John G. Spooner

Chip startup Multigig said that it’s got an answer to rising data center power bills. The 12-employee, Scotts Valley, Calif., company, which emerged from secrecy on May 8, has created new processor clock technology that it says can halve processor power consumption by recycling most of the electricity used to regulate processor clocks. The technology, […]

IBM is updating its high-end Intel server line a greater emphasis on virtualization. The Armonk, N.Y., computer giant on April 21 unveiled System x, which will replace its eServer X Series. The new x86 line takes on a similar moniker to IBM’s other server models, such as the System z and the System I. New […]

On its first birthday, the PC company’s immediate challenge is getting its brand known. It’ll be business as usual at Lenovo Group’s headquarters on May 2. However, the day will hold special significance, marking the first anniversary of its acquisition of IBM’s Personal Computing Division. Since the closing of the $1.25 billion deal on May […]

Lenovo is setting up shop with Best Buy. The PC maker has struck a deal to allow Best Buy For Business, which are business-oriented annexes inside 135 Best Buy stores, to offer customers the ability to order from its entire Lenovo U.S. PC product line. Lenovo is aiming to continue expanding its scope with small […]

Apple Computer is offering to help manage corporate Macs. The computer maker on April 11 rolled out Remote Desktop Control 3, which includes provisions for installing several types of software, tracking hardware assets and health and even providing remote assistance to end users for IT departments who aim to streamline the administration of Mac fleets. […]

With energy efficiency creeping up enterprises’ evaluation criteria list, Intel knew it couldn’t afford to allow its future chips to use more power. The Santa Clara, Calif., company went back to the drawing board to create a new chip architecture—a replacement for the circuitry that underpins its entire x86 product line—that would both increase performance […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel plans to power up the wireless capabilities of notebook PCs. The chip maker will offer, later this year, a WiMax PC card that will allow notebooks to tap high-speed Internet connections, and during 2007 it aims to equip its notebooks with a new generation of higher-bandwidth Wi-Fi, dubbed 802.11n. It also showed off […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Attention to power consumption has formed the core of a new generation of Intel chips coming out later this year. Justin Rattner, Intel’s chief financial officer, kicked off the company’s spring Developer Forum here March 7 by taking the wraps off some of the features behind the chip maker’s Core Microarchitecture. Core Microarchitecture, otherwise […]

Jeffrey Skolnick, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, used to just worry about harnessing enough computing power to chase down cancer genes. Today, he’s worried about his electric bill, too. Skolnick, director of the Institute’s Center for the Study of Systems Biology, in Atlanta, said concerns about server power consumption and heat weighed heavily on […]

Lenovo has unveiled its Lenovo 3000 series of desktops and notebooks with prices and popular features aimed at the small and midsize business users that its Think product line has missed. Indeed, the arrival of Lenovo in the SMB market will bring greater competition in the SMB space—a hotly contested area because of its sheer […]

Chip makers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are preparing their next round of server processors. Intel is expected to launch its upgraded Bensley server platform next month at its Intel Developer Forum. Meanwhile, AMD offered a snapshot of a forthcoming Opteron chip, due later this year, at the San Francisco International Solid State Circuits Conference. […]