Andy Patrizio

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego plans to be the first site running a supercomputer using flash memory-based storage to do the heavy lifting instead of hard drive-based storage systems. The school has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to build […]

nVidia had plenty of good news to tout following its bang out quarterly earnings report today. But CEO Jen-Hsun Huang also admitted it’s having a hard time keeping up with demand. On an earnings call with analysts, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said nVidia saw “healthy market demand across the board,” especially its bread and butter GPU […]

nVidia had been one of the hardest-hit semiconductor firms when the economy went south last year, with sales plunging a harrowing 60 percent in one quarter. Today, it’s recovered the fastest and has surpassed last year’s pre-collapse sales figures, something even Intel didn’t do in its excellent third quarter. For the third quarter of fiscal […]

The predictions of pent-up demand for Windows 7 appear to have been borne out, at least by the first week of sales figures from NPD Group. The market research firm estimates total Windows PC unit sales jumped 49 percent year-over-year for the week that Windows 7 launched and 95 percent from the week prior to […]

An analyst report has resurrected a rumor that’s repeatedly died and is reborn like a phoenix — that GPU vendor nVidia is looking to enter the x86 market. Such rumors are repeatedly shot down by the vendor, but then again, the landscape has also changed for nVidia in recent months. nVidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) focuses on […]

Numerous reports have indicated that Oracle is expecting a formal objection from the European Commission on Competition to its planned $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, inviting the possibility that the European Union could derail the merger. If such an objection is issued from Brussels, then the next step would be to formally block the […]

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a federal antitrust lawsuit Wednesday against Intel, accusing the world’s largest chip maker of violating state and federal antitrust laws by misusing its leadership position to stifle sales of rival AMD. The suit comes nearly two years after Cuomo started his own investigation. This is all familiar territory […]

Most virtualization efforts are built around one physical server running multiple virtual servers, to maximize utilization, but ScaleMP does things in reverse. It takes multiple physical servers and makes them all look like one massive virtual server. Such trickery is how most of the supercomputers on the Top500 list operate. They populate an area the […]

It looks like AMD and Globalfoundries are going to set up shop in Dubai after taking a hefty chunk of change from an investment firm based in the emirate. AMD CEO Dirk Meyer told Emirates Business that the firm is looking to a open chip design center in Dubai, and maybe a fabrication plant in […]

Even though it’s still struggling to close the purchase, Oracle has laid out a five-page plan (here in PDF format) for all to read on what it will do with Sun Microsystems’ hardware and software products once the deal gets the regulatory seal of approval. No product is overlooked and Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) pretty much […]

Marvell and E Ink today announced an alliance whereby E Ink’s electronic paper display (EPD) technology would be integrated into the Marvell Armada 166E processor, which the firm recently introduced. This integration would serve multiple purposes, all of which echo the goals of the E Ink/Freescale alliance of just a few weeks ago: fewer parts […]

Apple may be continuing its efforts to block unauthorized hardware from being able to take advantage of its software, if reports are accurate from early testers of an upcoming OS X update. The move, according to reports, could be an effort to stamp out the “Hackintosh” phenomenon — the unauthorized creation of PC desktops, notebooks […]