Scott Ferguson

Advanced Micro Devices is taking a pass on the low-cost notebook market for now, but new marketing chief Nigel Dessau says the chip maker will continue to watch the so-called “netbook” space as it continues to develop. Dessau, who took over as AMD’s senior vice president and chief marketing office in March, said in a […]

Former Advanced Micro Devices CEO Hector Ruiz never lacked an ambitious agenda for the small but innovative chip maker when he took the top leadership role in 2002. During his six years as AMD’s CEO, Ruiz oversaw the development of the Opteron, which gave the company a way to enter the lucrative multisocket system market […]

Intel is looking to offer IT a better way to manage and secure corporate laptops. While much of the talk this week focused on the release of the Intel Centrino 2 platform and its use of new Intel Core 2 Duo processors, the inclusion of WiMax and Wi-Fi technologies and the bevy of new laptops […]

Advanced Micro Devices CEO Hector Ruiz is stepping down from his leadership post and President Dirk Meyer will take over the leadership of the struggling chip maker. The news that Ruiz would step down came after AMD reported a $1.19 billion loss during the second financial quarter of 2008. In addition to the quarterly loss, […]

Hewlett-Packard is the latest vendor to put computing in a can. HP unveiled its own modular data center called POD, or Performance Optimized Data Center, July 16. The HP version of a mobile data center is an 8-foot-by-40-foot container that can pack up to 3,500 compute nodes or 12,000 hot-plug, large form factor hard disk […]

Worldwide PC shipments increased more than 15 percent in the second quarter of 2008 despite the downturn in the U.S. economy, with Hewlett-Packard and Dell still dominating the market. IDC and Gartner each released separate reports on second-quarter PC shipments July 16. The IDC survey found that PC shipments increased 15.3 percent over the second […]

PC vendors are lining up to offer new notebooks based on Intel’s Centrino 2 mobile platform. In the hours following Intel’s debut of the Centrino platform, Lenovo, Toshiba and Fujitsu each launched a number of consumer and enterprise notebooks based on Intel’s new mobile technologies. HP, the world’s No. 1 PC vendor, detailed a number […]

Dell is gearing up to offer 128GB solid state drives with several of its business-class Precision and Latitude notebooks. Since Michael Dell returned to the CEO’s chair in 2007, the company has made notebooks a top priority. As way to distinguish its laptops from other offerings, Dell has turned to flash-based SSD technology and has […]

Demand for notebooks helped drive Intel’s 2008 second-quarter revenue past $9 billion. The continuing demand for Intel’s notebook processors and chip sets helped drive the company’s second-quarter results, which were released July 15. In addition to demand for its notebook processors, Intel executives predicted that demand for its Atom processors for low-cost laptops and MIDs […]

Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu are updating their jointly developed line of midrange and high-end servers with a quad-core version of the SPARC64 microprocessors. The two companies will launch four new systems Jul. 14 that are built on the SPARC64 VII processors, which have four processing cores, better clock speed-2.4GHz or 2.5GHz-and 6MB of Level 2 […]

Intel is placing a good deal of emphasis on improving enterprise-class notebooks with the release of the company’s Centrino 2 platform. When Intel introduced the platform at a July 14 event in San Francisco, the chip maker released two versions. The first version is called plainly Centrino 2 and is geared for consumer notebooks. The […]

Intel officially released its Centrino 2 mobile platform for notebooks July 14, which includes a number of new Core 2 Duo processors, a new chip set and wireless technology that includes support for 802.11 draft-n wireless technologies and WiMax. The Intel Centrino 2 platform is Intel’s fifth mobile platformand the chip maker is offering two […]