The company also announced the IOP321 I/O processor for networked storage devices such as RAID on motherboard applications. The company unveiled the first XScale-based processor over a year ago, but today's family of products are the first systems...
Servers containing AIX, IBM's version of Unix, will probably pass sales of servers from Hewlett-Packard running HP-UX by late this year or early next year, Hewitt said. Revenue from IBM machines using the Power processor will total $8.6bn, Hewitt...
Longhorn, the next major version of Windows for desktop PCs, will debut in 2005 and will usher in a new level of graphics for PCs, Microsoft executives said on Wednesday. While Microsoft plans to release "a couple of beta" versions of Longhorn in...
In its patent application published last week, Apple describes a graphical user interface "and methods of use thereof in a multimedia player". The patent application refers to a hierarchically ordered graphical user interface and lists Apple chief...
The technology gives about a 30 per cent performance boost, IBM said, but requires the new AIX version 5.3. The changes mean that Linux runs about 90 to 95 per cent the speed of AIX instead of 80 per cent, Arimilli said - though AIX gets a much...
There is also a new graphical workstation, the IntelliStation Power 285, which is two-way and uses the 1.9GHz P5+ processor, as well as the p5 575 - a new 16-way version of an earlier p5 model which was previously eight-way.