Andy Patrizio

IBM unwrapped updates to its Dynamic Infrastructure roadmap Tuesday with new product announcements and new customers it said have decided to go the IBM route to reduce costs. IBM (NYSE: IBM) first introduced Dynamic Infrastructure in February as a means to offer more versatility in customer choices for their deployments. The company contends its approach […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel wants you to buy more hardware. No surprise there: The world’s largest chipmaker, like the rest of the IT industry, is feeling the effects of the global economic meltdown, with CEO Paul Otellini noting during Intel’s (NASDAQ: INTC) Q1 earnings call that corporate sales were much slower than consumer sales. So […]

Sun Microsystems today reported the results of its third fiscal quarter ended March 29 — and if this is indeed its final quarter as an independent company, it was a pretty harsh way to conclude things. Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA), which had previously agreed to be acquired by Oracle for $7.4 billion, reported a net loss […]

“Guangzhou Skytone Transmission Technologies Company” isn’t a corporate name that likely springs to mind for many when they think of notebook PCs. But it could be set to become a lot more well-known if it makes good on its bid to become the first to market with a netbook based on Google’s Android operating system. […]

The eminently quotable Mark Twain once said, “A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.” Just one day after Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) filed its 10-Q quarterly earnings report, the Internet lit up with screaming stories that Apple had canned 1,600 staffers from its […]

It sure looks like convenient timing to release a report on this topic, but Jack Gold, president of J. Gold Associates, insists his research was not intended to goose flagging PC sales in the current economic downturn. Many firms have been delaying PC purchases all together unless they had to replace one that was broken […]

Embedded Alley Solutions, a provider of embedded Linux products, today announced it plans to bring the Android mobile application platform and development environment to the MIPS processor platform. Embedded Alley is partnering with RMI Corp., a Cupertino, Calif.-based semiconductor company that is a MIPS licensee and makes a line of low-power processors, to port Android’s […]

Semiconductor fabrication plants are much like jet liners — they only make money when they are in use, and when they’re sitting idle, they just cost it. Idle fabs are what ate into Intel’s top line, hurting its gross margins in the last two quarters due to underutilized plants. So China’s fabrication plants must be […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Advanced Micro Devices said today that it’s moving forward with new Opteron server processor designs that will eventually reach 16 cores by 2011. In a briefing here at its near-empty California offices — the company has all but moved to Austin, Texas — AMD (NYSE: AMD) executives laid out a revised and […]

SAN FRANCISCO — President Obama’s acting senior director for cyberspace security, Melissa Hathaway, made the public speech of her new role here at the RSA Conference, dropping a few hints on her forthcoming, and closely anticipated, report on federal cybersecurity policies and initiatives. But if security industry observers were looking for an early peek at […]

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) posted a fairly heavy loss for the first quarter thanks to falling PC sales but also directly related to its foundry business, which has been spun off as a stand-alone company but is still carried on the AMD books. AMD’s (NYSE: AMD) net loss for the quarter ended March 31 totaled […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — The debut of vSphere 4.0 was a surreal sight. Dressed in identical, dark blue t-shirts, VMware’s Palo Alto employees massed in a courtyard between the company’s office buildings here in the hills south of San Francisco. Inside, the company’s CEO, Paul Maritz, hosted a parade of executives — enough to prompt […]