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Intel Revamps Xeon as the Server Chip for "Any Workload in the World"

in Enterprise on April 5, 2011 at 2:53 pm PT

In the market for “big iron” servers, Intel’s Xeon server chip will start bumping into its big brother, the Itanium, the chip Oracle made fun of last month. This can’t help but cause a complicated positioning and branding headache.

I'll Take Computer Company PR Stunts for $1,000,000

in Enterprise on December 14, 2010 at 7:06 am PT

This company built the supercomputer that beat the world’s greatest chess player and has now built one that plays on TV game shows. Answer: What is IBM?

IBM Tweaking Its Chip Tactics, But Powering On

in News on August 26, 2009 at 12:40 pm PT

IBM has often marched to a different drummer in computer chips. But Big Blue will take a step closer to conventional wisdom next year. No, IBM is not moving away from developing electronic brains for its own servers, as most computer makers have. While some IBM servers do use the ubiquitous x86 chips designed by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, IBM continues to extend the internally-developed Power line of microprocessors for other systems as well as chips for IBM mainframes.