Scott Ferguson

Two of the biggest names in technology are working on developing the smallest of chips. IBM and Hitachi announced a new partnership March 10 that will focus on developing new technology that will help in the creation of 32- and 22-nanometer microprocessors. While the two companies have worked on various projects in the past, this […]

PALO ALTO, Calif.-VMware is continuing to reinvent its desktop virtualization offerings. While the majority of the virtualization company’s efforts to date have focused on servers and the management of virtual environments, VMware has also spent a good deal of time, and money, looking at emerging ways to create hosted desktop environments that are centrally managed […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel CEO Paul Otellini is promising change when it comes to the company’s business model and concerns about how the chip giant will continue to make a profit with the slowing of the U.S. economy. At the chip giant’s annual Investor Day conference, which kicked off at its main headquarters here March 5, […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-During the next several months, Intel will use a combination of new microprocessors and platforms to target four specific markets that the chip giant believes are worth $10 billion each. At its annual Investor Day conference here, which started March 5, CEO Paul Otellini said the company is about to deliver whole new […]

PALO ALTO, Calif.-VMware has midmarket companies in its sights. Following its European showcase in February, VMware now believes it has all the pieces in place to bring its virtualization technology, along with all its tools and management features, into the midmarket and create a significant presence in a market that has been hesitant to fully […]

Dell is making its Latitude laptop line a little tougher. The PC vendor is launching a fully rugged notebook called the Latitude XFR D630, which goes on sale March 4 and looks to compete with other rugged models from Panasonic and General Dynamics Itronix. The Latitude D630 follows Dell’s Latitude ATG D620, a semi-rugged notebook […]

AMD’s first 45-nanometer processors are within sight. At the 2008 CeBIT conference March 4 in Hannover, Germany, Advanced Micro Devices will demonstrate working 45-nm, quad-core processors in a number of systems, including four-socket servers. The codename for the server processor is “Shanghai,” while the desktop chip is called “Deneb.” While AMD executives are willing to […]

Intel’s latest branding scheme is truly atomic. Starting March 3, Intel will corral all its processors for MIDs (mobile Internet device) and low-cost PCs under a new brand name dubbed Intel Atom. The platform for these devices, which had been code-named Menlow, is now renamed Intel Centrino Atom. The two processors that make up the […]

There are more tough decisions ahead for Michael Dell and his company. After reporting disappointing fiscal fourth-quarter results Feb. 28, the PC vendor is likely to face a number of challenges as he tries to bring the company back to the profitability that so many on Wall Street have come to expect. During its fiscal […]

IBM researchers are preparing to demonstrate their latest efforts to use light pulses instead of electrical signals to transmit data at greater speeds, which could make it easier to download video or crunch data. Researchers for the Armonk, N.Y., company will present two papers on Feb. 28 at the 2008 Optical Fiber Communications Conference in […]

Dell has trimmed 3,200 employees from its payroll in the last eight months as part of its effort to return to profitability by streamlining its operations and cutting costs. The company announced the job cuts when it disclosed its 2008 fiscal fourth-quarter results Feb. 28. In May, Dell announced that it would eventually trim about […]

Intel is expanding its embedded chip portfolio to include a number of Xeon processors manufactured at 45 nanometers. Intel will add five dual- and quad-core Xeon processors to the company’s embedded portfolio and will expand its life cycle support for its embedded products from five to seven years, the Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker announced […]