Scott Ferguson

Intel is offering a chance to peek under the hood of its new “Nehalem” microarchitecture and get a glimpse at some of the technologies it’s using, including its approach to saving power and transferring data from one chip to another. At the VLSI Symposia held June 17 to June 20, Intel will present a new […]

Toshiba is looking to push the envelope in the ultraportable PC market with a new Portege laptop that offers a 128GB solid state drive that comes standard, a 12.1-inch display and weighs 2.4 pounds. The Toshiba Portege R500-S5007V is the latest in a series of high-end, ultraportable notebooks from the company that are geared toward […]

Nvidia is looking to expand its presence in the high-performance computing market with a second-generation graphics processor that offers 240 graphics processing cores and 1 teraflop of performance. The graphics company is officially releasing its Tesla 10 series GPU (graphics processing unit) June 16 along with a new 1U (1.75-inch) rack-mount server designed for the […]

Advanced Micro Devices is looking to revamp its graphics road map with a line of low-cost, low-watt GPUs that will have ramifications for both gamers and the enterprise market. During the next two months, AMD will introduce a series of ATI Radeon GPUs (graphics processing units) that will cost between $200 and $300, offer up […]

Parallels is now virtually slicing up the Apple Xserve. The virtualization company – formally SWsoft – is releasing the full version of its Parallels Server for Mac June 17, which works with any of Apple’s Intel-based hardware such as the Xserve or the Mac Pro. The virtualization software also works with Apple’s OS X Leopard […]

The worldwide PC market is expected to grow 15 percent in 2008, with portable PCs, such as notebooks, ensuring that the market will continue to grow at a double-digit rate for the next several years, according to revised estimates from IDC. In 2008, IDC is calling for notebooks shipments to reach 310 million units, according […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-While Intel still has no current plans to bring its tera-scale processors into the commercial market, some of the technologies that the company’s research teams have been developing for an 80-core processor might appear within the next two years. At Intel’s Research Day here, Jerry Bautista, director of technology management for Intel’s Microprocessor […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-When Michael Rayfield looks at the potential for so-called MIDs or mobile Internet devices, what he sees now is a “zero billion dollar market.” Rayfield, the general manager of Nvidia’s Mobile Business division, is being flip, but he makes a point. Right now, for all the talk of MIDs at the 2008 Computex […]

Citrix Systems is looking to offer a new layer of security around the virtual desktop. On June 9, the company released the latest version of its Access Gateway appliance-Version 8.1-now integrated with Citrix XenDesktop, which allows IT departments to create a virtual desktop infrastructure where the desktop images and applications are streamed to the PC […]

Advanced Micro Devices is rounding out its quad-core Opteron portfolio with new chips designed for high-end four-socket and eight-socket servers. The chip maker will start shipping two more processors in its 2300 series and an additional two for the 8300 series June 9. Since January, AMD has been looking to make up the ground it […]

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has now opened a formal investigation into Intel’s business practices in the x86 microprocessors market and the chip giant is promising to cooperate with the probe as it goes forward. In a statement issued June 6, Intel confirmed that it had received a subpoena two days before from FTC that […]

For years, the rivalry between Intel and Advanced Micro Devices helped define not only the x86 microprocessor market but also the PCs and server systems that used the chips from these two companies.Now it seems that Intel is preparing to face off against a pair of very different companies.In two weeks’ time, Nvidia, which is […]