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Intel set to expand server offers
News Intel plans to come out with server chips tailored for every taste and budget in 2003, as part of its effort to take more market share from other chipmakers such as Sun Microsystems and IBM.
SQL Server races against competition
News When Microsoft launches its 64-bit version of SQL Server at the end of April, the database will cost the same as the 32-bit version, perform better, and be part of the company's bid to oust Oracle and IBM's DB/2 on high-end systems.
US$10m invested in HP Asian technology centers
News Hewlett-Packard Co has invested a total of US$10 million in establishing Partner Technology Access Centers (PTAC) across the Asia Pacific region.
Freescale aims Android at embedded kit
News A new Power Architecture port has taken Google's Linux-based operating system into the world of embedded devices.
Tags: Google Android, Smart phones, Google Inc., IBM Corp., Mentor Graphics Corp., open-source mobile operating system, RISC, Power Architecture, MPC8536E PowerQUICC III, Google Android
Fujitsu unveils USB 3.0 silicon
News New chip, intended for external storage devices, includes transfer rates up to 5Gbps and a built-in encryption engine.
Tags: Components, Chip, Storage, USB, Silicon, AES, hard drive, Fujitsu Ltd., USB 2.0, 32-bit
IBM outlines Power7 chip plan
News Company reveals details of the chips which will appear in its Power Systems server line, announcing an application to manage a range of virtual servers.
Tags: Processors, IBM Corp., Unix, Chip, Environment, Server, systems management, processor, virtual server, director
Short Take: China creates first homegrown CPU chip
News China first homegrown CPU chip has been tested and appraised yesterday.
Short Take: China creates first homegrown CPU chip
News China first homegrown CPU chip, Fangzhou-1, was tested and appraised Wednesday. The 0.25 micron and 32 bit CPU chip was developed by Beijing Zhongxin Microsystems Technologies, and is their first product.
"Star Wars" effects studio shifts to Intel
News Industrial Light and Magic will switch from using RISC-Unix workstations to those based on Intel processors for the bulk of its animation and special effects work.
Sun's plan for open-source chips bears fruit
News Start-up Simply RISC builds a single-core variant of Sun Microsystems' open-source UltraSparc T1 chip.
Tags: Processors, Servers, Open source
Partnership set to run RISC software on Intel chips
News Deal will help a start-up with translation software that lets computers with Intel chips run programs written for rival processors.
Tags: Processors, Software engineering/development
IBM deal to expand Linux software for Power
News Partnership to increase the software available for customers running Linux on servers using Big Blue's Power processors.
Tags: Servers, Linux, Linux server OS, Open source
The final lap--Itanium to arrive in May
News It's been a long, strange trip, but the first servers and workstations containing Intel's Itanium chip will start to hit the market in a few weeks at prices a bit lower than expected.
US$10m invested in HP Asian technology centers
News Lifting the veil of silence, Hewlett-Packard and Intel released the first Itanium processor today in Asia Pacific, however, it will be another long journey before any mass take-up.
HP Asia Pacific invests US$10m in Itanium labs
News Lifting the veil of silence, Hewlett-Packard and Intel released the first Itanium processor today in Asia Pacific, however, it will be another long journey before any mass take-up.
