AMD to demonstrate dual-core chips
Aiming to deflate archrival Intel, Advanced Micro Devices this week will show off its dual-core chips, which will start to trickle out toward the middle of next year. AMD on Tuesday will show off a Hewlett-Packard ProLiant server with four dual-core Opteron chips at a facility in Austen, Texas, bringing... Read on »
Windows Upgrade Causing Campus Headaches
Thanks me101 Microsoft Corp.'s decision to release a major upgrade for its flagship operating system in the same month that hundreds of thousands of students are reporting to college campuses across the nation is causing a major headache for the higher education community. he upgrade, known as Service Pack 2,... Read on »
Yahoo Bolsters Small Business Plans
In an effort to attract paying business users early, Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday is expanding its domain name and Web hosting plans for small businesses. Yahoo, of Sunnyvale, Calif., will introduce a $9.95 option for registering a Web domain name, pitting it more directly against low-cost registrars such as... Read on »
Gateway lands on another retailer's shelves
Gateway plans to announce Monday that its desktops will soon be selling on CompUSA's shelves. The deal comes after pacts with Best... Read on »
AMD64 Is The Force Behind Star Wars
Thanks DjmUK At Siggraph today, AMD announced that AMD Opteron™ processor-based servers and workstations are providing the digital backbone for the final... Read on »
Advanced Micro Devices will try to nearly triple its market
Advanced Micro Devices will try to nearly triple its market share in its server segment by the end of the year through high-profile customer wins and tighter relationships with manufacturers. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chipmaker aims to be in 10 percent of the so-called x86 servers by the end of the... Read on »
Army supercomputing drafts Intel, AMD
In one race to sell 64-bit x86 chips to high-performance computing customers, Intel and rival Advanced Micro Devices both won. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has elected to buy an IBM supercomputer with 2,304 AMD Opteron processors, the companies plan to announce Tuesday at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. The... Read on »
Microsoft plans to personalize search
Microsoft said on Monday it was aiming to make search services--a hot technology right now with the impending public offering of Google--customized for users so that results would be based on individual preferences and interests. "We're going to make search extremely personal," Microsoft chairman Bill Gates told an audience of... Read on »
Apple Plans New iMac, But Delays Shipment Until Sept
Apple Computer Inc. announced on Thursday plans for a next-generation iMac desktop computer, but said it won't ship until September, missing its original internal schedule. The company also said it has stopped taking orders for the current iMac, sales of which have slowed in recent quarter, and didn't give details... Read on »
Sun's JDIC and JDNC: A Cross-Platform ActiveX?
Sun Microsystems has focused a lot of attention on its newly open-sourced Looking Glass three-dimensional user interface here at the JavaOne Conference. But a pair of technologies that Sun quietly released as open source last week will have a much more immediate effect on the success of Java on the... Read on »
Dell readies slimmer blades
Thanks Oblivion Dell's new strategy in blades is one equals one and a half. The Round Rock, Texas-based computer maker will unveil a new blade server system in the fourth quarter that will allow customers to put one and a half blade servers into the same space that a 1U... Read on »
Sun opens some Java source code
In a move that reflects the growing power of the open-source programming movement, Sun Microsystems plans Monday to share a modest chunk of Java source code, an experimental user interface for desktop computers called Project Looking Glass. The move, planned for Sun's JavaOne conference in San Francisco, acknowledges that the... Read on »
IBM to help better manage computing resources
IBM has developed an add-on to its WebSphere server software designed to improve the management of back-end computing gear in demanding situations. The new WebSphere Extended Deployment is meant to let corporate customers more efficiently use the infrastructure, such as hardware servers, databases and application servers, that supports business applications.... Read on »
New Omega 4.6 Drivers
Thanks JoHideo These are my "optimized" drivers for the ATI Radeon family of video cards. What's New? (2k/XP 2.5.51) * Based on the official Catalyst 4.6 drivers. * Updated the Omega version of RadLinker (1010), now Radlinker includes a new skin option and ads support x800 overclocking. * Added some... Read on »
Intel Potomac delayed again, 64-bit Xeons proliferate
As intel does not comment on unannounced products except when it does comment on such products, we can expect to get no comment on news that its significant Potomac server family is delayed once more, and is now expected in Q2 rather than Q1 next year. That's what the latest... Read on »
AMD Sempron Described in Details
Thanks crusher Sources familiar with Advanced Micro Devices’ plans revealed some additional details about the forthcoming AMD Sempron processors for affordable personal computers. According to the information X-bit labs has learnt, AMD Sempron is a product family that will live on for quite a while and will be compatible with... Read on »
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