processors in comment and analysis
The Minority Report: Macworld predictions
Comment The timing of Macworld also coincides rather neatly with the release this week of Intel's latest range of mobile processors, Yonah. With Macworld looming next week, Seb Janacek comments on the rampant speculation that Apple is poised to launch the... [06 Jan 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Google goes head-to-head with Microsoft
Comment So one way to collaborate with Microsoft is to first ensure control of an important market sector, such as processors. In its bid to expand, Google appears to have no choice but to take on Microsoft, says Martin Brampton. [20 Dec 2005]
Minority Report: Will Apple send in the clones?
Comment In the months since Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the Mac was making the seismic shift from PowerPC to Intel processors, the murmurs about the possible resurrection of the clones programme have been getting louder - but will the talk come to... [04 Nov 2005]
Minority Report: Apple as media company - and why that's good for Macs
Comment A few months later came the big surprise of 2005 - the company abandoned the PowerPC architecture and made the leap towards Intel processors, its third major platform migration, following the original move from 68K to PowerPC and then from Mac OS... [02 Sep 2005]
Q&A: Sun CEO Scott McNealy
Comment To try to restore its position, Sun has many irons in the fire - among them, a newly open source operating system, servers using Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processors and a marketing campaign boasting of Sun's "sharing" values. [24 Jun 2005]
Devil's Advocate: In search of wireless nirvana
Comment While thin screens are drastically reducing consumption, processors are going in the opposite direction. To realise the dream of a wireless world, we need to find a new way to deliver power to computers and other electronics, says Martin Brampton. [22 Mar 2005]
Torvalds: "Solaris is a joke"
Comment The company also is building its own community of programmers around Solaris, while promoting the operating system's deployment on the widely used computers with x86 processors, such as Intel's Xeon. When Linus Torvalds successfully harnessed the... [21 Dec 2004]
Devil’s Advocate: Profligacy and destruction and IT
Comment And as processors regularly double in power, we do not buy fewer of them. But are we, asks Martin Brampton, being a more than little naïve? It may be that the human race is heading for disaster. We seem powerless to halt our own environmental... [14 Sep 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Is UK's outsourcing addiction unhealthy?
Comment Tackling that question takes us back to another recent theme, the creativity of software writers and the limited horizons of most recruitment processors. But, asks Martin Brampton, is outsourcing this speciality good for the country and IT? [20 Jul 2004]
Devil's Advocate: More to Moore's Law
Comment So it is interesting to hear that Intel's engineers are confident they can continue to build faster and faster processors for the next 20 years. Many of the quite dramatic gains in data communications stem directly from the availability of cheap... [20 Jan 2004]
Devil's Advocate: A standardised PC on every desktop?
Comment They were intended as embedded processors for peripherals. Once Intel saw how their products were being used, they started to design processors suited to the purpose. But there was a reason for these deficiencies: the Intel processors used in the... [18 Nov 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Itanium 2, managing LANs and the Info Pro
Comment It is expected that these processors will be priced just under the $1,200 mark making it likely that server nodes will hit the streets at less than $7,000. This is likely to be one of those occasions as last week saw vendor Intel introduce the... [16 Sep 2003]
Crossing the Channel: What IP can do for storage
Comment Until recently, Fibre Channel has been the only networking technology ideally suited to storage, with speeds between processors and disk arrays of 1 or 2Gbps. IP is boosting the distance limitations of traditional storage networking technologies... [02 Sep 2003]
Third time lucky? Intel unveils latest Itanium
Comment Montecito, an Itanium with two different processors in the same piece of silicon, will come out in 2005. Software designed to run on 32-bit chips, such as Intel's Xeon processors, must be rebuilt to take advantage of 64-bit features, and for... [30 Jun 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Technologists don’t know best
Comment Idle PC processors tempt people into proposing grand schemes. Is it possible to work on a technology blindly, without considering its proper use? Martin Brampton takes a timely look at the risks that come with innovation. [02 Jun 2003]
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