Gateway CEO Ted Waitt said that Intel threatened to turn his company into
'guacamole' if it didn't continue to use only Intel chips in its personal
computers. This and other interesting tidbits regarding the new AMD/Intel
lawsuit were revealed by John Dvorak in his recent interview with SYS-CON.TV.
Gateway, which relocated its headquarters from humble South Dakota to more
glamorous San Diego a few years ago and has suffered declining market share
since that time, will be among the companies expected to be featured
prominently in the AMD/Intel suit, which is centered around marketing and
licensing practices rather than technology, Dvorak said.
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At the BroadGroup Power and Cooling Summit, IBM researchers presented an
innovative approach for improving the cooling of computer chips, an
increasingly urgent need given the large amount of heat released by today's
more powerful processors and the additional energy required for removing that
heat.
The technique, called "high thermal conductivity interface technology,"
allows a twofold ... (more)
More than 65,000 students from 100 countries competed in Microsoft’s
Imagine Cup 2006 competition, using their technology skills and talent to
address these and many other health issues.
Now in its fifth year, Imagine Cup continues to challenge students around the
globe to imagine a better world empowered by technology and created by their
talent and innovation. Today Microsoft opene... (more)
IBM has announced that it is expanding its vendor financing scope by offering
financing capabilities to non-IBM manufacturers and suppliers in fast-growing
industries. IBM Global Financing (IGF), the lending and leasing arm of IBM,
will work with these companies to develop working capital financing,
inventory financing and extended payment agreements to improve their access
to and use of... (more)
HP has announced a variety of affordable, energy-efficient desk-based
products and environmentally friendly features for business customers.
The new HP Compaq dx2250 Desktop PC is a reliable, full-featured business
computer featuring energy-efficient processors to help lower a
customer’s total cost of ownership.
HP also plans to offer 80 percent efficient power supplies on select deskt... (more)
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