Scott Ferguson

Researchers with Intel have moved a step closer toward integrating silicon chips and lasers in a new field the company calls silicon photonics— the process of creating on-chip components that can use light to transmit data. On July 24, researchers with the Santa Clara, Calif., company announced that they had significantly increased the bandwidth with […]

IBM is preparing to release its first System i server that will use the companys new Power6 processors. In addition to announcing the System i 570 server July 24, the Armonk, N.Y., company is detailing some of the new features in the latest version of its i5/OS operating system, which is scheduled for release in […]

Virtual environments are about to get a benchmark to call their own. VMware is leading the effort to offer a new benchmark that will measure how workloads perform in virtual environments. VMware will announce the new VMmark benchmark on July 23. It should be no surprise that VMware, which is based in Palo Alto, Calif., […]

In the ongoing battle of technology and prices between Advanced Micro Devices and Intel, the winner, at least for the first of 2007, appears to have been PC buyers. For most of the first half of 2007, Intel and AMD concentrated their efforts in the low end of the desktop and, to an extent, the […]

The next chapter in the struggle between Intel and Advanced Micro Devices is about to unfold. After months of speculation, AMD executives now say they are ready to begin shipping the companys much-anticipated quad-core Opteron processor, better known by its Barcelona code name, starting in August, with the chip finding its way into the hands […]

For Hewlett-Packard, its lonely at the top. Once again, the Palo Alto, Calif., company ranked first in worldwide PC shipments, beating out Dell to control nearly 20 percent of the market, according to reports released July 18 by IDC and Gartner. The Gartner report found that HP controlled about 18 percent of all worldwide PC […]

The microprocessor market held steady in the second quarter of 2007, according to the latest survey by iSuppli. The only major difference, according to the July 19 report, was that Advanced Micro Devices gained back a small share of the market, reversing several quarters of losses. The iSuppli study measured the market in terms of […]

Looking to entice customers with a high-end, lightweight ultraportable notebook, Sony is preparing to release its Vaio TZ notebook in North America starting in August. This Vaio model, which weighs 2.6 pounds and offers an optional flash-based SSD (solid-state drive), is equipped with the latest low-volt Intel Core 2 processors, the company announced on July […]

Paul Horn, who led IBMs research division for more than decade, is stepping down to pursue a career in academics at New York University, the Armonk, N.Y. company announced July 17. Horn, 60, took the helm of IBM Research in 1996, and helped develop and oversee several major projects for IBM, including its Deep Blue […]

With a new partnership firmly in place, Intel and Sun Microsystems are looking to jointly enter the telecommunications market with a combination of Intel processors and hardware and the Solaris 10 operating system. By the third quarter of this year, Intel will have two telecom servers that are certified to run Suns Solaris 10 OS, […]

Intel is adding a number of new processors for gamers and high-end PC users, including the first dual-core mobile chip from the companys Core 2 Extreme line. Starting July 16, Intel will debut its Core 2 Extreme X7800 processor for notebooks, which the company said will boost performance by about 28 percent compared to its […]

Stratus Technologies plans on delivering two new servers that will complete the transition of the companys fault-tolerant systems to the latest Intel Xeon processors. In addition to using dual-core Xeon chips in its low-end ftServer 2500 and midrange ftServer 4400, Stratus announced July 16 that it will offer support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux […]