Scott Ferguson

Intel held its own in the first quarter of 2008 while its smaller rival, Advanced Micro Devices, shipped fewer notebook microprocessors in the quarter and lost some of its market share, according to an April 23 report from Mercury Research. In the first quarter, Intel’s share of the x86 microprocessor market hit 78.5 percent, an […]

Although Advanced Micro Devices continues to struggle against Intel, not all the news coming from the chip maker is that bad, according to a new report from market research company iSuppli. In the fourth quarter of 2007, AMD actually got back some of its lost revenue market share, although the company’s gains amounted to less […]

Intel has quietly reduced pricing on some of its microprocessors, and the company has also introduced additional models within its mobile and desktop-chips portfolio. The chip maker released the price changes on its Web site on April 20. The changes include several of its dual- and quad-core Xeon models for servers. These include a 50 […]

For AMD, the future of the company is all about products, products, products. After reporting its sixth quarterly loss in a row earlier this week, Advanced Micro Devices CEO Hector Ruiz and President Dirk Meyer told financial analysts that the company plans to roll out a series of new products for notebooks, desktops and servers […]

When IBM released its first quarter 2008 financial numbers this week, the company’s upbeat report, coupled with Intel’s quarterly numbers, signaled that two bellwethers of the IT industry had so far weathered the tumultuous U.S. economy. While Big Blue’s numbers were positive, there were signs that not every division had done as well as others. […]

By year’s end, Advanced Micro Devices might look like a different company. During the company’s first-quarter 2008 earnings call April 18, CEO Hector Ruiz told analysts that the heavy losses the company has endured during the last six quarters will likely lead to a restructuring of the Sunnyvale, Calif., company. For the first quarter, AMD […]

A lack of enterprise and consumer spending dragged down U.S. PC shipments in the first quarter of 2008, although the worldwide demand for notebooks and desktops remains strong, according to new reports from Gartner and IDC. The April 16 reports showed that worldwide PC shipments increased by double digits in the first quarter of 2008 […]

Intel is poised to regain some of its long-lost market share in the first part of 2008, thanks to its line of microprocessors for servers and with Advanced Micro Devices still stumbling to regain its footing with its quad-core Opteron chip. When Intel detailed its 2008 first-quarter financial earnings April 15, the chip giant’s overall […]

Dell is adding Advanced Micro Device’s quad-core chip to its server lineup. The OEM now has four versions of its PowerEdge SC1435 system listed on its Web site that offer the AMD quad-core Opteron processor-known better as Barcelona-with starting prices ranging from $249 to $699. The Dell site also lists several other servers, including the […]

A strong demand for servers and notebooks helped drive Intel’s earnings in the first quarter of 2008 and CEO Paul Otellini told analysts that the slowdown in the U.S. economy has not had a significant impact on Intel’s core chip business. Intel, which is considered a bellwether of the technology industry, reported its first-quarter 2008 […]

IBM and a group of six other technology companies are inching closer to developing 32-nanometer microprocessors for the commercial market that will use a high-k metal gate technology to reduce power consumption while increasing performance. Big Blue is leading the effort to develop 32-nm chips, along with Charted Semiconductor, Freescale, Infineon Technologies, Samsung, STMicroelectronics and […]

Hewlett-Packard is giving the display market a splash of color. At the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, HP, along with DreamWorks Animation, will detail a new technology called DreamColor, which will enable content creators and other enterprise users to distinguish up to a billion different colors within an LED-backlit LCD display. Click […]