- Fri Nov 6 2:27 PM PST 2009 Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1101: LHC-gull kills science with bread
Apparently the Large Hadron Collider is doomed. It can't even survive a bread bombing by birds. The Droid arrived on the scene though, and people actually lined up. However tethering is gonna cost you on the thing. Are you still in love? And Gwen Stefan
- Tue Sep 22 8:09 AM PDT 2009 How Intel's supercomputer almost used HP chips
In the 1990s, Intel seriously considered building the world's fastest supercomputer with a rival's processors, but the Pentium Pro arrived in time after all.
- Tue Aug 25 9:00 AM PDT 2009 IBM's Power charge continues
IBM's lineup of servers built around its Power microprocessor continue to be one of the standouts among the systems that it sells.
- Wed Jun 17 5:33 PM PDT 2009 AMD, Congo, and the perils of code names
AMD moves to retire "Congo" code name quickly after bloggers complain about link to country suffering epidemic of sexual violence and war.
- Mon Jun 1 8:05 AM PDT 2009 Multi-threading reviewed
Simultaneous multi-threading is a useful performance tool for processor designers, but it doesn't have the same benefit that adding a full core does.
- Thu May 21 3:34 AM PDT 2009 Intel's Tukwila slips yet again
The release of its next-generation Itanium processor, code-named Tukwila, has now been moved out to the first quarter of 2010.
- Thu Apr 2 11:47 AM PDT 2009 How Linux killed SGI (and is poised to kill Sun)
There are some scarily depressing parallels between the once-dominant SGI and Sun Microsystems. The big question is what Sun will be worth in bankruptcy.
- Wed Apr 1 10:34 AM PDT 2009 First GM, now Silicon Graphics. Lessons learned?
The optimist in me wants to believe that even the most raging egos must know that all glory is fleeting. What with Silicon Valley's famous chronic self-absorption, that's not a sure bet.
- Wed Feb 18 10:15 PM PST 2009 At Unisys, Intel's Itanium chip is dead
Unisys may have written Itanium's epitaph--at least for many server vendors.
- Sun Feb 15 8:20 AM PST 2009 A brief history of chip fibs, flops: Intel, IBM, AMD
Even the biggest chip companies churn out their share of flops. But the hype that surrounds these chips is more fascinating than the failures.




