Jeff Burt

ARM Holdings and chip manufacturer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have “taped out” the first ARM Cortex-A57 processors, which officials said will find their way into not only mobile devices like tablets and smartphones, but also high-end computers and servers. Having been taped out, the Cortex-A57, part of ARM’s 64-bit ARMv8 chip series, is now ready […]

Dell executives in a regulatory filing are outlining a bleak financial future for the PC vendor in its efforts to win shareholder support for plans to take the company private. In a 274-page filing with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), Dell officials talked about their four-year efforts to move the company’s focus away […]

IBM’s massive Roadrunner supercomputer, installed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, is becoming a shining example of the extraordinary speed of development and innovation in the high-performance computing space. Five years after becoming the first system to break the petaflop barrier and establishing itself as the fastest supercomputer in the world, the $125 million Roadrunner—which […]

PC maker Lenovo, which has been rumored to have an interest in buying embattled smartphone maker BlackBerry, reportedly is in discussions with NEC to acquire its mobile phone business. Japan’s NEC, which has seen its mobile phone fortunes fall in recent years, also is talking with other vendors about buying the struggling mobile phone unit, […]

Arista Networks officials are integrating the company’s network operating system with the open-source OpenStack cloud technology and bringing enhanced OpenFlow extensions to the OS, the latest steps in the vendor’s efforts in software-defined networking. The new capabilities are available in the latest release of Arista’s Extensible Operating System (EOS) and address demands from businesses and […]

Oracle is rolling out new midrange and high-end servers powered by new SPARC processors that officials say are the fastest in the world. At a Webcast event at the software giant’s Redwood Shores, Calif., headquarters, CEO Larry Ellison boasted that the SPARC T5 and M5 chips and the servers that they power are proof points […]

Big Switch Networks officials are preparing an open-source thin switching platform that will bring software-defined networking capabilities and the OpenFlow controller protocol to “white-box” switches and virtualized data center environments. Big Switch, one of a growing number of startups in the burgeoning SDN space, is unveiling its Switch Light platform, a commercial offering based on […]

Cisco Systems, which is looking to become a larger enterprise IT solutions player, is buying SolveDirect, whose technology is designed to make it easier for businesses to connect to cloud infrastructures and securely share data with partners and customers. Cisco announced the deal March 25, though the networking giant did not disclose any financial details […]

Michael Dell’s efforts to take his namesake company private are quickly turning into a bidding war for the world’s third-largest PC maker. Blackstone Group and Icahn Enterprises—run by activist investor Carl Icahn—have made separate bids for Dell that the special committee created by the tech vendor’s board of directors to oversee the process said could […]

Hewlett-Packard and Oracle are beginning to outline the arguments they’ll be presenting next month when a jury trial starts in the second phase of their court dispute over Intel’s Itanium platform. In a hearing earlier this month, HP officials indicated they planned to seek damages from Oracle of $4 billion or more, saying the software […]

Supercomputers drove what were record revenues in the high-performance computing market in 2012, as businesses and countries around the world turn to these massive systems in hopes of gaining a computing and economic edge, according to IDC analysts. Revenues in the high-performance computing (HPC) server space jumped 7.7 percent last year to $11.1 billion surpassing […]

Google and LG Electronics reportedly are the latest tech vendors looking to develop an Internet-connected smartwatch. Separate reports have the two companies each working on their efforts to create smartwatches, and The Korea Times also is reporting that LG is working on another wearable computing device that the news site said will rival Google Glass. […]