Monthly Archives: December 2009

A former Seagate engineer says the company destroyed evidence pertinent to a nine-year-old patent infringement lawsuit filed against it by a small engineering company and MIT. Continue reading →

Analysts say the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit against Intel should immediately make it far easier for rivals like AMD and Nvidia to ink new deals with computer makers. Continue reading →

The FTC has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel, charging the world’s largest computer chip maker with illegally using its dominant market position to stifle competition and strengthen its monopoly for a decade. Continue reading →

Seagate announced it will begin shipping the world’s thinnest 2.5-in. notebook hard disk drive that is 25% slimmer than traditional drives, offering comparable performance in a smaller form factor. Continue reading →

While rumors are swirling around the Internet that Intel is looking to buy rival chips maker Nvidia, analysts say it’s nothing but talk and bluster. Continue reading →

While Intel nurses a self-inflicted wound after pulling the plug on its long-anticipated Larrabee graphics chip, analysts said rivals AMD and Nvidia need to make hay with the extra time they’ve been given. Continue reading →

Dell PowerEdge R805 and R905 servers, based on AMD’s hexacore Opteron CPUs, are far faster, cheaper, and more efficient than models that shipped only a year ago Continue reading →

Seagate announced its entry into the solid-state disk drive market with a 2.5-in. product aimed at the booming general server and blade server marketplace. Continue reading →

The race is on to make supercomputers as powerful as possible to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges, such as climate change and the need for ultra-long-life batteries for cars. Continue reading →

IDC reported that blade server revenue rose in the third quarter, the first server category to show increased year-over-year sales in a year. Continue reading →