Andy Patrizio

Freescale Semiconductor, the microprocessor spinoff of Motorola and ARM processor licensee, announced a licensing deal this week to integrate E Ink display controllers into Freescale’s processors. The deal will merge E Ink’s Vizplex electronic paper displays with Freescale’s i.MX family of ARM-based system-on-chips (SoC). Both vendors are fairly dominant in the e-book market — they […]

The DRAM industry posted its strongest sequential growth in five years during the second and third quarters of 2009, and that recovery is likely to continue through 2010, according to a report by iSuppli. Global DRAM revenue rose by 35 percent from the second quarter of 2009 to the third quarter, according to a preliminary […]

Seagate Technology and SanDisk are two companies that shouldn’t have too much in common, but they do share one area of mutual interest: solid-state drives (SSDs). Both companies discussed their SSD efforts during earnings calls earlier this week and shed some light on where they think the market is headed. Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) is the […]

Micron Technology (NYSE: MU) this week announced advancements in NAND flash memory durability that will allow for much longer life spans of flash drives. Flash-based drives, called solid state drives (SSDs), have emerged as potential replacements for the traditionally platter-based storage medium. They run a lot cooler since there is no spinning media, and draw […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — ARM Holdings PLC kicked off its ARM: techcon3 conference Wednesday for developers of its embedded processors with the introduction of a new processor generation as well as support for GPU developers. ARM does not make and manufacture processors the way Intel, AMD and nVidia operate. Rather, it makes technological IP, which […]

SAN FRANCISCO – nVidia has announced a platform for rendering and delivering highly-detailed 3D images over the Web to client devices, ranging from a smart phone to a PC, that takes the rendering load off the client. The RealityServer platform for cloud computing is a combination of nVidia’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) Tesla processors (and soon Fermi, […]

What should have been a slam-dunk deal, Oracle’s $7.4 billion purchase of Sun, has turned into a tragi-comedy of epic proportions. If there weren’t so many people being negatively affected, this would be downright funny. Today, that noted economist Ralph Nader come out against the deal and urged the EC to reject it. Nader’s Knowledge […]

IBM today unveiled a new software package designed to pull the management of a diverse array of servers under a single umbrella, giving administrators a complete view of their systems and a single point of management. IBM Systems Director VMControl Enterprise Edition, or VMControl for short, is due to ship in December. It will allow […]

The updated iMac. Click to enlarge. Source: Apple Apple loves a big spectacle, but every now and then it’s content to do things quietly. Tuesday was one of those moments: Just a day after stealing the spotlight by posting record revenues and profits for its fourth quarter, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced two new iMac desktop computers with […]

AMD today announced six new Athlon II processors aimed at the desktop market, but with an eye on new form factors in place of the traditional mini tower. Acknowledging that the old style desktop is fading, AMD nonetheless continues to support the space with processors for new form factors taking the place of old mini […]

Some analysts are suggesting the recession is over, but for Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), the recession might as well have never started. The company on Monday reported record quarterly revenues and profits as it enjoyed strong sales in Macs and iPhones. Apple announced fiscal fourth-quarter GAAP income of $1.67 billion, or $1.82 a share, on revenue […]

Marvell is moving beyond its core markets of storage, communications, and consumer chips and into the CPU business with a series of ARM-based chips called Armada. These chips put the company in a competitive position with Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Qualcomm and nVidia and other companies with an Atom and/or ARM initiative. Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is […]