the format wars. To date, even Sonys multiple-format DVD drive only supports the DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/DVD-RW formats. Iomega has gone the extra step and included support for the little-used but still available DVD-RAM format […]

Just a month after announcing that the company would ship 2.5-inch drives for the enterprise market, Seagate Technologies said Monday that it would reenter the mobile hard drive market. Seagate, the worlds largest drive maker, is already shipping its “Momentus” line of 2.5-inch hard drives to notebook customers, according to Mark Walker, a product marketing […]

Just a month after announcing that the company would ship 2.5-inch drives for the enterprise market, Seagate Technologies said Monday that it would reenter the mobile hard drive market. Seagate, the worlds largest drive maker, is already shipping its “Momentus” line of 2.5-inch hard drives to notebook customers, according to Mark Walker, a product marketing […]

Broadcom has incorporated an early version of the 802.11e quality-of-service technology into its wireless products, increasing the average data throughput in 802.11 networks. Broadcoms technology, which it calls “Xpress,” uses a technology called “frame bursting,” defined in a draft version of the 802.11e specification, according to Jeff Abramowitz, senior director of marketing for Broadcoms home […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. retained its lead in the overall notebook market, according to final numbers published by IDC for the first quarter of 2003. HP sold approximately 1.37 million notebooks during the first quarter, widening its lead over second-ranked Dell Computer, which sold about 1.24 million. The race between the two was much closer during the […]

The end is near, finally. If all goes as planned, the 802.11g wireless standard will be officially completed on June 12. The final draft of the technical specification was completed last Friday. With the completion of version 8.2 of the draft technical specification, all thats left to do is a “signatory” phase, where the members […]

Pioneer Corp. took a step away from its exclusive support of the DVD-RW standard by announcing a new recordable DVD drive for PCs, the A-06, which will support the DVD+RW and DVD+R standards. A Japanese version, the DVR-AO6-J, will ship in June to the Japanese market. A similar model for the Americas will ship at […]