Jeff Burt

Advanced Micro Devices will lay off 10 percent of its workforce as part of a larger effort to cut more than $200 million in expenses in 2012. Executives with the world’s second-largest chip maker said Nov. 3 that the cost-cutting moves-which include not only the layoffs but also other efforts aimed at streamlining the operations […]

Appro and Penguin Computing are both leveraging the newest chip technologies from Advanced Micro Devices and Intel for high-performance computing systems. Appro officials on Nov. 2 unveiled plans for the next generation of their Xtreme-X supercomputer, which will be powered by AMD’s upcoming Opteron 6200 “Interlagos” processor and Intel’s Xeon E5, which company executives said […]

Advanced Micro Devices saw its share of the worldwide x86 processor market jump in the third quarter over the same period last year, though it lost ground to larger rival Intel when comparing the second and third quarters in 2011, according to numbers from market research firm Mercury Research. In the third quarter, AMD’s market […]

Hewlett-Packard will adopt ARM-based server chips from Calxeda as part of a larger program called Project Moonshot, aimed at developing extremely low-power servers to run in massive environments such as cloud and on-demand computing. HP’s Nov. 1 announcement came at the same time that Calxeda unveiled the first of its ARM-based processors, the EnergyCore server-on-a-chip […]

BroadSoft is looking to make it easier for business users to leverage their unified communications services regardless of the device they’re working on. BroadSoft on Oct. 31 unveiled BroadTouch, which includes intuitive user interfaces that will allow enterprise users to more easily access their UC applications across a variety of devices, from desktops and laptops […]

Advanced Micro Devices, plagued earlier this quarter by manufacturing problems that limited the supply of some PC processors and forced the company to cut its financial forecast, turned a profit in the third quarter thanks in large part to strong sales of notebook chips. AMD executives Oct. 27 reported third-quarter revenues of $1.69 billion, a […]

Hewlett-Packard reportedly will partner with chip-maker Calxeda to develop data center servers powered by low-power processors designed by ARM Holdings. Quoting unnamed people close to the situation, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal are reporting that HP will become the first major OEM to adopt ARM-based processors for some of its servers, a move that […]

ARM Holdings is taking a significant step forward in its ambitions to move its chip technology beyond mobile devices and into PCs and servers with the introduction of its first 64-bit architecture, ARMv8. ARM officials released technical details of the new architecture Oct. 27 at the ARM TechCon show in Santa Clara, Calif., in particular […]

Polycom is adding another capability to its room-based video conferencing solution, enabling participants to better leverage the whiteboards that are common in conference rooms. Polycom’s UC Board, announced Oct. 27, is integrated with the company’s RealPresence Room HDX offerings, enabling users to write on a whiteboard in one room and have participants in other locations […]

Cisco Systems’ TelePresence video conferencing products over the past five years have been praised for helping businesses save money on travel costs and improving employee productivity, but also have been criticized for being expensive and closed. Cisco officials are looking to answer those criticisms with new and enhanced TelePresence offerings designed to expand the reach […]

IBM and Apple, both hugely successful companies that are undergoing a change in top leadership, are a study in contrasts when looking at their CEOs and how they’re replacing them, according to analysts. Apple for more than a decade was led by the charismatic Steve Jobs, who co-founded the company in the 1970s, was kicked […]

Intel executives reportedly are continuing to work with suppliers in hopes of driving down the price of ultrabooks, the ultra-thin and light notebooks the chip maker has been promoting since first introducing the concept in May. Navin Shenoy, vice president of sales and marketing and general manager for the Asia-Pacific region for Intel, told Reuters […]