Andy Patrizio

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Businesses are not buying, but Intel is out to change that and made a case that in every single segment of its business, “we’re going to give people new reasons to buy products in addition to reasons they already have.” That was the pitch from Sean Maloney, executive vice president of […]

Veteran network controller vendor Ecessa, formerly Astrocom, has launched its latest product line, the ClariLink family of WAN link controllers for SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) traffic. Ecessa has two major lines of products, PowerLink and ShieldLink. PowerLink provides load balancing and multiple WAN (Wide Area Network) aggregation failover and high availability, while ShieldLink adds VPN […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — There may be a recession in the economy, but “there is no recession in the growth of the Internet,” declared Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) CEO Paul Otellini at an investors meeting here at his company’s headquarters. The Internet is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 46 percent, he said, […]

If I scratched my head any more over this one, my co-workers would back away from me, thinking I had something communicable. Rackable Systems has completed its acquisition of the operating assets of what’s left of the former Silicon Graphics and has now adopted its name. You read that right. Rackable Systems, which at least […]

Fujitsu is looking to make a name for itself as a stand-alone vendor, not as a partner of Siemens or Sun Microsystems, with its new Primergy BX900 blade system, a blade enclosure it calls the “Dynamic Cube.” The new blade enclosure offers computing blades, storage, networking, and management software in a single offering. It’s not […]

American antitrust regulators have not been as aggressive as their European counterparts — just ask Microsoft — but if the reports that the EU is about to slap Intel with a fine for anti-competitive behavior are true, it could make Intel’s defense against AMD in the U.S. more of an uphill climb. Reuters on Sunday […]

While Intel has not said the Atom processor is wedded to the netbook/nettop/mobile Internet device (MID) sector, it has been widely viewed as being targeted at that low-power, modest performance product space. But what about touchscreen tablet netbooks and rack-mounted servers? Those are for Intel’s (NASDAQ: INTC) Centrino and Xeon, or perhaps AMD’s (NYSE: AMD) […]

UPDATED: Sun Microsystems must be glad the weekend is here. The company disclosed today that it has been slapped with three class-action suits from shareholders looking to block its acquisition by Oracle, which is also named in the lawsuits. Making matters worse, Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) also admitted that it’s investigating possible incidents involving employees bribing […]

That sound you heard in the Silicon Valley was Sun Microsystems employees heaving a sigh of relief. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison told Reuters that he has no plans to dump Sun’s hardware. On the contrary, he’s committed to the SPARC processor line. “We are definitely not going to exit the hardware business,” he told Reuters […]

Graphics chip player nVidia on Thursday topped Wall Street expectations with a lower-than-expected loss — giving some signs of a turnaround and increasing sales for the battered semiconductor sector. For its first quarter, ending April 26, nVidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) reported a loss of $201.3 million, or $0.37 per share, compared with a profit of $176.8 […]

Three years and more than $2 billion in write-downs after its expensive purchase of ATI Graphics, Advanced Micro Devices has reorganized the company around what it calls “one AMD,” giving it a single message to take to customers. In the process of restructuring the company, however, a well-liked and respected executive — once considered a […]

Graphics chip maker nVidia will report its fiscal first-quarter sales figures tomorrow after the close of the market, and how the company does could be further sign of economic recovery. Or lack thereof. nVidia (NASDAQ: NVDA)’s fiscal fourth quarter ran from November to January, placing it at what’s presently seen as the absolute nadir for […]