Scott Ferguson

Advanced Micro Devices CEO Dirk Meyer sees AMD processors playing a significant role in helping to shape the cloud computing data centers of tomorrow. At the same time, Meyer also says he believes that the cloud, along with virtualization technology, offers the best ROI for cash-strapped businesses. In a Feb. 26 interview with eWEEK just […]

When Jerry Sander helped found Advanced Micro Devices, he used the now well-known maxim-“real men have fabs”-to describe how AMD planned to survive in the competitive global semiconductor market. Now, as AMD prepares to shed it fabs, current CEO Dirk Meyer wants to use a new slogan. “Jerry was a real smart guy but the […]

IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Sun Microsystems all watched their server systems revenue drop in the fourth quarter of 2008, as the United States slipped further into a recession and the global economy slowed down. The Feb. 25 report from IDC found that worldwide server revenue fell 14 percent from the fourth quarter of 2007 to […]

Advanced Micro Devices is preparing to ship a new six-core processor, currently codenamed “Istanbul,” by the second half of 2009, as the chip maker look to capture a higher share of the two- and four-socket server market. While AMD announced only a few specifics of Istanbul, the company issued a brief statement Feb. 25 that […]

Intel and VMware are looking to bring virtualization technology straight to the PC hardware itself with a new offering that combines a bare-metal VMware hypervisor and Intel’s line of Core 2 Duo processors and management technology. At the VMworld Europe 2009 conference, which kicked off Feb. 24, VMware announced that it would partner with Intel […]

Intel and Nvidia are involved in a court battle about whether Nvidia has the right to develop and manufacture chip sets for Intel processors based on its newer “Nehalem” microarchitecture. On Feb. 16, Intel filed a lawsuit in Delaware state court and asked a judge to determine whether graphics maker Nvidia has the right to […]

After failing to get enough shareholder votes earlier this month, Advanced Micro Devices announced Feb. 18 that its stockholders had approved the deal to spin off its chip manufacturing facilities into a new company. The deal to create the new business, tentatively called “The Foundry Company,” is now expected to close March 2. The agreement […]

LG Electronics is planning to bring Intel’s Atom processor and platform to the smartphone market for the first time in 2010 with a mobile Internet device based on the upcoming Intel “Moorestown” platform. At the Mobile World Congress conference, which kicks off Feb. 16 in Barcelona, Spain, Intel and LG plan to announce their new […]

Hewlett-Packard and Citrix Systems are looking to offer their customers easier ways to build out centralized computing infrastructures using desktop virtualization technology. On Feb. 11, HP announced that it plans to integrate Citrix’s recently released XenDesktop 3 product with a pair of its own BladeSystem PC blades that are scheduled to hit the market in […]

Dell Latitude XT2 Tablet PC Offers New Multitouch Features by Scott Ferguson The Dell Latitude XT2 Tablet This Dell tablet offers a 12.1-inch screen with multitouch capabilities that allows an employee or IT manager to use either their finger or a pen stylus to write or work when the laptop when it is in tablet […]