Scott Ferguson

The low-cost notebook market helped Intel and Via Technologies increase their share of the worldwide x86 microprocessor market in the second quarter of 2008, while Advanced Micro Devices’ share slipped, according to an Aug. 7 report from Mercury Research. While mainstream notebooks have been driving the x86 chip market for some time, the Mercury report […]

Dell, which had been attempting to trademark the term “cloud computing” for the company’s own use, will now have to wait several weeks or months to claim the name as its own, as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has decided to review the application. On Aug. 7, the trademark office canceled its notice of […]

VMware is bringing its x86 virtualization know-how to the Linux Foundation and will begin contributing resources to the open-source community. VMware, which despite the added competition of Microsoft, Citrix and other vendors is still considered the leading developer of x86 virtualization technology, and the Linux Foundation announced that the company would join the nonprofit organization […]

PC blade vendor ClearCube is expanding its desktop virtualization infrastructure offerings to include a new blade, chassis and thin-client PCs, along with support for Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor. ClearCube, which has been moving away from its origins as a traditional hardware vendor to expand into more into software development, is looking to enter the desktop virtualization […]

Advanced Micro Devices is throwing its weight behind both the OpenCL programming language and Microsoft’s upcoming DirectX 11 APIs for use with its line of general-purpose graphics processing units. AMD, which announced official support for both OpenCL and DirectX 11 on Aug. 6, will begin upgrading its Stream SDK (software development kit) during the next […]

Inside Intel Larrabee Inside Intel Larrabee – CPU-GPU Convergence Intel believes Larrabee is the incarnation of the merge between CPU and GPU (Graphical Processing Unit) performance. Pushed to the edge of performance, CPUs are adding cores and computing power. Motivated by higher-quality graphics and data-parallel programming, GPUs are being tapped to do more general computing […]

Numonyx and Hynix are teaming up to develop new types of NAND flash memory technology for use in a wide range of mobile products and wireless devices, such as cell phones. The two companies announced the five-year pact Aug. 6, and the agreement calls for Numonyx, a new company formed earlier this year when Intel […]

AT&T is launching its own cloud computing services that will put the phone carrier in direct competition with the likes of IBM, Google and Amazon. The AT&T Synaptic Hosting is part of a $1 billion initiative that will see the carrier build five large-scale Internet data centers in the United States, Europe and Asia that […]

Dell is looking to make cloud computing synonymous with the company. In a filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Dell has applied to trademark the term “cloud computing.” The disclosure of the applications comes a few days after a busy week in the emerging field of cloud computing that saw several significant announcements […]

Intel is offering the first in-depth look at its “Larrabee” processor and the chip maker plans to offer the microprocessor to address a range of graphics and visual applications using x86 processing cores instead of more traditional GPUs. In a paper, “Larrabee: A Many-Core x86 Architecture for Visual Computing,” Intel engineers offered several new details […]

Lenovo is joining the low-cost notebook parade with a $399 laptop. On Aug. 4, Lenovo released its first low-cost notebook, or “netbook,” called the IdeaPad S10, which will have a 10.2-inch wide display and use Intel’s Atom processor. Lenovo, best known for its business-class ThinkPad notebooks, first introduced the IdeaPad line in January as a […]

IBM is investing $360 million to build a new cloud computing center in North Carolina that promises to deliver cloud services and infrastructure to a new range of customers. The Aug. 1 announcement comes on the same day that IBM plans to officially open a cloud computing facility in Tokyo that will offer cloud services […]