John G. Spooner

Intel Corp. will mark July 2005 as its entry into the dual-core processor server age. Later this month, the chip maker will begin rolling out the first of four new dual-core server platforms for machines ranging from inexpensive, single-processor boxes for small businesses to multiprocessor Xeon servers and high-end Itanium machines for large businesses. Based […]

SOMERS, N.Y.—Apple Computer Inc.s worries about watts are unfounded, according to IBM. Apple said earlier this month that it will switch to Intel chips from PowerPC chips as IBMs future PowerPC processors projected power consumption will make them too difficult to design into future Apple systems. But IBM begs to differ. The company could build […]

East Fishkill, N.Y.—IBM is hands-off when it comes to manufacturing its most powerful processors, including chips used by Apple Computer. The companys chip plant here, a vital piece of IBMs strategy, employs an army of automated machines connected by hundreds of miles of cable in order to produce chips such as the PowerPC 970, known […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has filed a broad antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corp., claiming Intel illegally maintains a monopoly in the PC processor market. AMD, which announced the suit on Tuesday, offered a long list of examples in which it says Intel has used its position, including its ability to offer product rebates or to […]

IBM has found a home for its new Cell chip—in enterprise workstations and servers. The company on Tuesday announced that Mercury Computer Systems Inc., of Chelmsford, Mass., will use the Cell in computers built for industries such as aerospace and health care. The computer maker expects the Cell to increase the base processing performance of […]

The Mac public got its first look into Apple Computer Inc.s Intel-based development systems this week, thanks to Web sites such as Think Secret. For those versed in assembling PCs, they look fairly ordinary. Apple Computer Inc., which said in earlier this month that it would switch to Intel Corp.s processors from PowerPC processors made […]

Intel researchers are shedding some light on a potential new application for chip photonics: upping the performance of multicore processors. The processor giants research labs are exploring ways to use silicon photonics—on-chip components that use light to transmit data—to replace electrical interconnects using copper wiring and simultaneously speed up vital connections that move data into […]

The arrival of processors with baked-in virtualization stands to elevate everyday business servers, broadening their appeal, Dells server chief said Wednesday. The Round Rock, Texas, PC maker highlighted virtualization, which allows a machine to be partitioned in order to run different software, and dual-core processors as agents that will help increase the performance of so-called […]

Transmeta Corp., which once captivated the PC industry with its Crusoe processor for notebooks, is repositioning itself as a journeyman technology provider for low-power chips, in an effort to stem its financial losses. Although the Santa Clara, Calif., company is still selling one Efficeon processor—Efficeon succeeded Crusoe—for notebooks and thin clients, it is remaking itself […]

Hewlett-Packard Co., five months after combining its PC and printing businesses, last week separated the two and appointed a new head to the PC unit. The Palo Alto, Calif., company appointed R. Todd Bradley as the new executive vice president of the Personal Systems Group. Bradley had served as CEO and president of handheld device […]