At a press conference in New York this morning, two industrial powerhouses announced an agreement to join forces in a focus on healthcare. Neither GE nor Intel is a newcomer to the healthcare market, and they are hardly the first companies to get excited about healthcare now that the prospect for both systemic reform and ...

If you've got even a passing interest in the subject, you're undoubtedly aware that true progress in general-purpose x86 multicore programming has been slow and uncertain. Intel and AMD may have made the technology affordable—a quad-core system could easily have cost thousands of dollars just five years ago, ...

Ever since AMD announced its plan to split itself into two separate companies, there have been legal questions surrounding the move. AMD's x86 cross-licensing agreement with Intel has always required that Sunnyvale maintain a certain corporate structure in order to continue to manufacture x86-compatible microprocessors. ...

Sun announced the availability of new flash storage systems equipped with Intel X25-E SLC (Single Level Cell) SSD drives on Wednesday. The new launch is part of a sustained effort on Sun's part to push flash storage and its Open Storage initiative across the market; the company has bet on SSDs as the future home of ...

Intel's netbook dominance has yet to be challenged in a serious way, but at least one business analyst thinks that's going to change in the next 2-3 years. The netbook market is extremely new; Atom itself isn't even a year old—if the IT industry were to break with the existing Intel+Microsoft model, the emergence ...

The semiconductor industry has been taking a sustained pounding for months, but there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. Taiwanese market analysts expect TSMC and UMC to report even worse financial results for February than they have to date, but to improve thereafter. That's good news for both foundry companies; ...

Asset Smart is finished. On Monday, March 2, AMD divested itself of certain manufacturing and corporate assets and formed those assets into a second company. Henceforth, the Fabrication Facilities Formerly Known as AMD will be the property of the imaginatively named Foundry Company.  Click ...

Projections from industry groups and analysts can play a part, for good or ill, in forming self-fulfilling prophecies. But let's hope that doesn't happen with Gartner's latest projections for the PC industry in 2009, which aren't just dim—they're terrible. Gartner believes that the PC industry will collectively ...

If you don't look too closely, many of the companies in the IT industry appear to be on friendly terms with each other. Every time Company A releases a new product, other companies chime in with positive-sounding rhetoric meant to imply enthusiastic support. This rule holds true even in situations where two companies ...

The EU-Intel antitrust throwdown continues, with Intel confirming that it had responded to the EU's SSO (Supplementary Statement of Objections) earlier this month on February 5. The European Commission filed its SSO back in July of 2008, but Intel requested multiple extensions to the initial two-week reply deadline. Last ...