Andy Patrizio

Global semiconductor revenue fell 5.2 percent last year thanks to the fourth quarter collapse that hit the entire semiconductor sector, according to market research firm iSuppli. To show how fast the collapse really was, iSuppli was predicting a two percent drop as late as November. Then came Christmas and silicon turned to coal. “Everything fell […]

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Source: AOL Time Warner on Thursday announced Google executive Tim Armstrong will be the new chairman and CEO of AOL. Armstrong comes to AOL from Google, where he was senior vice president of its Americas operations and is best known for helping to build Google’s online advertising business. Armstrong’s name was […]

In an effort to broaden its appeal and gain more customers looking to outsource in this down economy, Hewlett-Packard and its Electronic Data Systems unit are both offering newer, more flexible and custom services aimed at non-traditional customers. HP (NYSE: HPQ), which acquired EDS last August, plans to offer varying grades of service in managing […]

Is it too early to begin planning for the economic recovery? HP doesn’t think so. Instead, it’s making a case for enterprises to ramp up their spending on hardware. Sound crazy? Not to Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), which says that companies need to be ready because it’s during upheavals that the stars realign, old industry leaders […]

Dell isn’t worrying too much about the impending arrival of Cisco Systems in the blade market, at least publicly. In a chalk talk held with journalists and analysts, the company said it has new blade servers coming and gave hints at what Cisco might have in store. Rick Becker, vice president of software and solutions […]

Apple MacBook ProSource: Apple A report from Taiwan that Apple is developing a new netbook with touch-based panels has caused another flare-up of discussion on Apple boards and blogs, even though the company has repeatedly said it’s not interested in entering that low-cost, low-end segment of the PC market. The story first ran in the Chinese-language […]

Time is running out for today’s most popular graphics technology, with motherboards’ integrated graphics chipsets (IGP) poised become a thing of the past by 2012 — thanks to radical changes in CPU architecture. The prediction, by graphics market analysts at Jon Peddie Research, is a relatively safe forecast to make, but one with a lot […]

AMD and Seagate today announced the first public demonstrations of 6 gigabit per second Serial ATA (SATA) drives, a doubling of the current standard for hard drive throughput in the majority of computers. The demo is taking place at the Everything Channel conference for system builders, taking place in New Orleans. The SATA spec is […]

With Windows 7 in the hands of millions of individuals around the world, the consumer push has been the focus of attention. But Windows is as important to businesses and organizations as it is to the home gamer. A lot of corporations have aging Windows XP machines that will need to be retired soon, perhaps […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Cloud services will be what the electrical grid was a century ago: the basis for a whole new set of services, markets and possibilities that can change the way we live and operate, but also threaten the dominant computing hierarchy. That was the general theme of the closing keynote speech by […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The datacenter of the future may be at least partially virtualized, but the consolidation of hardware does not mean less work. On the contrary, more virtual servers still means more servers to maintain, increasing the burden on IT, not decreasing it. That was the warning from a session here at the […]