Andy Patrizio

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Micron today announced plans to ship 3-bit-per-cell multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory by the end of the year, increasing the density of NAND flash chips and thus reducing the amount of space needed to store data. The two firms have an alliance to develop NAND products dating back to 2005. […]

Intel won at least a psychological victory last Friday when the ombudsman of the European Commission criticized the group for what he called “maladministration” in its antitrust case against Intel. The EC had been investigating Intel for several years regarding complaints it had used strong-arm tactics to keep PC vendors from using AMD processors in […]

As the old cliché goes, the bigger they come, the harder they fall. That would seem to apply to netbooks as well: Dell has announced the demise of its Inspiron Mini 12 netbook. Dell first introduced the Mini 12 late last year. As the name implies, it sports a 12.1-inch display. Dell’s Chief Blogger Lionel […]

AMD is playing catch-up in two markets. On the CPU side, it’s chasing Intel, which has about four times its market share according to IDC. On the GPU side, nVidia leads with about 28 percent share vs. AMD’s 18 percent, according to graphics market watcher Jon Peddie Research. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) remains a partner of […]

Citing sources from Asia, the Piper Jaffray analyst who has been on top of the rumored Apple tablet device has issued a report with even more details on what could be becoming Apple’s worst-kept secret. Senior Analyst Gene Munster has written extensively about the tablet device, which some bloggers have taken to calling the “iPad.” […]

Second quarter 2009 worldwide PC microprocessor shipments rose 10.1 percent over the first quarter, according to a just-released IDC report, yet another sign of recovery for the battered chip sector, although it’s still got a ways to go. The 10.1 percent recovery is certainly better than the 10.9 percent fall from Q4 2008 to Q1 […]

It was a better-than-expected showing for nVidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) today, with the graphics chipmaker reporting second-quarter earnings that topped Wall Street estimates. For the quarter ended July 26, nVidia saw a profit of $37.7 million before charges, or $0.07 per share — off 9.7 percent compared to a year ago. Revenue clocked in at $776.5 […]

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) showed continued bruising due to the slowdown in IT spending but still topped Wall Street estimates for its fourth fiscal quarter. The company reported non-GAAP net income of $1.8 billion, or $0.31 per share, a 23 percent drop over the same quarter in 2008 but ahead of analyst expectations of $0.29 […]

Cluster Resources has spent the better part of the decade working on high performance computing (HPC) automation. But now Cluster has announced it’s expanding its Moab unified intelligent automation middleware technology into the datacenter. As part of the move, the company is also changing its name to Adaptive Computing and creating a second division to […]

SAN FRANCISCO — AMD is betting big that thin is in. Just as there has been a shift from desktops to notebooks in the past decade, the chipmaker is banking on a similar type of shift from regular notebooks to what it calls ultra-thin designs. The renewed focus for AMD (NYSE: AMD) comes as the […]

AMD will begin shipping its newest chipset, the 785G, to OEM partners today. The 785G is the foundation chipset for AMD’s Windows 7 offerings, and is tuned to take advantage of some of the features in Microsoft’s forthcoming operating system. This is AMD’s first integrated graphics processor (IGP) to support DirectX 10.1 (the latest version […]

Intel has halted shipments of its new X25-M and X18-M solid state-disk drives (SSDs) after discovering a problem that could cause data corruption. The new drives were the result of a joint venture with Micron Technology and used a new 34 nanometer manufacturing process that was supposed to offer more storage density at a lower […]