Jeffrey Burt

Broadcom, which make a failed bit to buy rival chip maker Qualcomm for $117 billion after acquiring networking gear vendor Brocade for $5.5 billion, is now turning its attention to software maker CA Technologies in a bid that indicates a shift in priorities for the chip maker. The proposed $19 billion deal moves the company’s […]

The long-struggling worldwide PC market hasn’t been this strong in more than six years, according to analysts with IDC and Gartner. Businesses around the globe continued to upgrade their PCs in the second quarter of this year to Windows 10, fueling the strongest growth in the space since the first quarter of 2012, according to […]

Intel over the past several years has adapted to an increasingly data-centric world by diversifying its product lines beyond CPUs for PCs and servers to offer a broader range of computing systems including programmable chips, ASICs and, soon discrete GPUs. The giant chip maker is now adding to that lineup through the acquisition of long-time […]

Intel is filling out its lineup of Xeon workstation processors with the latest chips aimed at entry-level systems and mobile workloads. The 14-nanometer Xeon E-2100 chips, which are Xeon E3 processors based on a derivative of the “Coffee Lake” cores, are designed to offer capabilities that deliver a 36 percent performance improvement over the E-1200 […]

Dell EMC is rolling out a new data protection appliance aimed at midsize organizations that officials said have been squeezed between high-priced and complex systems aimed at larger enterprises and low-cost machines that often can lack the necessary performance and efficiency. The vendor’s IDPA (Integrated Data Protection Appliance) DP4400 is a 2U (3.5-inch) system that […]

Advanced Micro Devices in 2016 announced a joint venture deal with a Chinese company to create a company in that country that would license AMD’s technology to create x86 server chips, a move the promised the U.S. chip maker hundreds of millions of dollars in licensing fees and royalties and a greater foothold in the […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is continuing to keep a focus on the network edge and remote offices with the rollout this week of the SimpliVity 2600, a highly dense hyperconverged system offering that the company said will fit well in space-constrained environments. The 2U (3.5-inch) SimpliVity 2600 can work with such applications as virtual desktop infrastructure […]

Five years after Michael Dell took his eponymous company private in a bruising $24 billion buyout, Dell Technologies is preparing to go public again. Company officials announced July 2 a $21.7 billion deal in which DVMT—a tracking stock that tracks the performance of VMware—will be exchanged for a new class of common shares, Dell Technologies […]

The latest edition of the biannual Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers put into stark focus the increasingly heated competition between the United States and China that could set the direction of the high-performance and enterprise computing markets down the road, particularly as the world marches toward exascale computing. According to the list, which […]

LAS VEGAS—Hewlett Packard Enterprise wants to enable organizations to run the same enterprise-class applications at the network edge as they do in their data centers and the cloud. At the company’s Discover 2018 show here June 20, HPE officials unveiled a range of new hardware offerings based on their   that are designed to give […]