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A promising technology that involves controlling light with magnets could improve the speed and reduce the juice requirements of future computer chips. The technology, developed by researchers at the U.S. Navy Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., and the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada...
Last week, I was on the road at Microsoft's TechEd conference and had a chance to chat with a number of my peers, some Microsoft customers, and a large number of Microsoft executives. Things are changing rapidly at that company: The Windows group is largely new, Bill Gates is mostly gone, and the ...
"Modular" and "virtualized" are now buzzwords of the enterprise server world, and Sun Microsystems is aiming to offer both with its rollout of the Blade 6000 Modular System. The line of servers includes models that run on Intel's and AMD's processors, as well as on Sun's. Memory installed in the hig...
Intel unveiled its 3 Series chipset family designed for playing high-definition media and for supporting the company's 45nm Penryn processors due later this year. The highly anticipated chipsets, formerly codenamed "Bearlake," were presented at the Computex Taipei trade show in Taiwan. The first chi...
Last week, history was made. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were physically on stage together -- for just the second time ever -- in what many have described as something of a love fest, with Bill repeatedly praising the Mac. Kind of makes you wonder what the two of them could have done as close partners...
Microsoft has taken the touchscreen PC concept in a new direction, amping it up with a 30-inch screen, giving it five eyes and turning it horizontal to create a coffee table that can sense multiple touches at the same time. Based on Windows Vista and called "Microsoft Surface," the new computer can ...
Once a feisty competitor that beat Intel to market with processor innovations and lower costs, chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices has lately slumped a bit. That could change, as Japanese electronics giant Toshiba confirmed Tuesday it plans to use AMD processors in some of its laptops. The deal would p...
Intel will be eliminating a toxic heavy metal from its computer chip manufacturing It will begin using lead-free solder with next-generation 45nm Hi-k chips in the Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, and Xeon families, the company announced Wednesday. Lead has been a concern in computer manufacturing, as...
A group of semiconductor firms have opted to extend their partnership to develop high-performance, energy-efficient chips down to the 32 nanometer scale. Led by IBM, the alliance works under the concept of the Common Platform model that lets the group jointly develop semiconductor technology as well...
Hard-core gadgeteers never need a rationalization to buy a new piece of hardware, but for those who need at least a tissue of temperance when seeking new tech, the introduction of Microsoft's new operating system, Vista, is an invitation to splurge. Where should you start your shopping? How about a ...
Not long ago, consumers had a clear choice to make when shopping for a digital camera: size versus power. Smaller cameras traveled well and fit into a pocket, but they were lacking in resolution and cutting-edge features. Cameras with bells and whistles such as zoom and anti-blur technology were big...
IBM formally launched its Power6 microprocessor Monday, billing the new chip as the fastest ever built and saying it will enable servers to process data twice as fast while using less electricity. The Power6 dual-core processor has a clock speed of 4.7 GHz and offers 8 megabytes of L2 cache -- four ...
AMD executives began spreading the word Friday about "Griffin," the company's code name for its new next-generation mobile microprocessor, as well as its "Puma" platform for notebook computers. Expected to debut in laptops in the latter half of 2008, the chip and platform will go into production lat...
Consumer electronics will become an exploding market over the next six years for chipmakers who incorporate security features into their silicon, according to a research report released last week. While hardware's role in protecting content on consumer devices is small today, that won't be the case ...
Windows Vista is selling faster than any of its predecessors and exceeding Microsoft's own expectations, Chairman Bill Gates said as he kicked off the annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday. One hundred days after Vista launched in January, the latest version of Win...
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