Jeff Burt

Intel officials last year announced that the company would manufacture Altera’s ARM-based quad-core Stratix 10 processors, part of its efforts to grow its foundry business to make silicon products for third parties. Now the two vendors are expanding the relationship to include multi-die devices, which integrate Altera’s field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) with […]

Nvidia this week unveiled its roadmap with the addition of the upcoming Pascal graphics family that will include a GPU interconnect that will speed up communications between the GPU and CPU in supercomputers. The announcement was one of several that the company made during its annual GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Calif. Along with […]

Cisco Systems is expanding the infrastructure that supports its Application Centric Infrastructure initiative, rolling out additions to its portfolio of Nexus 9000 switches and unveiling a new Nexus 3000 switch aimed at highly scalable data center and big data center workloads. Cisco introduced its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) initiative in November 2013. The strategy is […]

Dell continues to expand its networking portfolio, unveiling a highly scalable switch designed for cloud computing environments and a new software-defined networking controller for enterprise data centers and service provider infrastructures. The new offerings are the latest efforts by Dell to build out its networking capabilities as it looks to expand its reach as an […]

Intel is taking a significant step in its efforts to expand its presence in the nascent wearable device market with the acquisition of Basis Science, which makes a health-tracking device that is worn on the wrist. Speculation about Intel’s efforts to buy Basis surfaced earlier this month, after reports that the smartwatch maker was shopping […]

BOSTON—Oracle President Mark Hurd says the incoming generation of consumers—the Millennials—are not going to be like those of his generation, who grew up in an age when the power in a business relationship oftentimes rested with the vendor. Instead, the new generation—which currently represents 18 percent of the United States’ $17 trillion in gross domestic […]

SUWANEE, Ga.—Jake Dominguez and Andy Bynum slowly walk around the mostly empty, cavernous building that still looks much like the trucking and storage site it was until Advanced Micro Devices took it over more than two years ago and began transforming it into a data center. But while this part of the 153,000-square-foot building looked […]

Cisco Systems is teaming up with a wide range of partners and investing $1 billion over the next two years to build on its vision of a series of interconnected clouds through which the networking giant will be able to deliver applications and services. The OpenStack-based “global intercloud” will expand on the cloud offerings Cisco […]

AMD’s New Atlanta Data Center Showcases Chip Maker’s Technology by Jeffrey Burt In Charge of AMD’s Consolidation Effort Overseeing the massive undertaking are Andy Bynum, corporate vice president of global infrastructure and operations at AMD, left, and Jake Dominquez, the company’s corporate vice president and CIO. AMD Data Center From the Outside The facility doesn’t […]

Huawei Technologies reportedly is backing away from plans to launch a smartphone that can run both Windows Phone and Android, refuting statements made by an executive earlier this month. Huawei Chief Marketing Officer Shao Yang told news site Trusted Reviews in a March 13 report that the tech vendor in the second quarter would release […]

Hewlett-Packard later this month will roll out the first of its converged infrastructure systems for users of SAP’s HANA in-memory database computing technology. The company announced March 19 that the first of the HP ConvergedSystem solutions—which offer tightly integrated server, storage, networking, software and services optimized to run the in-memory computing (IMC) capabilities—will roll out […]

Lenovo’s multi-billion deals for IBM’s x86 server business and Google’s Motorola Mobility operations reportedly has not quenched the vendor’s appetite for acquisitions. Speaking to journalists March 18 after the company’s meeting with shareholders, Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing said the vendor still has enough cash to buy more businesses as it looks to broaden its reach […]