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Workstations feeling PC sales slowdown
News The Ultra 5, also known as Darwin, is Sun's Unix response to PC workstations running the Windows NT or 2000 operating systems. Overall, manufacturers shipped 1.7 million workstations in 2000, up 7 percent from the previous year.
[February 22, 2001, 13:35]
Workstations aren't PCs, SGI warns Compaq
News There has already been a move of high-end PCs impinging on low-end RISC workstations. What else will Compaq have to change, in terms of the differences between selling PCs and selling workstations? PC support is hotlines, and if a system breaks you...
[August 7, 1996, 14:23]
Five years ago: Compaq top in UK workstations, Sun goes down
News Separately, Jenkins said Microsoft's Scalability Day, which publicised Windows NT, was another nail in Unix's coffin: "The bottom line is Unix vendors have much to fear [from NT] in both workstations and servers.
[May 22, 2002, 7:31]
Compaq eyes CAD with new workstations
News The workstations are offered with choice of Matrix Millennium II, ELSA Gloria-L and Diamond Fire GL 4000 graphics controllers, and ship in mnini-tower chassis with Wide-Ultra SCSI, 100Mbps LAN card and 16-speed CD-ROM drive.
[June 9, 1997, 15:08]
Interview: HP's Frank on 'personal workstations'
News As Hewlett-Packard takes its first shot at what it calls the 'personal workstation' category, going head-to-head with Compaq, we spoke to Olivier Frank, programmes manager for personal workstations at HP, about who needs this PC/workstation hybrid.
[August 27, 1996, 11:58]
Compaq already no. 2 in UK workstations - DQ
News Compaq took a 16 per cent share of total unit shipments when RISC/Unix workstations are included in the figures, or the number one position for Pentium Pro/Windows NT-based workstations, with 28.1 per cent of unit shipments.
[March 5, 1997, 11:57]
IDF: Intel drops Rambus for workstations
News We're moving our workstations to DDR," said Lisa Hambrick, director of enterprise processor marketing at Intel. Intel will no longer include support for memory based on designs for Rambus DRAM technology in new workstation chipsets, although it...
[September 12, 2002, 13:26]
HP and Red Hat join up on workstations
News Hewlett-Packard has begun selling new workstations using Intel's Itanium 2 processor and a new higher-end version of Red Hat Linux, company executives said on Monday. HP also sells a version of the workstation with HP-UX, its version of Unix, but a...
[September 18, 2002, 10:08]
HP jumps into mobile workstations
News For geophysicists on the go, Hewlett-Packard has come out with a mobile workstation that packs most of the power of its desktop workstations but weighs only six pounds. It's not just a notebook with a new label slapped on it," said Paul Reid, North...
[September 23, 2002, 8:00]
Servers and workstations make up for PC plunge
News Server shipments rose 14 percent year over year and workstations rose 11 percent during 2000, Dataquest concluded. Dataquest Monday reported worldwide server shipments rose 21 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, while workstations...
[February 5, 2001, 14:26]
HP takes on Compaq in NT workstations
News HP said that the move would not affect its participation in the RISC/Unix arena, but said that it expects faster growth to come from personal workstations. The new products will be sold under the Vectra XW name, starting with a base configuration...
[August 27, 1996, 11:18]
US Report: SGI to boost performance of workstations and cut prices
News In addition, SGI will update its Octane line with the 250MHz processors and its E-Series graphics subsystem, previously available only on Octane MXE workstations. The company will offer the new 250MHz MIPS R10000 processor on its O2 line, boosting...
[May 21, 1998, 9:32]
Red Boxes clever with K6 workstations
News The Winstation Pro machines are aimed at high-end animation, video, multimedia and games applications markets. They are available with 200 and 233MHz CPUs and also incorporate Intel's TX chipset with Universal Serial Bus (USB) support, Quantum...
[April 21, 1997, 9:01]
HP was no. 1 in 1997 NT workstations - IDC
News The numbers cover x86-based NT models only; HP also sold well over 100,000 Unix workstations. People are starting to see that workstations are not just for specialists. HP successfully combined its rich UNIX system technology expertise with its PC...
[February 2, 1998, 17:27]
Evesham ships PII workstations, servers
News Aimed at graphics markets, the Vale DesignStation starts at £2499 + VAT for a uniprocessor 233MHz configuration with 64Mb RAM and 17-inch monitor. Prices for Vale Sabre and Samurai Servers feature start at £2,399 + VAT.
[June 10, 1997, 13:48]
Hardware manufacturers snub new Athlons
News AMD will try to reach out to new customers next month with a line of Athlon processors aimed at workstations and servers, but hardware makers so far are passing on the chips. Analysts believe that though AMD may find a footing in workstations...
[May 31, 2001, 8:52]
New Pentium 4 to debut next week
News Intel will show off Foster, the Pentium 4 chip designed for workstations and servers, for the first time next week at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas. The chipmaker will demonstrate two-processor workstations...
[April 19, 2001, 7:31]
Sun unveils new x64 server lineup
News Sun on Tuesday unveiled a line of new x64 servers and workstations, in a move to bolster its share of the datacentre. The new Sun Fire x64 blade servers, rack servers and workstations, which are powered by Intel's Xeon processor 5500 series, are...
[April 15, 2009, 8:35]
Intel adopts new Foster chip
News Intel will show off Foster, the Pentium 4 chip designed for workstations and servers, for the first time next week at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas. The chipmaker will demonstrate two-processor workstations...
[April 19, 2001, 13:52]
Crash test penguin: Chrysler meets Linux
News DaimlerChrysler has purchased 108 dual-processor Linux workstations from IBM to run car-crash simulations, highlighting the spread of the low-cost "cluster" supercomputer technique beyond the academic domain.
[October 21, 2002, 8:19]
