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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Compaq Computer Corp. has settled a lawsuit with a Woodlands start-up company headed by what has been called "the Server Mafia." In February, the No. 1 computer maker filed the lawsuit in state ...

Compaq Computer is sharpening its strategy to cram as many servers into as little space as possible, planning to release an "ultradense" server design code-named QuickBlade later this year. With ...

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 ...

Compaq Computer Corp. today launched the first tier of its high-density, blade server line for businesses, the ProLiant BL e-Class, code-named QuickBlade. Blade servers can be densely stacked in racks ...

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 ...