Yen Explains Sun's Chip Strategy
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

David Yen, the long-time chip guru from Sun Microsystems who is often moved around by the company's top brass to troubled business units, has taken the helm of a new, independent Microelectronics group. Sun has announced its first OEM customer for chip technology, and that was a good excuse to get Yen on the phone and ask him what the real deal is behind Sun's moves. READ MORE >

Hello, New York? Buy IBM
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

While the end of the calendar year is often when we look back and examine what we have done in the prior 12 months and even further back through the years, spring is actually a time for renewal. It is when the sap starts to run, when the juices get flowing, when the earth warms, and the sun can reach your bones again to warm you. It is perhaps fitting, then, after a warm spell here in New York followed by a cold snap just after Passover and just before Easter that I ponder the future of IBM. READ MORE >

Schwartz Blogs a Bit About the Dud Rock Chip on His Desk
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Increasingly, companies are relying on their executive blogs as a way of communicating with the outside world rather than the more traditional means of using public relations channels and relying on the interested media outlets to provide coverage. And so it is that we learn from the blog of Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems' chief executive officer, that the company has received first silicon on its future "Rock" multicore Sparc processor. READ MORE >

As I See It: The Legacy
by Victor Rozek

An accomplished man, perhaps a great one, died recently. Certainly he was a man who exerted great influence on the computing industry and the people in it. He had one of those rare minds whose contributions helped shape the future, in his case by domesticating what was previously a primitive collection of magnetic drums, cathode-ray tubes, tape units, and card readers. By putting the power of a wizardly but cumbersome and elitist device into the hands of the many, he literally accelerated human progress. Yet most people don't know his name. READ MORE >