Mark Hachman

A Dell VAR on Tuesday began offering OptiPlex desktops for sale in Italy with a Linux operating system from Lindows. Although the announcement was positioned as an official Dell release, a spokesman from Dell Inc.s headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, said the program was not offered with Dells approval. Questar, one of Dells Italian VARs, […]

A so-called industrywide memory problem reported by Hewlett-Packard Co. last week may be less pervasive than the PC maker implied. Officials at IBM and Dell Inc. have been unable to turn up samples of the flawed memory modules HP reported late last week. Meanwhile, two memory suppliers said they had completed their own testing and […]

Adaptec said Tuesday that it has acquired RAID technology from IBM in return for a guaranteed supply agreement. According to a statement released late Tuesday by Milpitas, Calif.-based Adaptec Inc., the deal involves both products and intellectual property currently used by IBM inside its server line. A spokeswoman for Adaptec said the deal involves the […]

After years of rumors and months of promise, Intel Corp. on Monday rolled out its first x86 chip with 64-bit extensions, officially launching the next-generation dual-processor Xeon chip, code-named Nocona. Intel will roll out its EM64T (Extended Memory 64 Technology), featured in the Nocona processor, gradually over the course of the year. The first chip […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. said Friday that it will replace memory modules in some of its notebooks with an “industrywide” design flaw that can cause system lockups. The problem is tied to the interaction of DRAM from several manufacturers and several chip sets, all designed by Intel Corp. The flaw, which could result in system lockups, is […]

Even the most ingenious chip designs can be undone by manufacturing problems: Consider IBM Corp.s struggle to raise the megahertz ante for its PowerPC processors. The company has managed to keep delivering chips without major interruptions. Nevertheless, issues with two of its key clients point at problems manufacturing its chips at their rated speeds. The […]

The 64-bit PowerPC G5 processor will undoubtedly be a fixture of Apple CEO Steve Jobs keynote next weeks Worldwide Developers Conference. After all, its the basis of the companys workstation and server lines. But Mac professionals, and even Linux programmers, will be waiting for word of a mobile version. According to officials of IBM Corp., […]

IBM Corp.s PowerPC roadmap has narrowed in recent months. With IBMs sale of its embedded PowerPC 4XX family in April to Applied Micro Circuits Corp., analysts say the company is moving away from developing standard products entirely, chips used as storage and network controllers, to concentrate on developing custom solutions for a few key customers. […]

Intel has discovered a glitch involving some of the I/O controllers in the companys new “Grantsdale” chip set, which can cause a PC to fail to boot up or to freeze. Between 100,000 and 200,000 chip sets are affected, according to one Wall Street analyst, who published a report for his clients on Friday. Intel […]

As expected, the 802.11i standard was finalized Thursday, paving the way for improved security within wireless networks. Proponents of the standard said that the 802.11i specification could have an immediate impact on VPN infrastructure, which could be relegated to a lesser role inside a corporate network. The standard was ratified on Thursday at an IEEE […]