John G. Spooner

Sun Microsystems server line will enter a new galaxy next week. The San Jose, Calif.-based hardware maker is expected to unveil a new generation of AMD Opteron-based servers, known by the code-name Galaxy, at an event in New York City. There, Sun Microsystems Inc.s executives are expected to detail four new machines, along with its […]

Despite rising sales of notebooks, the desktop PC, which is still the foundation of most companies day-to-day operations, isnt dead yet. But it is changing, PC industry watchers say. Mainstream desktops have gained processing power, graphics capabilities and storage capacity over the years, while coming down in price. But theyve long held the same basic […]

A new Itanium alliance is gathering, sources say. A group of hardware makers and software companies is said to be close to making public the Itanium Solutions Alliance, a group aimed at expanding software development for the Intel server chip. Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co., which codeveloped the processor, have collaborated with hardware makers and […]

Tablet PCs cant catch a break. The fate of the pen-driven, portable PC category, which got a boost in 2002 when Microsoft Corp. first rolled out its Windows XP Tablet PC Edition software, is uncertain, as some analysts have begun to lower their long-term growth projections for the category and Microsoft remains mum about its […]

Intel Corp. says it is moving away from what made it successful in the past in order to ensure success in the future. At its Intel Developer Forum here last week, the chip maker outlined plans to phase out processors that feature speed in exchange for those that offer greater efficiency. That push will appear […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel will unveil its first dual-core notebook platform with great fanfare in early 2006. But the processor that powers it, initially, may not stick around for long. Intel Corp. said this week at its fall Intel Developer Forum, here, that it will convert nearly wholesale to dual-core processors based on a new chip architecture, […]

SAN FRANCISCO—AMD is fighting the power. Even with Intel Corp.s new focus on delivering higher processor performance per watt of energy, unveiled here at its fall Intel Developer Forum, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. maintains that its Opteron server chips consume less juice than its rival Intels Xeon server chips, either available now or coming in […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel researchers are envisioning a new way to de-worm PCs. The computer chip giant here at its Intel Developer Forum on Thursday discussed technology designed to head off computer worms and virus attacks in PCs, by stopping the agents before they can begin to spread and attack other systems. Generally, Intel Corp.s researchers are […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Corp. wants to stuff an information technology assistant into its silicon. The chip maker, at its fall Intel Developer Forum here, described developments in its line of chips for businesses that it says will, all at once, improve management, lower power consumption and improve performance of desktops and, particularly, servers. The company on […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Even at Intel, the turtle sometimes wins the race. The Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker opened its three-day fall Intel Developer Forum, by rewriting the tale of the tortoise and the hare in Intel style. It pledges to trade processors that flaunt outright speed for those that offer greater efficiency. It officially abandoned the […]