Industries are defined by clashes between rivals. Think Pepsi vs Coca-Cola, Microsoft vs Apple or AMD vs Intel. But should we now forget about using the last example?

Speaking in an interview with the San Jose Mercury News, AMD spokesman Michael Silverman insists: "We will all need to let go of the old 'AMD versus Intel' mind-set, because it won't be about that anymore." Will AMD now carve its way forward without glancing at where Intel is heading?

If this is the case, it might mean the end of a rivalry (complete with legal feuds and blows) going on since the early 1980s. Intel was founded in 1968-- and AMD only a year later.

THINK. It was 100 years ago that IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, Sr. put this one-word slogan on a nameplate on his own desk to remind his executives what IBM culture required of its executives. Soon signs appeared in IBM offices and factories By the 1920s and in the early 1930s, THINK began to take precedence over other slogans in IBM.

You can still find echoes of Watson's motto in the brand name of IBM's popular notebook computers (now sold-off to Lenovo): the ThinkPad.

For IBM’s 100 anniversary, the centennial iteration is IBM’s THINK Exhibit at Lincoln Center in New York City, an ambitious exhibit that combined live data visualization, a first-of-a-kind immersive film, and giant interactive stations to explore how we live and work. Read more...

Microsoft is a colossus, with sales reaching over $60 billion a year (and growing by 10% Y-o-Y), annual profits totaling $20BN and owning nearly $60BN in cash. But is it really about to collapse due to standing on feet of clay?

This is the belief Silicon Valley big VC firm partners, executives and startup gurus speaking to Business Insider share. How would such a scenario-- a nightmare for Steve Ballmer and co.-- play out?

First off, Apple manages to beat all other vendors to become global PC vendor by H2 2012, as Canalys predicts (keep in mind Canalys forecasts also count tablet numbers). As consumers (and employees) get more and more intimate with Apple hardware and software, enterprise IT departments will also start switching to Apples-- as they already do in the mobile sphere, switching from Blackberries to iPhones and the iPad. RIM tried to enter the enterprise tablet market with the PlayBook, but with very little success.

AMD starts shipping the first 16-core Opteron 6200 CPUs (codenamed Interlagos), aiming at the high-end server market asking for density, multithreading and processor efficiency. 

The company says the 16-core Opteron processors are 25-30% faster than the 12-core versions while using around 50% less power per core, running at 1.6-2.6GHz and with power consumptions of around 85-140W. 

Using Bulldozer cores, AMD also claims the chips provide 73% better memory bandidth and will provide a 66% increase in floor space. 

HP, Acer, Dell, IBM and Cray should Read more...