I was this morning at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View to see Condie Rice taking a fast and furious ride (up to 160 MPH) on board of the all-electric Tesla Roadster. There will be more than 400 of...

"You missed the point", told me Nvidia's Kevin Krewell yesterday at MPF Spring, about my coverage of ATI 's Radeon HD 2000 graphics chips launch two weeks ago. And he's absolutely right. Mea Culpa. Indeed, during AMD's head of the...

At MPF today, Nvidia presented it's CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) programming model that let programs written in C language to take advantage of the power of Nvidia's latest Series 8 graphics chip family. The goal is to use the...

This morning I received a response from AMD on the 16 cores Barcelona system lackluster performance versus Intel's Clovertown V8 machine (8 cores) running the same POV-Ray benchmark. I'm still not convinced and until we actually can see/try out the...

At the Microprocessor Forum, Intel demoed its V8 workstation running the POV-Ray benchmark. The machine is equipped with Intel's Workstation Board S5000XVN, 2 quad-core Xeons 5365, clocked at 3GHz and 16GB RAM. And the results are simply impressive: Intel scored...

Day 1 of the Microprocessor Forum is now over. Well... I'll be heading to the Expo for some "refreshments"! My overall sentiment, as I know you care? Way too much of Intel in the morning: a keynote from Intel fellow...

Here is a short summary of Objective Analysis' analyst Jim Handy report on Intel and STMicroelectronics joint-venture deal in the flash memory space. What this deal means for the Flash memory Industry Spansion pulled ahead of Intel into a leading...

I had a chance to chat with Hideaki Ishihara, a senior manager at Japanese auto supplier Denso, after his (boring, I must say) keynote on automotive electronics. Denso is the world's second largest automobile parts maker behind Stuttgart, Germany-based, Bosch...

I just got off the phone with Spansion's marketing and sales chief Tom Eby who was more than happy to share his thoughts on today's Intel/ST Microelectronics announcement of combining their respective NOR flash memory divisions. Spansion competes with...

AMD execs closed yesterday's Barcelona "update" meeting with some interesting comments:...

At the same AMD press update, director of manufacturing technology Tom Sonderman hit on several myths that are circulating around AMD's capacity to ship its quad core Barcelona chip in volume to OEMs on time (this summer) and on the...

This morning AMD held a press briefing at the unassuming Clift hotel in San Francisco (cheaper than the "W" hotel where the company used to held such meetings... cost cuttings I guess) about its upcoming Barcelona processor. Despite rumours, AMD...

During our conversation last Friday with Dell's desktop product manager Ketan Pandya on the upcoming XPS 720 H2C, we had a question on how Dell's XPS and Alienware gaming systems are competing with one another. Here's what he had to...