Scott Ferguson

IT might finally start feeling a sting from the slowing U.S. economy. In a new report released Feb. 11, Forrester Research found that the sluggish U.S. economy will start affecting the amount of money IT departments will be spending on products and services in the next 12 months. While the worldwide IT market will total […]

Dell is clarifying its retail strategy when it comes to PCs that use processors from Advanced Micro Devices. In a Feb. 8 posting on the company’s Direct2Dell blog, Lionel Menchaca, a digital media manager for Dell, wrote that the majority of its Inspiron line of desktops and notebooks that use AMD chips will now be […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Going green means looking at desktops, too. Most of the work of the Green Grid until now has focused on creating standards to measure power consumption in the data center, but while proposing methods for creating more energy-efficient environments, members of the consortium say they are also discussing ways to address the […]

SAN FRANCISCO -When it comes to the future of multicore processing, Advanced Micro Devices is looking far beyond adding more and more transistors to each new generation of chips. With software development lagging behind the advances in multicore processing, Chuck Moore, an AMD Senior Fellow, said the company has begun exploring new ways that other […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Sun Microsystems’ new multicore Rock processor won’t be ready to roll until 2009. After Sun engineers on Feb. 6 spent part of the International Solid State Circuits Conference here explaining some of the technical details and new innovations behind its upcoming UltraSPARC microprocessor, company officials announced that they were delaying the release of the […]

SAN FRANCISCO-There’s no one way for an enterprise to develop a green strategy and achieving a more energy efficient data center can prove difficult for IT managers without a firm plan and full company support. Those were the themes discussed at the opening of The Green Grid’s first Technical Forum and members’ meeting, which officially […]

While Intel is focusing most of its energy on its line of microprocessors for laptops and other portable devices for the first half of 2008, the Santa Clara, Calif., company is quietly preparing the way for its high-performance computing chips. At the 2008 International Solid State Circuits Conference, which starts Feb. 3 in San Francisco, […]

Intel will pull back the curtain on Silverthorne just a little more at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, which started Feb.3. The chip maker will present more than a dozen technical papers that will range from a first look at its new quad-core Itanium processor to developments in new memory technology […]

It seems hard to separate Michael Dell from the company he founded all those years ago as a college student with a talent for building personal computers. Dell, the company, learned that lesson the hard way when Michael Dell stepped down from his leadership position in 2004 and his hand-picked successor, Kevin Rollins, took the […]

Gateway is giving AMD’s Phenom processor a big hug. The PC vendor, which is now part of Acer, announced Jan. 30 that it would offer Advanced Micro Devices’ new quad-core processors in a pair of high-end desktops for gamers and PC enthusiasts-the GM5664 and the GT5662. Gateway is now the second significant PC vendor to […]