Jeff Burt

PC market leaders Lenovo and HP will be among the first OEMs to roll out desktop systems armed with Advanced Micro Devices’ latest processors. Officials with the chip maker announced Oct. 3 at the Canalys Channels Forum in Barcelona, Spain, that the two PC vendors will offer the 7th Generation AMD Pro accelerated processing units […]

Advanced Micro Devices this week kept up the aggressive buildout of its graphics technologies with the release of two new GPUs for the embedded and internet of things market that are built on the chip maker’s Polaris architecture. Company officials are aiming the Embedded Radeon E9260 and E9550 discrete GPUs at a wide range of […]

Hyperconverged infrastructure provider Nutanix is now a public company after raising almost $238 million in its initial public offering. Company officials on Sept. 29 announced it had sold 14.87 million shares of its common stock at a price of $16, which was more than the expected price range of $13 to $15. Nutanix debuted Sept. […]

Enterprise software maker SAP will spend $2.2 billion over the next five years to build out its internet of things capabilities, and kicked off the effort by buying two IoT-related companies whose products will be folded into SAP’s HANA big data platform. Company officials this week said the money will be used to bolster its […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is offering a service that will help enterprises create smart conference rooms utilizing technologies from Microsoft, Logitech, EventBoard and its own Aruba Networks wireless networking unit. The company this week introduced Modern Workplace to help organizations create conference rooms that will include collaboration tools to make the meeting experience easier and increase […]

Lenovo officials this week put a focus on the company’s data center infrastructure offerings with new capabilities in such areas as high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, deep learning and—in conjunction with Microsoft—the cloud. The company announced that it is expanding its use of the latest GPU accelerators from Nvidia to boost performance and power efficiency in […]

Qualcomm, the world’s top vendor of processors for mobile devices, reportedly is negotiating to buy rival NXP Semiconductors in a deal that would accelerate Qualcomm’s expansion into such areas as automotive technology and continue the years-long consolidation trend in the chip industry. According to the Wall Street Journal, the deal could be worth more than […]

Nvidia officials, who earlier this year unveiled the Drive PX 2 platform for self-driving cars, are opening up about the company’s next-generation autonomous vehicle technology that will include a new GPU architecture and computer vision accelerator. Unveiled this week at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Europe, the Xavier system-on-a-chip (SoC) will be a supercomputer […]

Dell Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are pushing forward with their hybrid cloud efforts by introducing new integrated systems and services for Microsoft’s Azure Stack software. The hardware vendors and software giant all view the future of enterprise technology in terms of hybrid clouds, where organizations will run some their applications and workloads in on-premises […]

Qualcomm officials are using a different go-to-market model for the company’s newest embedded processors aimed at the internet of things. Qualcomm traditionally has sold its mobile Snapdragon systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) directly to its device-making customers. These tended to be a relatively small number of smartphone and tablet makers with high volumes of products and that Qualcomm […]