Andy Patrizio

EMC and Intel have announced a joint effort to improve the energy efficiency of EMC’s Atmos cloud storage system that should be available in the second half of next year. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is also pursuing a new server design, what it calls “micro-servers,” that will pack the power of a server onto a card […]

Acer reported its best quarter for revenue ever on Friday, smashing its earlier stellar growth rate, and predicting it will do even better thanks to continued growth of netbooks and its planned expansion into smartphones. Acer reported third quarter revenue 5.3 percent over the third quarter of 2008 to NT$167.6 billion (US$5.2 billion). Net profit […]

A Chinese firm is touting a smartphone based on Windows XP and running an AMD Geode processor at its core, but whether it can deliver on all of the promises remains to be seen. In Technology Group Limited calls its creation the “xpPhone,” and while the artistic rendering of the 4.8-inch screen shows the familiar […]

Apple has given Apple TV, its struggling set top device, a considerable software makeover today that includes a redesigned menu, a host of new options, iTunes support and more. While Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has dominated the smartphone and MP3 player markets and has gained considerably share in computers, Apple TV shows that, at least to […]

Intel and Numonyx B.V., the memory company spun-off from Intel and STMicroelectronics, have unveiled a key breakthrough in the development of phase-change memory (PCM), a new type of memory that allows for stacking up multiple layers of PCM arrays within a single die. Normally on a memory stick, memory chips are placed side by side […]

Chip companies are rapidly closing the gap from the precipitous plunge they took one year ago after the economy collapsed under the weight of financial scandals and the housing market bubble finally popping. Chip vendors should see an increase in year-over-year sales figures in the fourth quarter, the first time in 2009 for a year-on-year […]

The graphics chip market has rebounded to surpass where it was at its peak in 2008 before the market collapsed exactly one year ago this month, thanks to a 21.2 percent sequential growth in the third quarter, according to a report from Jon Peddie Research (JPR). The rebound was not driven by any major product […]

VMware today announced the release VMware Workstation 7, its desktop virtualization software for a variety of different usage scenarios where one desktop PC or even a laptop might need to run Windows 7, XP and Vista. That’s the fundamental difference between Workstation and ESX. While server-side virtualization is for server consolidation and increasing the utilization […]

Apple’s obsession with secrecy is well-established, and there is quite a cottage industry of bloggers and Apple Web sites dedicated to exposing their secrets. One of the more impressive efforts came during the iPhone 3GS launch, where one site was tracking a shipping vessel from China believed to be carrying the phones. The site even […]

Tilera, the start-up microprocessor company formed out of a military research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), today announced a new line of processors that scale to up to 100 cores. This new family, the TILE-Gx, consists of four new processors from Tilera, all aimed at different markets based on their scalability. They […]

This is one of the more unusual mergers on the surface but it does make sense. The 451 Group, a market research and analysis organization, has acquired The Uptime Institute, a consultancy and think tank that is focused specifically on datacenter efficiency and reliability. Both firms are privately-held, and terms were not disclosed. Usually analyst […]