Jeff Burt

Vidyo, which is trying to challenge heavyweights Cisco Systems and Polycom in the increasingly competitive video communications space, is receiving a $22.5 million cash infusion in a new round of financing. Vidyo officials said the money from Series D round of financing, announced Sept. 22, will be used to boost its sales and marketing activities […]

Despite the worsening global economic environment, IT spending in the United States and around the world will continue to be relatively strong through the end of 2011, while slowing although still growing next year, according to analysts at Forrester Research. Forrester analysts in July were preparing to release their second-half IT projections, but put those […]

Advanced Micro Devices, which just last month named a new CEO following more than eight months of searching, is now looking for a new head of its Products Group unit. AMD announced Sept. 22 that Rick Bergman, who has been a top spokesman for many of AMD’s processor products over the past few years and […]

When Oracle executives were positioning the company to buy Sun Microsystems in late 2009, they stressed that the plan was to abandon the low-end commodity server business, instead focusing on high-end systems bundled with Oracle’s own enterprise software. During a conference call Sept. 20 with analysts and journalists to announce fiscal first-quarter 2012 results, Oracle […]

IHS iSuppli is the latest market research firm to cut its semiconductor revenue projections for 2011, citing the struggling economy and increasing consumer pessimism over the situation. The firm said Sept. 21 that it now expects semiconductor revenue to grow by an “anemic” 2.9 percent, to $313.3 billion. In August, IHS iSuppli analysts had pegged […]

Hewlett-Packard’s board of directors reportedly is mulling over a move to oust CEO Leo Apotheker after a tumultuous tenure of less than a year that was replete with disappointing financial forecasts and significant company strategy shifts. Bloomberg News and Forbes, quoting unnamed sources, are both reporting that directors may fire Apotheker when they meet Sept. […]

The issue of pricing for Intel’s ultrabook concept is once again coming to the forefront, with executives from Acer and Compal Electronics reportedly trying to push the chip maker to reduce the cost of some of its chips. In a Sept. 20 report by Taiwanese news site DigiTimes, the two executives say that without a […]

For months, Nvidia has boasted that its upcoming next-generation Tegra chip-code-named “Kal-El“-would be the first mobile chip with four cores. However, Nvidia officials said Sept. 20 that that wasn’t entirely accurate: The chip for smartphones and tablets actually will have five cores. In white papers and a blog posting, Nvidia said Kal-El will feature a […]

ScaleMP for several years has enabled customers to use its virtualization software in their Intel Xeon-based environments. Now the company is vendor support for Advanced Micro Devices’ Opteron server processors, a move prompted in large part to customer demand, according to ScaleMP executives. Starting later this year, high-end computing customers running AMD’s Opteron 6100 Series […]

Don’t look for Michael Dell to jump on the “post-PC” bandwagon. The PC market might be under significant pressure-from the rise of tablets and smartphones to the increased focus on software and services to the uncertain global economic situation-but consumers and businesses alike are continuing to buy PCs, with Gartner analysts predicting as many as […]

Intel continues to be the world’s largest processor vendor, owning almost 80 percent of the market and recording five consecutive quarters of record revenue, even as the world’s economies continue to struggle. However, much of Intel’s revenue comes from processors used in traditional PCs, a market that is seeing sluggish sales and is rapidly commoditizing. […]

Cisco Systems’ new aggressive push against Juniper Networks and other networking rivals is a long time coming, but could present pitfalls if the vendor isn’t careful, according to analysts. In a week dominated by news from major Intel and Microsoft conferences, Cisco made its own headlines when CEO John Chambers and other executives met with […]