Jeff Burt

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel officials next year will introduce a low-power version of its powerful Xeon E3 server chip as it looks to stave off competition in the data center from Advanced Micro Devices as well as ARM and its list of partners. The company already offers systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) for dense, low-power servers based on its Atom […]

ARM officials are continuing to lay the groundwork for the company’s plans for a greater role in the data center, reaching a multiyear agreement with software giant Oracle to expand the capabilities of Java Platform Standard Edition on ARM’s chip architecture. ARM, which has worked with Oracle in the past to bring Java and its […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials are expecting a lot from the company’s wins in the game console market. AMD, which will have its silicon in Microsoft’s and Sony’s upcoming game consoles, and already is in Nintendo’s Wii U, is expected to return to profitability in the third quarter, due in part on the strength of the […]

Intel and Advanced Micro Devices continue to be hit hard by declining worldwide sales of PCs, and both chip makers are looking to aggressively expand into new growth areas and lessen their reliance on the PC market. However, neither vendor is pulling away from the PC industry. Instead, executives with each company this week said […]

Advanced Micro Devices executives, despite a second quarter that saw revenues fall and a net loss of $74 million, are upbeat about the second half of the year. In a conference call with analyst and journalists July 18 to talk about the second-quarter financial numbers, CEO Rory Read said the company’s efforts to expand into […]

A decision on Dell’s future will have to wait for another week. Dell’s board of directors adjourned a meeting scheduled for July 18 where shareholders were to vote on the $24.4 billion buyout proposed by founder and CEO Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners that would take the company private. The meeting […]

Blue Jeans Networks is bringing real-time video sharing to its cloud-based conferencing services. With the new feature, participants in a Blue Jeans conference can share everything from training videos and product vignettes to movies, trailers and commercials in real time across any platform being used in the meeting, including PCs, smartphones, tablets and conference room […]

Intel continues to struggle as executives try to steer the giant chip maker, which for decades had set the course in the processor market, to where the industry is going. As officials work to grow Intel’s miniscule share of the market for chips in ultramobile devices, the company is still finding itself weighted down by […]

NEC officials reportedly are considering shuttering the company’s smartphone business after a deal with Lenovo that had been in the works for month apparently fell through. According to reports from Reuters and the Japanese daily newspaper Nikkei, talks between the two companies, which began earlier this year, are hung up over debates regarding which company […]

Extreme Networks officials are looking to expand the company’s presence in the increasingly competitive converged data center infrastructure space through partnerships with Lenovo and EMC. Extreme on July announced it is entering into a reseller agreement with Lenovo, with the server vendor and its partners selling Extreme’s Open Fabric Ethernet switches as part of a […]

Intel’s acquisition of Omek Interactive is the latest step in the chip maker’s “perceptual computing” vision. Intel officials envision a time when users control their computing devices—from PCs to smartphones to other devices—without touching them. Instead, they will use hand gestures or voice commands, an idea being pursued by other tech companies, including Apple and […]

Dell’s board of directors reportedly is considering delaying the July 18 shareholder vote on CEO Michael Dell’s controversial $24.4 billion bid to buy the company and take it private. Citing an unnamed “person with direct knowledge of the situation,” Bloomberg said July 16 the special committee assigned by the directors to investigate the company’s future […]