Michael Singer

German chipmaker Infineon Technologies has sold its fiber-optics business unit and is closing down three plants, the company said Tuesday. At the company shareholders meeting, CEO Wolfgang Ziebart confirmed the sale of its Berlin fiber-optics assets to equipment maker Finisar . The companies agreed to terms after earlier negotiations broke down. Under the new deal, […]

Officials at Transmeta are expressing sadness, with a hint of optimism, for having to change their business model. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based firm that once boasted Linux creator Linus Torvalds on its payroll is cashing out its chipmaking business to save itself and is transitioning to a technology and intellectual property licensing company. Transmeta CEO […]

UPDATED: Sun Microsystems launched its OpenSolaris initiative today, complete with a new community, advisory board and intellectual property rights. The initiative applies only to the current Solaris 10 release and all future versions of its Unix-based server operating system. Sun is making the framework available at a new Web site (OpenSolaris.org) and seeding it with […]

HP may be set to undergo yet another corporate restructuring, according to published reports this week. The company’s Board of Directors is apparently fed up with HP’s yo-yo earnings and No. 2 status, behind IBM in servers and Dell in PCs — or so says a report in Monday’s Wall Street Journal. Sources cited by […]

Concerns over corporate espionage could ultimately block IBM’s sale of its PC division to China’s Lenovo Group, according to a Bloomberg News report this week. Members of the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS), along with the Department of Justice (DoJ) and Department of Homeland Security, are reportedly […]

Microsoft said Monday that it would not appeal a recent ruling by the European Court of First Instance that forces it to comply with antitrust penalties such as unbundling Media Player from Windows. A European edition of Windows without Media Player is expected in the coming weeks. The decision comes as Microsoft continues to pursue […]

What if that computer you purchased through a trusted dealer wasn’t running the 3.8GHz Pentium 4 you ordered but rather a slower processor cleverly disguised to look like the real deal? Chances are it’s not the vendor’s fault. More than likely, the company you purchased the computer from was sold a product from sources not […]

Intel will add a new virtualization technology to its Pentium family a year ahead of schedule, the company said Thursday. Codenamed Vanderpool, the technology lets a computer or server run multiple operating systems (Windows and Linux) and applications on the same machine in independent partitions or “containers.” The concept of virtualization has been around in […]

A U.S. district judge ruled this week that Hynix Semiconductor must defend itself from as many as 50 patent infringement claims filed against it by rival chipmaker Rambus . According to a statement by Rambus, Judge Ronald Whyte issued a summary judgment after receiving seven summary judgment motions filed by the parties in advance of […]

Not only is Transmeta backing out of the chipmaking business, it might also be putting itself up for sale, analysts said this week. The company’s board of directors is scheduled to outline its current business model of designing, developing and selling x86-compatible microprocessor products today. The announcement follows an internal audit Transmeta contracted to mull […]

IBM is adding new features to its ThinkPad notebooks it claims will help system administrators sleep better at night. The company’s upcoming ThinkPad T43 computers will support not only Intel’s latest Pentium M processor (Centrino Sonoma) and PCI Express interconnects but also a new technology called “Antidote.” The software allows an administrator to set security […]

Sun Microsystems is close to unwrapping its Solaris operating system and other projects as a gift to the open source community. As previously reported, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based systems vendor is expected to submit the Solaris code base this month under its Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) — a modified Mozilla open source license […]