Mobile World Congress just became Intel’s mobile coming out party. On Monday Orange will debut the first smartphone powered by Intel’s Atom processor at the show, giving Intel a key foothold in the European market as well as a critical endorsement from a major carrier.…
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Which companies will EMC’s Project Lightning strike?
With its Project Lightning server-side flash cache, aka VFcache, EMC hopes to show itself as a forward-looking storage provider. But until it loses its big box, scale-up mentality, it won't be much of a factor in webscale data centers that go for scale-out everything.…
Read MoreRed Hat attacks cloud-app gap
Red Hat says its new POSIX-compliant virtual storage appliance will make it easier for IT shops to move legacy Unix applications to Amazon's public cloud. The scale-out NAS appliance, based on Gluster technology, also replaces Centos with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.…
Read MoreHP wins a battle, but war with Oracle rages on
HP won a tactical battle last night when a judge tossed out an Oracle fraud claim. But it also lost one -- when he unsealed previously redacted documents that show just how desperate HP was to keep Oracle working on software for HP's Itanium servers.…
Read MoreDon’t call it a wimpy node: SeaMicro rethinks the server for webscale
SeaMicro, the startup that built out a business in the low-power, microserver market, is taking its server architecture mainstream by adding Intel's Xeon chips inside its boxes. This is a fundamental rethinking of how servers are built to respond to the needs of webscale operators.…
Read MoreG-cluster plans mobile gaming service to challenge OnLive
G-cluster plans to enter the U.S. market with an on-demand gaming service. The company has secured an unnamed amount of funding from Intel and French mobile carrier SFR to expand its reach beyond home casual gaming and movie streaming into high-end gaming for tablets and smartphones.…
Read MoreIntel’s next big wireless play: It’s not smartphones
Intel's wireless ambitions go beyond smartphones and tablets. It’s set its sights on the guts of the mobile network as well. By embracing a new network design concept called Cloud-RAN, Intel believes it can reshape wireless networks to make the best use of its chips.…
Read MoreThe case for SSDs in the data center
Analysts at IDC projected last week that the dollar per gigabyte price barrier for solid state drives (SSDs) should fall by the second half of this year. That’s great news for consumers eager to see flash memory bring down the weight and increase the performance of laptops. But what does it mean for cloud computing and data centers, where many want to bring down energy usage while speeding up web serving?…
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The usual Intel-ARM potshots continued at CES this year with ARM’s CEO, Warren East, responding to Intel’s new Medfield chip running on…
Read MoreUh-oh, PC: Half of computing device sales are mobile
Is the PC "dead"? Of course not, but if you don't see the trend moving away from local / desktop computing and towards mobile / cloud computing, you're missing the sales figures for each market: Nearly 50 percent of recent device sales are mobile.…
Read MoreMobile virtualization: Another nail in the PC coffin
There's a trend building, and it's not good for the PC industry. It's not tablet and smartphone growth -- although that's part of the trend -- but virtualization on mobile devices. This allows remote PC access from a tablet, for example, and could hurt already slowing PC sales.…
Read MoreIntel talking to Apple about mobile chips, but Apple probably isn’t listening
The big buzz out of CES on Thursday is that Intel has been "talking" to Apple, among other manufacturers, about using its new line of Medfield chips in upcoming mobile devices. But the discussions are clearly very preliminary, and Apple has good reason to remain aloof.…
Read MoreCES Video: Intel impresses in Android 4.0 tablet
Just like every prior CES in the past few years, Intel is touting how its chips are ready for mobiles. The only difference in 2012 is that I'm starting to believe the company after seeing Intel's Medfield chip power an Android tablet that runs all day.…
Read MoreIntel’s Atom gets 2 phone customers, but that’s not enough
Motorola and Lenovo have agreed to embed Intel’s Medfield applications chips in forthcoming Android phones. But for Intel to call Atom a success, it needs to make headway with the big handset makers, a difficult task considering how cozy many of them are with ARM.…
Read MoreIntel’s dilemma: Whose problem do Ultrabooks solve?
At Intel's CES press event, Ultrabooks were the focus, as were the six "experiences" these thin and light notebooks bring. But consumers are getting such experiences from smartphones and tablets, so who has a problem that could be solved by Ultrabooks? Intel itself comes to mind.…
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The Wall Street Journal has a lengthy breakdown of the relationships between Microsoft, and ARM and Intel in today’s paper, particularly as…
Read More2012: the year of Thunderbolt
Apple got an early start on outfitting its Mac computers with Intel's Thunderbolt technology. Now, almost a year later, a rush of accessories at CES indicate this might be the year average users start to get some real benefit from having Thunderbolt on board.…
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Last year’s International CES was a bust for Google TV. Just weeks before everyone descended on Vegas, Google was forced to ask…
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While most of you probably enjoyed taking the day off this past Monday, which was a federal holiday, Vice President and Distinguished…
Read MoreWhy the MacBook Air will be the iMac of notebooks
Apple's iMac occupies a prized place in a fast-growing segment of the overall desktop PC market, the all-in-ones, that few others can approach. It got there by spotting a growth opportunity that's paying off big now, and the MacBook Air is primed to do the same.…
Read MoreSuVolta gets $17.6M to make power-sipping chips
Bright Capital, KPCB, August Capital and NEA have contributed to a $17.6 million funding round in SuVolta, a process technology company. SuVolta doesn’t design chips; it has come up with a novel way to manufacture transistors in a way that makes them use less power.…
Read MoreRoku in 2012: Is it time to sell?
There are two rumors about Roku going around these days: One says that the company is getting ready to be acquired, possibly by Intel. The other one says it's getting more funding. Which one makes more sense for Roku? The answer may surprise you.…
Read MoreApple’s 2012: What the year in iDevices and Macs will look like
2011 wasn't really a year in which we saw a lot of big changes on the hardware front from Apple, even though iOS 5 and iCloud made big splashes in software. But I think we can expect a lot of device changes in 2012.…
Read MoreThe 10 stories that defined tech in 2011
While 2011 was a busy year for the tech industry, don't expect things to slow down in 2012. We've rounded up some of GigaOM's biggest stories of the year with a bit of insight on what each will mean for 2012.…
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