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 ...

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 maker offers a rosier interpretation of Dataquest statistics that showed it losing first place in the U.S. market for Intel servers. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Corp. has alleged that former employees of its server division are using the computer giant’s intellectual property and trade secrets to launch their own company. Houston-based Compaq ...

Compaq Computer Corp. is charging that a company founded by several former employees of its server division are using the computer giant’s intellectual property and trade secrets. Compaq filed the ...

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 ...