Andy Patrizio

Intel on Monday used its outstanding showing in the Top500 supercomputing list as the launch pad for the first Nehalem-EX, a high-end processor used in four-socket or higher systems and designed for massive computational work like supercomputing. Intel’s roadmap has always listed the EX as an eight-core machine, but the chipmaker is now planning a […]

The fastest land animal may be the cheetah, but when it comes to supercomputers, the fastest kitty of them all is the Jaguar, a Cray supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory powered by AMD Opteron processors. Oak Ridge’s Cray system achieved a 69 percent performance gain in just six months in results announced today. […]

The SC09 conference kicks off in Portland, Oregon today with the release of the Top 500 list of supercomputers. It’s a list of computers you’ll never need in your house, or likely even your company, but is the source of significant bragging rights none the less. The list is compiled by a group of supercomputing […]

Today’s dramatic end to the protracted antitrust battle between Intel and AMD — which concluded with a settlement under which Intel pays $1.25 billion to its smaller competitor — may seem to some like an effort by the world’s largest chipmaker to buy its way out rather than face the music in court. During a […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today spelled out plans for a wide range of new products in 2010 and 2011 as well as discussed how it would get its financial house in order following the brutal 2009 and spin-off of its fabrication plants. Speaking to an audience of industry and Wall Street analysts […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – AMD laid out an ambitious roadmap for 2010 and 2011 today, involving its much-hyped Fusion products as well as a slew of new processor technologies. The star of the show wasn’t President and CEO Dirk Meyer, who did make some comments on issues ranging from the Intel lawsuit to product news to […]

Intel is a company best known for its parts, not end-user products, which is one of the many elements that make the new Intel Reader so unusual. The new device is not unlike Amazon’s Kindle or many other e-readers. But at $1,499 it won’t be competing with consumer devices on price. Instead, the Intel Reader […]

There’s nothing worse than a glut of inventory that you can’t unload. That has been the fear all along the PC supply chain since last year, causing OEMs, manufacturers, ODMs and resellers to be exceptionally cautious in the management of their inventories. Now, however, the problem has been reversed. All of a sudden demand is […]

Worldwide PC microprocessor shipments jumped 23 percent during third calendar — rising to all-time record levels, according to new data from industry researcher IDC. That might not be surprising to anyone watching the better-than-expected quarterly earnings by some of the space’s key players, like Intel, AMD and nVidia. IDC findings show that PC processor unit […]

Apple today released a major update to its Mac OS X 10.6 operating system, “Snow Leopard,” marking the second official release for the software since OS X 10.6 debuted in August. The first set of patches for Snow Leopard came in September as version 10.6.1, just weeks after the OS’s release. Apple issued only nine […]

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) continues hanging in there despite debilitating delays in its acquisition by Oracle and continued softness in the IT market. The company reported first-quarter fiscal 2010 results on Friday with no fanfare and no statement beyond the figures themselves. In its 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Sun showed […]

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo caused quite a stir this week with his antitrust suit against Intel, accusing the chip giant of conducting “an illegal campaign to deprive AMD of distribution channels.” More than a few writers and bloggers chalked it up to politics. Cuomo’s ambitions are no secret: he wishes to be governor […]