Stories by: Sharon Gaudin

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Analysts predict global drop in 2008 chip sales 20/11/2008 07:05:00

Two industry watchers this week revised their estimates of worldwide semiconductor revenue this year, with one even predicting a year-over-year decline.
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Downed Hadron Collider faces $21M in repairs 19/11/2008 07:07:00

Fixing problems at the world's largest particle collider won't come cheap.
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NASA research finds way into IT, consumer products 18/11/2008 09:02:00

Aware of a history of heart disease in his family, then-50-year-old Gary F. Thompson saw his doctor for a checkup before he ran a Los Angeles marathon in the mid-1990s.
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Photo finish: IBM inches out Cray in supercomputer race 18/11/2008 12:00:00

The latest supercomputer horse race came down to a photo finish.
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Analysts: Shanghai puts AMD back in the fight with Intel 17/11/2008 08:20:00

With last week's early release of its first 45-nanometer chip, Advanced Micro Devices has taken a big step toward putting its troubles behind it and giving Intel something to worry about.
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Jaguar, Roadrunner in horse race to be fastest supercomputer 14/11/2008 08:33:00

Just five months after IBM's hybrid Roadrunner became the first supercomputer to break the lofty petaflop barrier, a second, more traditional machine has made the same leap.
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NASA research sends IT, consumer projects into orbit 13/11/2008 09:29:00

Aware that his family had a history of heart disease, then-50-year-old Gary F. Thompson saw his doctor before deciding to run a Los Angeles marathon in the mid-1990s.
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Cray's Jaguar may be world's fastest computer 12/11/2008 14:00:00

About five months after IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer became the fastest computer in the world, Cray Inc.'s XT Jaguar could dethrone it next week.
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Laid off sysadmin arrested for threatening company's servers 11/11/2008 11:13:00

A systems administrator was arrested in New Jersey Monday for allegedly trying to extort money and even good job references out of a New York-based mutual fund company that had just laid him off.
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Analyst calls Intel's Core i7 chip 'blindingly fast' 05/11/2008 09:44:00

Intel's Nehalem chips, slated to ship later this month, Tuesday were called "blindingly fast" by an analyst who is using an early machine running the processor.
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Intel's Atom boosts chip market, but tough times loom 05/11/2008 10:02:00

Intel's new Atom processor helped drive the worldwide microprocessor market to a new shipment record in the third quarter, Nonetheless, analysts say darker times loom ahead.