Jeff Burt

ARM officials say they are seeing continued momentum behind the company’s 64-bit chip design, noting the signing of the 50th license agreement for the ARMv8-A architecture. In all, 27 companies have signed agreements around the system-on-a-chip (SoC) design and the Cortex-A50 family of 64-bit chips, representing a broad range of chip makers in such varied […]

During Intel’s most recent quarterly earnings call, Executive Vice President and CFO Stacy Smith talked briefly about the company’s efforts to be a significant player in any computer system of any size. “As I reflect on the first half of 2014, I believe the strategy that we put in place for this year is playing […]

Intel officials on Aug. 29 launched a powerful eight-core desktop processor that comes with 20MB of cache and speeds of up to 3.0GHz, with overclocking features that can make it go faster. The Core i7-5960X Extreme Edition, the vendor’s first eight-core chip for the consumer market, was announced at the PAX video-game conference and targets […]

VMware, Nvidia and Google want to take the Chromebook, which is increasingly popular among consumers and in such areas as education, and make it more attractive to the enterprise. At the VMworld 2014 show this week, the three companies demonstrated how the combination of VMware’s Blast Performance software and Nvidia’s Grid vGPU technology will enable […]

The video conferencing market continues to be a bad-news, good-news situation for vendors, according to analysts with IDC. The trend in revenues from video conferencing equipment kept its years-long slide going, with overall revenues falling 9 percent over the same period last year to $482 million, although there was a bump of 1.8 percent over […]

The increasing popularity of Chromebooks, the saturation in the tablet market and the ongoing migration away from Windows XP are helping to slow the decline in PC sales worldwide, and are helping fuel growth in mature markets, according to analysts with IDC. The market research firm in a report Aug. 27 said that PC shipments […]

Hewlett-Packard officials are unveiling the company’s upcoming ninth-generation ProLiant servers, which they say are the next steps in the vendor’s efforts to align its server strategy with the rapidly changing demands in the data center brought on by such trends as mobile computing, big data and the cloud. During a Webcast event Aug. 28, HP […]

Broadcom wants to make it easier for developers to use the vendor’s WICED technology to create devices for the burgeoning Internet of things. The company in December 2013 unveiled its Wireless Internet Connectivity for Embedded Devices (WICED) family of technologies aimed at the Internet of things (IoT) with the introduction of a smart chip for […]

Electrolux, with its broad range of home and professional appliances that it and the various companies it owns makes, stands to be a key player in the nascent Internet of things, where everything from refrigerators and thermostats to light bulbs, cooling systems and stoves will eventually be connected to the Internet and each other. Now […]

Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM continued to lead a global server market that saw revenues and shipments creep upward in the second quarter and that could be posysised for a larger boost going into next year, according to IDC analysts. IDC and Gartner said server revenues during the second three months of the year grew between […]

Freescale Semiconductor is introducing wireless charging technology and reference designs aimed at expanding its use in automobiles and in public places like airports, hotels and restaurants. The company on Aug. 27 introduced several programmable wireless charging integrated circuits (ICs) and reference designs that system makers can leverage in building their products. Freescale officials are looking […]

Intel has built a tiny 3G modem designed for the massive numbers of small devices that will be part of the Internet of things. The chip maker on Aug. 26 launched the XMM 6255, which officials called the world’s smallest standalone 3G modem. They hope it will become the wireless solution for many of the […]