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HP set to debut last in-house chip
Hewlett-Packard is set to debut as soon as next week its first Unix servers with the last member of the company's PA-RISC processor family, a lineage that's being supplanted by Intel's Itanium. Read more »
First game arrives for AMD 64-bit chip
The first computer game designed to take full advantage of the 64-bit features of Advanced Micro Devices' Athlon chip came out Tuesday, although the operating system to run it won't appear for about another year. Read more »
Unfazed, IBM pumps Power chip program
Fresh after getting publicly dumped by Apple Computer, IBM is taking new measures to spread its Power processors and make them a stronger competitor to Intel chips. Read more »
Intel learns from insects to make 80-cores practical
Researchers at chip giant Intel are looking to create insect-like exoskeletons that will help make 80-core processors work with today's software and hardware. Read more »
Montecito servers expected in September
Intel has begun selling its dual-core "Montecito" version of Itanium. Read more »
Itanium--one step forward, one back
Intel allies Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft have some good and bad news for the chipmaker's Itanium 2 processor family. Read more »
New Linux look fuels old debate
Efforts to bring glitzy new graphics to Linux are fuelling an old conflict: Does proprietary software belong in open-source Linux? Read more »
Intel considered buying graphics heavyweights Nvidia, ATI
As rival AMD was preparing to snap up graphics chipmaker ATI Technologies, Intel was considering topping AMD's offer or going after Nvidia, according to one of the company's top executives. Read more »
Chip makers release driver source code
Taiwanese chip makers VIA Technologies and XGI Technology released the source code of various drivers this week in an attempt to improve Linux support for their products. Read more »
Google acquires programming toolmaker PeakStream
Google has acquired PeakStream, a start-up that sells tools for writing software that can take advantage of multicore processors as well as graphics and gaming chips. Read more »
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Red ring of death is closer than you think
It can seem hard to believe that a company with all the resources of Microsoft can make make a billion-dollar mistake with a small chip-design fault. Yet chip design is not an exact science and Rupert Goodwins, who has been there himself, details how it can go horribly wrong. Read more »
Macromedia courts mainstream developers
Macromedia announced this week the first major update of its MX line of Web design and development tools. Read more »
Despite its aging design, the x86 is still in charge
With most of the world's software written with x86 in mind, it's doubtful that any future chip architecture would be able to displace it. Read more »
Programming for Cell
As the Cell has seven usable cores and some exotic memory features, it can offer more parallelism than other chips in the marketplace but it comes at the cost of ease of programming. We discuss the challenges faced by this difficult yet highly parallel architecture. Read more »
Ecosystem breaking from Microsoft's grip?
Microsoft got where it is today through its influence over manufacturers. It no longer has the control it once enjoyed. Read more »
Red Hat's Fedora 5 boosts desktop features
Red Hat released its Fedora Core 5 version of Linux Monday, giving enthusiasts new graphics and virtualisation abilities, as well as some desktop utilities based on a software framework from Microsoft. Read more »
Mac OS X on x86 tested
Steve Jobs might not approve, but Apple's latest operating system can be installed on any x86 hardware. How well does it function? Read our preliminary labs test to find out. Read more »
Embed me: Career opportunities in embedded software
Writing software designed to be embedded in an appliance, phone, or some other real-world device is a growth area, but has its own set of challenges. Read more »
James Gosling Q & A
James Gosling was in Australia this week to give two question-and-answer session to local developers. A rare opportunity for local developers, Builder AU was on hand to transcribe the event for those who couldn't make it. Read more »
Torvalds: What, me worry?
In this interview Linux's creator, Linus Torvalds, sounds off on the SCO lawsuit, patents and the future of Linux. Read more »
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Opera's new SDK: Better browsing on the Wii?Opera has thrown a little more love at device developers by announcing an updated version of its software development kit on Wednesday at CES. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.