Jeff Burt

Nvidia officials are getting ahead of what promises to be a very mobile-focused Consumer Electronics Show with the unveiling of the fourth generation of the company’s Tegra mobile processor. During a pre-CES event Jan. 6, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang introduced the Tegra 4—along with the vendor’s first-ever gaming console, code-named Shield—a quad-core chip that he […]

Google’s settlement with the Federal Trade Commission is continuing to draw a mixed reaction from around the tech industry, with some trade associations applauding the agreement while Google competitors, including Microsoft, blasted it as weak and ineffective. In addition, regulators in Europe said the settlement—in which Google officials agreed to change its business practices, but […]

Advanced Micro Devices continues to see change in its executive ranks, naming a permanent chief financial officer just weeks after a vice president and top design engineer left the company to become a vice president with rival Samsung Electronics. AMD announced Jan. 2 that Devinder Kumar, a 28-year veteran with the chip maker who had […]

Hewlett-Packard executives, who in the past have trumpeted the benefits of keeping the tech giant’s myriad businesses together, are now considering getting rid of business units that underperform. Based on the company’s 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Dec. 27, Bloomberg reported that HP CEO Meg Whitman said the company is continuing “to […]

Intel’s efforts to get into the Internet TV business reportedly could be delayed well into the new year, thanks in large part to challenges getting licensing agreements from content producers. There had been speculation that Intel officials would talk about the company’s TV efforts during this month’s CES event, which kicks off Jan. 8 in […]

Provide an Agenda Give participants specific start and stop times for the meeting, and if you are going to share content during the meeting, be sure to email a backup of the content to participants before the meeting begins. Look for an Uncluttered Background Keep a clean and uncluttered background, says Kelly FitzGerald, technical marketing […]

BOSTON—Martin Casado was at the ground floor in the development of OpenFlow, the protocol that has become a cornerstone of the burgeoning software-defined networking trend that promises to gain steam in data centers as the industry moves into 2013. Casado—now the CTO of Nicira, an SDN pioneer that earlier this year was bought by virtualization […]

Samsung abused its dominant position in the mobile-device space when company officials asked several European countries to bar Apple from using Samsung-owned wireless patents crucial to the manufacturing and use of smartphones, according to European antitrust regulators. The European Commission (EC) issued a “Statement of Objections” Dec. 21 that outlined the reasons regulators believe Samsung […]

Software-defined networking is having an increasing impact in the networking industry, as enterprise interest grows and vendors big and small continue to roll out solutions, according to analysts at market research firm IDC. In a Dec. 19 report, IDC analysts said SDN revenues driven by sales to enterprises and cloud service providers will hit $360 […]

Cisco Systems is bolstering its offerings for carrier networks with the acquisition of BroadHop, which offers policy control and service management technology. Cisco officials announced the deal Dec. 18, less than a month after buying network traffic management vendor Cariden Technologies for $141 million and less than two weeks after CEO John Chambers told financial […]

ARM Holdings, whose low-power chip designs dominate the booming smartphone and tablet markets, is leading the effort to create a new company whose aim is to make those mobile computing devices more secure. ARM, along with security software makers Gemalto of the Netherlands and German company Giesecke & Devrient, on Dec. 18 unveiled Trustonic, a […]

The contraction in the PC market and the uncertain global economy are continuing to conspire to drive down revenue in the worldwide semiconductor market, according to analysts at Gartner. According to numbers released Dec. 17 by the research firm, revenues in the semiconductor space were $298 billion in 2012, a 3 percent drop from the […]