"Freescale said Monday it would offer an ARM-based chip that could lead to a $200 Linux-based netbook, offering about twice the amount of usage on a single battery charge as Intel’s Atom processor a read more » DiscussBury
Sun has purchased low-power x86 startup Montalvo. Rumor has the purchase at 5 million and the reason: for their expertise in asymmetrical cores. Unfortuately they've eaten through several times mo read more » DiscussBury
Sun Microsystems has purchased Montalvo, 100m$ startup company that focused on low-power x86 asymmetrical cores. They never released a profit and Sun is claiming the purchase is based on their techno read more » DiscussBury
Paul Murphy talks about the shift from monolithic mainframes to x86 architectures, about Unix to Linux, and Mac OS X jumping into Linux's market share. read more » DiscussBury
Jeff Atwood looks at the case for utilizing a 64-bit OS on desktop and laptop machines. While not a big fan of a quick move to 64-bit, his recent thoughts are much more 64-bit friendly. read more » DiscussBury
Customers prefer IBM and HP servers to their competitors - including Dell and Sun according to a recent survey by Gabriel Consulting Group says an article over at The Register. read more » 1 CommentBury
Sun's new 2U 4 quadcore processor Xeon box has been released, and it's half the size of the competition. How's that for a company just starting up an x86 division? read more » DiscussBury
Sun Microsystems has released two new Intel x86 servers based on the Intel Xeon processor. These servers are the Sun Fire X4150 and 4450. read more » DiscussBury
