Jeff Burt

Advanced Micro Devices officials said Chinese internet giant Alibaba will use the company’s graphics technologies in its cloud computing efforts, a significant win for the chip maker as it looks to re-establish itself in the data center against larger rivals Intel and Nvidia. AMD President and CEO Lisa Su and Simon Hu, president of Alibaba’s […]

HP Inc. will cut another 3,000 to 4,000 jobs over the next two years as it navigates a global PC market that continues to shrink. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Oct. 13, company officials said the job cuts will occur between HP’s fiscal years 2017 and 2019 as part of […]

IBM, Google and Mellanox Technologies are among the founders of a new industry consortium that promises to speed up server performance by up to 10 times at a time when emerging workloads such as data analytics and artificial intelligence are rapidly increasing the workloads on systems. The OpenCAPI Consortium is developing an open standard based […]

HP Inc. is powering up and slimming down its high-end PC lineup. Company officials this week unveiled the latest iterations of the company’s premium consumer systems, putting the new 7th Generation Core “Kaby Lake” processors from Intel into the second generation of its Spectre x360 convertible notebook (pictured) and putting more battery life and 4K […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise wants to make its product portfolio 30 times more energy-efficient within the next 10 years. Antonio Neri, executive vice president and general manager of the tech vendor’s Enterprise Group, announced the goal this week at the Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit in New York City, outlining how that would not only significantly decrease […]

Broadcom is sampling the next generation of its StrataXGS Tomahawk Ethernet switch chips, offering processors that officials say drive improved bandwidth capacity, scalability and power efficiency for cloud-scale data centers. The company this week unveiled the StrataXGS Tomahawk II switch series of chips that support up to 64 ports of 100 Gigabit Ethernet or 128 […]

A group of industry heavyweights, including Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, ARM and Lenovo, is launching an alliance to develop a scalable computing interconnect and protocol that will enable systems to keep with the rapidly rising tide of data that is being generated and that needs to be analyzed. The new industry group, the […]

Pivot3 officials want to bring its hypercoverged technologies to smaller organizations and remote enterprise offices. The company this week launched the Edge Office, an appliance that gives small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and remote and branch offices of enterprises the same simplicity, scalability and efficiencies that larger companies gain by embracing hyperconverged infrastructures. That includes […]

Intel officials have cited drones as an important growth market for the chip maker, and the company has been aggressive in getting its technologies—including silicon and software—into devices from other companies. Now Intel is rolling out a drone of its own, with the company’s name not only on components inside the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), […]

Lenovo and HP Inc. continue to vie for the top spot in a global PC market that continues to slow and that is consolidating around a handful of top vendors. Third-quarter numbers released this week by market research firms IDC and Gartner showed that HP is inching closer to market leader Lenovo, with less than […]