Scott Ferguson

In its effort to quickly ramp up new products following a disappointing first quarter, Advanced Micro Devices is releasing three additional tri-core Phenom processors for the mainstream PC market. The three Phenom X3 processors, which AMD officially released April 23, add some additional clock speeds to the lineup and help fill in the gap between […]

IBM is looking to become the backbone of Web 2.0. At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco April 22, IBM will unveil the iDataPlex, an x86-based server system that the company will begin selling to Web 2.0 companies as well as enterprises that need high-performance computing capabilities. The iDataPlex system supplies about 100 Intel-based […]

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 […]