Jeff Burt

Advanced Micro Devices officials reportedly are not ready to concede the super-thin notebook space to Intel despite the headlines garnered by the larger chip maker’s ultrabook strategy at the recent 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. During the event the week of Jan. 9, AMD officials outlined the company’s plans for its upcoming “Trinity” platform, which will […]

Intel’s aggressive push at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show into the mobile computing space made headlines, but did not impress the head of ARM Holdings, whose low-power chip designs are found in most smartphones and tablets. In an interview with Reuters at CES in Las Vegas, ARM CEO Warren East called Intel’s efforts in the […]

Avaya is bringing its unified communications capabilities for smaller businesses to the mobile world. The company is rolling out a mobile application for its Avaya IP Office 8.0 for mobile devices running Google’s Android mobile operating system, with support for Apple’s iPhones coming soon. Avaya’s one-X Mobile Preferred for IP Office app is designed to […]

Dell’s decision last year to stop selling the 5- and 7-inch Streak tablets apparently did not end the systems maker’s plans for the form factor. In an interview with Reuters Jan. 11, Steve Felice, Dell’s chief commercial officer, said the company will re-enter the highly competitive tablet space with a consumer device in late 2012, […]

Intel and ARM have been circling each other for a couple of years now, eagerly eyeing each other’s respective markets as areas for growing their own businesses. This year promises to be when the two companies begin to compete more directly against each other, when Intel can prove whether it can make an x86 chip […]

Hewlett-Packard, which is asking both U.S. courts and European regulators for help in forcing Oracle to support Intel’s Itanium platform in its software offerings, lost a round when a French antitrust agency declined to order Oracle to immediately resume supporting Itanium. France’s antitrust regulator, Autorite de la Concurrence, in the ruling Jan. 10, also rejected […]

Polycom, the video collaboration technology vendor that last year made a strategic shift toward a more software-centric approach, is taking what officials are calling the next key step by having its RealPresence Mobile application shipping preloaded on the new Motorola Droid Xyboard tablet. Polycom officials said the RealPresence Mobile software will be demonstrated this week […]

SuVolta, a Silicon Valley startup whose PowerShrink platform is designed to drastically reduce the power consumption in microchips, is getting another $17.6 million in financing in a tight investment environment for semiconductor technologies. Company officials announced Jan. 5 that the latest round of funding is coming from current investors that include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & […]

Quanta Computer reportedly is suing Advanced Micro Devices for allegedly selling defective processors that were used in notebooks Quanta had made for NEC. In a lawsuit filed Jan. 4 in San Jose, Calif., Quanta officials are accusing AMD, the world’s second-largest computer chip maker behind Intel, of selling processors that overheated in certain situations, according […]

Amid all the hoopla over ultrabooks, tablets and smartphones that should dominate next week’s Consumer Electronics Show, products that support the upcoming 802.11ac wireless standard are expected to also make a showing at the event. Broadcom officials on Jan. 5 announced their official foray into the world of 5G WiFi, unveiling four new WiFi chips […]

Cisco Systems reportedly is ditching its Umi consumer telepresence offering, which was released 15 months ago to sharp criticism over its pricing. Cisco ended sales of the Umi hardware in December, though the company will continue to support customers who already have bought the products, according to a Cisco spokesperson. In a statement to CRN […]

Advanced Micro Devices is using the week before Christmas to show off new processor and graphics products for mainstream PC users as well as enthusiasts and gamers. AMD announced Dec. 22 its new Radeon HD 7970 graphics card for desktops, which officials said is the fastest graphics processing unit (GPU) card and the only one […]