Given Intel's problems in persuading OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) - the people that make the computers based on its chips - to invest in the original Itanium, Dell's decision not to ship Itanium 2 systems is a bitter blow to the chip...
In contrast, traditional servers contain Risc chips and run Unix. Next year, the company will try to push further into the market with a family of chips code-named Hammer. Typically, server chips sell for more than their desktop counterparts and...
Barton chips differ from other Athlon XP and Athlon XP-M chips primarily in that they have a larger cache, an on-chip reservoir of memory for rapid data access. Meanwhile, the chips in the middle group will come with model numbers ranging from 2000...
IBM stopped offering AMD's Athlon chips in its NetVista desktop line in August 2001. For years, AMD had difficulty landing its chips in computers for the working world because of recurring manufacturing problems, performance issues and a general...
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...
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. The company used 386 chips - the same type Intel sold into the PC market in...