Jeff Burt

Advanced Micro Devices, looking to expand into growth areas and reduce its reliance on the PC market, reportedly has hired two former AMD chip engineers who had since been working at Apple and Qualcomm. AMD recently hired Charles Matar and Wayne Meretsky as it works to reposition its efforts in such areas as mobile devices […]

Cisco Systems is bringing its Jabber unified communications platform to the virtual desktop environment. Cisco officials are unveiling new software—the Virtualization Experience Media Engine, or VXME—that initially will be available on Cisco thin clients, and later will extend to systems from third parties, beginning with Dell Wyse thin clients and later thin clients and PCs […]

Advanced Micro Devices is unveiling a new server motherboard formerly dubbed “Roadrunner” that complies with standards laid out by the Facebook-led Open Compute Project. Given the name AMD Open 3.0, the motherboard is designed to high performance and high energy efficiency, giving users greater flexibility in the data center and a way to drive down […]

Juniper Networks, which has been quieter than other established networking vendors when it comes to software-defined networks, is now rolling out an SDN strategy that goes far beyond bringing the OpenFlow protocol to more of its switches and routers. Juniper executives had been saying the company had designs on the burgeoning SDN space, but until […]

Dell executives reportedly are considering taking the embattled vendor private as they continue to push efforts to transform the company and reduce its reliance on the contracting PC business. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, Dell officials during the past two to three months have talked with TPG Capital and […]

Brocade, the networking technology vendor that has been making a concerted push into the increasingly competitive software-defined networking space, will now be led by an executive who last ran a company that specialized in data center virtualization. Brocade announced Jan. 14 that Lloyd Carney, who last was CEO of Xsigo Systems, will take over the […]

The ongoing legal dispute between Brocade and A10 Networks took another turn this week when a federal court judge upheld more than half of the almost $112 million in damages awarded to Brocade after a patent-infringement trial last summer, and ordered A10 to stop shipping and selling products in the United States that included the […]

An Apple executive appears to be denying speculation that the company is planning to start selling less-expensive versions of its popular iPhone later this year in a bid to compete harder against Android-based products and to expand its reach into emerging markets. Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing for Apple, reportedly told the […]

Samsung Electronics joined other chip makers, including Intel and Qualcomm, at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in unveiling upcoming products for mobile devices. In Samsung’s case, it was the Exynos5 Octa, an eight-core processor designed to give devices the right balance between performance and energy efficiency. The chip, introduced Jan. 9 during the final keynote […]

Intel Booth Intel’s booth on the floor at CES was a massive structure of colorful lights and computing devices. Building the Booth Intel’s booth includes 176 Ultrabooks that were put onto a huge “tree,” being put together here by workers at the show. Ultrabooks—very thin and light notebooks that Intel officials first talked in 2011—are […]

Apple reportedly could release a less expensive iPhone later this year as it looks to stave off competition from the growing number of Android-based smartphones hitting the global market. According to reports in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, Apple executives are moving ahead with plans to create a lower-cost version of the popular smartphone […]

The heightened competition in the mobile chip space quickly took center stage at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, with Intel and Advanced Micro Devices laying out plans to become more significant players in the market and Qualcomm and Nvidia introducing their latest processors for smartphones and tablets. Intel and AMD, stalwarts in the PC and […]