Jeffrey Burt

Intel is rolling out its latest generation of PC processors that officials boast will deliver a 40 percent performance increase over the current “Kaby Lake” chips. The new 8th-Generation 14-nanometer Core processors—code-named “Coffee Lake” and introduced Aug. 21—are aimed at midrange laptops and two-in-one systems, and come at a time when the dominant chip maker […]

Western Digital and its flash memory subsidiary SanDisk won a round in its growing legal dispute with joint venture partner Toshiba when a California court said this week that Toshiba could not bar Western Digital employees from gaining access to shared databases that are part of the joint venture. In a statement, Western Digital officials […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is adding network virtualization products from Big Switch Networks to the lineup of third-party software that can run on the OEM’s Altoline portfolio of open networking switches. The tech vendor is now reselling Big Switch’s Big Monitoring Fabric and Big Cloud Fabric with three of its Altoline systems, which also can run […]

Intel, which is being pressed by a resurgent Advanced Micro Devices, later this month will begin launching its powerful Core X-Series desktop processors to address such compute-intensive applications as virtual reality and gaming. The chip maker introduced the lineup at the Computex show in May, with officials promising up to 20 percent performance improvement for […]

Qualcomm’s already hefty bid to buy rival NXP Semiconductor for about $38 billion could become more expensive now that active investor Elliot Management has entered the picture. Officials with Elliott have disclosed that the hedge fund now has a stake of between $2.2 billion and $2.3 billion in NXP, making Elliott the company’s largest shareholder […]

Qualcomm’s legal battle with Apple over technology used in the iPhone continues to escalate, with more tech vendors jumping into the fray and the chip maker pushing back at the assertion that its efforts are targeted at rival Intel. The chip maker ramped up the issue earlier this month when it asked the International Trade […]

The same week that Lenovo officials were mapping out the company’s future in the emerging artificial intelligence market, they also were promising that its cornerstone PC business will rebound in the coming fiscal year. At its third annual Tech World show July 20 in Shanghai, the vendor unveiled an augmented reality (AR) headset—the daystAR (pictured)—and […]

System makers Fujitsu and Huawei Technologies reportedly are both planning to develop processors optimized for artificial intelligence workloads, moves that will put them into competition with the likes of Intel, Google, Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices. Tech vendors are pushing hard to bring artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning capabilities into their portfolios to meet […]

Intel continues to be the dominant server chip vendor in the industry, but a rapidly changing data center environment fueled by the rise of such emerging technologies as cloud computing, data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning is opening the door to new and re-energized rivals that are looking to grab some of the 95 […]

Update: The International Trade Commission on July 20 refused to set aside a ban on the importation of particular Ethernet switch products from Arista that the commission had found violated two Cisco patents. Marc Taxay, senior vice president and general counsel for Arista, said in a statement that company executives are “deeply disappointed” in the […]