Andy Patrizio

With only five computers on the Top 500 supercomputer list, Sun Microsystems isn’t exactly the first name in high performance computing, but it is trying. At the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Germany this week, Sun announced new products and enhancements to its Sun Constellation supercomputer. In addition, Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) is showing off upcoming […]

Mobile phone giant Nokia said today it plans to use Intel’s low-power Atom processors in future phones and mobile devices — a move that could position the world’s largest mobile phone maker for more advanced products while helping Intel better cash in on the smartphone craze. The agreement may also prove to be good news […]

The TOP500 list of supercomputers is always a big deal in the never-ending quest for bragging rights among hardware vendors. For this latest list, the 33rd, Intel scored a big win. Just three months on the market, and Nehalem already has 33 positions among the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world; 22 for the Xeon […]

SGI, the company formed when Rackable Systems purchased what was left of bankrupt Silicon Graphics and then adopted its name, plans to introduce a new high-density storage system for midrange customers to meet both high throughput and high performance needs. Before its purchase by Rackable in April, SGI (NASDAQ: SGI) had a small storage business […]

iSuppli is the latest market research firm to weigh in with first-quarter 2009 PC sales, and like the numbers from Gartner and IDC, the findings aren’t pretty. It reports that worldwide PC shipments in the first quarter fell by the largest rate in the seven years that iSuppli has been tracking the market. PC shipments […]

AMD’s former chip fabrication plants haven’t been in business for a year, but they are certainly off to the races in the drive to get business. GlobalFoundries, the spin-off firm that’s mostly at arm’s length from AMD (NYSE: AMD), is racking up business and talent pretty fast. That may have Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (TSMC) […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Intel is not a company without a sense of irony. It chose the Computer History Museum, a place with a collection of relics from the past like the first Apple computer, old DEC PDP 11 mainframes and even vacuum tube-powered “computers” (if you can call them that) to show off its […]

Apple’s highly anticipated release of iPhone/iPod Touch OS 3.0 today is a major upgrade for the popular smartphone and music player — but it’s also a pretty good-sized bug fix. In a security bulletin released with the update, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) acknowledged 45 known vulnerabilities in previous editions of the software. Because the iPhone and […]

Dell on Wednesday introduced a number of new business products and services aimed at expanding into the mid-market with virtualization features and a focus on quick deployment. This means expanding its server lineup as well as new storage products from EqualLogic, an acquisition that has paid for itself, and then some. In addition, Dell (NASDAQ: […]

But good luck upgrading/installing it. (Click to enlarge.) UPDATE: Looks like I’m in good company. Or at least, lots of company. UPDATE 2: It only took 5 hours but I managed to upgrade without a hitch. Now to dig in and see what’s new and nifty. I definitely like the voice memo recorder.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – There’s nothing like a 60 percent collapse in sales to calm down even the most bilious of CEOs. Case in point, nVidia chief Jen-Hsun Huang, who was definitely calmer in a presentation today than he was a few years back when he promised to “open up a can of whoopass” on […]

Adobe is officially removing the “beta” tag from its year-old Acrobat.com, formally launching the online application service — which features office productivity apps and services like collaboration and PDF conversions — while also introducing a price tag. After one year in beta, Acrobat.com becomes a paid service, although there will still be some free services […]