Jeff Burt

AMD Aims Opteron-X ‘Kyoto’ Chips at Growing Microserver Space by Jeffrey Burt AMD Has a Multi-Prong Strategy for the Microserver Space AMD’s new Opteron-X processors—the X2150 and X1150—bring the chip maker’s x86 chips into the microserver mix. AMD already had traction in the space after buying SeaMicro last year, and officials have said the company […]

Worldwide server revenues and shipments are continuing to slide as businesses consolidate their data center systems and the global economy remains uncertain, according to analysts with IDC. Hewlett-Packard and IBM continued to lead the worldwide server market in revenues in the first quarter, but both saw their numbers slip, according to figures released by IDC […]

Cisco Systems is bulking up its capabilities around data networks and the Internet of Things with the acquisition of JouleX, whose technology enables businesses to better monitor and manage the energy usage of devices connected to the network. Cisco will pay $107 million for the four-year-old Atlanta-based company in a deal officials said will close […]

Advanced Micro Devices is introducing a new x86-based Opteron series of chips aimed at the burgeoning low-power microserver space, even as the vendor prepares to roll out new ARM-based products for such systems starting in 2014. AMD’s new Opteron X-Series offerings—formerly code-named “Kyoto”—are highly dense and energy-efficient processors designed to challenge Intel’s low-power Atom chips […]

Intel reportedly is adding ST-Ericsson’s GPS chip business to its growing portfolio of capabilities. ST-Ericsson, a failed joint venture of STMicroelectronics and Ericsson, announced early May 28 that it was selling its “Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) to an unnamed “leading semiconductor company,” setting off a round of speculation about possible buyers that included Intel, […]

Advanced Micro Devices’ deal to supply chips to power Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox One gaming and entertainment console could be worth as much as $3 billion, according to a former company executive who now works for rival Nvidia. In a statement on his LinkedIn site, Bob Feldstein, former vice president of strategic development at AMD and […]

Dell and Hewlett-Packard introduced new thin client offerings designed to give increasingly cloud-bound enterprises more powerful client tools. The tech giants unveiled the products this week at the Citrix Synergy 2013 show in Anaheim, Calif., where virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI) was a central theme. The Dell and HP thin client offerings focused on better performance […]

Intel may be taking a big step into the mobile device space. According to reports, the next tablet from Samsung will be powered by an Intel Atom “Clover Trail” system-on-a-chip (SoC), with the top-tier mobile device maker opting to move away from the ARM-based chips from Nvidia and Texas Instruments that had been used in […]

Nokia Siemens Networks and Ericsson are offering solutions to help wireless carriers better integrate WiFi into their broadband services to give mobile device users a better overall better experience. The two vendors at the CTIA show in Las Vegas this week introduced separate traffic steering offerings designed to enable people using their smartphones and tablets […]

Juniper Networks and startup Cloudscaling announced last month that Cloudscaling would leverage Juniper’s virtual network controller into its OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure offering. Now Juniper is giving Cloudscaling even more help, contributing to the $10 million the smaller company collected in Round B financing. Juniper, which like most of its competitors in the networking space is […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials are looking to new lines of chips to help the company regain its footing in a compute environment that is increasingly shifting to mobile devices. AMD is unveiling new accelerated processing units (APUs) that are aimed at tablets, low-power, ultrathin notebooks and hybrid devices that can be used as either laptops […]

BYOD may be a management and security headache for some organizations, but if done right, it can lead to significant productivity, efficiency and financial gains, according to Cisco Systems officials. In addition, the more strategic an organization’s bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives are, the greater the benefits that are gained. Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group conducted a […]