Andy Patrizio

Tablet computers have been around for years, but Apple’s iPad has essentially created a new, much broader consumer market for this new class of portable devices. Now having created the market, Apple can expect a raft of competitors. As EnterpriseMobileToday reports, Apple doesn’t have a lock on delivering everything consumers want in a portable device. […]

It’s never easy for an IT company to enter a new market, particularly one that can be charitably described as fledgling. But that’s exactly what Apple did with the tablet computer sector, and in two months it has sold more than 2 million iPads. While that’s an impressive number, a new survey has found that […]

AMD has had a combined CPU and GPU processor on its product map at least since the acquisition of ATI Technologies in 2006, but in the time since, “Fusion” has been more talk than substance. But that looks to soon change as AMD is nearing completion of the hybrid chip, which it previewed at the […]

AT&T subscribers are getting a little more flexibility in their wireless data plans. The carrier has scrapped its old, one-size-fits-all unlimited data plan, replacing it with a pair of choices tailored for light and heavy data users. AT&T is also making available a tethering feature so that subscribers can use their wireless device as a […]

The Top 500 list of the world’s faster supercomputers is a who’s-who of the government agencies and research labs operating the most high-performance computers around. It’s also a source of major bragging rights for hardware vendors looking to strut their stuff and make a case for the computing power of their offerings. That’s become increasingly […]

Intel has had many-core projects going for some time. A few years back, it was an 80-core processor. Then came the 48-core processor, followed by Larrabee, a GPU built using many small x86 cores and tied together with a high-speed interconnect. The latest experiment is a 50-core x86 design. So what separates this from other […]

Intel’s Atom processor made a name for itself as one of the most-used CPUs in netbooks, driving the PC category forward thanks to its low power requirements. Now, Intel is poised to revamp Atom yet again, with an eye toward rolling out additional models with advancements like OS tuning, expanded memory support and broadened multicore […]

Avatar and Pixar have made 3D cool, after so many failed attempts, but for home theater enthusiasts, it’s a pretty expensive proposition. For PC owners, though, Nvidia plans to make 3D for your PC affordable and useful for more than just watching movies. So what else will be in 3D? HardwareCentral has the details. If […]

While Sony had seemed on the fence about the prospects of the tablet market, it is confident about e-readers, announcing plans to launch a new and online content-distribution service in Japan by the end of the year. With Apple’s introduction of the iPad, some industry observers had questioned the long-term viability of the standalone e-reader. […]

It’s official: server sales are picking up again. HP and Dell said it on their earnings calls, Gartner said it earlier this week, and now the other major IT research firm, IDC, has said so. But the devil is in the details. While the overall figure for server sales is up, many of the segments […]

In the run-up from the announcement of the iPad in January to its April launch, one of the many questions raised by analysts and other industry pundits is whether the iPad would eat into netbook sales. Well the first survey on that subject has come out and it looks like it is doing just that. […]

Alive then dead then alive and now, apparently, dead again. That’s the lifecycle for Larrabee, Intel’s now twice-killed project to build a stand-alone GPU product line. As Hardware Central reports, Intel officials said shuttering Larrabee will help the world’s largest chipmaker to focus on HD video and mobile computing chips, a pair of markets it […]