Scott Ferguson

When Intel and Advanced Micro Devices detail their first-quarter 2008 financial numbers later this week, industry watchers will be looking for more than just sales figures and updates to their chip road maps. The two companies are the largest producers of x86 processors for servers, desktops and laptops, and both are seen as bellwethers of […]

Startup Pano Logic is looking to bring its desktop virtualization to the next level. The Menlo Park, Calif., company, which began selling its small desktop device and server-based software in 2007, is expanding its software suite-Pano Virtual Desktop Solution 2.0-for the first time to included new support for VMware’s Virtual Desktop Manager as well as […]

Phil Hester, chief technology officer and a senior vice president at Advanced Micro Devices, is leaving the company April 11 and the chip maker has no plans to fill his position. The news of Hester’s departure comes at the end of difficult week for AMD, which announced that its first-quarter sales were down and that […]

Dell is preparing to enter the low-cost notebook market later this year. In a statement, the Round Rock, Texas, PC maker announced that it would enter the emerging market for low-cost notebooks, confirming rumors that had been swirling for weeks. “Dell plans to enter the market with products that are smaller and lighter and address […]

Advanced Micro Devices’ quad-core Opteron processor, better known as “Barcelona,” is now widely available, with Hewlett-Packard and several other smaller vendors making the chip available in a number of systems. The chip maker announced that the much maligned processor is now shipping in volume and has support from several of AMD’s vendor partners, although most […]

Via Technologies is looking to make some noise in the growing low-cost PC market. When Hewlett-Packard announced its $499 Mini-Note PC for the education market April 8, it did not turn to Intel, which has been touting its line of Atom processors for these low-cost notebooks, but to Taiwan-based Via. While Via controls less than […]

Sun Microsystems is rolling out its latest hardware based on its UltraSPARC T2 chip. On April 9, Sun will officially begin selling two new servers, the SPARC Enterprise T5140 and the T5240, which use the latest UltraSPARC processor, formerly called Niagara 2. The difference between these servers and the systems Sun introduced in October 2007 […]

IBM is hoping a little water offers big improvements in cooling. At an event in San Francisco April 8, IBM unveiled its latest Power 575 supercomputer that uses water instead of air to cool the system. The Power 575 is located on the company’s Power6 processor with a clock speed of 4.7GHz. This meant the […]

5 Things That Will/Wont Work for Dell By Scott Ferguson 5 Things That Will/Wont Work for Dell – 5 Things That Will Work for Dell: #1. A Smaller Dell Is More Nimble 5 Things That Will Work for Dell 1. A Smaller Dell Is More NimbleNo one wants to see employees laid off, but the […]

After denying earlier reports of layoffs, Advanced Micro Devices announced April 7 that it would eliminate 10 percent of its work force by the third quarter of 2008 in order to cut costs after disappointing sales in the first quarter. The cuts were deeper than the original 5 percent reduction that had been reported in […]

Intel, which is looking to add an additional layer of security for laptops, will introduce what company executives are calling anti-theft technology later in 2008. Although Intel is not revealing many of the details behind its new anti-theft product, the technology will work with the company’s chip sets and firmware to help protect the notebook […]

Michael Dell is shedding the cloak of a low-cost box maker. At a meeting April 3 with Wall Street analysts at Dell’s Round Rock, Texas, headquarters, CEO Michael Dell said that the company will grow its enterprise services business while focusing more on SMBs (small and midsized businesses) and the consumer market. In three years, […]