Stories by Robert Mullins

Tile is the next hot multicore chip design

Knowing that there's a limit to how many cores can be put on a chip, processor designers are looking to a tiled architecture as the next generation of chip design.

PC and software sales boost HPs revenue, profit

Hewlett-Packard Co.'s PC business and software sales from its Mercury Interactive acquisition helped produce net profit of US$1.8 billion (AU$2.28 billion), for a 29 percent increase, with a 16 percent boost in revenue in the fiscal third quarter, ac...

SpikeSource CEO: Linux all grown up

Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource, speaks about the open-source movement and new products SpikeSource introduced at LinuxWorld.

LINUXWORLD - VMware virtual appliance a threat to the OS

The virtual appliance model could be a major threat to operating systems from major vendors such as Microsoft, says a cofounder of VMWare.

LINUXWORLD - Dell offers Ubuntu Linux as an OS option on PCs

Dell hopes to push the open source Linux operating system into the corporate desktop environment using virtualization so alternative Linux operating systems can more easily be run alongside Windows systems from Microsoft.

Niagara 2: The sequel

Sun Microsystems hopes its new UltraSparc T2 processor, officially launched Tuesday, will earn it repeat business from existing telecommunications customers and attract new customers looking for a way to make their networks run faster.

AMD unveils strategy to 'Bulldoze' the competition

Executives at Advanced Micro Devices are pursuing a new strategy to combine CPUs and graphics processors into one unit and put them into everything from workstations to HDTVs to wireless phones.

Solar Web hosting company powers Live Earth sites

The Web hosting company chosen to power the Web sites for this weekend's Live Earth concerts adopts an environmentally friendly business plan: Let the sunshine in.

State charges dropped in HP spy case

A state judge in California on Thursday dismissed charges against the three remaining state criminal defendants in the Hewlett-Packard spying case.

IBM, HP share bragging rights on supercomputer list

IBM still operates the fastest supercomputer in the industry, but rival HP has more of them in operation, according to a closely watched global survey.

Sun needs AMD chips to launch new supercomputer

As Sun Microsystems prepares to demonstrate a new high-performance computer Tuesday at a technology conference in Germany, it hopes that quad-core processors from Advanced Micro Devices that will power the computer arrive on time to deliver one of th...

Nvidia expands from gaming to high-performance chips

Nvidia, known for graphics processors designed for video gaming, is expanding into the market for high-performance computing processors.

HP FORUM - HP brings sanity to storage

Hewlett-Packard is developing new storage hardware that will make it easier for administrators to assign the right amount of storage to different departments in an organization.