Scott Ferguson

SAN FRANCISCO-Now that Intel has detailed its new Nehalem microarchitecture, the question remains when the first of the processors built around this new chip architecture will hit the enterprise space and the wider consumer market. To date, Intel has revealed that the first of the Nehalem-based processors, the Intel Core i7 chip, will enter the […]

SAN FRANCISCO-In the next 40 years, Intel is planning to develop a range of new technology that will allow chips to communicate through pulses of light and allow users to wirelessly project the Internet onto large screens from tiny mobile devices. That is the vision of the future that Justin Rattner, an Intel Senior Fellow […]

SAN FRANCISCO-After focusing on mainstream processor technology for PCs and servers, the Intel Developer Forum shifted focus to the Intel Atom processor that has been built for a new generation of mobile Internet devices, or MIDs. During his Aug. 20 keynote here, Anand Chandrasekhar, an Intel senior vice president and head of the Ultra Mobility […]

Dell’s efforts to trademark the term “cloud computing” for the company’s own use has been rejected by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In a ruling posted on the trademark office’s Web site Aug. 12, the agency rejected Dell’s application to trademark the term “cloud computing.” The ruling reverses a previous finding by the patent […]

SAN FRANCISCO-While the majority of the 2008 Intel Developer Forum here has focused on Intel’s Nehalem microarchitecture, the chip maker’s top executives also took time to emphasize Intel’s focus on consumer and business notebooks. During his keynote address Aug. 19, Dadi Perlmutter, an Intel executive vice president and general manager of the Mobile Platform Group, […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Intel lifted the curtain a little more on its upcoming lineup of processors based on the “Nehalem” microarchitecture, which will include new power management features and enhanced capabilities for virtualization. While the chip maker held back some critical information on the Nehalem-based processors, such as clock speeds and pricing, an Intel executive did announce […]

Sun Microsystems is looking to round out its server portfolio with new systems based on Intel processors and designed for high-performance computing and back-office applications such as databases. At the start of the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Aug. 19, Sun will introduce a pair of servers that use Intel Xeon processors from the […]

MetaRAM is looking to team up with Intel to take advantage of new DDR3 (double data rate 3) memory standards and increase the system memory in servers and work stations. MetaRAM, a startup that released its first memory product earlier this year, will be demonstrating its new memory technology that works with DDR3 at this […]

SAN FRANCISCO ?ö?ç?? Intel Chairman Craig Barrett kicked off the 2008 Intel Developer Forum here Aug. 19 with a spirited and far-ranging discussion that focused on how technology can make improvements in education, micro-financing and health care. In his last few years as Intel chairman, Barrett has made the marriage of technology and education his […]

IBM and five research partners have announced that they have created a method for developing SRAM memory cells on a 22-nanometer manufacturing method that will eventually lead to the creation of 22-nm microprocessors. IBM and its five partners-Advanced Micro Devices, Freescale Semiconductor, STMicroelectronics, Toshiba, and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Advanced Micro Devices is preparing to release a new server platform in the second half of 2009, now code-named Fiorano, which will take advantage of chip maker’s upcoming 45-nanometer processor called “Shanghai.” On the eve of the 2008 Intel Developer Forum here, AMD is trying to make some noise about its own product lineup, […]

Intel controlled about 80 percent of the worldwide x86 processor market in the second quarter of 2008, with notebook sales increasing the chip giant’s lead over Advanced Micro Devices, according to an Aug. 15 report from IDC. Overall, worldwide shipments of PC and server x86 processors increased 16.1 percent in the second quarter of 2008 […]