Scott Ferguson

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 […]

Advanced Micro Devices is looking to shoulder more than $900 million in charges related to its acquisition of ATI when it announces its second-quarter financial results July 17. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission July 11, AMD disclosed that would it take an $880 million charge that related to the Consumer […]

Intel is now a step closer to becoming its own health care shop. On July 10, Intel announced that it had received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin selling a personal health care system dubbed the Intel Health Guide, which includes a small touch-screen PC and a Web portal to allow […]

IBM and Hewlett-Packard are signing separate agreements to build out new computing infrastructures for the U.S. military. On July 10, IBM and HP each announced that they had signed new agreements with the Department of Defense to deliver new hardware and services to different sections of the military. IBM is set to deliver a new […]

The Intel Centrino 2 laptop platform is ready for its prime time debut July 14. After a delay of more than a month due to issues related to integrated graphics and wireless licensing, Intel will launch the Centrino 2 platform during an event in San Francisco. A number of PC vendors, including Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Toshiba […]