Monthly Archives: September 2009

European Union (EU) antitrust regulators dismissed Intel’s argument that Apple’s 2006 switch to Intel processors showed that a free market in microprocessors existed, according to a ruling made public yesterday. Continue reading →

Seagate Technology said it is offering its self-encrypting drive feature with its entire line of enterprise-class hard disk drives and that it has partnered with Intel and LSI to integrate its encryption technology with the two companies’ security mana… Continue reading →

Seagate today announced the availability of what it called the industry’s first SATA 3.0, 6Gbit/sec. hard disk drive in its Barracuda XT 2TB drive. Continue reading →

Pillar data systems announced several upgrades to its modular Pillar Axiom storage array, doubling cache capacity, hard drive capacity and moving to an STEC SSD because Intel’s SSD has seen slowdown problems. Continue reading →

An MIT research team said they have found a new way to create the carbon nanotubes needed to build smaller and faster processors sought by manufacturers and users. Continue reading →

AMD and Intel have released new chipsets in a bid for dominance in the value PC marketplace. Continue reading →

HP plans to introduce a new business desktop PC that comes with a solid-state disk drive (SSD) to speed up Windows 7 and other applications. Continue reading →

Boston-Power says sales of its long-life Lithium-Ion batteries are ramping up as Hewlett-Packard Co. makes them available for more and more PC models under its exclusive arrangement with the startup. Continue reading →

An Alaskan company is attracting attention for a $3,000 laptop it plans to build that will apparently be the first to sport two 15.4-inch LCD screens. Continue reading →

From the brains of the Voyager space mission to the inspiration for modern CPUs, here are the chips that built our modern technological culture. Continue reading →