Jeff Burt

Extreme Networks officials will announce the company’s first-quarter financial numbers April 30, and on hand will be the company’s new CEO. Charles Berger, the top executive of analytic database software startup ParAccel until its sale April 25 to Actian, is taking over the CEO and president slots at Extreme, which is trying to find its […]

As chip makers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices continue to see their bottom lines impacted by the decline of PC sales worldwide, ARM Holdings is seeing its financial numbers rise, thanks in large part to the growing popularity of such devices as smartphones and tablets. Officials from both Intel and AMD earlier this month announced […]

Intel’s much-talked-about Core “Haswell” processors will debut at the Comdex 2013 show in Taiwan in June. According to a short blog post April 26 on the Intel Website, the next-generation chips—which company officials have said will feature significantly improved energy efficiency and greater graphics capabilities than current Intel chips—will be unveiled June 3, when the […]

Startup Jeda Networks is looking to leverage software-defined networking capabilities to create less complex high-performance storage networks. The company is unveiling its first product, the Fabric Network Controller, a software-based offering. The technology is designed to create a more flexible, scalable and dynamic storage network by decoupling the network control plane from the physical network […]

Michael Dell is looking to retain top executives during his controversial bid to buy out his namesake company and take it private, while at the same time rallying employees around the effort. Dell’s board of directors on April 23 approved $91.1 million for a retention program aimed at particular executives in hopes of persuading them […]

Intel Looks to Smartphones, Tablets, Networking as Growth Areas by Jeffrey Burt Intel Slowly Collects Smartphone Design Wins Intel continues to try to make inroads into the booming smartphone and tablet markets, primarily with its low-power Atom system-on-a-chip (SoC) platform. The vendor has a number of design wins from the likes of Lenovo, Acer, Lava […]

Huawei Technologies, apparently worn down by allegations from U.S. lawmakers that the Chinese tech vendor represents a security threat to companies and individuals, is abandoning attempts to grow its presence in the U.S. market. Executives with Huawei, a key competitor to Cisco Systems, said during an analyst conference April 23 that the company will now […]

Facebook’s next data center will be a massive facility located in an Iowa town just outside of Des Moines that has about 15,000 residents. The social networking giant plans to build its fourth data center in Altoona, Iowa, with the goal of breaking ground on the site in the summer and beginning to run user […]

AT&T is continuing to see its financial numbers bolstered by smartphones and tablets, as well as growth in the number of high-speed Internet subscribers in its U-verse program and wireless plans. Such growth helped AT&T grow its net income in the first quarter by 3.2 percent, to $3.7 billion compared with the same period last […]

Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out a new system-on-a-chip (SoC) platform aimed at embedded devices, one of several growth areas company officials are targeting as the chip vendor looks to reduce its dependency on the contracting PC market. AMD’s new Embedded G-Series SoCs, announced April 23 at the Design West 2013 expo in San Jose, […]

Intel’s Internet TV ambitions took a hit when a top engineer in the effort recently left the company. Jim Baldwin, who joined Intel after leaving Microsoft in 2011, had been vice president and general manager of the Engineering Division for Intel Media. Baldwin left the giant chip maker to pursue other opportunities, Intel confirmed to […]

Lenovo’s acquisition of IBM’s PC business in 2005 proved a boon for both companies. IBM was able to shed a commodity business a few years before the PC market began to slide and invest the money in areas—from software to services to servers—that yielded higher margins. For its part, Lenovo went from being a top […]