Scott Ferguson

Hewlett-Packard is offering a new desktop, the HP Pavilion Elite m9600, that uses one of Intel’s Core i7 processors based on the “Nehalem” microarchitecture Intel released in late 2008. With the release of the Intel-based desktop March 25, HP joins Dell and Gateway, which were two of the first PC makers to offer the Core […]

Lenovo ThinkStation S20 and D20 Workstations Pack Intel ‘Nehalem’ Punch The Lenovo ThinkStation S20 The Lenovo ThinkStation S20 is what the company is calling a personal “supercomputer,” thanks to Intel chips, Nvidia and ATI graphics and a SATA hard disk drive that supports up to 1TB of data storage. ThinkStation S20 Lenovo is offering some […]

Rackable Systems is stepping deeper into the emerging field of cloud computing infrastructure with a server rack cabinet that offers a combination of Advanced Micro Devices and Intel processors, including newer “Nehalem” chips. Rackable announced its new CloudRack C2 cabinet earlier this week on March 18. In addition to using up-to-date Intel and AMD processors, […]

10 Products That May, May Not Survive an IBM, Sun Merger The SPARC Processor While Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu have been developing the SPARC processor for a number of years, it seems likely with IBM calling most of the shots that this chip would succumb to IBM’s Power processor in the new partnership. Fujitsu could […]

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is leaving Intel’s Board of Directors as she works to restructure and reorganize Yahoo after taking over as its CEO in January. Intel announced that Bartz would leave the board March 19. In her place, Intel’s board elected eBay CEO and President John Donahoe and Frank Yeary, who serves as the […]

Apple is inviting a group of select journalists to a March 17 event to preview the 3.0 version of the iPhone operating system, and the company plans to offer a sneak peek at the new iPhone software development kit. On March 12, Apple began sending out select invitations to the event, which is being held […]

In a time when tech companies are eliminating employees and cutting costs, Nvidia is looking to offer up to $5 million for startup companies that are interested in developing applications and technologies for graphics processing units. On March 10, Nvidia is formally announcing its GPU Ventures Program, which looks to invest between $500,000 and $5 […]

The good news is that Dell and Hewlett-Packard continue to fight for market share when it comes to the global workstation market. However, high-end workstations are suffering the same fate as the mainstream PC as the global economy continues to shrink and businesses spend less money on enterprise IT hardware, according to a March 5 […]

Hewlett-Packard and IBM remain the world’s two top server vendors, but the slowing global economy has taken a toll on both their revenues and unit shipment numbers, according to new Gartner research. In the fourth quarter of 2008, worldwide server revenue decreased 15 percent for a total of $13.1 billion. Meanwhile, system shipments fell more […]

Advanced Micro Devices has finalized a historic deal that will officially convert its manufacturing division into a separate business. As expected, AMD closed the deal to spin off its manufacturing business on March 2. The spinoff, temporarily called The Foundry Company, will begin manufacturing a range of AMD processors, including the Opteron and Turion chip […]