Andy Patrizio

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The semiconductor market is looking at a slow return to growth in the next four years. But it will be a modest return to expansion, tamped down not just economic conditions but by the fact that this market is already quite mature. That’s the sentiment of market researcher Gartner, which presented […]

Acer today introduced new laptops as well as its new Liquid smartphone. It’s all part of a push for new Google Android products but also a part of Acer’s Windows 7 strategy as well. The company has achieved its position as the number three hardware provider through growth and mergers and now is gunning for […]

Oracle co-presidents Charles Phillips and Safra Catz had a tough act to follow after last night — with their boss Larry Ellison issuing a challenge to IBM and Sun’s Scott McNealy delivering a nostalgic look at the past and future of the company he co-founded. But they tried, talking about about what they described as […]

IBM has announced a new software solution that brings mainframe-level scalability to its rack-mount DB2 database servers. The news comes on the eve of Oracle Openworld and is aimed at returning a little fire at Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) for its claims against IBM database servers. IBM DB2 pureScale is a special version of DB2 that […]

Rackspace Hosting on Wednesday announced an online community called No More Servers : The End of In-House Servers that offers full hosting of all of an enterprise’s needs, including the hardware. It would seem the logical follow-up to the software as a service and platform as a service movements. Salesforce.com’s slogan for many years was […]

In an industry known for its planned obsolescence, few technologies have lasted three decades and continue to grow more powerful with each passing year. The few that are out there, like DRAM and Motorola’s 68000 processor, are chip-based. Add to that list the x86 architecture, which stands alone in the broader computer market now that […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — nVidia kicked off its GPU Technology Conference today with the formal introduction of its next generation in graphics architecture, codenamed “Fermi,” that CEO Jen-Hsun Huang called “the soul of a supercomputer in the body of a GPU.” The first board, shown by Huang to the audience, is still fresh off the […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel wasn’t the only firm introducing new technologies here at the Intel Developer Forum. Its partners were showing off a variety of new wares as well, some of which Intel had a hand in co-developing. Chip design firm Rambus (NASDAQ: RMBS), teamed with Kingston Technologies to develop “threaded memory module technology,” which […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Day two of the Intel Developer Forum opened with news of the latest, fastest processors, but it was an low key announcement at the end of the keynote that may be the one that changes your life the most. David “Dadi” Perlmutter, the newly-promoted co-lead of the Intel Architecture Group, disclosed “Light […]

ALAMEDA, Calif. – Advanced Micro Devices picked quite a unique place to introduce its new graphics strategy: in the hanger of the retired aircraft carrier U.S.S. Hornet. The ship, rich with history in war and in recovering the Apollo 11 astronauts, was decommissioned before AMD even opened for business and now serves as a floating […]