Jeff Burt

Ex-Advanced Micro Devices chip engineer Jim Mergard, one of a number of AMD veterans who in recent years have left the company for Samsung Electronics, reportedly is now on his way to Samsung arch-rival Apple. Mergard, who came to Samsung in June 2011 as its vice president and chief engineer after 16 years with AMD, […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials are lowering their financial forecast for the third quarter, offering the latest piece of bad news for tech companies tightly tied to the struggling PC market. AMD announced late in the day Oct. 11 that revenue for the third quarter will fall about 10 percent compared with the second quarter, a […]

Corporate executives continue to be uneasy about the mobile computing and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trends, but understand that the momentum will only grow and that companies must ensure that the right policies are in place to protect sensitive data in a mobile world, according to Cisco Systems. A recent survey of 578 senior-level executives commissioned by […]

Juniper Networks is continuing to make it easier for service providers to more quickly deploy services from the edge of their networks. Juniper on Oct. 11 unveiled the new MX 2020 and 2010 3D Universal Edge Routers and new software—the JunosV App Engine—that company officials said will speed up the deployment of commercial and consumer […]

Unisys is continuing to move its mainframe server line from its proprietary CMOS processors to Intel’s high-end Xeon processors, unveiling three new ClearPath series systems that will be powered by multiple Xeon E5-2600 chips. Unisys officials on Oct. 10 announced the high-end ClearPath Libra 6200 Series of mainframes, the midrange Libra 4200 Series, and entry-level […]

Tilera and Freescale Semiconductor are both coming out with new processors targeting corporate networks that are increasingly finding themselves under pressure from the explosive growth of mobile devices, network traffic and cloud computing. Freescale on Oct. 10 unveiled four additions to its QorIQ T1 and T2 families of 64-bit processors, including the T1040, a quad-core […]

Cisco Systems and NetApp are unveiling integrated data center solutions aimed at small and midsize businesses that are looking to expand their infrastructure virtualization capabilities. The new ExpressPod offerings—which include Cisco server and networking products and storage technology from NetApp—are the latest effort by the two vendors to bring many of the features in their […]

McAfee, the security software company bought by chip giant Intel last year, reportedly will lay off a small number of its 7,000-plus workers. According to a report from Reuters, McAfee spokesman Ian Bain confirmed the planned job cuts but would provide no further information, including how many jobs would be lost or when the layoffs […]

Huawei Technologies, ZTE and Chinese officials are pushing back at a U.S. House committee report that said Huawei and ZTE pose risks to U.S. national security due to their close ties to the Chinese government. The report from the House Intelligence Committee, issued Oct. 8, said that products from the two Chinese telecommunications equipment vendors […]

Microsoft unveiled seven security bulletins—including two advisories—as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday release Oct. 9. One of the seven bulletins is deemed critical, and it covers two issues in Microsoft Office. The bulletin, MS12-064, can result in remote code execution, where an attacker is able to run code on a system from a remote […]

Calxeda, among a number of vendors building server chips based on designs from ARM Holdings, is getting another cash infusion of $55 million, more than doubling the amount the 4-year-old company already has raised. Calxeda will use the money to help accelerate the innovation of its technology, as well as drive adoption efforts and reportedly […]

Advanced Micro Devices is coming out with its own chip designed specifically for tablets, looking to leverage the launch of Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system later this month and challenging Intel’s Clover Trail Atom processor in the booming market. AMD on Oct. 9 unveiled its low-power Z-60 accelerated processing unit (APU), with officials saying it […]