Scott Ferguson

The good news for the semiconductor industry is that sales increased more than 5 percent in August thanks to robust sales of cellular telephones, desktops and notebooks. The bad news is that Wall Street’s current woes could dampen the forecast for the rest of the year, especially if consumer confidence erodes. The report, released by […]

IBM is now offering a shared-storage option with its BladeCenter S that will allow small and midsize businesses to take advantage of up to 12TB of data storage within a blade enclosure. On a day when Hewlett-Packard acquired LeftHand Networks to boost its own storage and virtualization options, IBM announced Oct. 1 that its BladeCenter […]

When economic times got tough in the past, IT departments usually turned to PCs and other hardware-servers, network equipment and storage arrays-to make the budget cuts that management demanded to pare operating expenses. With the current U.S. credit crisis and the uncertain condition of Wall Street banking and financial firms promising to dominate the economy […]

The world around VMware is changing, but CEO Paul Maritz, who took control of the company earlier this year after co-founder Diane Greene was ousted, is looking to ensure that VMware remains the No. 1 vendor of virtualization technology. In addition to the challenges of keeping its virtualization fresh in an ever-changing IT world, VMware […]

As the U.S. stock market continues to fluctuate and Wall Street’s biggest firms wait to see if a bailout package will arrive on their doorsteps, there’s the question of what will happen to IT budgets as credit becomes scarce and worries mount about the overall health of the economy. While analysts believe it is too […]

Advanced Micro Devices, looking to shed the problems associated with the rollout of its quad-core Opteron processor in 2007, has begun shipping its new chip-the 45-nanometer “Shanghai” microprocessor-to its OEM partners for an anticipated launch later in 2008. In an interview, Pat Patla, the general manager of AMD’s Server and Workstation group, said the company […]

Venezuela has signed an agreement with Portugal that will allow the South American country to buy 1 million low-cost Intel Classmate PC notebooks from a Portuguese manufacturer. The agreement between Intel and the governments of Venezuela and Portugal now represents the largest deployment of Classmate PCs since Intel first introduced its low-cost notebook design, Agnes […]

ARM, along with Chartered Semiconductor and Samsung, are planning to use processor technology created by IBM’s research alliance to develop new lines of system-on-a-chip platforms for future generations of mobile devices such as cell phones and other consumer electronics. ARM and its two partners are planning to use the high-K metal gate technology that IBM, […]

Panasonic is updating its line of Toughbook notebooks to include a new ultraportable laptop and tablet that will feature some of the latest Intel processors, including a low-volt model. While not entrenched in the enterprise like Hewlett-Packard, Dell or Lenovo, Panasonic is trying to expand its rugged Toughbook notebook lineup beyond its primary use as […]

Sun Microsystems is updating its line of carrier-grade Netra server systems to include its own UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips as well as two new systems based on Intel Xeon processors. Since signing an agreement with Intel in 2007, Sun has looked to bolster its x64 (x86-64 bit) line of servers with Intel’s Xeon processors. For […]

VMware is entering into a new licensing agreement with Wyse Technology, best known for its line of thin-client PCs, which looks to enhance VMware’s upcoming desktop virtualization platform offering. In the agreement, which the two companies are planning to announce Sept. 25, VMware will license Wyse’s remote display software technology to enhance both the multimedia […]

Transmeta, which once challenged Intel by producing a line of low-power processors for desktops and notebooks, is putting itself up for sale and is actively seeking a buyer for what remains of its intellectual property, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. While once known for its energy-efficient Crusoe processors, […]