Andy Patrizio

There has been a peculiar habit among the press to almost wish for a major tech firm to make a big acquisition. In recent months, the media has noticed the large cash hordes of Cisco, Apple and now Dell and wondered aloud what kind of expensive acquisition they could make. So far much of the […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Cloud computing and 3D chip manufacturing, or “stacking,” don’t appear to have much in common, but the way Gartner sees it, the two will help drive the recovery of the semiconductor sector, and also change it considerably. The firm made the predictions here as part of a semiconductor industry briefing, bringing […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Photovoltaic solar power, or PV solar, could be a $2 billion business for semiconductor makers by 2013, if all goes to plan, claims research firm Gartner. But green technologies of all kinds are facing uphill challenges in a challenging economic environment — not the least of which is they many still […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Quick turnaround for IT spending? Don’t bet on it. The current downturn in IT spending is very different from the industry’s experience in 2001, and it will take a while for sales to find their feet again, according to market research firm Gartner. The firm today hosted a strategy briefing here […]

As the roar settles from Monday’s iPhone 3G S announcement, the skeptical are looking closer at all the details surrounding Apple’s latest moves, and they are finding some potentially sticky issues. One of which, as noted by the enthusiast blog Engadget, is an incompatibility in the graphics libraries in the iPhones. The iPhone 3G uses […]

As the roar settles from Monday’s iPhone 3G S announcement, the skeptical are looking closer at all the details surrounding Apple’s latest moves, and they are finding some potentially sticky issues. One of which, as noted by the enthusiast blog Engadget, is an incompatibility in the graphics libraries in the iPhones. The iPhone 3G uses […]

AMD is waving away claims that it plans to pursue the “netbook” category. Instead, the company said it remains committed to a sweet spot it believes resides between standard notebooks and netbooks: the ultra-thin and ultra-light notebook market. The ultra thin and light market isn’t new, as Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research points […]

HP’s ProLiant-SL2x170z. Source: HP HP today introduced a new portfolio of hardware, software and services for massive scale datacenters. The HP Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio was designed with the largest datacenters in mind and meant to deliver orders of magnitude performance and savings to customers. This new service is aimed specifically at companies with huge […]

Netbook computers have quickly evolved to strike the right balance of size that appeals to consumers and economic feasibility that appeals to the OEMs/ODMs making them. That appears to be around the 10-inch screen mark. Research from the Taipei-based Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC) found a significant change in demand for certain size netbooks, […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Perhaps it was too much to expect CEO Steve Jobs to come bounding out on stage like Sportacus from the kids show “LazyTown,” but the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) faithful still got quite a few surprises at the opening of its Worldwide Developer Conference. The show opened with another amusing commercial featuring actor […]

SAN FRANCISCO – There was no Steve Jobs, but Apple gave the audience at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) plenty to cheer about with new hardware, news on Mac OS X and, as expected, a new iPhone. The iPhone 3G has been succeeded by the iPhone 3 GS, with “S” standing for “speed.” Phil Schiller, […]

Dell today announced new data deduplication services, solutions and products for customers of not only its own EqualLogic storage products, but all storage solutions. That’s because Dell is changing how processing is done. In the past, data backup and storage management was a move-then-shrink process, but that meant lots of data going over the wires […]