Scott Ferguson

Server -Based Momentum Builds”> If Alessandra Nicoletti could point to one time that her investment in thin-client computers paid off, it happened when someone walked out of a Jenny Craig fitness center with one in the middle of the day. Surprisingly, it was a relief. “We have had incidences where people have picked up a […]

It appears Intel is ready to crank out its 45-nanometer processors. Although the Santa Clara, Calif., chip giant will not officially release the complete details of its Penryn family of 45-nanometer products until Nov. 12, a pair of announcements from Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard indicate that Intel is ready to start producing these chips in large […]

Hewlett-Packard announced Nov. 7 it will begin offering two high-end workstations—the xw6600 and the xw8600—in December based on the new dual- and quad-core Penryn family of 45-nanomter processors. HP’s announcement, coupled with workstation news that Lenovo and Dell would incorporate the new Penryn processors, validates the concept that Intel is setting the pace for computing […]

In keeping with Dell’s plan to refresh its line of mobile workstations, on Nov. 6 the company is launching a new model, the Precision M2300, which will feature Intel’s latest mobile processors and a 14.1-inch display. Unlike some updates earlier in 2007 that were refreshes of existing hardware, the M2300 is a brand-new client and […]

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 […]