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IBM, Intel, HP Ramping Up Competition in Unix Space

February 12th, 2010 | No Comments

OEMs and chip makers are aggressively pushing into the high-end Unix space, a profitable but shrinking area of the server market. Analysts say IBM with its new Power7 systems has the inside track to expand its market share, though Hewlett-Packard and Intel are coming out with systems based on new Itanium chips. Oracle, with Sun’s hardware business in hand, also is looking to make a play in a market affected by x86 chips from Intel and AMD.
– Server OEMs and chip makers are turning a spotlight on the high end of the
systems market, ramping up the rhetoric for their competition in the highly
profitable but shrinking Unix space.
IBM made its move Dec. 8,
with the rollout of its first powerful Power7
systems, which promise chip- and sy…


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Intel Completes Wind River Deal

July 17th, 2009 | No Comments

Intel has closed on its $884 million purchase of Wind River, an embedded software maker that is part of Intels larger overall plan to diversify its product mix away from PC and server processors and into the embedded and mobile spaces, which include smartphones, netbooks, MIDs and consumer electronics. Intel already has the Atom processor for such devices, and it is looking to expand its reach into those areas.
– Intel has completed its $884 million acquisition
of Wind River, a key part of the chip makers plan to grow its product mix
beyond PC and server chips.
The deal, which was first announced June 4 and closed July 17, will add to
Intels small but growing software business. Wind River
makes embedded…


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For Intel, Nvidia, Worst Is Over, Says Jon Peddie

July 17th, 2009 | No Comments

Jon Peddie Research says 2010 may prove an amazing comeback for graphics chip makers. New products from Intel, AMD, ATI and Nvidia are expected to disrupt the status quo, and JPR expects desktop shipment numbers to stand up to notebooks and netbooks.
– For graphics chip makers, the worst is over, says a July 16 report
from Jon Peddie Research. Global graphics chip shipments for 2009
will see the “worst ever year-over-year drop in shipments,” the firm
reported, but a comeback is expected for 2010.

JPR lists the annual percentage growth for …


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AMD Fires Back at Facebook

July 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Weeks after a Facebook executive criticized AMD and Intel, saying that Facebook engineers had not seen the expected gains in performance in the chip makers newest processors, AMD officials are speaking out. While agreeing that benchmark tests that bet-ter reflect real-world situations are needed, the AMD officials also said that the chips their company is producing are among the fastest and most energy efficient, and are good for the smallest business to the largest server farms.
– In late June, at the Structure 09 conference in San Francisco, a vice president with Facebook took chip makers and OEMs to task, saying that the social networking site was not seeing the expected performance improvements from systems powered by the newest processors.
Jonathan Heiliger, vice preside…


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