Mark Hachman

Intel Corp. easily maintained its position as the top semiconductor supplier in the world in 2003, holding a market share roughly 2.5 times larger than its nearest competitor. However, market data published Thursday by Semico Research Corp., Phoenix, Ariz., found that several of the top 10 chip suppliers of 2003 lost market share, as startups […]

Hewlett-Packard Corp. took several steps forward in enforcing digital-rights-management on consumer devices Tuesday, licensing Intel Corp.’s DRM scheme and co-developing a similar technology with Royal Philips Electronics NV. In all, HP licensed Intel’s high-bandwidth digital content protection (HDCP) technology, to be used for transmitting content to wired displays throughout the home. The joint work with […]

Advanced Micro Devices on Monday named its first chief strategy officer in the company’s history, responsible for seeking out new markets and focusing the company’s direction. William T. “Billy” Edwards, previously vice president and general manager of AMD’s Personal Connectivity Solutions Group, will be promoted into his new role, AMD said. AMD said Iain Morris, […]

PacketHop Inc.’s wireless mesh network has successfully passed a field test by several California state agencies, according to the company’s CEO. PacketHop, whose software is designed to reroute and heal a constantly shifting mesh of wireless connections, was put to the test by the Golden Gate Safety Network, a collection of 12 agencies, including representatives […]

RSA Security Inc. on Tuesday announced a partnership with Microsoft Corp. to develop a version of its SecurID token for the Windows operating system. Revealed at the RSA Conference here, the system will provide an additional layer of security for Windows customers. Under the new plan, users will only be asked to remember a single […]

Macrovision Corp. on Monday announced the shipping version of FlexNet Publisher, the cornerstone of its next-generation digital-rights management system the company first disclosed last October. Although Macrovision, Santa Clara, Calif., designed FlexNet Publisher to manage software companies, Macrovision executives said the technology is also beginning to be added as a “secret sauce” to scale hardware […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Corp. on Wednesday presented a broad overview of its enterprise processor roadmap here at the Intel Developer Forum. The company’s forthcoming lineup featured a slew of new code names for the 64-bit Itanium processor. Mike Fister, vice president and general manager of Intel’s enterprise group appeared made a special effort to detail Intel’s […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. launched a sub-$900 version of its Media Center PC on Friday, the first to use the new Prescott processor from Intel. Prices for configurable versions of the m400 Photosmart PC will start at $879.99 after a $50 rebate, while customers can also select from preconfigured models that are priced beginning at $1,249.99. As […]

Back in the spring, Seagate Technology LLC introduced its “Enterprise Disc Drive,” a new 2.5-inch hard disk format with enterprise-class performance and interfaces. According to marketing materials seen by eWEEK.com, the company will brand the forthcoming drive as “Savvio.” The drive will ship in both 36.7GB and 73.4GB capacities, according to Seagate’s materials. The product […]

Improved performance, new applications and new bug fixes highlight the changes in Version 3.2 of the KDE Project’s KDE desktop software for Linux, which KDE released Tuesday. The release, available for free download at KDE’s Web site, has been the default user interface for several Linux distributions, including SuSE Linux, Knoppix, Lindows and Mandrake Linux. […]

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—Wireless e-commerce took two steps ahead on Monday, paving the way for improved digital rights management on mobile devices. The Open Mobile Alliance, whose diverse membership encompasses a significant portion of the wireless industry, announced an “enabler release” of its second-generation DRM specification on here Monday. While not absolutely final, the document will […]

Intel formally launched its next-generation “Prescott” microprocessor on Sunday, providing slight performance increases over the previous Pentium 4. Intel executives also declined to put to rest rumors of Prescott’s 64-bit capabilities. The Prescott will ship in 3.2-, 3.0-, and 2.8-GHz speed grades beginning on Monday, with supplies of the 3.4-GHz low enough that many system […]