Michael Singer

Wireless giant Qualcomm has inked a licensing deal with Microsoft it claims will make it easier to play audio and video on its handsets. The deal means handset manufacturers will be able to ship Qualcomm’s new “Qtv” devices with Windows Media Audio and Video codecs beginning in the first quarter of 2005. Qualcomm’s Qtv series […]

IBM and AMD have extended their chipmaking contract through 2008 in an effort to make smaller and faster CPUs. Under the extended agreement, AMD will pay IBM between approximately $250 million and $280 million to jointly develop new logic processes, including 65-nanometer (nm) and 45nm technologies. The current contract was to expire at the end […]

Sun Microsystems has apparently backed away from its efforts to acquire a Linux software distribution — for now. The Santa Clara, Calif., network computer maker had been looking to augment its enterprise portfolio, sources told internetnews.com this week. But internetnews.com has learned that preliminary discussions between top Sun and MontaVista executives became terse, stalling because […]

With their 64-bit chip war running at full tilt, rivals Intel and AMD are bolstering efforts on their value-priced lineups. The two chips currently going head to head in this category are Intel’s Celeron D 3xx family and AMD’s Sempron 3100+. The Sempron uses the Socket 754 package of the previous-generation Athlon 64. The CPUs […]

SAN FRANCISCO — UPDATED: In its quest to thwart Oracle’s $7.7 billion hostile bid and remain a standalone company, PeopleSoft plans to partner with IBM for its middleware support, CEO Craig Conway said today. During a company-sponsored conference here, the executive stood defiant of his ongoing battle with Oracle and highlighted how Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM […]

Sun Microsystems is expected to formally debut Solaris 10 as the cornerstone of its software vision when it kicks off its “Take Back Wall Street” crusade in New York. The operating system, designed for use in Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processor-based servers, has been available in bits and pieces during the course of the […]

Sun Microsystems is launching a new utility computing service based on its N1 provisioning and virtualization infrastructure, all at a cut rate. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based network computer maker said its Utility Computing for Grid is the “next logical evolution” of its model for midrange storage and high performance grid computing . The company is […]

Intel continued its quest to build what it calls the “Digital Home” with another round of major capital investments. The chipmaking giant announced Monday that it has parceled out some of its $200 million in venture funding between five companies to support technology that lets people edit, manage and access content between PCs and other […]

Sun Microsystems is in talks to purchase a profitable Linux distributor, sources have told internetnews.com. Sources close to the discussions said they expected that company to be embedded Linux player MontaVista, but cautioned that the deal wasn’t finalized and talks could still break down. Representatives with Sun declined to comment. Kelly Herrell, MontaVista’s senior vice […]

AMD expanded its portfolio of mobile Athlon chips in its quest to unseat Intel’s Centrino, the company said Monday. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based semiconductor maker said its new Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processor 3000+ will be marketed for thin and light notebooks, and is the first new processor model manufactured with AMD’s 90-nanometer production process. The […]

Graphics chipmaker ATI unveiled a new technology it said lets its visual chips share system memory for graphics processing. HyperMemory uses the high-speed, bi-directional data-transfer capabilities of PCI Express to store and access graphics data, the company said. The technique is loosely based on the original shared aspects of Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) technology, which […]

E-business standards consortium RosettaNet spread its wings over Singapore with the opening of its Architecture Center of Excellence, the group said Friday. The Santa Ana, Calif.-based organization said the $1.4 million center is a collaboration with Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP). Private and public firms Cisco Systems, GridNode, HP, IBM, […]