Jeff Burt

ARM is making a strong push into the supercomputing space as the industry continues its march toward exascale computing. Officials with the company, whose chip designs can be found in most smartphones and tablets and are working to make their way into enterprise servers, provided more information on a new chip design that includes vector […]

A key focus of Intel executives at the company’s annual developer event last week are the ultra-fast wireless networks that will help service providers and enterprises handle the rapidly growing number of devices and sensors that make up the internet of things. The chip maker wants to be the provider of the foundational technologies for […]

Intel officials are ready to bring silicon photonics—in development for 16 years—to the market. At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) this week, Diane Bryant, executive vice president and general manager of the company’s Data Center Group, announced that the chip maker has begun shipping silicon photonics modules, the first products in an expected portfolio that […]

Enterprises using Cisco Systems’ converged infrastructure platform in their data centers will now be able to run Nutanix’s hyperconverged software on top of it. Nutanix officials this week said the company has validated its Enterprise Cloud Platform software to run on Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) C-Series servers. The move means that Nutanix’s products can […]

Pivot3 is expanding the quality-of-service capabilities of its hyperconverged infrastructure portfolio as the company continues to rapidly integrate the capabilities inherited through its acquisition earlier this year of storage vendor NexGen. Pivot3 officials this week unveiled that they are including policy-driven data protection, application integration, scheduling and performance features to the company’s Dynamic Quality of […]

Qualcomm officials are continuing to get the company ready to take on Intel and its position as the dominant supplier of processors for the data center. The company this week announced that it has created a new business center group that will be focused on efforts in the data center, such as providing chips for […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Fifteen months after announcing plans to roll out an entirely new x86 processor microarchitecture that would scale from high-end servers down to notebook PCs, executives with Advanced Micro Devices laid the groundwork for chips that will feature the new “Zen” core, which they expect will become the cornerstone of a strategy to win back […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel last week took a significant step in the artificial intelligence space with the planned acquisition of startup Nervana Systems, a move that will give it software designed for the crucial task of machine learning. At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) here Aug. 17, company officials said they will continue their efforts to make […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel officials may be reducing the chip maker’s dependence on the foundering PC market, but that doesn’t mean they’ve given up on the systems. During his keynote address here Aug. 16 on the opening day of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), CEO Brian Krzanich showed off systems running on the company’s upcoming 7th-Generation Core […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel and ARM have been the major players in what has become the central competition in the processor market. Intel has failed to make much headway into a mobile chip space dominated by ARM and its partners, while ARM has been looking to make traction in data centers, where Intel silicon powers more than […]