Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard officials are looking to help businesses enhance their unified communications environment, which will play an increasingly important role as more of their employees work mobile and remotely. HP is rolling out a host of new solutions and consulting services designed to give enterprises the tools to enable their workforces to better collaborate and to […]

The worldwide semiconductor market is seeing a number of growth drivers, including new chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, continued commercial adoption of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system and rising demand for such mobile devices as smartphones, according to market research firm IDC. However, there also are developments that will be a drag on […]

Acer is taking to the cloud as it looks to expand beyond its core PC business, buying cloud specialist iGware July 21 for $320 million. Acer, which regularly competes with Dell for the No. 2 spot on the list of the world’s top PC makers, will call the new business the Acer Cloud Technology Co. […]

Advanced Micro Devices is beginning to see results in the aggressive rollout of its Fusion processors, which helped the company turn a $61 million profit in the second quarter despite an overall softening of the PC market and the company’s continuing search for a CEO. During a July 21 conference call with analysts and journalists […]

Dell officials are looking to plug a hole in its portfolio of data center solutions by buying Force 10 Networks, a move that would shore up the vendor’s networking capabilities. Dell, which announced the bid for Force 10 July 20, over the past few years has aggressively expanded its enterprises offerings through both in-house development […]

Intel is gearing up to spend more than $16 billion on various investments during 2011, a $500 million jump over what executives previously projected, with the money going to everything from its efforts to expand deeper into the mobile device space to getting its manufacturing plants ready for upcoming generations of processors. Intel executives touched […]

LifeSize Communications is looking to compete against larger rivals Cisco Systems and Polycom in the highly competitive high-definition video-conferencing space by offering solutions that are easier to deploy, less expensive and available on a wider array of endpoints. To that end, LifeSize officials July 20 announced a number of moves designed to make it easier […]

Intel, continuing its push to become a chip supplier for all areas of the data center, is buying Fulcrum Microsystems, a vendor that designs chips for Ethernet switches. Intel officials, announcing the deal for the privately held fabless semiconductor company, said Fulcrum will add to the growing list of data center offerings beyond their core […]

Cisco Systems executives will cut 6,500 jobs starting in August as part of their efforts to reorganize and streamline the company after several quarters of disappointing financial numbers. The networking giant announced July 18 that about 9 percent of the company’s 73,000 employees will lose their jobs, with about 2,100 leaving via a voluntary early […]

The stranglehold that Intel and its x86 chip architecture have had on the PC market for three decades will come to an end starting next year, when Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 will open the door to systems running on processors designed by ARM Holdings, according to research firm IHS iSuppli. In a report July 18, […]

SeaMicro is continuing its rapid cadence of new low-power servers powered by Intel’s Atom chips, rolling out its third such server in less than a year. SeaMicro officials on July 18 unveiled the SM10000-64 HD, a server that packs 768 Atom processor cores, which improves the company’s compute density by 150 percent and per-watt performance […]

Quad-core processors, which are fairly commonplace in desktop PCs, will be in almost half of all notebooks sold within the next four years, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli. In a report July 12, IHS iSuppli analysts said that by 2015, 49 percent of all notebooks will ship with quad-core processors. That will be […]