Scott Ferguson

Now that Intel’s Penryn family has arrived, it’s time to ask: What’s next? With all the hype that Intel created around its Penryn line of processors and its switch to 45-nanometer chip manufacturing, the more compelling technology will come in 2008 with a new microarchitecture and an emphasis on mobility, according to several industry analysts. […]

Hewlett-Packard wants to make it easier to manage a data center full of blades. At the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco Nov. 12, HP executives will detail updates to its BladeSystem C-class infrastructure that include new ways to manage virtual environments across thousands of individual blades within a data center. HP, based in Palo […]

Dell now wants to simplify its PowerEdge server portfolio. At the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Nov. 12, Dell will show off several new PowerEdge servers, including new systems with new 45-nanometer processors from Intel, as well as updates to its OpenManage management software. As part of its “Simplify IT” initiative, which looks […]

Intel is ready to enter the 45-nanometer era. As Intel CEO Paul Otellini detailed in his opening remarks at the 2007 Developer Forum, the company will bring its Penryn family of 45-nanometer processors to market Nov. 12. The official release will bring 16 new microprocessors to the company’s portfolio, including 12 quad-core models, three dual-core […]

Intel will continue plans to build WiMax technology into its silicon despite news of Sprint Nextel and Clearwire ending plans for a nationwide WiMax network. Sprint Nextel and Clearwire in July said they planned to connect their WiMax networks and offer services to as many as 100 million people by the end of next year. […]

Dell is planning to restate more than $92 million that it reported in net income during a nearly four-year period and plans on filing several late quarterly and annual financial reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the PC vendor announced Oct. 30. The announcement by Dell comes nearly two months after an internal company […]

These are good times for the PC market. These are good times to buy a PC. Two recent reports from IDC on microprocessor and PC sales indicate demand for PCs is booming—microprocessor sales shot to $8 billion in the third quarter of 2007, up 14.8 percent, and PC shipments jumped to 68.5 million units shipped […]

Advanced Micro Devices posted a net loss of $396 million, down from a $136 million gain a year ago, and the chip maker’s fourth straight fiscal quarter loss. AMD posted $1.6 billion total revenue for the third quarter—an improvement of 18 percent compared to the second quarter of 2007 and nearly 23 percent better than […]

Increased demand for high-end, quad-core processors for servers and desktops enabled Intel to post solid financial results for the third quarter. The numbers, released Oct. 16, show the Santa Clara, Calif., company’s net income at about $1.9 billion for the quarter, an increase of 43 percent over the same period last year. Gross margins, a […]

Nvidia is looking to bring its graphics processing know-how into the data center for the first time. On June 20, the Santa Clara, Calif. company introduced its Tesla processor that executives said will allow the company to translate its graphics processor technology into high-performance computing (HPC). The Tesla graphics processing unit (GPU) marks Nvidia’s first […]

Gateway announced June 19 that it is voluntarily recalling about 14,000 laptop battery packs that were sold during a three-month period in 2003. The Irvine, Calif., PC vendor is working with the U.S. CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) and the company will replace the faulty battery packs for free. The lithium-ion battery packs can overheat […]

LAS VEGAS—Like other top-tier OEMs, Hewlett-Packard has been deeply involved in the services business for years, and it is becoming an increasingly important and profitable part of the business as revenues reach into the billions of dollars. When HP opened its annual Technology Forum & Expo June 18, most of the talks and breakout sessions […]