Scott Ferguson

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 […]

The trial date for AMD’s federal antitrust lawsuit against Intel has been pushed back almost a year as both sides needed additional time to conduct interviews and take depositions from potential witnesses. In a June 5 ruling, Special Master Vincent Poppiti and presiding Judge Joseph Farnan, who are both overseeing the lawsuit in U.S. District […]

In the future of computing, IBM is attempting to demonstrate that water, not air, is the best way to cool the tiniest components of the data center. At a technical conference June 5, IBM, along with researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin, will demonstrate a new system of cooling microprocessors by piping water directly […]

AMD is ready to let “Puma” roar. At the 2008 Computex conference, June 4 in Taipei, Taiwan, AMD will officially unveil its new laptop platform, formally code-named Puma, as the chip maker looks to gain a bigger share of the red-hot notebook market. Just as it did with its recently released desktop platform, AMD is […]

HP Labs wants to reinvent what it means to design, build and sustain a green data center. The research arm of Hewlett-Packard announced an ambitious agenda June 4 to develop a whole new series of technologies that will reduce the carbon footprint of data centers by 75 percent, replace the copper wiring on microprocessors with […]

Intel is preparing to ship the first of its new line of Atom processors for a emerging category of low-cost PCs that the chip maker is calling netbooks and nettops. Intel announced the availability of two Atom processors-the Atom N270 processor and the Atom 230 chip-at the 2008 Computex conference in Taiwan. The company also […]

Now that “Barcelona” is here, Advanced Micro Devices is turning its attention to “Budapest.” The chip maker plans to unveil three new quad-core Opteron processors for single-socket servers this week at the 2008 Computex conference in Taiwan. The chips, developed under the code name “Budapest,” will fill out the company’s quad-core Opteron portfolio, which ran […]

Sun Microsystems is looking to add some more spark to its Microelectronics division. In the last year, Sun created the microelectronics unit to not only develop the company’s own microprocessor technology but also as a way to license and sell its silicon technology to other vendors and customers. Click Here to Watch the Latest eWEEK […]

Gartner has increased its forecast for the worldwide semiconductor market after its analysts found that the slowdown in the U.S. economy did not have that great of an impact on commercial and consumer spending habits. On June 2, Gartner boosted its 2008 revenue forecast to $286.5 billion, a 4.6 percent increase from 2007 when revenues […]