Intel has sold its flash memory business to Boston-based PC card specialist, Centennial Technologies. The flash memory card market is becoming important as devices such as PC cards and portable digital cameras and MP3 players proliferate, however...
Intel is now seeking to pull in more money away from processors for PCs and low-end servers, supplying various networking equipment and this month renewing its presence in the high-end server market with the launch of its Itanium 2 chip.
Samsung has displaced Intel as the world's leading manufacturer of flash memory, a rare change that reflects some trends in the growing market. Samsung and Toshiba primarily manufacture NAND flash memory, while Intel and AMD primarily make NOR flash.
IBM now aggressively promotes its own Power processor family, Sun is reinvigorating its Sparc line and embracing x86, and Dell continues its gains with the much more widely used Xeon processors from Intel.
to run x86 Windows programs on computers with Alpha chips; Hewlett-Packard's Aries software to run HP-UX software for PA- RISC chips on Itanium; and Intel's IA32-EL software to run software for x86 chips on Itanium.
VT-x refers to the version of VT that runs on Intel's Xeon processors, as opposed to VT-i for its Itanium chips. Also on tap is support for Intel's Virtualisation Technology (VT), which is expected to ease Xen's operating system compatibility, and...
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