Andy Patrizio

At the turn of this century, semiconductor makers were facing a conundrum. Traditionally, they would simply bump up the clock speed to get more performance out of their processors. After doing this so effectively for two decades, the gimmick was running out of gas. More clock speed meant more heat, and processors have gone from […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Intel Wednesday showed off some of the projects from its research labs around the world that could be coming soon to a store, hospital or street near you. Many of these projects have no planned release date which is one issue Intel’s chief technology officer Justin Rattner, chief technology officer at […]

The tides of fortune can swing as fast in the computer industry as they do at a poker table. For plucky AMD, its gains in one small but important sector have disappeared faster than a rookie’s chips at the World Series of Poker. A report from Jon Peddie Research shows that Intel (Quote) has almost completely […]

Intel Thursday extended its roadmap for the Itanium processor, affirming its commitment to the EPIC technology chip through several revisions over the next few years. The company is looking to increase its core and thread count, as well as incorporate some technologies from other products. Diane Bryant, vice president of the digital enterprise group at […]

A coalition of computer firms led by Google and Intel have undertaken yet another initiative to reduce PC power consumption and cut down on greenhouse gases. The Climate Savers Computing Initiative brings together quite an assortment of participants: Google (Quote), Intel (Quote), Dell (Quote), EDS, the Environmental Protection Agency, HP (Quote), IBM (Quote), Lenovo, Pacific […]

IBM this week will lay out a new roadmap for its Rational development platform at the IBM Rational Software Development Conference in Orlando, Florida this week. The roadmap includes new development methodologies and services for service oriented architecture (SOA) (define). Because software development teams are more often spread around the globe rather than just the […]

Adobe Systems has officially branded its rich Internet application (RIA) technology known as “Apollo” with the name Adobe Integrated Runtime, or AIR. The new brand name accompanies the first public beta, being released today AIR is a runtime like Flash, Adobe’s widely-used Web animation technology. Flex is the developer framework, which works in Adobe’s DreamWeaver […]

The annual Computex hardware conference kicks off in Taipei this week, meaning a lot of people have made 16-hour flights from the U.S. to Taiwan in recent days. The news coming from the heavyweights in the component business, though, is modest. AMD will announce its first platform partners for Barcelona, the forthcoming Opteron server processor […]

Sun Microsystems today announced the release of Sun Studio 12, a significant update to its comprehensive integrated development environment (IDE) (define), with support for NetBeans and Linux development topping the list of features. With this release, Sun (Quote) has integrated NetBeans into Sun Studio as the primary core compiler. NetBeans supports multiple languages, including C/C++, Fortran, […]

The 2007 JavaOne conference was Sun’s most ambitious in years, in addition to its best-attended since the dot-com implosion earlier this decade. Doing demonstrations with pre-beta code caused a few implosions onstage during demos, but the audience understood what Sun was trying to do. The company introduced Java 12 years ago with the promise of […]