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  • Fri Nov 6 2:27 PM PST 2009 LHC-gull kills science with bread (1101)

    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

    Posted in Buzz Out Loud Podcast by Tom Merritt

  • 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.

    Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland

  • 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.

    Posted in The Pervasive Data Center by Gordon Haff

  • 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.

    Posted in News - Business Tech by Elinor Mills

  • 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.

    Posted in The Pervasive Datacenter by Gordon Haff

  • 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.

    Posted in The Pervasive Datacenter by Gordon Haff

  • 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.

    Posted in Software, Interrupted by Dave Rosenberg

  • 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.

    Posted in Coop's Corner by Charles Cooper

  • 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.

    Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers

  • 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.

    Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers