John G. Spooner

Lenovo Group Ltd., which this week said it would swap CEOs, wants to wield the power of the penny. The PC maker, which acquired IBMs PC arm in May said Tuesday that it would replace its CEO, Steve Ward, with William Amelio, the former head of Dell Inc.s Asian operation, effective immediately. Despite surprising many […]

Notebook PCs will help drive double-digit unit gains in PC shipments during 2006, a new report by International Data Corp. says. Despite a dip in growth, due in part to waning sales to businesses and slower overall economic growth expected in 2006, IDC says notebook PCs will help drive worldwide PC unit shipments to 229.5 […]

Dell Inc. is recalling thousands of notebook PC battery packs. The Round Rock, Texas, PC maker on Friday said it is working with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to recall and replace about 35,000 battery packs sold to corporations and consumers worldwide between October 2004 and October 2005. The batteries, which were bundled with […]

The race is on to deliver all-day battery life for notebooks. While Intel believes that Napa platform notebooks can push notebooks to or past an average of 5 hours of battery life in 2006, its still shooting for more. The Santa Clara, Calif., company has said it would like to see standard-issue business notebooks run […]

NEW YORK—Intel Corp. is touting its next mobile platform, dubbed Napa, as another major milestone in notebook PC history. At a session for reporters and business analysts here Tuesday, Erik Reid, product marketing director at Intels Mobile Platforms Group, stood Yonah—the chip makers first dual-core mobile Pentium processor—and Napa next to such advances as flat-panel […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. says its getting down to business. Senior executives from the Palo Alto, Calif., computer giant, including its recently-appointed CEO, Mark Hurd, converged in New York on Tuesday to lay out the companys plans for its fiscal year 2006 and beyond for financial analysts. Hurd, speaking to an audience of financial analysts, said it […]

The race is on to produce four-core processors for PCs. Intel Corp., which is readying a bevy of dual-core chips for release in systems in the next month, is already plotting a move to quad cores, which some reports have said could come as soon as early 2007. Thus the two main PC processor manufacturers, […]

Intel Corp. is trying out new material in an effort to boost chip performance in the next decade. Researchers at the Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker have made strides in replacing silicon—which for decades has been the backbone of chip manufacturing—with a compound semiconductor made from a blend of the elements Indium and Antimony. Intel […]

Editors Note: This story is part of Innovations 2006, a continuing series of stories from the reporters and editors of Ziff Davis Internet. Instead of the usual mile-high look at the year ahead, these articles examine particular technologies and markets in transition, including whats in store for them. Flash memory is gunning for the premier […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and IBM are intentionally introducing strain into their chip-making partnership. The two companies on Tuesday detailed some of their work in developing new chip manufacturing techniques that will boost transistor performance, yet help limit power consumption, in chips with circuits knitted together at the 65-nanometer level and below. The revelations, which […]