Jeffrey Burt

Intel Plans Strategy for Meeting Demand for PC, Server Chips

Intel’s interim CEO is admitting that the unexpected upswing in the global PC space is putting a squeeze on the supply of 14-nanometer processors but said the company will be able to meet its revenue goals for the year despite the increasing market pressures. PC shipments increased in the second quarter of this year, according […]

Judge Says Apple Infringed on Qualcomm IP but Won’t Ban iPhones

Qualcomm officials got some of what they wanted from a judge with the International Trade Commission, who said that while Apple did infringe on one of three Qualcomm patents, there was no reason to ban the company’s iPhone from the United States. The decision by Judge Thomas Pender is the latest step in a sprawling […]

Why Dell Is Reportedly Reconsidering Another IPO

Michael Dell still plans to take his eponymous company public again. It’s just that now he might take the initial-public-offering route. The CEO of Dell Technologies in July announced that he planned to take the company public by a complicated transaction process based on spending $21.7 billion to buy “tracking stock” from investors that is […]

Qualcomm: Apple Gave Trade Secrets to Intel

Qualcomm officials are taking another swing at Apple in the companies’ ongoing and wide-ranging legal dispute by accusing the device maker of stealing trade secrets from Qualcomm and giving them to Intel to help the chip vendor boost the performance of its processors. The allegations reportedly were made in a superior court filing in California, […]

Talari, Nuage Take SD-WAN Connectivity to the Multicloud

The continued migration by businesses to the cloud has helped drive the growth of the software-defined WAN space as enterprises look for faster, secure and cheaper ways to connect their branch offices and remote sites. That challenge has only increased as businesses increasingly use multiple cloud providers for the workloads and data. Talari Networks and […]

Cisco Brings Webex Edge Services to Enterprise Data Centers

Cisco Systems continues to revamp and build out the capabilities of is collaboration platform, most recently introducing new edge Webex services that can be run in a customer’s own data center, more hardware for corporate conference rooms, headsets for its Webex and Jabber unified communications applications, and a new meeting scheduler for Webex. The new […]

How New IBM Cloud Service Will Detect Bias in AI

Artificial intelligence holds the promise for enterprises of being able to use sophisticated algorithms to churn through massive amounts of data, discover patterns, return insights, and help drive faster and better business decisions. Image recognition, natural language processing, translation and other capabilities gained through neural networks, machine learning and deep learning will help executives open […]

Startup Ampere Releases First Arm-Based Server Chips

A startup run by a former Intel president is rolling out the first of its Arm-based server processors that are designed to challenge its larger rival in such modern environments as hyperscale data centers and edge computing. Ampere, which officially launched in February with ex-Intel executive Renee James as its CEO and chairman, on Sept. […]

Lenovo, NetApp Combine Forces in Servers, All-Flash Storage

Officials with Lenovo, which already is seeing strong growth in its data center server and storage businesses, are looking to add stronger flash capabilities to its lineup through a partnership with NetApp and its expertise in all-flash and hybrid-flash storage. The two companies last week announced a strategic partnership that also includes the creation of […]

Nvidia Aims Tesla T4 GPUs at AI Inferencing in Data Centers

Nvidia officials are looking to press their advantage in the fast-growing artificial intelligence space with the introduction of the company’s new Tesla T4 GPUs and a new platform and software aimed at the inference side of the AI equation. At the vendor’s GTC technology conference in Tokyo this week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang showed off […]