Jeff Burt

A startup that is designing a processor aimed specifically at machine learning and artificial intelligence applications is getting a $30 million boost from a range of investors, including Samsung. Graphcore, which has been working for the past two years in Bristol, England, laying the groundwork for its upcoming intelligent processing unit (IPU), came out of […]

The numbers say the global PC market is still on the wane. System shipments have been on the decline for several years, a trend that continued in the third quarter when the numbers dropped by as much as 5.7 percent, according to industry analysts. However, OEMs are still putting a lot of time and resources […]

Ruckus Wireless wants to make it easier for organizations to manage the influx of devices that are accessing their corporate networks as the number of mobile workers continues to grow. Ruckus, a business unit of Brocade, this week introduced Cloudpath ES 5.0 software, which offers a range of features that deliver an integrated security and […]

Oracle has set a deadline of Nov. 4 for NetSuite shareholders to accept its $9.3 billion bid for the cloud software provider, and it may take that long to know for sure whether the deal will come off. Oracle CEO Mark Hurd said this week in an interview on CNBC that the enterprise software giant […]

Service providers CenturyLink and Level 3 Communications reportedly are in merger talks in a deal that would create a larger and more competitive telecommunications company. Citing anonymous sources, the Wall Street Journal and Reuters both reported that executives with the two companies are negotiating a deal that would being Level 3 into the CenturyLink fold. […]

The OpenPower Foundation has got traction in North America and last year unveiled efforts to grow in the Chinese market. Now the consortium launched by IBM three years ago is showcasing rapid growth in Europe. At the group’s inaugural OpenPower European Summit in Barcelona, Spain, this week, foundation members announced a series of OpenPower-based projects […]

Officials with Lenovo and Fujitsu confirmed that they are in talks regarding the future of Fujitsu’s PC business, but what the result of those negotiations will be remains unclear. The companies said in a joint statement that Lenovo, Fujitsu and Fujitsu Client Computing—the subsidiary created by Fujitsu in February to house the PC business—that they […]

Qualcomm is buying rival chip maker NXP Semiconductors in a $47 billion bid to rapidly expand beyond its core mobile device space and challenge Intel in such important emerging markets as the internet of things. After weeks of speculation, Qualcomm and NXP officials on Oct. 27 announced the largest deal in the chip space, surpassing […]

Semiconductor maker Renesas Electronics is teaming with two other tech vendors on the development of the next generation of its Synergy internet of things platform that is based on ARM’s new ARMv8-M chip architecture. Officials with Renesas, Express Logic and IAR Systems are showcasing the enhanced platform this week at ARM’s TechCon 2016 event, demonstrating […]

Samsung Electronics is adding new modules and management capabilities to its Artik platform for the internet of things in an effort to better help organizations more quickly build out their IoT projects. The introduction of the new additions to Artik—which was unveiled last year—and the expansion of the Artik Cloud were made this week at […]