Jeff Burt

Nvidia officials say that the first mobile devices using its quad-core Tegra 3 chip should start shipping by the fourth quarter, in time for the all-important holiday season. Nvidia first demonstrated the quad-core chip-codenamed Kal-El-at the Computex show in May. Now the company has begun shipping the chip and expects the devices to hit the […]

Hewlett-Packard is taking the latest steps in its efforts to become a major cloud computing player, launching the private beta for two public cloud services. The infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings, announced Sept. 7, are HP Cloud Compute and HP Cloud Object Storage, and offer a combination of HP hardware and software technologies as well as the […]

Advanced Micro Devices has begun shipping the 16-core “Interlagos” Opteron server chip, the first of its processors based on the new “Bulldozer” architecture. AMD officials announced Sept. 7 that initial production of Interlagos-known now as the Opteron 6200 Series-began in August, and will start appearing in servers in the fourth quarter. “This is a monumental […]

System makers such as Asus, Acer and Lenovo reportedly are limiting the number of ultrabooks they ship this fall, due to a lack in confidence that laptop sales will rebound in the fourth quarter and the belief that Apple’s MacBook Air notebook will continue to dominate the market. According to Taiwanese news site DigiTimes-citing “sources […]

The continued growth in sales of smartphones and tablets-and their increasing use in businesses-is fueling the rapid expansion of the wireless LAN market, according to several reports released in recent days. In the most recent report released Sept. 6, Canalys analysts said the WLAN space-which includes access points and controllers-grew to $575 million in revenue […]

Officials at Unisys started to sense the change about three years ago. It began when employees wanted to pare down the multiple mobile devices-from pagers to business handsets to laptops-that they carried with them for their jobs. That desire morphed a couple of years ago-first with the rapid ascension of smartphones (particularly the launch of […]

Eight months after Dirk Meyer resigned as CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, the world’s second-largest chip maker has found a replacement from the executive ranks of PC vendor Lenovo. AMD on Aug. 25 announced that Rory Read is the company’s new president and CEO. Read most recently was president and COO of Lenovo, and prior […]

New Advanced Micro Devices CEO Rory Read is getting a lot of high marks from industry observers for his work at PC vendor Lenovo, a significant player in an industry that is core to AMD’s business. However, they said, Read will need to find a way to ensure AMD remains a significant presence at a […]

These are good times for IBM’s hardware business. The company’s Systems and Technology Group (STG) was one of the main drivers behind IBM’s strong second-quarter financial numbers that saw overall revenue grow 12 percent and net income jump 8 percent. Revenue for IBM’s STG grew 17 percent in the quarter, according to the tech giant’s […]

IBM, fueled by a 24.5 percent jump in revenues, moved into a statistical tie with Hewlett-Packard as the world’s top server vendor, according to second-quarter market numbers from market research firm IDC. IBM saw growth in all segments, including a 61.1 percent jump in revenue-to $1.2 billion-from its System z mainframe business over the same […]

Cisco Systems officials are continuing to bring their networking capabilities farther from the data center, with the latest example being the company’s new Cisco 819 ISR Machine-to-Machine Gateway. The new Integrated Services Router (ISR), announced Aug. 23, dovetails with Cisco officials’ idea of the “Internet of things,” putting networking capabilities into machines not normally connected […]

IBM’s decision in 2005 to sell its PC business to Lenovo has proven to be an incredible boon for Big Blue, which has seen sales and profits steadily grow over the last few years, even during the depths of the recession. Now executives with Hewlett-Packard are hoping for similar results as they prepare to rid […]