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IBM on Thursday announced a method of connecting processors inside of products ranging from cell phones to PCs to supercomputers. This breakthrough -- dubbed "through-silicon vias" -- allows for a move away from horizontal 2-D chip layouts to 3-D chip stacking, where chips and other components that ...
Intel is ramping up its long line of Core 2 quad-core range with a new chip designed for gamers, design professionals and computer aficionados. Running at 2.93 GHz, the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800 is currently the firm's fastest processor for desktop PC systems. The new product -- the 12th quad-core...
Leading IT vendors have proposed a new Fiber Channel over Ethernet standard to the T11 Committee of the American National Standards Institute. The new FCoE specification is designed to let organizations transmit Storage Area Network traffic over Ethernet networks, which would give organizations more...
Hewlett-Packard's purchase last year of high-end gaming PC maker VoodooPC is beginning to bear fruit as the computing and printing giant is now offering previews of advanced game technologies it might soon bring to market. These are likely to include groundbreaking devices and applications such as a...
Intel introduced the latest member of its quad-core family of microprocessors Tuesday at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, Calif. The Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5335 and E5345 are the first, the company said, to bring the Intel architecture-based quad-core performance to the embedded market. A...
Last week, there were three events worth talking about, but I'll mention one of them only in passing. The first was the entry of the Xbox Elite into the market, positioned against Sony. It is almost a great product -- and for new buyers, it may be good enough -- but Microsoft could have hit a home r...
Intel on Wednesday laid out its road map for the next year or so, including details about Penryn, its 45nm chip due later this year, as well as the next generation beyond that. The company will begin producing its Penryn chip in the second half of this year, officials said, featuring enhancements to...
In the first month of its availability, Microsoft Vista sold more than 20 million licenses -- more than double the number of first-month sales of Windows XP. In January 2002, the company announced sales of Windows XP licenses had exceeded 17 million after two months on the market. The 20 million fig...
IBM researchers are touting a new tiny optical transceiver chipset that can move data at speeds up to 160 GB per second, which is eight times faster than previous optical components. The new chipset generates fast data transfer rates because it uses light pulses to move data instead of sending elect...
Last week Apple TV launched, and it appears Apple is following a similar script to what made the iPod a success -- but will it work this time? With the U.S. primaries coming up, and the incredibly well done remake of the famous 1984 Apple Ad playing a big role, I thought it would be good to remind y...
Technology research firm IDC released a report Tuesday in which it revised an earlier forecast on customer spending in the x86 server market for the remainder of the decade. The company downgraded its original projection that x86 shipments would increase 61 percent by 2010, now predicting an increas...
Fujitsu Computer Systems unveiled two new models in its notebook line that come with something special -- solid-state hard drives that make the computers more durable for work in the field, according to the company. The two new machines, the LifeBook P1610 and LifeBook B6210 models, are now availab...
I'm spending some time thinking about missed and anticipated opportunities this week. In looking at Windows Server, I've become convinced that it is the wrong product for the Unix displacement market. In fact, in my head, it really always has been -- I just don't talk about servers much, so it doesn...
Now that IBM and Intel have both created chips using 45nm process technology, it's clear chip technology will continue at least a little longer on the path predicted by Moore's Law, with ever-tinier creations coming out every two years or so. High-k metals, in particular, appear to help solve one o...
A state-of-the-art IBM manufacturing plant located in East Fishkill, N.Y., has become the first facility to produce the 65 nanometer Cell Broadband Engine, the chip maker announced Monday. The Cell chip, developed through a $400 million partnership between IBM, Toshiba and Sony, is the technology un...
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