Scott Ferguson

Cray is preparing to bring two new supercomputers to market next year as it continues to try to group its various high-performance computer models into a single family of machines. On Nov. 6, the company will introduce the Cray XT5—its first new supercomputer since the XT4’s unveiling in November 2006. The XT5 will offer a […]

NEW YORK—Lenovo is launching its first ever workstations and a new brand name—ThinkStation—which marks the first update to the well-known Think lineup since the company bought IBM’s Personal Computing Division in 2004. At an event here Nov. 6, Lenovo executives unveiled the single-socket ThinkStation S10 and the dual-socket ThinkStation D10, which will each hit the […]

In a move that will help it expand its storage and virtualization offerings, Dell announced Nov. 5 that it will acquire storage startup EqualLogic for $1.4 billion. The acquisition, which is expected to close either by the end of 2007 or the first quarter of 2008, is also expected to strengthen the Round Rock, Texas, […]

IBM is looking to bring the first of its Blue Gene/P system supercomputers to North America with an agreement to build a new machine at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, the company announced Nov. 1. When it’s complete, the supercomputer at Argonne will offer a peak performance of 445 teraflops, […]

IBM is ready to start making noise with its System p servers. In a year that saw its much-touted Power6 processor come to market, as well as two systems—the System p570 and the System i570—to support the new chip, IBM has remained low-key about these new offerings. That is about to change as it begins […]

Intel will bring its next-generation Itanium chips to the high-end systems market on Nov. 1, sticking to the pace set by its ambitious microprocessor roadmap released earlier this year. The Itanium 9100 series will include several new processors, including six different dual-core models as well as one single-core chip. The top-performing Itanium chip will have […]

During a tour of Japan this week to promote Dells “simplify IT” initiative, Michael Dell indicated that it might be time for his company to go on a buying spree. “I would not be surprised if the nature and pace of acquisitions increases somewhat in the future,” Dell said, according to several news accounts of […]

Dell is planning to restate more than $92 million that it reported in net income during a nearly four-year period and plans on filing several late quarterly and annual financial reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the PC vendor announced Oct. 30. The announcement by Dell comes nearly two months after an internal company […]

IBM is scrubbing clean the silicon wafers its uses to manufacture microprocessors, recycling the silicon to reuse in its fabs or sold for solar panels. IBM began the recycling program Oct. 30 at its manufacturing facility in Essex Junction, Vt., where it is estimated to save $1.5 million in production costs in 2007 alone, IBM […]

A strong consumer market coupled with more IT departments refreshing outdated PC fleets led to one of the strongest quarters in the x86 microprocessor market in nearly nine years, according to an Oct. 29 report from Mercury Research. In the third quarter of 2007, unit shipments of x86 chips increased more than 15 percent compared […]

Virtual Iron, which has been driving to position itself as the low-cost alterative to x86 virtualization leader VMware, is shuffling its management structure with a new CEO who plans to refocus the companys marketing strategy. On Oct. 29, the Lowell, Mass., company will introduce former EMC executive Ed Walsh as the new CEO and president. […]

Intel is preparing to open the doors of its new $3 billion manufacturing facility in Chandler, Ariz., Oct. 25. The facility, known as Fab 32, will begin mass-producing Intels first round of 45-nanometer microprocessors. Fab 32 is a major step forward for the company as it looks to make a major shift from 65-nm processors […]