I've read a lot of downturn-related news in the past few months, but I have yet to see anyone make the connection between job losses and printer ink usage. That changed yesterday, though, with HP CEO Mark Hurd's comments on HP's most recent quarterly earnings call: ''There is definitely an alignment between—or at least ...

You may recall Intel's unveiling of its next-generation, quad-core Itanium chip at last year's ISSCC, where I asked in our coverage: ''What rhymes with 'Godzilla,' weighs 2 billion transistors, and has enough on-die cache to take out Tokyo?'' Tukwila, as the part is codenamed, is a seriously big chip, especially on the 65nm ...