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RSS risc in news$12.9bn: Server market on the up
News The share of x86 servers increased by 4.8 per cent and continued to erode the Unix/RISC market. The server market grew in the third quarter, despite pressure coming from low prices and virtualisation software. [22 Nov 2006]
Intel sheds another fringe business
News At one point, Intel had hoped to transform the telecommunications business with products based on industry standards, in a fashion similar to how it moved the server market away from Risc (reduced instruction set computer) processors running Unix. [10 Aug 2006]
RIM picks Intel for BlackBerry
News RIM's current BlackBerry devices use chips based on the ARM 9 Risc processor architecture, though Lazaridis did not specify which company supplied chips for the BlackBerry. Ending months of speculation, Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry... [28 Sep 2005]
Simplification plans drive server market
News IDC said the market for x86 servers continues to outpace the Risc/Unix server growth, with x86 shipments growing at 9.7 per cent compared to declines in the Risc/Unix market. Firms trying to simplify their IT infrastructure are driving corporate... [31 Aug 2005]
Dell rules PC market
News Both researchers count the number of desktops, notebooks and non-RISC servers shipped, but their methodologies in counting differ slightly. The PC industry racked up another quarter of double-digit growth to close out 2004, thanks to Europeans and... [19 Jan 2005]
HP commits $3bn to Itanium
News The Itanium allies once hoped Itanium would conquer the server landscape, but have scaled back ambitions to the relatively modest goal of competing against IBM's Power and Sun's UltraSparc that employ the reduced instruction set computing (RISC... [16 Dec 2004]
Big Blue gets bigger
News Overall, x86 server sales grew 18.3 per cent to $5.4bn, the third quarter in a row that they've been greater than sales of servers using reduced instruction set computing, or RISC, chips such as IBM's Power, Sun's UltraSparc and HP's PA-RISC. [24 Nov 2004]
IBM lines up big daddies of Unix servers
News HP followed suit with its 64-processor Superdome models, which initially used the company's own PA-RISC chips but which now are also available with Intel's Itanium. The new servers are the biggest iron in IBM's Squadron family of servers using the... [15 Oct 2004]
Sun readies server software for rivals' OSes
News The HP-UX version of JES is only for servers using HP's PA-RISC processor, which over a period of years is being replaced by Intel's Itanium. Sun plans will announce that its Java Enterprise System, a collection of server software, will be... [27 Jul 2004]
Sun Solaris for Power and Itanium - coming soon?
News DEC is gone, HP-UX is going away, PA-RISC is gone," he said, referring to Digital Equipment Corp. Sun Microsystems, which has already resurrected its Solaris operating system for one processor architecture, is considering a further expansion to... [21 Jul 2004]
IBM's Unix power play - Power5 launches
News Its competitors are at a bit of an ebb because of their transitional issues," Eunice said, referring to Sun's embrace of Fujitsu's high-end Sparc64 processor and HP's switch from its PA-RISC chips to Intel's Itanium. [13 Jul 2004]
Sun and Fujitsu merge Unix server lines
News Sun's UltraSparc chips, one of several RISC (reduced instruction set computing) models on the market, have seen major competition from more mainstream Intel processors, such as Xeon. The "next-generation APL microprocessor.will bring new meaning to... [02 Jun 2004]
HP reports profits and record quarterly sales
News In HP's high-end server line, the company is slowly moving customers from its own PA-RISC and Alpha processors to Intel's Itanium. For its fiscal second quarter, which ended 30 April, it had revenue of $20.1bn - a company record. [19 May 2004]
Servers and PCs lead HP's "solid" results
News In servers, the company's Xeon-based ProLiant line had a 15 per cent revenue increase, but its Unix servers, using HP's PA-RISC processor and Compaq's Alpha, declined 13 per cent. Revenue from servers based on Intel's Itanium processor, which is... [20 Feb 2004]
HP simplifies server lines and reveals migration roadmap
News Customers will be encouraged to gradually move away from the PA-RISC and Alpha-based products, which will be sold until 2006 and supported until 2011. Hewlett Packard (HP) has revealed plans to simplify its servers around three product lines over... [09 Feb 2004]
