IBM has annouced that they are selling their PC business to a Chinese company, Lenovo.
IBM have stated that the PC business has become more like selling appliances, and does not fit with their strategy for technology innovation
Running multiple apps under the same JVM with JDistro
OnJava.com have an interview with the developers of JDisto, an app that allows multiple Java apps to run together in the same JVM instance.
The main benefit of this is to avoid the overhead of each app running in its own memory hungry JVM. However, with the tendency of large Java desktop apps to hang and crash after a period of time (IBMs WSAD and DB2 client tools come to mind), I wonder how stable this environment is in practice? Can they isolate one app from another so one hanging app doesn’t effect another?
Sony and Toshiba confirm new Cell CPU to be available 2005
First product available will be a graphics workstation. High definition TVs will be released in 2006.
Sony and Toshiba will be presenting further technical info on the new CPU at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco in February 2005.
Sony have also confirmed that the next generation Playstation built around the Cell will be demo’d at E3 in May next year, although no official release date for the PS3 has yet been stated.
Intel release last in current line of Pentium 4 processors
This week Intel quietly released the last in the current line of Pentium IV processors, a 3.8GHz model.
Intel has previously stated that this will be the last Pentium IV of the current line. Instead they intend to start developing other speed enhancing architecture changes, rather than raw CPU cycle speed. The new CPUs will also follow a new naming standard which will de-emphasise the actual CPU speed, following AMD’s current marketing strategy.