InfoWorld - OSGi, which is intended to provide modularity for Java, is the focus of efforts afoot at IBM and the Eclipse Foundation, with IBM leveraging OSGi in its application server and Eclipse using it in a new framework for accessing enterprise technology.
AP - Semiconductor maker Altera Corp. on Wednesday raised its guidance for first-quarter revenue, citing improving sales across its product lines. But even with the boost, the forecast fell short of Wall Street expectations and shares fell in after-hours trading.
PC Magazine - The new Core i7-980X Extreme Edition (codenamed "Gulftown") is a six-core CPU that promises a whole new level of performance.
PC World - Intel unveiled its newest flagship processor for the desktop market, the Core i7 980x Extreme. The CPU pushes the envelope by including six physical cores, and hyperthreading technology to virtualize twelve cores--its almost like having twelve computers in one.
PC World - Chip giant Intel, a major backer of the movement to provide mobile WiMax wireless broadband to Internet users around the world, expects the next major release of the technology to be deployed starting in 2012, an executive said Tuesday.
AP - Semiconductor parts maker Diodes Inc. raised its first-quarter revenue and margin forecasts late Monday, citing strong sales in global markets.
PC Magazine - Intel on Thursday formally announced that the Core i7-980X Extreme processor - the 6-core chip code-named "Gulftown" manufactured on the company's 32nm process - are up this morning, and the results are pretty much what you'd expect. But AMD is waiting in the wings.
PC World - Chip giant Intel won first place in a ranking of flash memory-based Solid State Drives (SSDs), in which the researcher, DRAMeXchange Technology, pilloried the industry over the wide disparity of quality among the storage devices.
PC World - Microsoft will discontinue development of Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) as of June 30, the company announced via a blog.
PC World - Intel has announced its latest Extreme Edition processor, the Core i7-980X. Like the recently released 2010 Clarkdale lineup, the i7-980X (previously code-named Gulftown) brings Intel's turbo boost and hyperthreading technologies to the 32nm process. The i7-980X is also Intel's first processor with six physical cores, offering increased system performance in applications optimized to take advantage of them.
PC World - Intel invested an undisclosed amount in social media incubator Betaworks to gain insight into real-time user behavior on social networks, the chip maker said on Thursday.
PC World - Buy.com has a Sony VAIO W Series netbook in cocoa brown on sale for $443.75 with free shipping. The sleek little netbook has a 10.1-inch backlit LCD panel, which has great picture quality with minimal glare, rich colors, and sharp contrast. The VAIO W Series also features 720p high-definition support and plays 720p video stutter-free. The unit on sale boasts a 1.66GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, and 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi. Like any good netbook, it also has a built-in Webcam and microphone and two USB ports--who needs an iPad when you can get this netbook for $50 less?
PC World - Intel will release its fastest and highly anticipated eight-core Nehalem-EX server processor later this month, a company executive said late Thursday.
PC World - [Author's Note: While the fake processors involved in the Newegg Core i7 incident are literally hunks of metal good for little other than weighing down paper, it highlights the fact that fake/counterfeit processors are out there. This article addresses the concerns related to counterfeit CPU's in general, and why buyers should exercise caution and due diligence to ensure the hadrware is genuine.]
Reuters - Global chip sales could rise by more than a fifth this year, bringing them back above pre-recession levels, industry watcher iSuppli said on Friday.
PC World - It's been a busy week for those of us in the Land of Geek, what with a new processor from Intel, a major trade show, plus more new tech and gadgetry than you can poke a stick at. Here are a few of the stories we covered over the past week or so.
PC Magazine - Intel has confirmed that a small number of fake Core i7 microprocessors were sold to consumers, which reports said were sold via online retailer NewEgg.com.
PC Magazine - OTOY, a remote-gaming rival to OnLive, said Wednesday that the AMD-powered Fusion Render Cloud Servers, upon which its service is built, will come to market sometime in the second quarter of 2010.
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