Scott Ferguson

Advanced Micro Devices is planning to keep its fabs for now. AMD is denying a report that appeared in the Austin American-Statesman that contains an interview with new CEO Dirk Meyer that seemed to indicate that the chip maker was preparing to spin off its manufacturing facilities in Germany and sell its two fabrication plants, […]

VMware is preparing to launch a free version of its ESXi hypervisor, and new CEO Paul Maritz plans to bring the company’s virtualization technology deeper into cloud computing, while expanding its reach into the SMBs (small and midsize businesses) market. The changes to VMware’s core business were announced after the virtualization company released its 2008 […]

Dell is moving its Precision workstation into the data center. On July 22, Dell introduced the Precision R5400, a rack-mount workstation server that is based on a previous Dell workstation, but in this case the company is looking to move the hardware from under a desk and into the data center, which frees up space […]

Intel is cutting prices on some of its Xeon server processors as well as several of its Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad desktop models. The changes to Intel processor pricing were posted on the company’s Web site July 20, and the new prices come less than a week after Intel posted its second-quarter […]

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 […]