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 ...

The computer maker's long-awaited server puts new pressure on competitors in the race to cram as many processors into the thinnest server possible. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...