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AMD adds Alchemy to its chip arsenal
News Let the Chips Central editor know what you think by email. Advanced Micro Devices will use a little alchemy to compete better with Intel and other chip makers in the portable computing devices market.
[February 6, 2002, 15:55]
Internet World exhibits signs of dot-com deflation
News Judith Sullivan is ZDNet UK's enterprise editor The Internet World show in London this week confirmed signs that dot-coms are having to rethink their strategies to survive as the hype deflates. People are staying in their offices to keep their...
[June 8, 2001, 15:09]
'Star Wars' effects studio shifts to Intel
News Let the Chips Central editor know what you think by email. The technical effects studio has switched from using RISC-Unix workstations from SGI to using Intel-based Dell systems running Linux for the bulk of its animation and special effects work...
[July 22, 2002, 8:02]
Sir Tim
News While Apple fumbled, over at CERN the then plain Berners-Lee wrote a program called WorlDwidEweb, a point and click hypertext editor that ran on the NeXT machine -- ironically developed by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
[December 31, 2003, 10:10]
New Pentium 4-M breaks 2GHz barrier
News Let the Chips Central editor know what you think by email. Although the PC market overall has lurched into the doldrums again, notebooks have fared better than desktops in a variety of markets for some time.
[June 24, 2002, 8:32]
PodBop wins MashupCamp
News At 1500, conference co-organizer David Berlind (Berlind is executive editor of business technology for ZDNet.com) called everyone into the museum's auditorium, where each developer was called on to announce how many wooden nickels they had received.
[February 22, 2006, 9:05]
The Industry Standard to stop publishing
News Editor in chief Jonathan Weber said about 15 employees were in the San Francisco office working on the next edition when they learned the news. We put out some great magazines," Editor at large Cory Johnson told CNET News.com.
[August 17, 2001, 9:41]
Intel's Nocona ready for release
News The chip is expected to debut at 3.6GHz and lower speeds and come with an 800MHz system bus, according to Kevin Krewell, editor in chief of the Microprocessor Report. Most current Intel and Advanced Micro Devices chips can run only 32-bit software...
[June 28, 2004, 9:05]
Reports on Xbox delay premature
News Sony also recently announced an interim update to the PS2, the PSX home-entertainment appliance, which should add some new life to the brand, according to Peter Glaskowsky, editor in chief of industry newsletter Microprocessor Report.
[June 23, 2003, 8:14]
Lacey's Paper Round
News If you spot an interesting item about computing or the Internet, send it to me, Eugene Lacey, Editor in Chief of ZDNet UK. The firm that brought you the wind up radio, is working on a handful of other wind up devices, DVD hardware and software is...
[December 21, 1998, 0:22]
Intel's 32/64-bit chip ready to launch
News Kevin Krewell, editor in chief of the Microprocessor Report, said the chip will likely run at 3.4GHz to 3.6GHz since it is based on the same basic chip as Prescott, a desktop processor that came out in February.
[June 15, 2004, 12:15]
Apple servers take on a new form
News It's totally not like (Apple's previous servers)," said Peter Glaskowsky, editor in chief of the Microprocessor Report, an influential industry newsletter. This is the fastest Mac architecture we've ever built," Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said.
[May 15, 2002, 8:42]
Adobe ships new Photoshop
News While it's possible for OS X users to run older applications in the operating system's "classic mode", it's clumsy and time-consuming to switch from one mode to another, said Scott Kelby, editor in chief of Photoshop User magazine.
[April 16, 2002, 14:42]
Sun's latest chips near completion
News But Niagara seems to be going better, said Kevin Krewell, editor in chief of the Microprocessor Report. At the company's annual meeting for analysts in Santa Clara, California, Sun chief executive Scott McNealy said both chips are maturing.
[February 3, 2005, 15:40]
Apple's 'fastest PC' claim scrutinised
News Peter Glaskowsky, editor-in-chief of Microprocessor Report, said a company could get better benchmark results using a Dell machine with Intel and Microsoft compilers than with a Linux machine and GCC compiler.
[June 25, 2003, 7:33]
Jobs: G5 Power Macs will outperform any Windows PC
News Peter Glaskowsky, editor in chief of Microprocessor Report, said Apple's benchmarks appear to put it ahead of PC manufacturers for now. Apple chief executive Steve Jobs rolled out on Monday a new crop of Power Macs that he says can outperform any...
[June 24, 2003, 9:16]
IBM plans huge internal merger
News Peter Glaskowsky, editor in chief of the Microprocessor Report, thinks the different manufacturing needs can be balanced. IBM plans to announce that it will merge its microprocessor and server groups in an effort to improve the company's own chips...
[January 29, 2004, 7:30]
Bill Gates' grip on UK media 'is slipping'
News Membership of the MediaGuardian 100 was decided by a panel of eight media experts, including Lord Ali, broadcaster Mark Lawson and Emily Bell, editor-in-chief of Guardian Unlimited. In addition, the 2003 MediaGuardian 100 included John Pluthero...
[July 7, 2003, 13:02]
Intel's got fab plans to cut costs
News They have to fill a 90-nanometre fab with something," said Peter Glaskowsky, editor in chief of the Microprocessor Report. Let the Chips Central editor know what you think by email. Next year, Intel plans to manufacture its communications chips in...
[September 16, 2002, 9:32]
Sun lights up its Grid
News Sun's public statements underplay lost-opportunity costs, noted Kevin Krewell, editor in chief of Microprocessor Report. In a demonstration, Sun chief operating officer Jonathan Schwartz submitted a project to the Sun Grid -- graphically rendering...
[February 2, 2005, 8:25]
