Michael Singer

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will hear opening arguments in a case that pits Intel against archrival AMD and addresses questions of jurisdiction and overseas business practices. The review stems from a petition by Intel, which recently asked the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to reconsider a request for information […]

HP said it is making continuous dents in Sun Microsystems’ server market share armor, thanks in large part to its partnership with Intel. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based systems vendor Tuesday said a slew of global telecommunication customers has taken a shine to its Integrity servers running Itanium processors. China Telecom, Cogeco Cable Canada, Korea Telecom, […]

Broadband communications chipmaker Broadcom Monday said it will purchase Bluetooth software provider WIDCOMM in a stock and cash transaction worth an estimated $49 million. The two companies are very familiar with each other after working over the last year on compatibility and sometimes finding their technologies in the same phones, headsets, handheld computers, mice and […]

Sun Microsystems launched a handful of initiatives Monday designed to promote its talent to run Solaris on x86 systems. The company is trying to build on its install base of Solaris deployments, which are popular in the telecommunications, financial services, healthcare, and government sectors, but have experienced increased competition from Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and […]

HP launched its new 4-way ProLiant DL585 server (USD$8,299) Monday, the first server system based on AMD’s Opteron processor since HP agreed to include AMD’s chips on its systems. HP also announced its new LC 3000 series based on the ProLiant DL145 server (USD$67,829). The company said its latest high performance computing (HPC) and clustering […]

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Friday said the government’s case against Oracle will be open to the public, including the corporate secrets submitted by some of the biggest names in IT. The U.S. Department of Justice and 10 states are seeking to block Oracle’s $9.4 billion proposal to acquire PeopleSoft by arguing that […]

Computer chipmaker AMD said Thursday it is drafting plans for a second test, mark and package (TMP) facility in China. The 11,000 square meters building is expected to cost $100 million to build and will be located in China’s Suzhou Industrial Park. That is right next to the Sunnyvale, Calif., company’s FASL Flash memory TMP […]

Sun Microsystems Thursday announced additional restructuring of its executive teams as the company continues to suffer from 12 straight quarters of financial losses. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based network computer maker, which reported its fiscal 2004 third quarter, said that it has completed its acquisition of Kealia, a privately held company based in Palo Alto, Calif. […]

The European Commission (EC) Thursday said it has postponed its evaluation of Oracle and its $9.4 billion proposal to acquire PeopleSoft. As previously reported, the EC met behind closed doors with representatives of Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle earlier this month to discuss its “statement of objections” to the unsolicited bid. Commission spokesman Tilman Lueder told […]

While the government and ten states maneuver in their bid to prevent Oracle from its $9.4 billion proposal to acquire PeopleSoft , the judge in the case is mulling how both sides will present their cases in court — including the use of videotape and secure servers. But documents filed this week show a contrasting […]

Despite rumors of its demise, Java is alive and well on the Windows desktop, according to Microsoft and Sun Microsystems . Representatives with both companies confirmed Wednesday that the two companies have extended security patch support for Microsoft’s version of the Java Virtual Machine (MSJVM) until December 31, 2007. The decision builds on an October […]

NVIDIA said its graphics chips might not have the power to recreate the quality of HDTV or a Hollywood movie just yet, but they are getting closer all the time. The Santa Clara-based graphics chip maker Tuesday took the wraps off of its next generation GeForce 6800 models of graphics processing units or GPU . […]