Scott Ferguson

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A strong consumer market coupled with more IT departments refreshing outdated PC fleets led to one of the strongest quarters in the x86 microprocessor market in nearly nine years, according to an Oct. 29 report from Mercury Research.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 […]

After years of falling behind IBM and other companies in the race to build the worlds fastest supercomputers, NEC is looking to gain back some momentum with a new machine that offers 839 trillion calculations per second. At the companys Tokyo headquarters, NEC executives unveiled the SX-9, a supercomputer that offers a peak performance of […]

These are good times for the PC market. These are good times to buy a PC. Two recent reports from IDC on microprocessor and PC sales indicate that demand for PCs is booming—microprocessor sales shot to $8 billion in the third quarter of 2007, up 14.8 percent, and PC shipments jumped to 68.5 million units […]

Intel will pay Transmeta Corporation $150 million and $20 million annually during the next five years to settle a patent dispute and use various microprocessor technologies that Transmeta claimed infringed on its patents, both companies announced Oct. 24. Transemta had accused Intel of using its patented LongRun and LongRun 2 technologies, which help manage the […]

NEW YORK—XenSource believes that its ready to challenge VMware. At the Ziff Davis Enterprise 2007 Virtualization Summit Oct. 24, Simon Crosby, a founder of XenSource, told the audience that the open-source virtualization company is ready to bring the technology to a much wider audience and ready to challenge VMwares dominance within the x86 virtualization market. […]