Michael Singer

UPDATED: Two years after the debut of its Opteron processor, AMD is launching its first dual-core x86 64-bit chip for servers and workstations. The chipmaker also announced an upcoming dual-core Athlon 64 processor made for desktop PCs, which AMD is calling the X2. AMD said it also plans to introduce a dual-core version of its […]

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Self-regulating or “autonomic” computer networks: wave of the future or hype of the past? Depends on who you are polling these days. IBM and its friends say enough of the technology exists now that they are ready to take the practice to the mainstream. And so it is. The Armonk, N.Y.-based […]

The maker of BlackBerry handhelds announced Tuesday it is building up its repertoire of enterprise-focused instant messaging (IM) clients. Waterloo, Ontario-based Research In Motion (RIM) said it has signed contracts to support IM products from IBM , Microsoft and Novell . RIM already supports consumer versions from Yahoo and is looking to rekindle a partnership […]

Adobe’s $3.4 billion plan to acquire its closest rival Macromedia is expected to create a major shift in the multimedia publishing and online graphics software market. Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen and executives declined to give future details but he called the combination of the No. 1 and No. 2 Web development software vendors a strategic […]

Silicon Valley-based startup Azul Systems introduced its first product family today designed for data centers running J2EE or .NET. As previously reported, former Cobalt CEO and Sun Microsystems executive Stephen DeWitt is behind the company’s effort to provide “network attached processing.” The concept is similar to virtualization and provisioning of compute cycles commonly found in […]

Intel began shipping its first-ever processor that taps into the wireless standard 802.16, or WiMAX, the company said Monday. At separate press events in Washington DC, London and Shanghai, the chipmaker is expected to introduce its Intel PRO/Wireless 5116 broadband interface device. Previously known as Rosedale, the chip is designed for wireless modems and residential […]

Next week marks the 40th anniversary of Moore’s Law and yet another round of debate in the semiconductor community about its relevance. Intel and its friends will celebrate the first publication of Moore’s article Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits in a 1965 edition of Electronics magazine. Moore, who was then head of R&D at […]

Intel recently announced a new program to equip Chinese university students with laptops based on its wireless chip designs. The new platform, codenamed Tanggula, is part of Intel’s push at the university level, which aims to accelerate the adoption of mobile computing and wireless technologies in more than 300 universities throughout the Asia Pacific region. […]

In an attempt to streamline its business, AMD is consolidating its PC and embedded chip divisions, the company said Wednesday. Dirk Meyer, previously an executive vice president with AMD’s Computation Products Group, will lead the new division called the Microprocessor Solutions Sector (MSS). AMD also promoted Henri Richard to chief sales and marketing officer as […]

AMD and Fujitsu are taking their joint Flash memory company to Wall Street en route to a public offering. The two companies filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday to start the process of launching an initial public offering (IPO) of Spansion. Spansion develops, designs and makes NOR Flash memory products and is […]

Oracle is enlisting third-party partners to help it sell software to the coveted mid-market enterprise sector, the company said Wednesday. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software vendor launched an initiative called OPN (Oracle PartnerNetwork) Access. The goal is to get organizations that are targeting small and medium size companies to soft sell Oracle’s entry-level database and […]

Developers at the Eclipse Project will soon be able to tap into Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0, thanks to a project spearheaded by Oracle . Oracle said it is helping build an open source version of EJB 3.0’s Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) tool under the Eclipse Public License. The platform focuses on design-time tooling and supports […]