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Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel

Apple Computer plans to announce Monday in the US that it's scrapping its partnership with IBM and switching its computers to Intel's microprocessors, CNET News.com has learned. Read more »

Jobs: New Intel Macs are 'screamers'

Addressing a packed crowd of the Mac faithful, Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs on Tuesday served up the first Intel-based Macs, introducing a new high-end laptop and a revamped iMac. Read more »

Montecito servers expected in September

Intel has begun selling its dual-core "Montecito" version of Itanium. 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 »

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 »

AMD's dual-core Opteron due this month

Advanced Micro Devices is expected to launch new Opteron chips later this month that combine dual processing engines onto a single slice of silicon. Read more »

Sparc specs released under GPL

As promised in January, the Verilog plans for the UltraSparc chip have been made available. Read more »

HP augments Itanium server line

Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced a suite of improvements to its Itanium-based Integrity line of servers, including new chips, support for a fourth operating system and new options for running multiple jobs on the same machine. Read more »

Intel pledges 80-core chips in five years

Intel has built a prototype of a processor with 80 cores that can perform a trillion floating-point operations per second. Read more »

Intel programming tools reach new 64-bit chips

Intel has begun selling programming tools that let developers create software that supports 64-bit x86 chips, an important step in making the new generation of processors useful. Read more »

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Production-quality XenSource virtualisation is the main selling point here, with optional clustering and storage virtualisation to go with it. But there's a lot more besides, making the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux a compelling solution for businesses of all sizes. Read more »

Six barriers to open source adoption

The benefits of open source software are well known--lower TCO, more choice, and increasing quality and functionality of the code. Several barriers must be overcome before Linux and other open source projects are broadly accepted across enterprises, but they aren't insurmountable. Read more »

Q & A with Linus Torvalds

When Linus Torvalds successfully harnessed the talent of thousands of programmers to create Linux, the operating system that arguably suffered most was Sun Microsystems' Solaris. Read more »

Why open source is bad for Australia

Open source is actually anti-industry, and protecting it is not in Australia's interests, says one industry observer. Read more »

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