Scott Ferguson

SAN FRANCISCO—As Intel moves toward delivering processors built on the new 45-nanometer scale, the chip giant is eyeing the mobile market and the emerging ultra portable space as two sectors poised for significant growth in the next two years. At the 2007 Intel Developer Forum, most of the second days keynotes focused on the Santa […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel is preparing to bring a series of new innovation to the enterprise. At the 2007 Intel Developer Forum here Sept. 18, Patrick Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intels Digital Enterprise Group, took audience members through a number of different technologies the company plans to introduce during the next year. One […]

SAN FRANCISCO—There are few people in the IT industry that can bring an audience to its feet. Gordon Moore is one of those few. At the Intel Developer Forum here, Moore, one of the co-founders of Intel and the creator of the famous and groundbreaking Moores Law, received a standing ovation both at the beginning […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intels 45- and 32-nanometer processors are on the way. At the start of the 2007 Intel Developer Forum Sept. 18, CEO Paul Otellini used his opening keynote address to offer a working roadmap of the companys plans throughout the rest of the decade. “My talk today is all about extremes; extremes in product, extremes […]

Hitachi is looking to add additional virtualization capabilities to its blade servers. At the 2007 Intel Developer Forum, which starts Sept. 18 in San Francisco, Hitachi will detail its plans to add virtualization capabilities to its BladeSymphony 1000 blade servers that use Intels dual- and quad-core Xeon processors. Hitachis firmware-embedded virtualization technology, called Virtage, is […]

AMD Hits a Triple for Desktops”> In the hours leading up to the 2007 Intel Developer Forum, Advanced Micro Devices is offering some additional details of its upcoming desktop road map, including a glimpse at a tri-core processor for high-end PCs. AMD, which offered a glance at its new line of Phenom desktop processors in […]

After a summer dominated by the ups and down of Advanced Micro Devices quad-core Opteron processor, Intel is preparing to make its own industry buzz at its semiannual Developer Forum. In the spring, Intel hosted IDF (Intel Developer Forum) in Beijing, which showed the Santa Clara, Calif., companys interest in new and emerging markets. This […]

It was only four years ago that Diane Greene stepped onto a stage in San Diego to greet a small crowd of 1,500 virtualization enthusiasts at that years VMworld Conference. What a difference between 2003 and 2007. This past week, Greene, the president and CEO of VMware, stepped onto a much different stage in San […]

SAN FRANCISCO—SWsoft and Parallels are each preparing new releases of their respective virtualization products in time to capture attention from the growing mainstream interest in virtualization. The two companies, which are jointly owned, were demonstrating the new products at the 2007 VMworld Conference. Each of the new releases targets a different audience—SWsofts is aimed at […]

HP Wants Midmarket to Get Shorty “> Hewlett-Packard is about to change the boundaries of the blade market by going small. Specifically, HP on Sept. 12 unveiled a smaller, more convenient blade enclosure to its line of c-Class blade servers that it expects will give the vendor a blade play for midmarket buyers who previously […]