Scott Ferguson

Advanced Micro Devices has agreed to sell its underperforming Digital Television (DTV) business to Broadcom for $192.8 million, the two companies announced Aug. 25. The deal, which is expected to close sometime in the fourth quarter of 2008, is a significant step forward for AMD, which has suffered through seven straight losing financial quarters and […]

IBM researchers are claiming a significant breakthrough in the emerging field of nanotechnology that could change the way engineers and the IT industry think about the development of microprocessors. In a paper published in the Nature Nanotechnology journal Aug. 25, IBM researchers describe how they integrated and controlled an electrically driven, nanoscale light emitter that […]

Citrix Systems is releasing the latest version of its XenApp product as part of the company’s larger push into data center and desktop virtualization with offerings such as its Citrix Delivery Center virtualization suite. XenApp 5 will allow applications, especially Microsoft Windows and Office applications, to start faster than with previous versions of the product. […]

IBM and Hewlett-Packard once again topped Gartner’s quarterly survey of the worldwide server market. IBM took top honors when it came to revenue in the second quarter of 2008, and HP shipped more systems than IBM and Dell did. The latest survey, released Aug. 21, showed that despite the downturn in the U.S. economy, server […]

SAN FRANCISCO-The Intel Classmate PC notebook is undergoing a makeover that will add touch-screen and tablet capabilities to the low-cost laptop for students, and these versions of the Classmate will also include the Intel Atom processor. At the Intel Developer Forum here, Intel representatives were showing off the new Classmate design that is expected to […]

SAN FRANCISCO ?ö?ç?? If Steve Wozniak had his wish, he would have remained an engineer for life at Hewlett-Packard. Instead, Steve Jobs encouraged Wozniak to leave the safe confines of HP and venture out into a new company-Apple-where the two would work to bring the Apple II personal computer into every household, school and business. […]

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 […]