Andy Patrizio

Intel plans to release its sixth generation of the popular mobile platform known as Centrino just in time for the October release of Windows 7. The platform, codenamed “Calpella,” will be the launch of Intel’s Nehalem architecture on laptops. An Intel spokesperson declined to comment, but a source familiar with the plans confirmed that Intel […]

The semiconductor market won’t shrink as much as previously expected this year, according to a Gartner report issued today, but there’s a flip side to that revelation: The recovery in the chips market is mostly due to one nation’s stimulus spending. Thanks to China coming out with a stimulus package that’s put money in the […]

SAN FRANCISCO – With an ever-growing number of American consumers getting on the energy efficiency bandwagon, Korean electronics giant Samsung is giving them plenty of ways to go green, from TVs to datacenters. Samsung makes everything from memory to flat screen TVs to refrigerators, so it covers a pretty wide swath of electronics products. As […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Intel on Monday outlined details for its next-generation Atom system-on-a-chip (SoC) architecture, codenamed “Moorestown,” which will open the chip up to whole new markets where Atom previously did not play, such as the fast-growing smartphone sector. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has gotten quite a bit of mileage out of the Atom in […]

Despite the fact that x86 servers continue to make up more than 90 percent-plus of server sales, IBM and Sun Microsystems are hanging in there with their RISC-based processors and are going to show off the latest generation at the day-two wrap up of the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University on Tuesday. If there […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — The strategy for multicore processing has, at least in the early years, been one of gluing multiple cores onto the processor die and wiring the cores together. With the next generation of chips, however, both Intel and AMD are aiming at true integration and making their multi-core chips scale to their […]

Embarcadero, the developer tools vendor that acquired the legacy tools from Borland Software in 2006, will issue its first big upgrade to Delphi and C++Builder later this month with the release of RAD Studio 2010. The RAD Studio 2010 suite launches August 25, with upgrades to the Delphi, C++ and Delphi Prism tools. Delphi Prism […]

IBM today announced the System z Solution Edition Series, seven combined packages it says are designed to assist customers migrate off older HP and Sun Unix systems and onto IBM’s mainframes running Linux. These integrated hardware, software and services packages are designed to assist in migrating typical Unix workloads as well as deploying new workloads […]

Apple reportedly has an event planned for the first week of September that has Apple watchers going crazy at the potential arrival of the long-rumored ‘iPad’ tablet. If there is an Apple event September 7, it would be just one week before the launch of the new Microsoft Zune HD. Of course, the event is […]

The economic news continues to be fairly dismal, with June retail sales down when they were expected to rise. But that doesn’t seem to be deterring system builders. Purchase orders of parts and build orders for new computer systems are even higher than they were just a month ago, according to market research firm FBR […]

SAN FRANCISCO – The state of California gave electronic voting a chance, but when things started happening like polling station workers taking home the equipment (and in one case, it was stolen), state officials had to draw the line. Still, California’s Secretary of State Debra Bowen talked up the potential of electronic voting in a […]

For the second time in two weeks, Twitter on Tuesday became the victim of a denial-of-service (DoS) attack that briefly interrupted service. Users first noticed brief connections problems early in the day, with glitches especially impacting those using third-party applications like TweetDeck. Shortly before noon Pacific time, Twitter updated its status page informing subscribers that […]