Andy Patrizio

IBM and its joint semiconductor development partners are set to begin producing semiconductors using the same breakthrough technologies that made Intel’s Penryn line of chips a success. The process is called high-k/metal gate manufacturing and it replaces the silicon dioxide in chips that gave the Silicon Valley its nickname. By using the element hafnium instead […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Salesforce.com upped the ante this week in its battle against traditional software vendors with the announcement of Salesforce for Google Apps. CEO Marc Benioff all but declared packaged software dead here Monday during the unveiling of his company’s integration of its on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) applications with Google Apps The two […]

For 15 years, Nvidia has quietly grown from a maker of chips for videogame players into a significant presence among semiconductor makers. And the company has gained high profit margins unburdened with the huge capital expense of high volume manufacturing because it’s always contracted out its chip fabrication. In that time, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has […]

Phil Hester Source: AMD It seems one of the 1,600 employees leaving Advanced Micro Devices will be Chief Technology Office Phil Hester, who resigned today as senior vice president and CTO of the embattled chipmaker. An AMD (NYSE: AMD) spokesman confirmed Hester’s departure and told InternetNews.com that the move was unrelated to the company’s impending […]

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. – If there was any doubt Nvidia was spoiling for a fight with Intel, its colorful CEO dispensed with that thoroughly here at an analyst’s conference. “The competition has been awfully preoccupied with our company lately,” Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) CEO Jen-Hsun Huang told the gathering at Nvidia’s offices here just a few […]

It’s been delayed many times, but AMD’s Barcelona processors, formally known as the Quad-Core Opteron, are finally shipping. The processors were due more than a year ago but were repeatedly postponed. Then came the launch event in August 2007, with chips in the 1.8GHz to 2.0GHz range and the promise of a 2.5GHz model by […]

HP has unveiled a program designed to help clients move their aging mainframe applications to more modern languages and platforms. Such efforts to bring old COBOL applications into the rich Internet application (RIA)/Web 2.0 world are not unusual but it is rare to get a company the size of HP behind it. The HP Modernization […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – IBM made a series of announcements related to its high-end computing products that includes the end of two product line names and adopting a trick popular among techies who overclock their computers to get more performance. The System p and System i officially go bye-bye in favor of the new Power […]

In the first month following the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008, Microsoft is already serving up a number of fixes for both operating systems, as it has issued eight security bulletins covering a total of 10 vulnerabilities. Five of the eight are labeled as Critical, the most important of […]

Symantec today has issued its 13th Internet Security Threat Report, an overarching state of security on the Internet. The report shows the evolution of how both the threat and the criminals behind it have matured almost as much as the software industry itself. Over 40 pages, Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) covers four major points: trusted Web […]

UPDATED: After years of offering Java as a freebie, Sun Microsystems today announced a new model to the Java line that is fee-based. While all the old editions will remain, for enterprises looking for extra support, there is now the Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) for Business. This product subscription platform is designed to […]

Borland Software today announced the release of Borland Silk 2008, the first major architecture revision to its automated testing tool in two years, adding new functionality and language support. The Silk line is part of Borland’s Lifecycle Quality Management” offerings, which are designed to cover quality assurance and testing earlier in the application development process […]