Andy Patrizio

Corrected: IBM today announced the next generation of servers in its X-Architecture line, built on Intel’s forthcoming “Tigerton” family of Xeon processors. The X4 server promises to be fully buzzword-compliant: faster, more power efficient and ready for virtualization environments. The System x3950 M2 will be the first to use the X4 chipset, which is designed […]

The semiconductor industry still has some gas in the tank despite price wars, an abundance of supply and new products shipping this fall. The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported that sales for the month of July rose to $20.6 billion, an increase of 2.2 percent over July 2006 and an increase of 3.2 percent from […]

And the legal beat goes on… AMD’s newest ally in its antitrust battle with Intel is the American Antitrust Institute (AAI), which sent a letter to U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chair Deborah Majoras urging the FTC to formally investigate “Intel’s monopolization conduct in microchips.” The AAI also posted the letter on its home page, noting […]

The long-running legal battle between Microsoft and Eolas Technologies, which Microsoft was losing, has been settled. The two firms agreed to an undisclosed settlement that resolves the case. The lawsuit dates back to February 1999, when Eolas, a spin-off from the University of California, filed suit against Microsoft for alleged patent infringement involving plug-in and […]

IBM has updated its Cell BladeCenter server, changing just about everything but the processor to improve performance. The company also released a major upgrade to its multi-core development kit. IBM’s  BladeCenter QS21 is an update to the QS20, which shipped at the beginning of the year. It’s powered by the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.), the […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. — If you have any doubt about the growing importance of BRIC — the common acronym for the emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China — consider this: Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz admitted today that it was Brazil that forced Sun to open source Java. Sun  executives were meeting with […]

AMD is proposing a new set of x86 processor extensions. As Internetnews.com reported last week, the SSE5 are targeting markets where AMD sees room for performance improvement. The SSE5 extensions cover three primary areas: high-performance, compute-intensive applications, such as financial simulation and life sciences; multimedia applications, including high-definition video encoding and image processing; and security […]

IT departments go through all kinds of headaches to lock down their computers, only to have their employees undermine everything with foolish behavior out of the office. That’s the conclusion of a new report by antivirus vendor Trend Micro. The more mobile an end user is, the more likely he is to send confidential information […]

Symantec today announced the release of Norton AntiVirus 2008 and Norton Internet Security 2008, the latest versions of its antivirus and computer security software. With this release, Symantec continues to focus on performance as much as detection and prevention, addressing one of the biggest knocks on NAV: it was slow and a system hog. Symantec […]

Fujitsu Computer Systems is known primarily for its high-end servers, but the company is making a play for the SMB  market with the release of its PRIMERGY TX120 tower server. The TX120 measures just four inches wide by 13 inches tall and 16 inches deep, produces 28 decibels (dB) while idle and 31 dB in […]

VIA Technologies is not ready to give up on the lower power, embedded processor market just yet. The Taiwanese company late last week announced a new x86-based processor with a fraction of the power consumption of its competitors. The VIA Eden ultra low voltage (ULV) processor family is a 500MHz processor that consumes just 0.1 […]

The news of the Acer and Gateway nuptials was hardly earth shattering, given the distant roles the two play in the U.S. PC market. Still, it does put Acer in a strong position to become a dominant global vendor, particularly if it decides to expand beyond just boxes. Acer is primarily an international player while […]