Andy Patrizio

After months of missteps and delays related to its quad-core Barcelona chip for servers, AMD Thursday showed it can still deliver with the announcement of triple-core Phenom processors, high-end quad-core Phenoms and a low power quad-core processor. The triple-core processor is meant to offer a more affordable option to customers seeking a middle ground of […]

AMD has denied published reports that it has cut its workforce in anticipation of another gloomy quarter and declined to comment on how the quarter, which ends in a week, will shape up. Some reports said AMD (NYSE: AMD) would cut about 5 percent of its workforce, which would translate to around 800 from its […]

At the re-launch of its Labs unit last week, HP spent the least amount of time on HP IdeaLab, although it will be the new face of HP Labs to developers and the general public. HP intends the group to offer a peek at the company’s early-stage developments. Software projects under development will be posted […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — With the status of the U.S. economy surrounded by question marks, what will be the impact of a recession, or at least a severe slowdown, on IT spending and budgets? That was the question being addressed at an afternoon session here at the IDC Directions ’08 conference. Stephen Minton, vice president […]

A developer of enterprise mobility software has expressed doubts that Apple’s iPhone can cut it in the enterprise due to a number of issues, all of which Apple can change, but in doing so are anathema to how the company operates. Ahmed Datoo, vice president of marketing of Zenprise, a developer of software for enterprise […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP is refocusing its Labs research arm, paring down the number of projects it has going while putting more effort into the ones it thinks will pay off, the company announced at an event here near its corporate headquarters. HP Labs has produced many of the company’s best-known products, from the […]

After a 24-hour blitz through the Apple iPhone SDK, Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) has declared it can use the SDK to get its Java Virtual Machine (JVM) ported over to Apple’s phone, as well as the iPod Touch, since the two are virtually the same technology. Sun’s JVM is already on the Mac OS, which […]

Notebooks often take more physical abuse than a rental car, and that’s by their owners who paid for them. In some cases, the laptop may find itself in harsh surroundings; with a South Pole expedition, in a Marine unit in Iraq, or with missionaries in Africa. There aren’t that many choices for laptops that can […]

AMD demonstrated its first 45nm processor designs at the giant CeBit trade show in Hanover, Germany this week and said it is on track to release 45nm processors in the second half of this year. Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) made the move to 45nm late last year and in the process switched its manufacturing process, dropping the […]

A Mozilla developer, currently working on the 3.0 release of the browser, raised a ruckus when he expressed some frustration in a blog post yesterday over Apple’s lack of proper OS documentation. Programmer Vladimir Vukicevic noted in his blog that once he discovered some undocumented APIs (define) in Mac OS X, performance for the Mac […]