Andy Patrizio

Toshiba announced on Tuesday it will buy Fujitsu’s hard disk drive business in a deal that would make Toshiba a major player in the hard drive space and let Fujitsu get out of a money-losing segment. Toshiba isn’t as well known the storage market as it is for its chip and memory products businesses, but […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Like any new market sector taking shape, cloud computing has a large number of players jockeying for position. IBM, Microsoft, VMware, Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), as well as smaller players, are pushing for control in the emerging sector; Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) plans to be there with its own products […]

Earnings season for the past month has been more painful than a root canal with no Novocain. On earnings calls, one hardware supplier after another recounted sales going off a cliff and were reluctant to give any forward guidance because they didn’t know when things would improve. The problem was these sales plunges did not […]

Monday is a national holiday in the U.S., but it will be a busy day in Barcelona, Spain, which is hosting GSMA Mobile World Congress — one of the largest mobile phone trade conferences. More than 1,300 firms will be represented at the show, and three chipmakers — Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), ARM and nVidia (NASDAQ: […]

Cisco Systems will introduce “Project California,” a blade system specially tuned for virtualized environments, at an event in San Francisco on March 16, InternetNews.com has learned. The news comes as talk surfaces around Cisco’s other strategies to ramp up its virtualization portfolio: namely, through an acquisition of VMware or its parent, EMC. So far, those […]

Sun Microsystems today launched the JavaFX Mobile platform, expanding its rich Internet application platform from the desktop to mobile devices, and bringing with it the promise of greater portability of Java applications between platforms. JavaFX Mobile, which makes its formal debut next week during GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, won’t replace Java ME, the […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — In discussing the company’s dismal fourth quarter of 2008, Intel CEO Paul Otellini swore the company would move forward with research and development projects, stating that the company could not emerge from this recession with “yesterday’s products.” Today, he and the company made good on that promise. Otellini announced the company […]

Last month, graphics processor maker nVidia warned sales for its fourth quarter, which ended in January, would be off by 40 to 50 percent. The company, however, was wrong. Sales were off by 60 percent. The chipmaker, which holds about 60 percent of the market for graphics cards, said things had been great up until […]

UPDATED: Solid-state drives (SSD), the storage devices built on special memory that does not erase when powered down, will make their way into the datacenter and enterprise systems by 2012, predicts HP. This would be a little later than some have predicted, but it’s still another sign that the transition to solid-state is likely to […]

UPDATED: In the year-and-a-half since the launch of the iPhone, there have been numerous attempts to deliver a competing “iPhone killer” device. Some of these might even be successful. But for now, it seems the only thing that will beat the current iPhone may be its next-generation successor. What that might be remains anyone’s guess, […]

When Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) quietly delayed the launch of Tukwila, its quad-core Itanium processor last year, the news got lost in the year-end holiday season, U.S. elections and the global economy’s stunning downturn. Time’s up. Intel plans to have it the hands of OEMs by the middle of this year, said Susan Tauzer, mission critical […]

Research papers released at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) are rarely light reading, unless you have a doctorate in electrical engineering. That’s because they are long-range visions of where semiconductor development is headed in the next five to ten years. For Intel, that vision is focusing on system-on-a-chip (SoC) design — in which all […]