Scott Ferguson

Dell has revamped its Latitude XT tablet PC to include a six-cell battery that offers up to 11 hours of battery life, as well as other features such as support for newer DDR3 (double data rate 3) main memory. The Dell Latitude XT2 tablet officially went on sale Feb. 10 for a starting price of […]

IBM is looking to build the first supercomputer in Europe later in 2009 that passes the petaflop barrier, which will make the machine the first high-performance computer on the continent to offer a performance of more than 1 quadrillion calculations per second. On Feb. 10, IBM and the German research center Forschungszentrum Juelich announced that […]

Intel is planning to use an upcoming technical conference to offer an in-depth look at its Nehalem microarchitecture and offer details about how the chip giant plans to develop a new type of systems-on-a-chip processors for products ranging from handset devices to server systems. In addition to these processor developments, Intel engineers plans to detail […]

Intel is tweaking the design of its upcoming quad-core Itanium processor, so the new high-end microprocessor code-named Tukwila will hit the market later than previously expected, an Intel spokesperson confirmed. Originally, Intel had planned to roll out its latest Itanium processor in the early part of 2009. However, the changes to Tukwila’s design mean that […]

IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy have signed a new agreement that will allow Big Blue to build its next generation of BlueGene supercomputers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. IBM and the DOE announced their latest partnership Feb. 3. The first part of this new supercomputer installation will begin later […]

Advanced Micro Devices is expanding its line of 45-nanometer processors to include five new energy-efficient models and a pair of high-performance chips running at 2.8GHz. AMD plans to officially announce the seven new Opteron processors Jan. 26, although these models have been shipping to the company’s OEM partners and customers since the beginning of the […]

Advanced Micro Devices, struggling with poor internal financials and a crashing economy in which commercial buyers and consumers are cutting back on PC purchases, reported another quarterly loss Jan. 22. After reporting its fourth-quarter results, AMD fired back at its main rival Intel with a statement about its plans to spin off its manufacturing division […]

IT professionals saw their average annual salaries increase 4.6 percent in 2008, but concerns about keeping IT skills up-to-date and job security remain top priorities heading into 2009, according to a new Dice survey released this week. The 2008-09 Annual Salary Survey, which Dice released Jan. 21, found that the average annual salary for IT […]

Intel is planning to close or halt chip production at five of its manufacturing facilities, including plants in Oregon and California, within the next 11 months of 2009, which could affect at least 5,000 Intel employees. Intel, which remains the world’s largest semiconductor company, announced the closings Jan. 21, a little more than a week […]

Advanced Micro Devices is cutting the prices of its brand-new Phenom II processors for high-end PCs and gaming machines as worldwide demand for desktops and laptops slows down due to the global economy and the recession in the United States. On Jan. 21, an AMD spokesperson confirmed that AMD has cut the price of its […]