processor in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.09.08
Round-Up And one reader put it: "Back then if you wanted a word processor, you wrote it yourself - although you obviously had to take time out every half hour or so to shovel coal into the back. But the Round-Up is here to prove... [12 Sep 2008]
My 15 minutes with Bill Gates
Comment The spreadsheet and word processor were the killer apps. In the early days of PC computing Joshua Greenbaum crossed swords with Bill Gates. Greenbaum thought he had the best of the encounter. Nothing could have been... [11 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is convergence a fiction?
Comment The processor giant's chipsets will now support OSes from Microsoft and Apple, as well as Ubuntu, Be, Linux and more. Written on the London Liverpool Street to Stansted Express and dispatched via my home LAN later the... [02 Jul 2008]
The truth about software as a service
Comment But there is a problem, even more than for a CRM system: being unable to access a word processor from an internet-less plane or café will not suit many people. Hosted applications don't suit everyone all the time. [23 Jan 2008]
European payment issues will top 2008 agenda
Comment Which processor do they back? The regulators have suggested that in an efficient market there should not be the current 50 or 60 processors but only five to seven, and that any bank can use any processor. [20 Dec 2007]
Itanium revisited - one year on
Comment Hardly mentioned at the Intel Developers Forum this September, the next-generation Itanium 9100 processor line, codenamed Montvale, was released in a strangely muted fashion in October. But does that mean a watery grave... [13 Dec 2007]
Why must IT go green?
Comment Gigantic centralised data centres cannot get sufficient juice from the electricity network; millions of computers burn up processor power performing background processes while their users are in the pub; forests of... [03 Dec 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Itanium - what's in a name?
Comment Is Intel and HP's Itanium processor fatally holed below the waterline, justifying its 'Itanic' nickname, or can it weather the stormy waters? Did HP's handing over of complete design responsibility for the platform to... [06 Nov 2006]
Why AMD is putting its chips in one basket
Comment But many times, they integrate existing chips into the main processor. According to McCarron and others, chipmakers have had to come up with an entirely new generation of products about every six months, which is faster... [25 Jul 2006]
Analysis: Intel's big push for convergence
Comment But similar efforts to develop a combination applications-processor and cellular-communication chip for mobile phones have barely made a dent in Texas Instruments' control of that business. And Intel's... [07 Jun 2006]
Will's Web Watch: At the heart of web 2.0
Comment Most notable among its start-up purchases is Writely, the on-demand word processor. Will Sturgeon takes a trip to foggy California to find out. If you really want to take the pulse of the IT industry there really is... [12 May 2006]
The Minority Report: Macworld predictions
Comment After all, many of Apple's marketing campaigns of the 90s spent a considerable amount of time and money belittling the Pentium processor range and setting fire to its engineers (in its ads, not literally). [06 Jan 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Google goes head-to-head with Microsoft
Comment From a commercial angle, the PC breaks down into three parts - the processor, the operating system and the remaining bits and pieces. In its bid to expand, Google appears to have no choice but to take on Microsoft, says... [20 Dec 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Plutocracy not democracy
Comment As even quite simple hardware devices come to boast a processor, software is increasingly at the heart of our material world. Although I was a member of the panel for this year's Agenda Setters poll, in true Devil's... [27 Sep 2005]
Q&A: Sun CEO Scott McNealy
Comment Second, three years ago I had a 900MHz UltraSparc III processor that didn't work very reliably. We're one of three processor architectures - Intel-AMD being one, Sun and Fujitsu's Sparc being another and... [24 Jun 2005]
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