Jeffrey Burt

Mobile chip maker Qualcomm is being fined $773 million by Taiwanese regulators who claim the vendor is using its dominant position in the mobile baseband modem market to harm competitors, the latest issue at the company over its business model around products and patents. In a ruling this week, Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) ruled […]

NEW YORK CITY—Executives with Dell Technologies are looking to leverage the full scope of the company’s wide-ranging product portfolio to push an aggressive strategy for the internet of things. In a media event here Oct. 10, CEO Michael Dell and other officials unveiled a program that includes the creation of a new internet of things […]

LAS VEGAS—NetApp is expanding its partnership with Microsoft to bring more capabilities to Azure to make it easier for enterprises to migrate more workloads to the public cloud. The expanded collaboration with Microsoft was announced on Oct. 2 at NetApp’s Insight user conference, which is moving ahead under the pall of the country’s largest mass […]

For much of Polycom’s quarter century of existence, two constants for the company have been its conference phones and its partnership with Microsoft. The company has used its conference phones as the foundation of its MSR line of systems to run Microsoft’s Skype video communications technology, and has integrated Skype for Business and Office 365 […]

Cypress Semiconductor is introducing a new processor platform that company officials say will bring ultra-low power WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity to a range of internet of things systems, from wearable devices to smart home products. The company’s Cypress CYW43012 processors, announced Sept. 25, are built on a 28-nanometer manufacturing process, which will drive down the […]

Oracle is rolling out the latest generation of its SPARC platform and unveiling systems powered by the new processors and aimed at such workloads as databases, Java and in-memory analytics. Company officials are boasting significant performance improvements, not only over the previous generation of SPARC chips but also Intel x86-based Xeon processors. They also touted […]

Hyperscale data center operators such as Amazon, Google and Facebook continue to drive the global server market and the original design manufacturers they largely rely on are continuing to grow as a major presence in the space, according to analysts with Gartner and IDC. Both analyst firms said that server revenue and shipments grew in […]

Qualcomm officials looked to steal some of the attention away from longtime partner and recent legal adversary Apple a day before the giant device maker was set to roll out the latest generation of its iPhone as well as other systems. Apple executives were in the company’s new campus in Cupertino, Calif., Sept. 12 to […]

When database giant Oracle announced in 2009 that it was buying struggling Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, the conventional wisdom was that then-CEO Larry Ellison was most interested in the Solaris operating system and that he would quickly shed the accompanying data center hardware business. But Ellison kept the SPARC-based server and storage systems, using […]

Intel is targeting emerging workloads such as virtual reality, analytics and artificial intelligence by bringing its new Xeon Scalable chips to workstations. About six weeks after introducing the latest iteration of its Xeon server processors, Intel this week made two new Xeon Scalable chips available for what company officials call next-generation expert workstations that can […]