Andy Patrizio

We’ve heard terms “infoglut” and “information overload” for years, but now we know just how much information we really consume. U.S. households consumed about 3.6 zettabytes (define) of information in 2008, according to a study just released by the University of California, San Diego. One zettabyte is 1,000,000,000 trillion bytes. The researchers equated the total […]

Google has rollout out an update to its Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry, raising the limits on the number of users who can simultaneously access the Google services. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced the Connector in May and released it in August, but it previously only worked with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and had a limit […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – AMD laid out an ambitious roadmap for 2010 and 2011 today, involving its much-hyped Fusion products as well as a slew of new processor technologies. The star of the show wasn’t President and CEO Dirk Meyer, who did make some comments on issues ranging from the Intel lawsuit to product news to […]

Worldwide PC microprocessor shipments jumped 23 percent during third calendar — rising to all-time record levels, according to new data from industry researcher IDC. That might not be surprising to anyone watching the better-than-expected quarterly earnings by some of the space’s key players, like Intel, AMD and nVidia. IDC findings show that PC processor unit […]

The predictions of pent-up demand for Windows 7 appear to have been borne out, at least by the first week of sales figures from NPD Group. The market research firm estimates total Windows PC unit sales jumped 49 percent year-over-year for the week that Windows 7 launched and 95 percent from the week prior to […]

EMC and Intel have announced a joint effort to improve the energy efficiency of EMC’s Atmos cloud storage system that should be available in the second half of next year. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is also pursuing a new server design, what it calls “micro-servers,” that will pack the power of a server onto a card […]

A Chinese firm is touting a smartphone based on Windows XP and running an AMD Geode processor at its core, but whether it can deliver on all of the promises remains to be seen. In Technology Group Limited calls its creation the “xpPhone,” and while the artistic rendering of the 4.8-inch screen shows the familiar […]

Chip companies are rapidly closing the gap from the precipitous plunge they took one year ago after the economy collapsed under the weight of financial scandals and the housing market bubble finally popping. Chip vendors should see an increase in year-over-year sales figures in the fourth quarter, the first time in 2009 for a year-on-year […]

AMD today announced six new Athlon II processors aimed at the desktop market, but with an eye on new form factors in place of the traditional mini tower. Acknowledging that the old style desktop is fading, AMD nonetheless continues to support the space with processors for new form factors taking the place of old mini […]

Marvell is moving beyond its core markets of storage, communications, and consumer chips and into the CPU business with a series of ARM-based chips called Armada. These chips put the company in a competitive position with Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Qualcomm and nVidia and other companies with an Atom and/or ARM initiative. Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is […]