Michael Singer

Continuing its push for Gigabit to the desktop, broadband circuit designer Marvell Tuesday released a new 24-Port Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switch. Part of the Sunnyvale-based company’s Prestera-EX lineup, the company said its new EX242 supports wire-speed switching and Layer 3 Quality of Service. Marvell is advertising the new device as a cheap and quick replacement […]

SAN FRANCISCO — When Intel co-founder Gordon Moore postulated the size and speed of future chips, the thinking was that things would eventually slow down because of the limits of silicon. Now the 74-year-old Chairman Emeritus isn’t so sure. “No exponential is forever, but we can certainly delay ‘forever,’” Moore said appearing before the IEEE […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Never one to sit still with its chip technology, Intel Monday said it would unveil several advancements to its multiprocessors and other circuits. Appearing before the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference this week, the chip making giant is expected to submit 12 separate papers to the standards body outlining what it has […]

Less than a week after unveiling its fastest processor, Advanced Micro Devices Monday took the wraps off an even faster chip for desktop PCs. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based semiconductor maker introduced its AMD Athlon XP processor 3000+, which is immediately availability from NEC’s Packard Bell consumer line starting in Europe. Some two-dozen U.S. computer manufacturers are […]

PalmSource, which maintains the operating system side of Palm , confirmed Friday that it laid off as much as 18 percent of its staff this week. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based subsidiary declined to comment on the layoffs, but did say it is in the middle of preparations to split off from its parent company later this […]

Intel Thursday said it plans on launching its long awaited Centrino mobile chip in notebooks starting March 12. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said the processor (formerly known as Banias) and its corresponding chipsets will feature speeds of up to 1.6 GHz and embedded 802.11b technology — also known as Wi-Fi . The company estimates […]

Sun Microsystems Thursday officially extended its server operating system to x86-based servers with the release of its Solaris 9 x86 Platform Edition. The long awaited release builds on the beta version available since November 2002. This variation of Sun’s core OS allows servers to run on non-Sun processors such as ones made by Intel and […]

A man previously employed at ViewSonic Corp. was arrested Thursday morning on federal charges of hacking into the company’s computer system. Andy Garcia, 39, of Montebello, is accused of hacking, as well as wiping out critical data, which shut down a computer server that authorities say was central to the company’s office in Taiwan. He […]

Broadband circuit designer Marvell Thursday inked a deal to acquire RADLAN Computer Communications for $49.7 million in cash and shares. The boards of directors of both companies have approved the merger, which is expected to resolve in about 60 days. Based in Santa Clara, Calif. with offices in Israel, RADLAN makes embedded networking software. The […]

The legal battle over graphic chips in Microsoft’s Xbox game console is over. Santa Clara-based NVIDIA Thursday said the two sides have “settled all issues related to pricing of the Microsoft Xbox GPU (graphics) and MCP (audio and networking) chipset and have ended the arbitration between them.” Specific details of the legal settlement were not […]

Cell phone giant Nokia jumped into the mobile gaming business for the first time Wednesday with the launch of its N-Gage game deck. Shaped like a half-moon and measuring 5.2 inches by 2 inches, the game deck sports a color screen with backlight and a tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 mobile phone as well as short-range wireless […]

The game of world domination for wireless standards continued this week with news of a new deal brewing in Latin America. Portugal Telecom and Telefonica Moviles Tuesday said they are launching commercial wireless application services powered by QUALCOMM’s Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) platform. The joint venture between the three companies is expected to […]