Jeff Burt

Intel is creating a $100 million fund and creating an innovation center in China to help fuel the development of smart systems like smartphones and wearable devices powered by its processors. Also at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in China April 2, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich also showed off a new device aimed at the […]

Advanced Micro Devices has revamped its deal with chip manufacturer Globalfoundries, which will now not only produce computing processors but also graphics chips and semi-custom silicon for game consoles. AMD officials said they will pay Globalfoundries $1.2 billion in 2014 for the expanded manufacturing capabilities. Globalfoundries in the past has made computing chips for AMD, […]

Apple reportedly is considering buying a controlling stake in a unit of Japanese-based Renesas Electronics that makes chips and controllers for displays used in such devices as smartphones. According to a report in the Japanese business daily Nikkei, Apple is looking to spend $479 million for Renesas’ 55 percent share of Renesas SP Drivers, which […]

Intel and Arista are spearheading the latest effort to fuel widespread adoption of 100 gigabit-per-second optical networking to data centers. At the Interop Las Vegas event April 1, the two vendors announced a new consortium of two-dozen tech companies—including Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Brocade, Oracle and eBay—that is developing a proposed standard for 100G bps links for […]

Hewlett-Packard is leveraging new cloud-based and software-defined networking capabilities to expand its unified wired and wireless solutions, improve network management and offer a better experience for mobile users. At Interop Las Vegas March 31, HP officials are unveiling a range of new offerings, from software-defined networking (SDN) systems and applications to wireless access points to […]

Extreme Networks is unveiling a software-defined architecture that officials say is designed less to focus on the technology and more on the end-user experience. Introduced March 31 at the Interop Las Vegas show, Extreme’s solution more tightly brings together its networking solutions with those of Enterasys Networks, which the company bought last fall for $180 […]

Intel invested about $740 million in Cloudera, taking an 18 percent share of the Hadoop-based big data software maker. Cloudera officials on March 31 said the company has had a $900 million round of financing, including a previously announced $160 million of that coming from several backers, such Google Ventures, T. Rowe Price and an […]

Nvidia and VMware officials are looking to bring high-end graphics capabilities to hosted desktop environments, opening up the computing model for engineers and others who use three-dimensional and other graphics-rich applications that are delivered via the cloud. At the same time, the two companies are working on solutions that will enable VMware customers to use […]

Intel reportedly is taking another step forward in the wearable computing device market by investing $15 million in a company that makes a small camera that can clipped onto a pair of glasses to aid people who are visually impaired. The news of the investment in OrCam comes just days after Facebook announced it was […]

Midokura and Cumulus Networks plan to give customers a look in May of a joint solution designed to enable organizations to manage workloads on both virtual and physical networking infrastructures. Network virtualization traditionally is designed to enable communications among virtual devices and machines that are housed on overlay networks that sit above the hardware layer. […]

Intel will partner with Cloudera to develop a Hadoop-based big data platform that will leverage Cloudera’s software capabilities and Intel’s hardware expertise. The move also means that Intel will shut down its own Hadoop distribution, which the chip maker released a year ago as a way of extending the reach of its software business and […]

Cisco Systems is being sued for patent infringement by a company armed with old Nortel Networks patents that it bought in December 2013. Officials with Spherix are claiming that a wide range of Cisco products, from switches to routers, infringe on 11 former Nortel patents that the company now owns. The company in its lawsuit […]