The company's move to transfer its Alpha chip expertise to Intel leaves just three major chip designs in competition: Intel's Itanium, Sun's UltraSparc and IBM's Power. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Color me puzzled. Wall Street doesn't seem to like the proposed merger of HP and Compaq. What's not to like? In a declining PC market, two major forces are joining to survive a withering market. But ...

While blade servers have been positioned as a means to cram many servers into a small space, Compaq Computer Corp.’s introduction of its blade line came with a twist Monday. With the addition of ...

The PC business was a very important part of Hewlett-Packard’s (HP’s) Compaq acquisition, but one of the main drivers behind the deal was Compaq’s server business, in both Intel-based and Unix ...

IBM and Compaq Computer Corp. are to announce Monday new computers that they call servers. IBM’s six machines offer an alternative to the traditional mainframe, while Compaq’s four computers are ...

What kind of memory are people using with newer Compaq servers? We have like 3 newer Compaq servers that keep ASR'ing with simple and kingston dimms. Is every one using Comapq ram? And to make matters ...

Compaq Computer Corp. will start selling server management software options in addition to the software customers get free with the purchase of a ProLiant server, the company said Wednesday. Compaq ...