Michael Singer

Two manufacturing standards groups have agreed to shake hands on a project designed to create better production criterion for sub-micron components. San Jose, Calif.,-based SEMI and the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) signed a memorandum of understanding Monday outlining support for each other’s standards programs in nanotechnology and MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems). The agreement […]

Apple Computer is bringing the next generation of Wi-Fi to the home. The Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker unveiled its AirPort Express, the company’s first 802.11g mobile base station that can be plugged directly into the wall for wireless Internet connections, USB printing, or streaming content through a network. Available to Mac and PC users starting […]

AMD is preparing for a new entry-level chip family it hopes will help compete with Intel’s Celeron processors. The new brand — AMD Sempron — was designed for both desktop and mobile PCs and should be readily available in the second half 2004, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company said in a statement Monday. The chip essentially […]

SAN FRANCISCO — PeopleSoft’s place in the global IT marketplace is key in the U.S. Department of Justice case against Oracle , which opened today. Based on opening statements, either the Pleasanton, Calif.-based software vendor is the only significant competition to Oracle and SAP, or it is a flawed player in the growing number of […]

A trio of well-known IT companies is launching a pilot program designed to get Electronic Design Automation (EDA) engineers out of the office. IBM, and Intel announced the effort Monday. It consists of a ThinkPad mobile workstation powered by Intel’s Centrino mobile chips and running Cadence Design Systems’ Virtuoso software over a Linux-based operating system. […]

Intel is hoping to make more hay out of the capabilities of three of its recently released processors. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaking giant said it has tweaked its Intel Pentium M processor 745 (formerly code named Dothan) to support communications infrastructure; its Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) Intel Celeron M processor for multimedia; and the […]

Recent comments from a Java technology evangelist are stirring up the debate again over whether Sun Microsystems would — or even should — open up Java to the open source process. At the company’s quarterly update event in Shanghai this week, Sun’s Raghavan Srinivas reportedly said an open source version of Java “will happen,” but […]

One year ago, PeopleSoft was happily preparing for its acquisition of J.D. Edwards, when Oracle dropped a bombshell in the form of a hostile takeover. The year that followed highlights just how the two companies and the two men that run them are struggling with the changing market for enterprise software. Now, Oracle is preparing […]

Sales of Intel microprocessors should remain very high going into the summer months, the company said Thursday. As part of its mid-quarter update, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant said its communications revenue is expected to be better than what CFO Andy Bryant predicted earlier this quarter primarily because of increased demand for the […]

Transmeta demonstrated its new Efficeon TM8620 processor this week and said it is sampling the low-power chip with customers right now. The Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker had promised to move its Efficeon mobile processor from 0.13-micron to 90-nanometer (nm) process manufacturing later this year, but the company and its fabrication partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. […]

Sun Microsystems’ plan to open source parts of Solaris is being met with cheers and jeers by analysts. Newly appointed company COO Jonathan Schwartz, and executive vice president of software, John Loiacono, confirmed Sun’s long-rumored intentions to open source its enterprise-class operating system. The executives also said they would consider opening up its next-generation Java […]

After more than 20-years, PCs have seen a revamp or upgrade of just about every single process save one: the BIOS layer. The little-seen and barely-understood “firmware” that runs between the hardware and the operating system is too out of date to handle the next generation of software applications and services, according to an initiative […]