PALO ALTO, Calif. — Hewlett-Packard Co. here today announced a line of computers, built around a new version of its proprietary RISC-based microprocessor line. HP's new PA-RISC chip, the PA-8700, ...

Late last month, HP introduced the final processor speed increase for its 9000 series servers, said Randy Meyer, director of strategy, technology and education at HP. The new PA-8900 processor, which ...

SAN FRANCISCO — To pump more life into its PA-RISC processor family, Hewlett-Packard Co. has apparently switched from Intel Corp. to another foundry partner — most likely IBM Microelectronics — that ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. is set to begin shipping the final processor upgrade to its HP 9000 line of Unix servers. The new chip, called the PA-8900, is expected to be introduced at a press event held at ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. this week plan to announce products that reinforce their existing hardware strategies while sharpening their differences. Both companies will announce new ...

At its annual HP World user conference in Chicago this week, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) will announce a number of enhancements to its HP-UX operating system, designed to narrow the gap between the ...

Loyal HotHardware readers, you know all about RISC-V, right? Well, just in case you don't, a brief refresher is in order. RISC-V is an instruction set architecture like ARM or x86, but unlike those, ...

One of the ways people use FPGAs is to have part of the FPGA fabric hold a CPU. That makes sense because CPUs are good at some jobs that are hard to do with an FPGA, and vice versa. Now that the ...

We’ve heard the story before. I was a proponent of it in the late 1990s, with the ‘first fully configurable’ processor core. So, did we already experience the ‘first’ one many years ago, or was the ...

Alibaba has just made a laptop called the Alibaba Roma RISC-V laptop that gets its processor based on the RISC-V ISA, which is open-sourced. This is interesting because the RISC-V processors are more ...